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Olbermann cites Media Matters' report on conservatives highlighting Reagan's attacks on Medicare as "socialized medicine"

August 17, 2009 9:20 pm ET

From the August 17th edition of MSNBC's Countdown:

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Conservatives push Reagan's 1961 attacks on "socialized medicine" but ignore that he was criticizing Medicare

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- by snoopy (August 17, 2009 9:47 pm ET)
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  Ooh, MMFA is famous! Good job, guys and gals!
  
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- by carlileb5935 (August 17, 2009 9:52 pm ET)
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  Having grown up during Reagan's first years in Sacramento, I had forgotten what a mean sounding guy he was.
  
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  - by carlileb5935 (August 17, 2009 10:00 pm ET)
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    Correction: he actually was a mean guy.
    
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    - by christopher howard (August 17, 2009 10:03 pm ET)
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      But.... but he brought morning to America!
      
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      - by snoopy (August 17, 2009 10:51 pm ET)
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        And had a chimp named bonzo. Hmmm, a movie about teaching morals to a chimp. No wonder Reagan was a right wing conservative.
        
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        by Easy to refute wingnuts (August 18, 2009 7:57 am ET)
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        And the chimp that never learned morals was "elected" in 2000.
        
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      - by Limit Corp. Ownership (August 18, 2009 12:10 am ET)
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        That's right,
        
        All of Cawlifornia was in darkness before Dingbat Ronnie came along.
        
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      - by Easy to refute wingnuts (August 18, 2009 7:56 am ET)
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        But.... but he brought morning to America!
        And mourning to the rest of the world.
        
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    - by blk-in-alabam (August 17, 2009 10:12 pm ET)
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      Low down and dirty too
      
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- by jonesjax2374 (August 18, 2009 12:00 am ET)
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  Now that I'm old and farty, I think Social Security and Medicare are horrible communist plots! They should end! Now that I'm half-dead. I think Christopher Buckley wrote about killing off the boomers who are hogging all our resources, didn't he? And RR is also famous for suggesting that the BANCROFT LIBRARY (host of Mark Twain and other "PROGRESSIVE" writers) should sell rare books because nobody reads them, after all. Brilliant man. Greatest President. LOL!
  
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- by mustardman (August 18, 2009 1:52 am ET)
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  I was wondering why Moveon and some of the other people didn't dig up these old scare videos to show how it's the same thing all over again.
  
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