An interesting story about Ronald Reagan that you won't hear very much about in the 'liberal' media

From:
"The President's Speech" from
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

What was going on? A roar of laughter from the aphasia ward, just as the President's speech was coming on, and they had all been so eager to hear the President speaking...

There he was, the old Charmer, the Actor, with his practised rhetoric, his histrionisms, his emotional appeal - and all the patients were convulsed with laughter. Well, not all: some looked bewildered, some looked outraged, one or two looked apprehensive, but most looked amused. The President was, as always, moving - but he was moving them, apparently, mainly to laughter. What could they be thinking? Were they failing to understand him? Or did they, perhaps, understand him all too well?

It was often said of these patients, who though intelligent had the severest receptive or global aphasia, rendering them incapable of understanding words as such, that they none the less understood most of what was said to them. Their friends, their relatives, the nurses who knew them well, could hardly believe, sometimes, that they were aphasic.

(Why were they reacting in such a strange way? One of the patients was able to explain it.)

Emily D. also listened, stony-faced, to the President's speech, bringing to it a strange mixture of enhanced and defective perceptions - precisely the opposite mixture to those of our aphasiacs. It did not move her - no speech now moved her - and all that was evocative, genuine or false completely passed her by. Deprived of emotional reaction, was she then (like the rest of us) transported or taken in? By no means. 'He is not cogent,' she said. 'He does not speak good prose. His word-use is improper. Either he is brain- damaged, or he has something to conceal.'

http://junkfoodforthought.com/long/Sacks_Reagan.htm

While a lot of 'normal' Americans were responding to Reagan's speech with "I wanna have a beer with him!" and "I just feel so safe with Reagan that I just want him to hold me in his arms!", all of these 'crazies' and 'loons', because they couldn't see the meaning of words and had to look almost exclusively at prose and body language, couldn't believe the fantastic lies they were being told live on TV by the President.

remember he was a democrat until 1962. Thats why he got so many democrats to vote for him as president.

And he ratted out everyone he could. As did Robert Taylor, his old actor buddy.

He gave names, dates and anything else that would save his own ass.

Reagan was considered a "friendly" witness.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6458