When liberals complain that last week was an intolerable seven days of praise for Reagan, you can always note that it’s hardly a balance for twenty or thirty years of media attacks. Like this one, from just five years ago, from Katie Couric promoting the odd Edmund Morris book on Reagan:

“Good morning. The Gipper was an airhead! That’s one of the conclusions of a new biography of Ronald Reagan that’s drawing a tremendous amount of interest and fire today, Monday, September the 27th, 1999.” To see more of the media’s Reagan record, see here.