In a new column posted at NRO (National Review Online) titled "The Homophobe Myth: The Facts About Ronald Reagan," Deroy Murdock responds to critics of his earlier piece, "The Truth About Reagan and AIDS" (posted at right). And note, National Review is one of the preeminent conservative home bases -- arguing persuasively here that Reagan was not a homophobe is all to the good. Just what does the left think it's accomplishing by screeching that this widely beloved hero-president (and, yes, conservative icon) was anti-gay? And doing so with distorted history (e.g., the claim Reagan never mentioned AIDS until 1987)?
Deroy, by the way, does clear up a misattribution of a Reagan
statement about AIDS, which was not in the State of the Union
address, as he originally stated, but in ancillary material given
to Congress. We've posted a correction on his earlier article to
clarify the matter, which is also noted in a letter in our
mailbag.
From Overseas.
New Zealand's Institute for Liberal Values [which seems to be a
vehemently anti-left, pro civil liberties group] posts this piece,
"Was
Reagan a Bigot"? Jim Peon writes:
There are times that the dominant Left in the gay community really irritate me. And right now is one of them. Ronald Reagan has just died. Many Americans, myself included, still have some fond feelings for the man.
But some of the more radical elements within the gay community refuse to see any good in Reagan just as they refuse to see any problems with their anointed candidates.
It's a small world, after all.