Reply #20: Johnny Appleseed didn't create the appleseed, you know.

[ThatPoetGuy]

He just sowed them widely.

Your "Reagan didn't invent the 'welfare queen' attack" is a non-sequitur.

According to Susan Douglas, it was with Reagan's 1976 campaign, when he used the term "welfare queen" to describe a Chicago woman, Linda Taylor, that the term entered the national discourse.

Reagan described Taylor over and over as the "Cadillac-driving welfare queen," despite the fact that she went to prison for stealing a total of $8,000 over a period of years. His sowing of this seed led to the changing tides of welfare reform under Clinton.

_On Deaf Ears_ doesn't count that sort of thing. It falls outside the author's limited view -- his blindness and stupidity. He ONLY measures use of the bully pulpit vs. immediate legislative accomplishments, which is an incredibly stupid way to view the use of the bully pulpit.