He's right. Ronnie didn't know anything about taking lobbyist money and making back room deals. He had his big three ideas and he got them implemented, the rest really didn't matter. Simple, but very effective.
Ever heard of MCA? That was a backroom deal, if I ever heard one.
M.C.A. was the only talent agency that was allowed to also be a producer through an exemption to union rules granted by S.A.G. when Reagan was the union president, and it used the exemption to acquire Universal International Pictures. Talent agents were not permitted to be producers as there was an inherent conflict of interest between the two professions, one of which was committed to acquiring talent at the lowest possible cost and the other whose focus was to get the best possible price for their client. When a talent agent was also a producer, like M.C.A. was, it had a habit of steering its clients to its own productions, where they were employed but at a lower price than their potential free market value. It was a system that made M.C.A. and Lew Wasserman, enormously wealthy.