This post is perfunctorial. I just wanted to gather a bunch of data in one place (videos first and links at the end), but I feel no motivation to analyze any of it or add my own commentary. So, take it or leave it. If you’re so interested, here is the real Ronald Reagan. As he once said, “Facts are stubborn things.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2011/02/04/ST2011020403674.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/04/AR2011020403104.html
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011020501/reagan-ruins
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011020504/revisiting-reagan-nightmare
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0301.green.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20030729-503544.html
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/04/133489113/Reagan-Legacy-Clouds-Tax-Record
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-01/the-republicans-reagan-amnesia/
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Reagan_to_Rush_Limbaugh_You_know_nothing_of_my_work.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/When_America_worships_a_bronze_idol.html
http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-06-09/business/17430568_1_deficits-billion-defense-spending
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2011/02/06/the-disastrous-legacy-of-ronald-reagan-in-charts/
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/135/reagan.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2004/6/11/reagan_and_the_homeless_epidemic_in
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0610-03.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0610-01.htm
http://www.politicususa.com/en/conservatives-reagan
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