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Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511
Couric didn't call him an "airhead"? I could have sworn that she did, and not just once. But of course she was using someone else's quote (which she didn't fully quote, by the way)...so that makes it OK, right?  |
No, Katie Couric never called Reagan an "airhead." The actual quote from the 9/27/99 Today transcript is:
Good morning. The Gipper was an airhead. That’s one of the conclusions of a new biography of Ronald Reagan that’s drawing a tremendous amount of interest and fire today, Monday, September the 27th, 1999.
She attributed it to Edmund Morris, doll, the man who wrote the biography on Reagan. And Sean Hannity, that pillar of integrity, even said the same thing on that very date, 9/27/99 on his show:
Welcome back to Hannity & Colmes. I’m Sean Hannity. Coming up, the authorized biography of Ronald Reagan calls him, quote, an airhead. And it is upsetting a lot of the former president’s supporters.
She also claimed on page 134 of
Slander that the New York Times called Bush an "airhead" in a piece that ran on 3/12/00, but that's another lie.