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Palin Mistakenly Relocates Reagan’s Eureka College…But He’d Be the First to Laugh This Off as Media Nonsense

One of Sarah’s strengths today is that she speaks in conversational and extemporaneous tones. She is ‘one of us’ in other words…just like a next door neighbor. Right now this serves her well and no doubt Governor Palin understands she’ll need more tightly drawn speeches once a national Presidential campaign is underway.

Sarah Palin hit a rhetorical speed bump last week when she misplaced the geographical location of Ronald Reagan’s Alma Mater, Eureka College in Illinois.

As usual the media has had a field day with this though they never feel compelled to print anything else she said in her speech about the dangers of the Obama Administration.

However, let’s get back to Eureka College for just a moment. One of Ronald Reagan’s greatest human traits was an ability to graciously laugh at himself and therefore not take himself too seriously. The wonderful film clip below from 1974 does in fact end with a joke about Eureka College.

It remains a disgusting spectacle the media will allow Obama to say things daily which are not accurate and yet never submit him to ‘fact checking’. His everyday speeches, performed it seems only to gratify his ego, are rife with error. Yet, the liberal media lets him move along with rarely a discouraging word. President Obama, as we know, is thin skinned and takes his self-belief in personal greatness way too seriously.

Thankfully Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin are like most Americans who understand the value of self-deprecation while they seek to lift others. Please enjoy the video and note the ending joke about Eureka College. (For those of a younger generation, comedian Jonathan Winters mentions riding a bus with legendary movie and TV actor Fred MacMurray. In those days the popular MacMurray made TV commercials for the Greyhound Bus Company.)