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President Ford and Revisionist History
By Lee Camp
All this damn revisionist history every time a famous person dies. Any time someone dies, they act like he or she cured cancer. It could be Mr. T – the reporters would be saying, "The T Man carried a scared nation through the difficult times of the early 80's. He showed us what it was to live, love, laugh, and pity the fool."
And past Presidents are the worst! The history of bad Presidents are the most revised. I hadn't heard anyone, Democrat or Republican, say something nice about Gerald Ford my entire life unless you count the occasional, "Wow, George W. Bush is even dumber than Gerald Ford!"
Yet the man dies and CNN's humping the coffin during the procession! Back in his time Ford was viewed as a bit of a scumbag for pardoning Nixon. But now he passes away and everybody says, "He knew the country needed to begin the healing process. He made that possible by pardoning Nixon." But I say: How better to heal the country than to put the bastard who wounded it in jail? If you get stabbed in the thigh by a criminal, you don't then say, "You know what would cure my thigh which is now gushing blood? Letting that guy go. My leg muscles will reattach if the guy who tried to kill me would simply run away."
The man was Gerald Ford, not Gandhi. He was never even elected President ONCE. At least with all other Presidents you can say "Well, at some point America loved him." But not with Ford.
We talked trash about this man for 40 years, but now that he's gone we start sugar-coating it? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't we say nice things to his face and once he dies, say, "Okay, now we can finally talk about this S.O.B!"
If George W. Bush passed away this week, reporters would say, "He was perhaps one of the greatest Presidents America ever saw, and he definitely was the smartest. He brought freedom and justice to millions of enslaved Iraqis. Perhaps his only downfall was that he cared too much. He tried to save everyone, and eventually it overwhelmed his administration. Friends and family say he also had an unquenchable hunger for knowledge. And oh yeah, he found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq too."
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