Disgraced Ronald Reagan adviser Michael "it was the Booze" Deaver dies

[devilgrrl]

Michael K. Deaver, longtime adviser to President Reagan, dies

WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael K. Deaver, one Ronald Reagan's closest advisers during in the White House and the director of the president's picturesque and symbolic public appearances, died Saturday. He was 69.
Deaver, who had pancreatic cancer, died at his home in Bethesda, Md., according to a statement from the Deaver family that was issued by Edelman, the public relations firm he served as vice chairman.

Deaver was celebrated and scorned as an expert at media manipulation for focusing on how the president looked as much as what the president said. Reagan's chief choreographer for public events, Deaver protected the commander in chief's image and enhanced it with a flair for choosing just the right settings, poses and camera angles.

"I've always said the only thing I did is light him well," Deaver told the Los Angeles Times in 2001. "My job was filling up the space around the head. I didn't make Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan made me."

Deaver's own image suffered a setback in 1987. He was convicted on three of five counts of perjury stemming from statements to a congressional subcommittee and a federal grand jury investigating his lobbying activities with administration officials.

more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-08-18-deaver-obit_N.htm?csp=34

[Spinzonner]

1. T don't think that most Republican politicians

or theio associated facilitators, hangers-on, etc, understand the concept of disgrace, shame, and the like.

[Greeby]

2. Are there non-disgraced Reagan advisors out there somewhere?

:shrug:

[Gabi Hayes]

3. Deaver: second iteration in a lineage of monster marketers (and I mean monster, as in horrible

creature), beginning with Nixon's handlers--know who Haldeman worked for pre-Nixon?--then, on to Deaver, then Atwater, then Rove

don't kid yourself....they learned from Bernays, doubtless via Goebbels

think I'm nuts? read below. I've posted it many times

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/bender2.html

''The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country… We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized… "

So opens Propaganda (1928), one of several strikingly frank analyses of western social psychology written by Edward Bernays. This nephew of Sigmund Freud founded the public relations industry in the United States.

Mr. Bernays lived a fascinating life. He first got involved in high stakes politics when he "warmed up" the dour Calvin Coolidge by arranging the first presidential celebrity photo op in 1928. For the private sector, Bernays engineered a most notorious publicity stunt for the American Tobacco Company, by single-handedly neutralizing the taboo against women smoking in public. He organized a "Torches of Freedom" march down Broadway by ten smoking debutantes during the 1929 Easter Parade. With the help of feminists – some of whom understood the "right to smoke" as libratory – Bernays expertly publicized this spectacle, thus setting in motion the expected stir on op-ed pages across the land......

........These revolutionary psychological insights had actually been percolating in France and Great Britain since the first years of the 20th Century. They were duly appropriated by Hitler, who wrote in Mein Kampf (1925): "But it was not until the War that it became evident what immense results could be obtained by a correct application of propaganda. Here again, unfortunately, all our studying had to be done on the enemy side…" In Bernays’s 1965 memoir Biography of an Idea, he acknowledged that Crystallizing Public Opinion significantly influenced Josef Goebbels.

[rasputin1952]

4. I shall not dance upon the graves of the dead....but I shall not

miss this guy either.

Deaver was a slime merchant, and he took Reagan to a height he never should have seen. Reagan was a dud, he was excessivley lazy, and only got moving for something that would give him positive publicity...Deaver made that happen.