Posted on 08/13/2007 6:21:31 AM PDT by IrishMike
Word came Sunday that entertainment industry titan Merv Griffin passed away at age 82. Back in October of 2003, when CBS planned to air a derogatory mini-series about Ronald and Nancy Reagan, The Reagans, Griffin went onto MSNBC to denounce CBS as “cowardly” for belittling Ronald Reagan and distorting his record when the former President (who would die eight months later) was on his deathbed. Thanks to controversy over the movie, fueled in part by a letter from the MRC to all advertisers urging them to review the movie before placing ads and to consider what their customers would think of their support for such a disparaging portrait, CBS moved the movie to its Showtime pay cable movie channel.
Veteran television host and producer Merv Griffin, a long-time friend of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, appeared Tuesday night [October 28, 2003] on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann and used the opportunity to blast CBS for “the most cowardly thing I’ve ever heard” over the reported tone and content of CBS’s upcoming mini-series, The Reagans. “It’s a cowardly act,” he charged, asking: “Is that what the 'C’ stands for in CBS?”
Griffin, the owner of the Beverly Hilton who created the Wheel of Fortune game show after many years as host of his own daytime Merv Griffin Show, relayed how Nancy Reagan feels “hurt” by the distorted portrayal.
Griffin laid into CBS for denigrating the Reagans when they “can’t fight back” since Ronald Reagan is “on his deathbed” and Nancy Reagan is taking care of him all day. An angry Griffin asserted:
“Here is a man who is on his deathbed. He’s in the last stages of Alzheimer’s, and a woman who has been sitting by the bedside there holding his hand for nine years, they can’t fight back".
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Don’t pile on a dead guy. The time to do this is when he was still alive and well. This is just in bad taste.
That’s what Merv said about CBS.
If yuo’re talking about Merv Griffen, you’re not reading this story accurately. This is talking about his defense of the Reagans.
What "piling on" do you see?
Seems like Merv was defending the Reagans, at a time when they couldn't defend themselves.
Good on him.
Que?
Another reminder of the sickness that is the left in America.
Nancy Reagan: ‘Heartbreaking’ to Lose Merv Griffin
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/8/12/151118.shtml?s=ic
If it is indeed on its deathbed, it is by its own hand.
Thanks Mr. Griffin for all the good you did.
It was a revelation to see how many times Reagan mentioned Merv Griffin in his Diaries.
He was one of the few decent people in Hollywood.
The sad fact is that sheep-liberals don’t understand that CBS should have been dead long ago. After Rather’s Lie (I know, which one?), that network should have been buried.
Instead, they gave him an award.
Should have read the article before putting your foot in your mouth, eh?
‘twas but a joke...
Always right? Not always. Read the article.
Misleading title makes it seem as if Merv WANTED the Reagan movie aired.
I can see how it could have been taken that way.
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