OccupyMovement http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/19247/all en Your Weekly Out-of-Nowhere Reagan-Bashing, Courtesy of the Sunday Review http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/your-weekly-out-nowhere-reagan-bashing-courtesy-sunday-review <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Former poet laureate Robert Hass claims police brutality, then explains how it&#039;s all Reagan&#039;s fault: &quot;Another of the contingencies that came to my mind was a moment 30 years ago when Ronald Reagan&#039;s administration made it a priority to see to it that people like themselves, the talented, hardworking people who ran the country, got to keep the money they earned. Roosevelt&#039;s New Deal had to be undealt once and for all.&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Former poet laureate Robert Hass participated in the "Occupy Cal" campout at the University of California at Berkeley a couple of weeks ago – and in the latest example of <a href="http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2011/20111116111218.aspx">knee-jerk left-wing Reagan-bashing</a> in the Times Sunday Review: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/opinion/sunday/at-occupy-berkeley-beat-poets-has-new-meaning.html?sq=robert%20hass&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=all">'Poet-Bashing Police</a>.'</p> <p> </p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/your-weekly-out-nowhere-reagan-bashing-courtesy-sunday-review" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch liberalmediabias NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias OccupyMovement RobertHass RonaldReagan SundayReview TimesWatch Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:44:00 +0000 38633 at http://archive2.mrc.org