Nasty Joy Behar Defends Reagan Alzheimer Movie With This Lie

Scott Whitlock | April 29, 2016
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[See NewsBusters for more.] Hours before the announcement that actor Will Ferrell would not star in a smear film portraying Ronald Reagan as a dementia-addled invalid, the women of The View discussed the potential movie. Liberal co-host Joy Behar insisted that the concept could be making a “larger point” and also repeated a smear about the 40th president. Speaking of Ferrell, she sneered, “He might be making a larger point about the fact that the man was in office with Alzheimer's and that reflects our political system to a T.” In reality, Reagan wasn’t diagnosed with the disease until 1994, five years after he left office. An October 5, 1997 New York Times piece explained, “Mr. Reagan ‘absolutely’ did not 'show any signs of dementia or Alzheimer's,’ said Dr. John E. Hutton Jr., who cared for him from 1984 until the end of his Presidency.”

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