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Gumbel’s dismissive profanity highlights his role as the master chef of petit déjeuner liberalism.

Gumbel is probably most famous in conservative circles for his hatred of Ronald Reagan. His compulsion to assign blame to Reagan borders on obsessive paranoia; his outbursts about Reagan-era “greed” and “excesses of the 1980s” often come way out of left field. For example, five years after Reagan’s presidency ended, Gumbel asked a spokesman of the American Medical Association: “In the greedy excesses of the Reagan years, the mean income of the average physician nearly doubled, from $88,000 to $170,000. Was that warranted?”

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Gumbel’s dismissive profanity highlights his role as the master chef of petit déjeuner liberalism.

Gumbel is probably most famous in conservative circles for his hatred of Ronald Reagan. His compulsion to assign blame to Reagan borders on obsessive paranoia; his outbursts about Reagan-era “greed” and “excesses of the 1980s” often come way out of left field. For example, five years after Reagan’s presidency ended, Gumbel asked a spokesman of the American Medical Association: “In the greedy excesses of the Reagan years, the mean income of the average physician nearly doubled, from $88,000 to $170,000. Was that warranted?”