Video: Reagan Statue Unveiled in Budapest and Street Named for Him in Prague
Two eastern European nations last week debuted commemorations to thank former President Ronald Reagan for playing an instrumental role in freeing them from communism. I only found sparse television coverage of the two “Reagan Centennial” events in Hungary and the Czech Republic, but thought I’d share what I located since the events didn’t earn much air time.
The accompanying video first shows a brief item on Wednesday’s Special Report where FNC played some video of a life-size statue of Reagan being unveiled in Freedom Square in front of the U.S. Embassy in Budapest. Second in the video, a short item from MSNBC on Saturday morning about a block of a street in Prague getting named for Ronald Wilson Reagan.
The week of commemorations in Europe, a USAToday.com posting noted, “will wrap up on July 4 in London, where a statue of Reagan will be unveiled on Grosvenor Square, where the U.S. Embassy is located.”
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice represented Nancy Reagan at the ceremonies in Budapest and Prague.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation’s Facebook page has a photo from Budapest. The caption: “Hundreds gather in Budapest's Freedom Square as a statue of Ronald Reagan is unveiled during a ceremony to mark the Centennial year of his birth.”
YouTube has video from the U.S. Embassy in Budapest of remarks made by U.S. and Hungarian officials.
I found another video on YouTube capturing the comments made by the U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, but sans video of the street name being uncovered -- which is in the MSNBC video.
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This tells you something
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 1:14am.
This tells you something about what people who have lived under communism and totalitarianism feel about freedom, liberty, and Ronald Reagan. You'd NEVER catch Boy Blunder taking part in anything like this.............unless he was doing it to compare himself to Reagan - which the petulant poser has tried a few times. Only thing is..........Barama couldn't even qualify to shine Reagan's shoes!!! (Oooooooooohhhhh - was that a 'racist' statement???)
Barama is too busy planning his next
Submitted by djwolf12 on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 1:36am.
golf outing, vacation, and his next abomination.
TRU DAT................but
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 1:56am.
TRU DAT................but the guys behind the curtain and the puppetmasters are insidiously planning further destruction of our American way of life, our freedoms, and the core foundations of our Constitution...........which they consider to be an irrelevent and disposable document - except when they want to use some part of it for their own gain!!!
And Boy Blunder was a 'Constitutional scholar'........or whatever the hell it's called??? Gag me with a friggin' spoon!!!!! I'd call him a 'Constitutional killer'!!!!
signed,
KILLA!!!!!!!!
Not a racist statement......
Submitted by old cro on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 4:41am.
although your local socialist will call you on it anyway.
I myself shined shoes from the age of 11 till I was about 15, visiting bars up and down the street. I don't think I am black, although I tan pretty good in the summer.
P.S.
Submitted by old cro on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 4:46am.
Happy Fourth of July!
Enjoy the food and celebrations. Thank the founding fathers for their vision.
My dad used to have a
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 12:41pm.
My dad used to have a shoeshine kit and a shave and a haircut kit from his youth during the Great Depression, and he knew how to use them too.............he had to!!!! Oh...........he wasn't 'black' either...........and I can guarantee you that he is rolling over in his grave these days, and not because of Boy Barry's 'race'.............
Killa37
Submitted by Michael30 on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 7:21am.
My great-uncle (WWII veteran) gave me, as a present, a shoe shine box as a present one year. He did so and told me that "you never know how you'll have to earn a living." Now I'm 32 and a college graduate, but I still have that box, because you never know how you'll have to earn your daily bread.
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He was from a generation that respected an honest days labor. Kind of sad that these days most people think of a shine boy or anything else as a "black only occupation."
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The guy had served in the war and won combat medals while being a combat engineer, yet never looked down on anybody until he died in the '80's.
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How sad that some people forget to respect a hard day's work, or think it is below them.
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Mike
I still remember there were
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 1:58pm.
I still remember there were shoe shine kits and boxes as projects in Scouts. Back when we could have open fires and cooked on fires and ....
He's not even that good
Submitted by Ozconservative on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 6:34am.
Obama doesn't even qualify to shine the shoes of the guy who shines Reagans shoes.
This is the first I,ve seen about it.
Submitted by Boil It Down on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 2:27am.
Thank you for putting it out there for us. It is very telling that this wasn't covered by the MSM.
Since there was a news blackout this weekend due to the inexplicable interest in the Casey Anthony trial, I kept turning the TV off anyway. -bidn-
Casey Anthony
Submitted by iveseenitall on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 9:59am.
Right on,Boil. Here in the Orlando area it is all Casey Anthony, all the time. But now it has spread to the MSM. Tells you alot about ignorance in our society and how the "news" is nothing but entertainment for the masses. Just another nail in the coffin of a once great country.
BTW---Speaking of Communism in America, I believe one of the best (and scariest) books ever written about it is Whittaker Chambers' autobiography "Witness", written in the nineteen fifties. It's scary because it's all coming true.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal" (progressive)
A tale of two statues.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 6:59am.
"Butterfly Boy" wasn't too popular.
Madame Butterfly Moochelle, however---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 9:30pm.
is quite popular as a fashion icon in some circles.
Very small, very liberal, very kiss butt, and very confined to reading Braille, circles.
MD
If only...
Submitted by Scott Trent on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 8:49am.
If only Reagan was still around today to save AMERICA from Communism!
I think the spirit of Ronald Reagan can be found in the
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 10:19am.
modern day Tea Party rallies. It would have made him proud:)
Poland
Submitted by iveseenitall on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 11:23am.
Went to a garage sale the other day. Met an old woman who is a refugee from Poland. Got to talking about living under Communism. As she talked she kept repeating "God Bless America". Spoke volumes to me. Yes, God Bless America!
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal" (progressive)
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Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 11:52am.
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An amazing country
Submitted by HelenS on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 3:14pm.
One of my ESL students was from Iraq. He told me more than once that if President Bush never did an honorable or noble thing again in his life, his place in Heaven is assured because of what he did for the Iraqi people. He told me, and the sentiment was seconded by an Afghani Kurd in the class, that the people love Bush and praise God for him every day.
Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."
Like
Submitted by MCLIJazz on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 3:52pm.
If you wrote this comment on Facebook, I'd "Like" it.
Where Will an Obama
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 5:48pm.
Statue be erected?
Azadi Square, in Tehran?
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 6:23pm.
Just a thought. Or the main square in Dearbornistan?
There was one erected...
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 9:16pm.
...but it was taken down due to public objection to it. HAHAHA
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35402169/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/t/obama-...
You're Right, I forgot about that.
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 10:53pm.
It will be left to Obama to erect his statue, probably in his own front yard in Chicago.