ABC’s This Week Slams Reagan, Criticizes His ‘Tattered Civil Rights Image’

Jeffrey Meyer | January 18, 2015
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Video cross-posted here at NewsBusters. Monday is Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, and on Sunday morning ABC’s This Week decided to smear the Republican over his civil rights record. During the show’s weekly “powerhouse puzzler” segment, guest host Martha Raddatz played a clip from the 1983 signing ceremony in which ABC’s Sam Donaldson proclaimed “the White House staged an impressive ceremony today. The president and Dr. King's widow walking into the Rose Garden together in an effort to spruce up Mr. Reagan's tattered civil rights image.”

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