My husband and I were just going over the last few decades of Presidents and he brought up how Reagan's speeches were so much better than the reality of his social programs, how he ignored so many issues like AIDS, deconstructing our social programs and even arms for hostages.
I flashed back to watching Oliver North sitting before a congressional committee on TV day after day one summer when I was working at a gas station at Six Flags over Mid-America.
Oliver North was convicted of three felonies involved with his lying to Congress about negotiating and funding terrorists "guerillas, aka freedom fighters," something that Reagan said he'd never do and so do conservatives argue that position today. [BTW--the ACLU helped North overturn this conviction on a technicality, a difficult but happy lesson in how the ACLU is not a partisan organization!!!!]
How important is that principle to conservatives when instead of letting Oliver North fade into obscurity and humility over that nasty transgression against American values, Fox News employs Oliver North as a hero?
This adds up to a blatant disregard for the law, and at the very least an absolute lack of moral leadership by Fox News and others who continue to support Oliver North.
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