5.19.1982

A Visit to the Reagan Ranch

For a while, it seemed like every damn' time you turned around, either Time or Newsweek or the Washington Post or Parade Magazine or NBC was doing smarmy photo spreads and interviews with Reagan on his ranch -- at least Reagan was smart enough to stick to sitting on a horse looking all manly and Presidential, unlike a certain Texas brush-clearing President we all know -- and damn' near causing normal peoples' heads to explode from the sheer volume of aw-shucks down-home patriotism, feigned cowboy attitude, and religiosity.

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As a public service, I presented through the Yipster Times/Overthrow this undercover report on the real Reagan Ranch, not the folksy simulacrum presented for Time, Newsweek, Parade and People.

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