Hitchens on the alarming stupidity of Ronald Reagan: If Bush is a 'moron', then what was Reagan? He was a puppet who read the scripts fed to him, and had no real idea of what was going on. This was known at the time. Currently the US media is in a frenzy of myth enforcfing regarding the recently deceased Reagan. The US President these days is something like a Roman Caesar: regardless of the merits (or total lack of them) of the latest Caesar, its compulsory that he be declared a god, possessing all sorts of abilities and achievements he hasnt got.

Hitchens on the alarming stupidity of Ronald Reagan: If Bush is a 'moron', then what was Reagan? He was a puppet who read the scripts fed to him, and had no real idea of what was going on. This was known at the time. Currently the US media is in a frenzy of myth enforcfing regarding the recently deceased Reagan. The US President these days is something like a Roman Caesar: regardless of the merits (or total lack of them) of the latest Caesar, its compulsory that he be declared a god, possessing all sorts of abilities and achievements he hasnt got.