Posted on 02/18/2006 11:01:29 PM PST by krb
Saw it this evening. Done very respectfully, with music from folks like Brooks 'n Dunn. I'd never heard the bits about threats to his life from the Communists in the 1950s.
From what I've read he carried during that time.
The PBS show "The American Presidents" about Reagan covered that part of his life also.
The commies threatened to cut his face up, and he did carry for a time in order to protect his family.
Bump! It's on again in 1.5 hours!
Thank you for the post. I recorded it and my wife and I just finished watching it. Great!
I'm serious. I was tuning more into GAC than CMT lately--CMT for a while there was constantly playing Bon Jovi and John Mellencamp and Sheryl Crow and Bonnie Raitt...I know I should just consider the music, but after a while all I saw, at least when I watched, were what I knew to be liberals who happened to try to appeal to the country music market.
Sorry for going off on a tangent, but CMT sometimes seems to be more sympathetic to the libs. And they plan the "Dukes of Hazzard" and those stupid reality shows too much. Just play some tunes.
Reagan started packing a pistol after getting the threatening phone calls
(anonymous, which is par for the course for union thugs or Communists)
As much as I hate to recommend something from PBS, they did a bang-up
(and fair) job with their American Experience installment on Reagan.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/
I think you can get a DVD copy via the "shop" button at the bottom of the page.
Bump! It's coming back on in 1/2 hour, for those who want something to watch tonight...
I would agree that the PBS show was better than expected, but to say it was "fair" is a stretch.
The historical coverage is nice, but you can 100% tell it was planned and edited by people who simply don't like the guy.
Why was it that the only 2 Reagan kids they interview are the two who had "issues" with their father, not the two who really got along well with him? Well, correction, they *did* have a brief interview with Maureen, but only to get her take on Iran/Contra. The other numerous interviews are with Patti and Ron, and nothing with Michael.
You do make a good point...not having at least a segment with Michael Reagan
was a deficit.
Maybe my view could have been skewed because I saw it when I lived in Los Angeles...
and my expectations were so low.
I did notice that the DVD was on sale at The Reagan Presidential Library Bookstore
when I visited in Sept. 2004. But I don't know if that was because the Library
staff thought it was a good documentary...or they were just carrying on
Reagan's vision for capitalism.
Excellent! I caught the tail end of it a couple of nights ago. Looked terrific. Unfortunately, it's followed by "Giant." I saw that show when I was a kid, before anyone knew about Rock Hudson or James Dean, and at ten years old, I knew those guys weren't Texans. I didn't know what they were, but I remember thinking, "Those guys are weird."
Thank you. Am watching it now.
It's about as good as it gets when you consider the vast majority of $$ and talent in the documentary industry is controlled by libs.
The footage and the timeline of events is awesome. Even though they never call the dorks who were against him to task for being wrong about 100% of the predictions they made, the viewer can see for himself that almost everyone of the people interviewed or shown in archive footage (Ted Kennedy, MacNamara, Anthony Lewis, etc.) were dead wrong. Patti was wrong, the silly "On the Beach" austrailian woman was wrong. They don't pursue a defense of Reagan against their charges or predictions that he was trying to start WWIII, but all the facts are there for a clear mind to see that not only were they wrong, but he did *exactly* what he said he was out to do.
Me too :-)
Related thread; Reagan Babies: 2006: Turning point for young conservatives
I retched throughout the entire Eleanor Roosevelt story. They portrayed her as the second coming of Christ.
I'm with you. I guess I hadn't thought about it, but I don't watch CMT at all anymore. I'm not into popular country much anyway, more the "alt" and "roots" stuff. I TiVo Crossroads on CMT, and that's it. And I delete a few of those because of the artists included. OTOH I've never had to delete a Grand Ole Opry yet due to the presence of an intolerable lefty.
Thank you. :)
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