[Calpernia]

Excellent Editorial!

[Calpernia]

Excellent read.

[Calpernia]

Ping. Editorial on CBS, The Reagan's.

Excellent feedback and boycott information here posted by blake6900

[Starboard]

America needs to remember the lessons that the leadership of Ronald Reagan taught us...the script mentions nothing about the historic economic recovery of the 1980s or America?s delivery from Jimmy Carter.

Or the collapse of the Soviet Union, which was brought about in large part by Reagan's leadership.

[Eala]

I've long thought that in the phrase "Based On a True Story" the emphasis needs to placed on "Based." Otherwise they'd just say "A True Story." But they didn't. So it isn't. True, that is.

[veronica]

Very informative article. Thanks for the post.

[foreverfree]

bump for later

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Rather, they should be forced to carry a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen saying "We made some of this stuff up."

It should be "We made MOST of this stuff up.And what we didn't make up we took out of context."

[TUX]

effective propaganda

From the Hollyweird smearmongers with hate, malice, and premeditation.

God Bless you Ronnie, our greatest president of the 20th century.

[The Great RJ]

I think despite any amendments, the Reagan made for TV movie will be a bomb in the ratings. A lot of people like me find these made for TV movies to be drivel regardless of subject. I also think many people will rightly sense this is a hatchet job from the very beginning and won't watch. Other people will simply find something better to watch--thank God for the History Channel.

[ChadGore]

[LADYAK]

think that i read barbara's son is gay

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

There are two kinds of films about presidents. There are documentaries which usually try to dwell in factual examination; and fictional movies which have a habit of wildly making things up to satisfy the demands of making either effective entertainment, or effective propaganda.

Let's edit that for movies about conservatives:

There is one kind of film about conservative ideas or presidents. There are fictional movies which have a habit of wildly making things up to satisfy the demands of making effective propaganda.

[Reagan Man]

CBS on display --- Barbra Stiesand, James Brolin, Craig Zadan and Neal Meron --- liberalism gone wild!

God Bless Ronald Reagan.

[VirginiaRay]

The Networks are suffering the worst ratings in history so CBS gets Mr. Streisand, a has-been actor (anyone even remember Dr. Welby?) to parody Reagan in a TV movie only a bunch of leftists will watch. CBS is down the toilet and the only thing needed is a plunger to clear out the "clog." I can't think of anything I watch on CBS anyway so a boycott would be of little consequence.

Actually, I hope it airs. If it gets pulled the lefties will bray about censorship, if it makes it on the air the ratings will be so low they'll want to pretend it never happened. We all know what the Gipper accomplished and no revisionism by a bunch of Hollywood cretins is going to change his place in history.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks for the ping, Cal.

The left isn't even pretending that truth matters to them anymore.

 

-- On Sunday's Reliable Sources, host Howard Kurtz played an excerpt from a panel discussion he moderated, which was held by the Kaiser Family Foundation, about how politicians are portrayed on TV entertainment programs. The panel was made up of former Clinton economic adviser Gene Sperling, Dennis Haysbert, the actor who plays the President on Fox's 24, and Lawrence O'Donnell, creator and Executive Producer of NBC's short-lived Mr. Sterling.

     In an exchange brought to our attention by an e-mailer and tracked down by MRC analyst Patrick Gregory, Kurtz inquired of O'Donnell: “One thing these programs have in common, conservatives are practically invisible. President Bartlet is a Democrat. Martin Sheen, in fact, made anti-war ads before the invasion of Iraq. Mr. Sterling is a California liberal based loosely on Jerry Brown. Why aren't there any Republicans?”
     O'Donnell replied: “You will never get that TV show. [crowd laughter] You'll never, ever going to get the Republican TV show. The Writers Guild of America, my union, is at a minimum, 99 percent leftist liberal and, like me, socialist. [crowd laughter] And we don't know how to write it. We don't.”

Actor Yells at FNC, Plus Writers Guild 99% “Leftist Liberal” -5/03

    

[weegee]

Inquiring minds should also remember that CBS chief Les Moonves won’t be making any Clinton-bashing TV movies. In fact, in 1996, Bill Clinton talked Moonves into making "A Child’s Wish," a heart-tugging propaganda film dramatizing the wonders of his Family and Medical Leave Act. Clinton even made an appearance in the movie as himself. Nobody said those fictional "history" movies can’t be very political. And very dishonest.

In 2001 there was a concert given in NYC for the police and fireman who responded to the 9.11 attacks and aftermath. At this concert Hillary Clinton was soundly booed.

On all subsequent broadcasts (and on the DVD video release) the police officers' and firemen's boos were replaced with cheers. Is it any coincidence that Viacom's MTV, VH1, and SeeBS networks aired this altered concert? Is it any coincidence that Viacom's publishing company Simon and Schuester had already given Queen Hillary an $8million advance in the brief window between her days as First Lady (and elected Senator from NY) and her swearing in as Senator (where ethics violations may have come up)?

[what's up]

The producers of "The Reagans" are Craig Zadan and Neal Meron...They are also openly gay activists

Very telling.

[Coleus]

Thanks, maybe someday Ron Maxwell will do a real,true and factual movie about Reagan.

[mewzilla]

Did anyone catch Merv Griffin on Joe Scarborough's show on MSNBC last night? I wasn't quite awake, but they were talking about this subject and I thought that I heard Griffin say something to the affect that Streisand was on the set a lot. If true, that means she's up to her eyeballs in this, and that there weren't any slip ups, this was intentional. It also means that even if some of the worst stuff is cut, the rest still has to be awful. Scarborough also had a quote by Sreisand from a recent appearance on Oprah's show where Streisand said she didn't mind Brolin playing Reagan as long as the role was done right. Three guesses what that meant.