They hated him, treated him like a dog when he was president (no suprise, he was a republican).
2007-01-02 06:35:59 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Because he's dead.
It makes perfect sense to me considering how they treated him when he was alive.
2007-01-02 11:26:56 · answer #1 · answered by STILL standing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ford may have been the best president in our history. Kennedy gets the press and the good light but Ford made all the issues of the day happen. He was the president that got it done. I believe the most legislation ever, was passed in his term of service. He established domestic policy used today and had no interest to get press or a second term.
2007-01-02 14:51:14 · answer #2 · answered by Pablo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Propaganda pure and simple by the men who were behind Nixon?
Remember up until that time we had an independent media outlet country, no thousands of hours a day by right wing radio talk host, no 24/7 coverae of patriotic warfare and the beat goes on.
Rev.Moon of Washington News network contributed over $500,000,000 since Nixon impeachment to right wing radio and TV corproations buying up stocks etc and joining with men like Murdocch and Turner and especailly with independent man named Coors of coors beer fame.
Coors contributed over 100,000,000 to the so called conservative causes in the media arena.
The last real attempt by an independent media was the Pentagon Papers that damn near made the whole politcal system fall. papers that even up to today portions are deemed so damning they remain sealed.
Never again would the media be allowed to have such power. Ford was very instruemtnal in getting this program going by hiding truth of
Governetn corruption.
The country could not of withsttod the true nature of a Nixon Impeachment..
There is no right or left wing media in country and when it is labled such it is because of personality conflicts not policy that their articles are directed to.
All the media supports whomever is in power within the one and only Orgaization they belong to, The US government.
2007-01-02 15:00:26 · answer #3 · answered by theooldman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, the same old story about death and destruction in Iraq has grown old. We need a temporary diversion. Secondly, It's not a tenth what they gave the GREAT and POWERFUL Ronald Reagan in his two month long funeral. That was truly obscene. This is only paying respect to a mediocre President who still served his country with dignity at a time of national crisis. That does not mean he should be forgiven for the Nixon pardon, although revisionists have tried to justify it.
2007-01-02 14:43:44 · answer #4 · answered by Kwan Kong 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He is dead you don't speak ill of the dead. Gerald Ford was will liked by his all of congress when he was in office. He was the last moderate republican. He was pro choice!!!! People were upset with him because within 30 days of taking office he pardon Richard Nixon!
2007-01-02 15:00:17 · answer #5 · answered by wondermom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's correct, the media were very critical of Gerald Ford when he was President. I actually heard a couple of them state that they were wrong, but the liberals really hated him too.
2007-01-02 14:45:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Following both the trauma of Vietnam and the Nixon scandal he quietly and with dignity healed a Nations wounds.
The only President unelected to office - above all else - he'll be remembered for his unstinting devotion and care of his fellow Americans.
No greater accolade can be bestowed.
2007-01-02 15:42:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The liberal media didn't like him then for pardoning Nixon. But they now see that what he was actually trying to do, in pardoning Nixon, was to protect the office of the President.
2007-01-02 14:45:13 · answer #8 · answered by mocha5isfree 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm suprised we actually haven't seen the Saddam was a great man videos now that he is dead its typically how people get treated when there dead. All of the sudden everybody likes them.
2007-01-02 14:39:24 · answer #9 · answered by mrlebowski99 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it's pretty much social manners to not speak ill of the dead (espeically directly after the death)... even if someone wasn't a big fan of them...
they are dead now... it's over... and it doesn't help to gripe about the past now that the person is dead... I think that's most people view on it...
unless it's hitler or Saddam or some totally crazy dictator that killed millions...
2007-01-02 14:56:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Funny how the media is like this. Look what they did to Reagan when he was the President.
Now, the media worships Reagan. Come to think of it, most of us feel the same way.
EDIT: The point is about the media flip-flopping, not Mr. Ford.
2007-01-02 14:44:16 · answer #11 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋