Ron Reagan Doesn’t have a Clue

[I started to write about this on Friday, but the weekend happened --- and my loyal readers know my philosophy about blogging on the weekend.]

I find Ron Reagan to be one of the most deplorable and despicable human’s on the planet. How on Earth he is qualified to be a political commentator—a PAID political commentator—is a sham and a shame.

During his father’s presidency, little Ronnie was a distraction bordering on a disgrace. Not quite Patti Davis disgraceful, but close. (Patti wrote fictionalized accounts of her life that did not portray her family in a positive light, and then in 1993 she posed nude for Playboy magazine.)

In recent years, however, Patti reconciled with her parents, especially as they battled her father’s Alzheimer’s disease. She later wrote books portraying her father more favorably.

In the years between the end of his father’s presidency and his death, little Ronnie was honing his Liberal political agenda — like serving on the board of the Creative Coalition (founded in 1989 by Susan Sarandon to politically mobilize entertainers and artists for liberal causes).

But from the moment of his father’s death, little Ronnie was suddenly everywhere on television. He used his father’s death to denounce his father’s legacy and to springboard his own career.

The Liberal media couldn’t get enough of little Ronnie running down the Republican Party and conservativism, and they gave him every opportunity to do so. They even gave the Yale dropout (after one semester) a political talk show (Connected: Coast to Coast with Ron Reagan and Monica Crowley on MSNBC).

So, it was especially enjoyable watching Christopher Hitchens dismantle—nay, bitch-slap—Little Ronnie on his own show while discussing the War on Terror.

The Radio Blogger has the full transcript posted. Here’s a taste:

Hitchens: If you make the mistake that I thought I heard you making just before we came on the air, of attributing rationality or a motive to this, and to say that it’s about anything but itself, you make a great mistake, and you end up where you ended up, saying that the cause of terrorism is fighting against it, the root cause, I mean. Now, you even said, extraordinarily to me, that there was no terrorist problem in Iraq before 2003. Do you know nothing about the subject at all?

And then followed up later in the show with:

Hitchens: How can you know so little about this, and be occupying a chair at the time that you do?

Christopher, that’s what I’ve been asking since the day little Ronnie started getting so much face-time in the aftermath of his father’s death.

Make sure to visit Radio Blogger and read the entire transcript.

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MORE: How did I miss this gem from Roger L. Simon?

What is most surprising about Christopher Hitchens’ decimation of semi-literate talk show host Ron Reagan on Reagan’s show the other day is finally how unsurprising it is. It was like observing an expert sniper shoot a deaf-and-dumb duck.

That is hysterical. Great analogy Roger.

…very few people watch MSNBC and the reason for it is obvious: The network insults our intelligence be putting people as fundamentally uneducated as Reagan in the positions they do.

The only reason I can think that little Ronnie is on air is to shit on the legacy of President Reagan, the Greatest American ever.