CBS’s Pelley Lectures GOP: Reagan ‘Wouldn’t Recognize’ the Party Based on 2016 Field

Curtis Houck | January 6, 2016
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After having spent seven and a half minutes on Tuesday trumpeting President Obama’s executive actions on gun control, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley eventually turned his newscast to the 2016 election and invoked Ronald Reagan in lecturing Republicans that “he wouldn't recognize the melee just four weeks before Iowa.”

Pelley alluded to Reagan before turning over to chief White House correspondent Major Garrett on the campaign trail in New Hampshire: “In the race for the next commander in chief, Ronald Reagan once said the 11th Commandment is thou shall not speak ill of another Republican. Well, he wouldn't recognize the melee just four weeks before Iowa.”