This should win some award for pure movie fiction. Did CBS let Rather produce this trash? It's on a par with his news casts.
It's a joke -- To capture the "spirit" of the REAGANS.
It's also what a depressingly large chunk of the left thinks of the Reagans.
They can post in anywhere they want and it will make no difference. The audience that this drivel is aimed at would not bother to read that much, if they could.
Send this baby to Drudge. Beyond incredible.
That's probably because it is an image of the script, rather than a text file. Sure makes it difficult to find what you're looking for, though.
I hope the evil witch Bahhbahhh Streisand is screaming and melting in agony, just like her twin sister in Wizard of Oz.
Nonsense, there are no depths to which the party faithful will refuse to go.
They will hang a positive review on it and proclaim it all completely true to boot.
On Monday, A.J. Livsey of the MediaLife.com Web site, posted
some quotes culled from the Salon posting. Here are a few he or
she filed under the heading of "Reagan as not too bright":
-- Reagan, as he prepares for publicity pictures with a chimp
for the movie Bedtime for Bonzo: "Television is for somebody who's
all washed up. I'm not washed up."
-- Holmes Tuttle, about Reagan running for Governor: "Reagan's
not an actor, he's a movie star. Besides, it's good that he
doesn't know anything about government. It makes him more of a man
of the people."
-- Patti: "Elvis is dead. He would have made a better
President than Daddy."
And under "Reagan as a right-wing fascist":
-- Patti's friend at boarding school, upon learning that
Reagan has won the governor's race: "Look out, everybody, Hitler's
just been elected governor."
-- Al Haig, Secretary of State: "If it's Armageddon you want,
give me the word, and I'll pave over the USSR, Libya, and Cuba,
too."
Reagan: "Oh yeah? Can you pave them over, put parking stripes
on them and be back in time for the 4th of July?"
Plus, under Livsey's heading of "Nancy as a total bitch":
-- Nancy, to Mike (Reagan's adopted son from his first
marriage): "I'm not your mother. I don't have to want you. Go back
to your real mother and your real father -- whoever they were."
-- Montage of newspaper headlines: "Fancy Nancy Turns up Her
Nose at Governor's Mansion," "Nancy Eats Out, While Hubby Cuts
School Lunches," "Welfare is a Cancer, Says Reagan," "Reagan
Issues Biggest Tax Hike in U.S. History"
-- Nancy, reciting what she wished she had said to Mrs.
Gorbachev: "No wonder your husband always looks so bored --
because he's married to you, you Stalinist!"
Nancy Reagan yelling about "Stalinists!" That takes a leap of
imagination.
For Livsey's compilation, to which Katie Wright of Creative
Response Concepts alerted me:
http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news2003/nov03/nov10/1_mon/news3monday.html In its posting of the screenplay last Friday, Salon.com
cautioned: "This script is undated, and, though it most likely
represents a 'shooting script' matching the version of the
miniseries that was originally planned for broadcast, we cannot be
sure that the script itself was not further edited, and it's
likely that additional changes were made during editing. Showtime,
the cable network that has acquired The Reagans from CBS, has
announced that it will 'collaborate with the filmmaker to create a
final film,' so the Showtime version is likely to differ further
from this script.
To read the 213 page-long screenplay, which appears to be
based on a large graphic file of scanned in pages, go to:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/11/07/reagans_script/index_np.html Be advised that it is a big Adobe Acrobat PDF file, about
8 MB, and that Salon.com is a paid site, so you'll need to either
subscribe for $6 a month or $22.50 a year, or sign-up for a free
one-day pass and then view an ad before getting to the document.
When I get time to read the screenplay, I'll relay any
interesting scenes I come across, but it may be a while since I
can't copy text from the graphics file and will have to type in
anything I find -- unless some CyberAlert readers could volunteer
to do so!
If you see any portions you find particularly obnoxious and
have the time to type them in, please do so and e-mail them to me.
I'll give you full credit, unless you wish to remain anonymous.
Please be sure to let me know the page number of what you type in.
E-mail me at:
cyber@mediaresearch.org Whether you have time to pitch in, or just want to read it for
your personal edification, to avoid Web glitches and to ensure
access to the document, I'd recommend saving/downloading the PDF
to your computer and then using the Adobe Acrobat Reader offline
to go through it.
-- Brent Baker
