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Grumbling Trickles Down From Reagan Biopic
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| 10-21-03
| JIM RUTENBERG
Posted on 10/20/2003 9:50:52 PM PDT by Nick Thimmesch
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To: Nick Thimmesch
There they go again.............
To: Nick Thimmesch
"Mr. Morris, Mr. Reagan's biographer, said he had some misgivings about the mini-series, given the political leanings of the producers and actors.""The provenance of the movie makes me suspect it will not be fair," he said. But he added that it could also work as a reality check on Mr. Reagan's record." "The best thing one can say about a movie of this kind," he said, "is it does redress or counteract the sentimentalities that are being perpetrated all of the time in his name by his fanatical followers."
OH, PUlllleeaaassseee.....fits right in with the "education by Movie" crowd.......sheesh.
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posted on
10/20/2003 9:55:17 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(Do not build up obstacles (to your goals) in your imagination. NV Peale)
To: Nick Thimmesch
I am sure that it will be just as accurate as the "Noah" mini-series a few years ago.
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posted on
10/20/2003 9:55:20 PM PDT
by
irishtenor
(Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati ............(When all else fails, play dead))
To: Nick Thimmesch
IMHO Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of my lifetime! To insert such a statement which, in the playwright's words, cannot be proven to have been said is not giving the man a fair shake. I am referring to his supposed comments about people with AIDS.
Don't plan to watch the bio.
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posted on
10/20/2003 10:01:32 PM PDT
by
Theresawithanh
(My governator can lick your governor! Can not!!! Can too!!!)
To: irishtenor
I am sure that it will be just as accurate as the "Noah" mini-series a few years ago. I especially liked the "pirates" that attacked the Ark. Actually, I quit watching at about that point -- I was half watching before that.
I think I'll pass on SeeBS's take on the Reagans.
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posted on
10/20/2003 10:02:24 PM PDT
by
Semi Civil Servant
(Taking names and reporting to GWBUSH)
To: Nick Thimmesch
CBS? They're still around these days?
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posted on
10/20/2003 10:07:08 PM PDT
by
MichiganConservative
(Repeal the welfare state and the 14th, 16th, and 17th Amendments.)
To: Nick Thimmesch
"we're in such a pickle right now in our nation..."--
Priceless political commentary from the brilliant Mr. Brolin.
To: Nick Thimmesch
The script also accuses Mr. Reagan not only of showing no interest in addressing the AIDS crisis,
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What were Clinton's, Carter's, Johnson's, and Kennedy's policies on deabetes or myocardial infarct or kidney stones? Whay is there such focus and criticism of Reagan's position on a disease which is so easily preventable?
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posted on
10/20/2003 10:17:38 PM PDT
by
RLK
To: Semi Civil Servant
To: CBS Sponsers of this program
From: Concerned Free Republic Poster
Re: Reagan Mini-Series
You sponser, I decide.
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posted on
10/20/2003 10:22:26 PM PDT
by
Axman4
("Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.")
To: Nick Thimmesch
You want Pierce Brosnan.
You settle for Lyle Wagonner.
You get James Brolin.
I saw some of the Martin/Lewis movie. Bad.
This is sure to be a suck-o-rama.....for a lot more reasons than just the lies.
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posted on
10/20/2003 10:38:40 PM PDT
by
dasboot
(Celebrate UNITY!)
To: Semi Civil Servant
I likes when Noah danced for the Lord for approval. The pirates were good too.
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posted on
10/20/2003 10:42:06 PM PDT
by
irishtenor
(Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati ............(When all else fails, play dead))
To: cartoonistx
ping!
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posted on
10/20/2003 10:44:05 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
(Rush Limbaugh: The Voice of Sanity during 8 years of the Clinton Reign of Terror)
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ping!
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posted on
10/20/2003 10:44:32 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
(Rush Limbaugh: The Voice of Sanity during 8 years of the Clinton Reign of Terror)
To: holdonnow
ping!
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posted on
10/20/2003 10:48:57 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
(Rush Limbaugh: The Voice of Sanity during 8 years of the Clinton Reign of Terror)
To: RLK
"The characters portrayed in this motion picture are fictional. Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely accidental."
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posted on
10/20/2003 10:52:53 PM PDT
by
dasboot
(Celebrate UNITY!)
To: Nick Thimmesch
It seems to me we have one month to keep this from going on air..... constant bluster to the CBS execs should or may get them to reconsider.... they may atleast wet their little panties.
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posted on
10/20/2003 10:58:12 PM PDT
by
Porterville
(The Federal Government will make the rules... now shut up and take your Prozac!!!!)
To: Nick Thimmesch
((sigh))
They really can't wait to pour dirt on his coffin, can they?
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posted on
10/20/2003 10:59:43 PM PDT
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posted on
10/20/2003 11:15:49 PM PDT
by
Timesink
To: Nick Thimmesch
and that sort of ugly specter of patriotism."I was a bit baffled as to why anyone would call patriotism an "ugly specter." Is patriotism an "ugly specter" to anyone reading this? If so, please do me a favor and explain how. I suppose American patriotism might indeed be an "ugly specter" to a foreigner like Ms. Davis, but she seems to imply that ANY patriotism is an "ugly specter," which says a lot about her, I suppose.
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