Celeb News: Hillary Clinton Praises Nancy Reagan on HIV/AIDS convo

qmpierre

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As funeral-goers prepare to lay Nancy Reagan to rest Friday afternoon, Hillary Clinton told MSNBC that the late first lady was responsible for starting a national conversation on HIV/AIDS at a time when the public was hesitant to discuss the health crisis. "It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980s," the Democratic presidential frontrunner said "Because of both President and Mrs. Reagan—in particular Mrs. Reagan—we started a national converation when before no one wanted to talk about it, no one wanted to do anything about it." Clinton added that she appreciates Reagan's "very effective, low-key advocacy" because "it penetrated the public conscious." Many critics would disagree, however, because the Reagans remained infamously silent about HIV/AIDS for half a decade, even as the virus killed nearly 20,000 Americans.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/...&source=Reddit

What did the Reagans due to respond to the AIDS epidemic?

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Nancy Reagan Turned Down Rock Hudson’s Plea For Help Nine Weeks Before He Died
Rock Hudson was desperately trying to get treatment for AIDS in France in 1985. Much of that story has been told, but one part hasn’t: After a simple plea came in for White House help to get Hudson transferred to another hospital, First Lady Nancy Reagan turned down the request

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner...we#.dhvawBgdOv

And what did Reagan's staff due when it was brought up in a Press Conference

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Chilling audio features President Ronald Reagan’s press secretary laughing about gay people’s deaths during the AIDS crisis.
The clip appears in filmmaker Scott Calonico’s new documentary short, When AIDS Was Funny – which debuted on Vanity Fair today to mark World AIDS Day.
Reagan was President for much of the AIDS crisis during the 1980s, and has long been accused of failing to act over what was seen as a ‘gay’ disease at the time.
The President failed to even mention AIDS in public until 1985 – four years after it was first reported in 1981. 5000 people, primarily-gay and bisexual men, died of AIDS before Reagan even mentioned it.
However, the new documentary sheds light on just how extreme the contempt was in Reagan’s administration for the people who lost their lives during the AIDS crisis.
The recording features Reagan’s press secretary Larry Speakes laughing about the crisis when challenged by reporter Lester Kinsolving during a 1982 press briefing.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/12/01...g-aids-crisis/

TheSoneNavy

She's over

CannibalMonster

She already apologized for her comment.

https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/s...03247795539968

masegoRih

She apologised. Geez people can't make mistakes these days

Tinker

She apologized but of course people who already hate her are gonna make this into such a big deal.

retromaury

You're trying so hard

Digital

KylieistBoi

People who accuse Bernie of being a racist running here with the excuse of "she apologized!!" it does NOT change the fact that she said this and thinks/thought like this

Mr. Fahrenheit

What a jackass.

I mean, if there's one thing about the Reagans...

Nippy'sReceipts

She is lying. The Reagans ignored the AIDS crisis. She should have just used the Just Say No! campaign as an example instead. That was the thing Nancy was known for.

Obsession

How does one FORGET that the Reagans did nothing for AIDS support? There's nothing accidental about making up stories.

Achilles.

This is like... The equivalent of Hillary giving herself credit for starting conversation about gays in the military because her husband passed Don't Ask Don't Tell.

CannibalMonster

Damn. You admit you are wrong and apologize and you still get flack.

I mean, I applaud her for aplogizing, especially in this presidential race where so many things are being said without any remorse.

Rom

She said the dumbest thing and it's alright because she apologized? Ridiculous. Thank god she did, but that doesn't change the fact she was tactless and stupid.

qmpierre

Hillary consistently makes mistakes...she was wrong about this, she was against gays in the military, she was against gay marriage. she praised Nancy about this...do you really think she has evolved on LGBT rights when she still keeps making these mistakes...I think not.

Digital

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Originally posted by CannibalMonster

Damn. You admit you are wrong and apologize and you still get flack.

I mean, I applaud her for aplogizing, especially in this presidential race where so many things are being said without any remorse.

It's less about her being wrong and more to do with what she was actually wrong about while claiming to be such a large advocate for the LGBTQ community. I mean, the Reagan administration was notorious for ignoring the AIDs epidemic in the LGBT community during the 1980s. Allowed thousands to die simply because they believed it was "a gay disease" that the people brought upon themselves by breaking anti-sodomy laws.

I'm not ANTi-Hillary, just stating it how it is. Make up your own minds.

lightstheyblindme

as a democratic politician she knows that the Reagan administration did everything they could do make sure people with AIDS died of it so she clearly just said this to appeal to more conservative voters
so disgusting, this is why i dont use ha

Sazare

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Originally posted by CannibalMonster

She already apologized for her comment.

https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/s...03247795539968

ffnmff bye @ "I misspoke"

She didn't misspeak, she just got caught spewing major revisionist bull all in an effort to pander to Reagan Democrats who are now flocking to Trump en masse.

"Low-key" my goddamn ass. More like "no-key": the Reagans sat on their damn hands CACKLING as the gay community was decimated. She can rot.