Saturday, February 12, 2011

Reagan, 1987

Happy belated 100th birthday.






















From a series of distorted Reagan images I did back in 1987. At that time there wasn't anything mythic about RR—just a deeply flawed Republican politician.

The soon-to-be myth-makers were furiously trying to spin Iran-Contra and Reagan's indifference to AIDS. Yet, looking back, he was the ideal spokesperson for our current upside-downism—he provided a well crafted rhetoric that could—reliably— sustain an exploitable distance from all objective reality.

Huzzah!

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