FOX NEWS; CBS WANTS REAGAN MOVIE GONE

fox news | 11-2-03 | Bootstick

[GeronL]

I just checked, I have Showtime, I need to cancel, I don't think I ever watched it... maybe some boxing..

[Let's Roll]

There wouldn't be anything left ...

[Slings and Arrows]

“This is censorship,” says one source.

No, nitwit, it is not censorship. You are free to air this excrescence morning, noon, and night if you so desire, just as we are free to make sure that you never receive another dime from us if you do so. No much on freedom, are you, "source?"

[Tall_Texan]

The real question is what would CBS do to fill in four hours of prime time sweep weeks programming if they had to dump "The Reagans" at the last minute.

Maybe they could re-air the French film about 9-11. Or maybe have Leslie Stahl hosting a documentary portraying in detail how long it takes for CBS makeup artists to make Mike Wallace appear lifelike. Perhaps use snippets of "The Reagans" as a special episode of "Cold Case: CSI". Maybe CBS News can air a Special Report: "We Think Jesus Was Gay" to counterprogram ABC's Special Report "We Think Jesus Married Mary Magdalene".

They could absorb the $9 million loss (after all, they already lose their shirts covering the National Football League), but losing the ad revenue from four hours of bad programming would be even worse.

Viacom not only owns Showtime but they also own MTV. Expect this turkey to be show up on that channel if Showtime passes.

[kayak]

Revisionist history isn't limited to movies .... remember the attempt to portray the flag raising at Ground Zero in a PC way, with men of different races and slimmed down rather than as the famous picture showed them?

[Political Junkie Too]

Oh, yeah, good one.

-PJ

[kayak]

BTW, I'm not sure it will ever be safe to vote Democrat again ... not in my life time anyway.

[Rose in RoseBear]

Pingpingping!

[lainde]

bump~!

[lainde]

bump~!

[Once-Ler]

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.

Amen and great observation.

[Rockitz]

Now that this most recent effort has produced such good results, it's time to shut down CBS News with Dan RatTurd.

Boycott it's sponsors! Who are they?

[mewzilla]

I notice the MSNBC story never mentions the fact that the screenwriter made stuff up. Interesting omission.

[mewzilla]

And now that I think about it, I wonder why CBS' team of hot and juicy lawyers didn't have a problem with the sreenwriter making stuff up?

[Qwinn]

Not to mention the revisionist tripe that Pope Pius XII was "silent", much less "Hitler's Pope". That wasn't TV either, and it sure as hell has been effective.

For a devastating mind-blowing debunking of -that- atrocious myth, I recommend the following, by a certain Rabbi David G. Dalin (not to mention Albert Einstein, two Israeli Prime Ministers and the New York Times):

http://www.traces-cl.com/apr2001/pio.htm

Qwinn

[Fenris6]

Wouldn't it be nice to take down Viacom? I'd like to see their execs tarred & feathered in a public square. Too barbaric, yes, but instructive.

[txrangerette]

"...they refuse to re-edit?"

See, the problem can't be fixed
that way, cuz it's entire point-
of-view is one of A HIT PIECE.
Even more on Nancy than Ron, but
he's shown being controlled by
HER. So how bad does THAT look?

They've attempted to fix it. Now
even THEY see it's a whole big...

...TURKEY!!!

[BlessedBeGod]

“This is censorship,” says one source. “A pressure group has had a major network rip this movie to shreds.”

So that's the definition of censorship: protesting against slander. Okay.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Miranda Devine - Sydney Morning Herald (story at bottom of article)

Davis's idea of a service [Full Text] Trust Judy Davis to be part of a malevolent character assassination of former US President Ronald Reagan, who is in an advanced stage of Alzheimer's disease and in no position to defend himself.

Reagan, 92, and his wife, Nancy, are the subject of an American CBS TV docu-drama, The Reagans, to be aired in the US this month.

Judging by press leaks, the two-part miniseries deliberately portrays the Gipper as a hard-hearted, homophobic, moronic, religious nut, and Nancy as a pill-popping control freak and awful mother.

Playing Nancy is our very own Davis, 48, the Green Left Weekly pin-up girl.

The Drudge Report website says Davis's portrayal of Nancy was inspired by the movie Mommie Dearest in which Faye Dunaway portrayed Joan Crawford: "Wild mood swings, dramatic lighting, and tart-mouth insults are hysterically delivered by Davis."

Nancy Reagan, at 82, has devoted the end of her life to caring for her sick husband and preserving his legacy. She is said to be "in anguish" over the telemovie's lies and has tried in vain to stop it.

Davis couldn't care less. "If this film can help create a bit more questioning in the public about the direction America has been going in since the 1970s . . . it will be doing a service."

Playing the former president is James Brolin, whose wife, Barbra Streisand, is a Democratic Party shill who is "tight" with the telemovie's producers and spent months on set.

Davis pops up in Sydney from time to time making flowery speeches denouncing George Bush and John Howard, marching in anti-war rallies with John Pilger, or launching a book by her left-wing mate Stuart Rees, director of the conflict-plagued Sydney Peace Foundation.

A starring role in a fifth-rate hatchet job on a dying man is not much to be proud of. [End]

[txrangerette]

"pressure group" = the citizenry