Will George HW's funeral be as much of a media frenzy and lie machine as Reagan's was? [View All]

For some reason I was just thinking of this.

I have a feeling it won't be, since Reagan - though he totally didn't deserve it - has a HUGE mythological aura around him as the savior president by far too many people.

Clearly, HW doesn't have that aura. In fact, it seems we rarely hear anything about his presidency - we hear about Reagan's or Clinton's, but HW gets pretty much nothing.

But on the other hand, America has slowly been turning into a bizarrely nostalgic and dead-person-worshipping culture. Considering the number of people just here on DU who think it's wrong to say anything critical of a dead person and who go fucking nutso when we call an evil person an evil person instead of cutting out our hearts in their memory, I wouldn't be surprised if HW had a great big national to-do.

That said, though, I still think his funeral - and even Dubya's, eventually - will be quite subdued in comparison to Reagan's great big blow job of national mourning extravaganza which so quickly left the realm of appropriateness into the realm of utter nutjobbery and sinful excess.

What think you? Quiet funeral (as quiet as a president's can be, I mean, of course) or great big rightwing Jesus Crispy ashes and sackcloth obscenity we saw with Reagan?