The American media is nothing if not predictable. A president out of office for decades just died and the media treated it like the second coming.
Out of 50 newspapers I checked, 49 of them carried the story of Gerald Ford's death on page 1, most of them as the lead story.
And most of them treated him as a hero who is saved the nation from Nixon-induced chaos. In truth, Ford initiated a massive cover-up of Nixon's crimes by pardoning him as one of the first acts he did on becoming president. It was one of the things that cost him the next election.
A nice guy, perhaps, but neither a great man or a great and important president.
Posted by Deck at December 27, 2006 05:25 PM