[Nick Thimmesch]

There they go again.............

[goodnesswins]

"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.

[irishtenor]

I am sure that it will be just as accurate as the "Noah" mini-series a few years ago.

[MichiganConservative]

CBS? They're still around these days?

[willyboyishere]

"we're in such a pickle right now in our nation..."--
Priceless political commentary from the brilliant Mr. Brolin.

[RLK]

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?

[dasboot]

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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[Porterville]

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.

[Tall_Texan]

((sigh))

They really can't wait to pour dirt on his coffin, can they?

[Timesink]

I count this as Schadenfreude because they've been caught in time for us to raise a ruckus about it.

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[KellyAdmirer]

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.

[OESY]

Grumbling Trickles Down From Reagan Biopic

The smug condescension of this article's title encapsulates why so many detest the New York Times.

Someone should tell them that Clinton's economy was a perfect congruence of the fruition of Reaganomics (they dropped their condescending nickname when they saw it worked), the Peace Dividend resulting from the End of the Cold War (which Democrats opposed as "destabilizing"), and the technology-driven preparation for Millennium 2000.

Of course, with active and ill-timed help of Alan Greenspan (and more specifically, partisan Clinton appointee Larry Meyers who got a 50 b.p. rise in interest rates two months after the stock markets began to plunge), Clinton was able to burst his own economic bubble by simultaneously attacking the Biotech (with Tony Blair), Telecom (prevented mergers in the dying long-lines business) and High Tech (i.e., Microsoft). The score: Up-to-Down Turnarounds -- Bushes 0, Clintons 1, and Down-to-Up Turnarounds -- Bushes 2, Clintons 0.

The Big Question is: Did Clinton, one of the most partisan presidents ever intend to wreck the stock market, the economy and three million jobs in his last year to create a positive legacy (The Clinton Economy) since there were so few accomplishments other than signing into law significant portions of Newt Gingrich's Contract For America?

Credit, however, should be given the Clintons for ushering in a whole new era of Republican successes, and only the Clintons could have triangulated Democrats into accepting passage of welfare reform. On the other hand, that's really part of the extended Reagan Legacy which CBS will ignore.

[jpl]

"The Reagans," according to the final version of the script obtained by The New York Times, does give Mr. Reagan most of the credit for ending the cold war...

Gee, how overwhelmingly charitable it was of them to do that.

[PJ-Comix]

"But there is no mention of the economic recovery or the creation of wealth during his administration, key accomplishments to his supporters."

This is like doing a biopic about Abraham Lincoln without mentioning the Civil War.

[PJ-Comix]

Elizabeth Egloff, a playwright who wrote the final version of the script, acknowledged there was no evidence such a conversation took place.

And yet this controversial quote about AIDS is included despite NO EVIDENCE that Ronald Reagan actually said it.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

This was very important for me, to document everything and give a very fair point of view," said Leslie Moonves, the CBS chairman.

"But then I got a call from Babs and thought, screw it," Leslie said.

[Servant of the 9]

Amazingly, Chris Mathews had a bunch or Reagan Biographers on "Hardball" and just ripped the picture to pieces and seemed genuinely angry about it.

So9