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To: Dale Baker who wrote (11401)	6/7/2004 12:10:21 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 20773

An E-mail to Ted David at CNBC titled "Where Is The Balance?" "It is sad and ironic that while we sit around moaning how blind belief in statements that the media parroted got us into Iraq on false pretenses, your coverage of Reagan's death is a one-slided slopfest aimed at caricaturing the man as the perfect president. Where is the discussion on Iran-Contra? Where is the examination of 138 officials convicted, indicted or investigated in his presidency? Where is the mention that Reagan supported Saddam and funded Bin Laden throughout the 1980's? Where is the balance in your journalism? Why do you pander to emotional stereotypes to please your audience at a sad moment? This is a lame, lightweight day for CNBC. I have yet to see one critical voice on the screen today."

To: Dale Baker who wrote (11401)	6/7/2004 4:52:37 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20773

Reagan, like so many other conservative hypocrites one can think of, acted immorally when young (or younger), and then clung to the raft of morality when he was old, hoping no one would notice the long trail of immoral debris from his past, trailing after him. I have no problem with people who are debauched, and no problem with people who are debauched and who then reform, but people who are debauched and then "reform" and THEN try to be part of the moral morassity, well, that's pretty nauseating. Reagan always made me ill. I hate to see anyone suffer, and I'm sorry he (and Nancy) had to suffer what so many other people have to suffer with. But death doesn't make an ignoble man noble, and it doesn't make a hypocrite honest.