Wait, What?

Alright, so I was most frustrated by the first bit of this segment, but your welcome to watch the whole thing.

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Sometimes these segments are constructive, but this one is pretty much all ad hominem, and that's pretty disappointing.

The bit about Reagan is what sort of pissed me off. Not that I'm a huge fan of Reagan's (though some of his policies, in my opinion, were pretty good), but there are a lot of people who are, and if you're going to attack a dead president, at least use some numbers.

If, every time a Democrat quoted a line about Obama being the next FDR, someone in the right wing said "FDR's dead and was a lousy president," the liberals in media would go postal, and rightly so.

There are so many better things to criticize Kilburn about.

Criticize him for being a poor representative and failing to represent the best interests of the people he serves.

Criticize him for support a policy that you don't like (whether it's refusing the stimulus money or, more generally, conservative economics).

Don't criticize him for quoting Ronald Reagan.

And, if you want to make an angry tirade about the quote, center it on something that Reagan's policies failed to do, not simply a rhetorical point about not liking Ronald Reagan.

It was a cheap joke and, unfortunately, not a very good one.