FOX NEWS; CBS WANTS REAGAN MOVIE GONE

fox news | 11-2-03 | Bootstick

[BOOTSTICK]

Fox news reports at 1:30 am est, that CBS would like to sell the upcomming Reagan movie to Showtime, for a sum of $9 million , also CBS head says, lawyers to go over movie for accuracy.

[GeronL]

Lets make a movie about the Clintons. Lets show them planning and laughing while talking about ripping off the FDIC. Lets show them personally running drugs through Arkansas and offing Vincent Foster and ordering hits on people like Ron Brwn.

Think CBS would show it? Its a DRAMATIZATION! we could claim.

[SAJ]

Yes, indeedy.

[Political Junkie Too]

Revisionist history has been incrementally occuring for some time now. It started with the furor over the Smithsonian WWII memorial in Washington DC, then the Disney movie Pearl Harbor downplayed Japan's aggression, and now the Reagan movie distorts his life.

It's good to see the people fighting back, demanding an accurate portrayal of the history we remember.

-PJ

[onyx]

That hit piece "docudrama" on Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill movie was all Showtime's doings --- they'll take this one if the price is right.

If Showtime buys this one, I'll have to re-sign up with them to drop them again! LOL!!!!!!!!!!

[opbuzz]

“This is censorship,” says one source. “A pressure group has had a major network rip this movie to shreds.” But we can look forward to one fun outcome: the director’s-cut DVD.


That means "says one source" I hate when someone disagrees with me.

[The Brush]

See BS still would need sponsors for thier little hit piece, the pressure on any company would be enormous.
I understand Saturn got plenty of e-mail from their decision to sponsor it.

The negative publicity on putting a product name around this thing will be long lasting. Bill Gates is the only one who could afford to sponsor it without worrying about losing clients and he's not that crazy.

[Calvin Locke]

Darn! I wanted to see the part where Jimmy Carter tries to bribe the Soviets to interfere in the elections to help Jimmy out.

[b9]

One reason for this could also be the threat of boycotted sponsors, like Hallmark. Saw an ad tonight for an upcoming Hallmark Hall of Fame movie scheduled for late November on CBS.

All I could think was how apoplectic Hallmark must be at the prospect of losing conservative customers :o)

[Chewbacca]

I used to subscribe to Showtime until they dumped Stargate SG-1.
The only reason I watched the dumb channel.

Glad I cancelled my subscription.

Nothing on the channel I want to watch since then.

[Timesink]

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[des]

The daughter was on drugs.

[Political Junkie Too]

True, but the Stone movies were always promoted as alternative views of the facts. The WWII memorial, the Pearl Harbor movie, and the Reagan moviews were being passed off as factual portrayals of real events, or in the case of Pearl Harbor, a factual backdrop for the main story.

-PJ

[Lancey Howard]

Amazing.
Just 13 years ago or so, before Rush Limbaugh, Free Republic, Fox News, C-span, and the internet, the huge conservative majority of traditional Americans would have just rolled over, quietly seething, feeling like they were in the minority, and certain that there was nothing they could do about the liberalism that they knew was ruining the nation.
There has been a sea change, and it gives me great hope.

[RJL]

Darn! I wanted to see the part where Jimmy Carter tries to bribe the Soviets to interfere in the elections to help Jimmy out.

Don’t forget Jimmy's "lust in his heart" we could make up dramatise a lot of good fun with that.

[Nonstatist]

have insisted that every fact (though not every line of dialogue) is supported by at least two sources.

What does this mean? SO if you have a line of dialogue that is a complete fabrication, thats not an errant fact? Or are they saying that although Reagan never said that sin thing about Aids it dfoesent matter, he meant it anyway?

Newsweak pimps for CBS, those leftist goons.

[Reagan is King]

“It’s odd to me when people get all worked up, because it’s called a dramatization.”

More like fiction and slander.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Start with the clinton rape.
Name it "Just put some ice on it".

[Mo1]

And .. how many people who have Showtime will threaten to cancel if they plan to show the movie.

I know I will