Tuesday, October 31, 2006

A Halloween Ghost

ATC had a piece remarking on the death of one of the great villains of the 20th century - P.W. Botha. Charlayne Hunter-Gault does a decent job of conveying what an awful character Botha was--belligerent, racist, violent. I listened assuming that I'd at least hear a reference to one of Botha's best allies (Ronald Reagan) who was not the only "conservative" backbencher for apartheid. But Reagan's name never came up; NPR doesn't believe in those kinds of ghosts.
Posted by Mytwords at 10:29 PM
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Anonymous said...

Well, maybe they blew out all their Reagan references after the 2 week straight Reagan Hagiographic Festival of the Pure American Wonderfulness of [the now tragically departed] All American President Ronald Reagan. A pledge drive would have seemed like sweet, sweet relief back in those days.

11/1/06, 2:48 AM

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