Jerry Ford immortalized in bronze at Capitol and Corporate McPravda misses the most important point.

[Octafish]

America's Press Corpse again misses the most important points when mentioning Jerry Ford's longterm impact on history:

President Ford immortalized in bronze at U.S. Capitol

Marisa Schultz and Nathan Hurst
Detroit News Washington Bureau
Last Updated: May 03. 2011 4:07PM.

Washington — Gerald R. Ford, the 38th president and Michigan's only Commander in Chief, was permanently memorialized today with a 7-foot-tall bronze statue in the U.S. Capitol, a place Ford considered home.

Three of Ford's children attended a ceremony at the Capitol's Rotunda, including daughter, Susan Ford Bales, and son, Steven Ford, chairman of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation. His wife, Betty, stayed home. Speaker of the House John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were among the guests who praised Ford for his stable leadership at time when the country was in crisis in the wake of the Watergate scandal, Vietnam war and President Nixon's resignation.

Ford, who never sought the presidential office and felt most at home serving the state of Michigan in House of Representatives for 25 years, managed to mend the country during a crisis, leaders said.

"He restored the nation's confidence in itself," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. "That is no small task."

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http://detnews.com/article/20110503/POLITICS03/105030420/President-Ford-immortalized-in-bronze-at-U.S.-Capitol#ixzz1LK9jkm1t

While the article does mention how Jerry Ford (R-Mich.) "healed the nation" as the first unelected president, it fails to mention how: Ford did so by pardoning Tricky Dick Nixon and getting his whole warmongering crew off the hook for Watergate and who knows what else.

The article fails to mention an even more nefarious highlight from Mr. Ford's career, the time when he served on the Warren Commission and considered his fellow members who doubted the Single Bullet Theory to be "no problem."

Bottom line: No pardon. No BFEE.

It's no laugh.

[leftstreet]

1. They sold him to us as a stumbler, bumbler

((((shhhhh)))) Another historically significant US figure

K&R

great links

[Octafish]

6. Image and Reality are quite different.

Gerald Ford's Terrible Fiction

[blondeatlast]

2. And just how did he do that, Mr. McConnell?

:banghead:

[Octafish]

7. Remarkable statement, seeing how Mitch is about as dirty as they come.

Literally and figuratively.

[EFerrari]

3. And there is it, the cesspool where the BFEE was born.n/t

[Octafish]

8. Long line of warmongers, that.

Merchants of Death is not a misnomer.

[gratuitous]

4. Some of that Nixon gang that came back to bedevil us

Henry Kissinger, Richard B. Cheney, CIA director George H.W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell. The failure to track down the crimes of Nixon led directly to even greater crimes under the Bush administrations. The failure to track down the crimes of Bush, if history is any guide, will lead to even greater crimes in 10 to 20 years. At least with Nixon, the failure was committed by Nixon's hand-picked successor.

[Octafish]

9. That was my first hope, that Justice would return and bag the traitors and warmongers.

Unfortunately, it hasn't happened.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. I have been trying to think of a name for the corporate media for years.

McPravda totally nails it! Thank you.

[Octafish]

10. Three things everyone should know about them...

These liars lie and lie and lie.

PS: You aer most welcome, OffWithTheirHeads. Love how your moniker gets to the point.