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HBO Sports Documentary Blames Reagan for Racial Tension that Scarred Larry Bird
NewsBusters ^ | April 17, 2010 | Brent Baker

Posted on 04/17/2010 1:58:46 PM PDT by EveningStar

Catching up with an HBO sports documentary which ran several times in March: ‘Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals,’ painted Boston Celtics basketball star Larry Bird as the victim of a racist national milieu exacerbated by President Ronald Reagan...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hbo; larrybird; nba; reagan; ronaldreagan
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To: EveningStar

You can find bull crap.


21 posted on 04/17/2010 2:16:10 PM PDT by bmwcyle (Free the Navy Seals)
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To: bmwcyle

A bold face lie again never stops does it


22 posted on 04/17/2010 2:19:23 PM PDT by truthbetold11 (truthbetold11)
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To: Always Right

“Reagan is still driving liberals crazy from his grave. God bless him.”

And they wonder why we love him so much.


23 posted on 04/17/2010 2:21:00 PM PDT by Lou Budvis
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To: EveningStar

And I thought it was Charles Manson that wanted a race war!! This kind of crap has got to stop!!


24 posted on 04/17/2010 2:24:12 PM PDT by timetostand (Ya say ya wanna revolution -- OK!)
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To: EveningStar

I saw that too. They were trying to say that the eighties were a time when civil rights were being reversed yada yada yada. Meanwhile, the eighties were a golden age for ALL Americans as they ALL (including blacks) were moving up through societal levels thanks to the strong economy. Meanwhile, during the age of Obama, blacks have a horrible unemployment rate due to nobody hiring, and very high minimum wage.


25 posted on 04/17/2010 2:27:08 PM PDT by winner3000
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To: Thane_Banquo
Um, did anyone bother to point out that Larry Bird is, you know, white?

According to Fred Sanford, Larry Byrd is really a black man - He's just "passing".

26 posted on 04/17/2010 2:34:02 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (No Romney, not now, not ever!)
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To: EveningStar

The HBO series, The Pacific, is also trying to make our marines look bad. I guess that’s what you have to expect from the producer, Spielberg, an ultra lib!!


27 posted on 04/17/2010 2:38:13 PM PDT by taillightchaser (When a democrat says "The American people" you know the next words out of his mouth will be lies.)
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To: EveningStar

No matter how much whites grovel, no matter how much whites pretend race dosen’t matter, no matter how much whites praise MLK, no matter how much whites look the other way with all the non white race groups it will never be enough. It will never be equal and it will never quit being ‘racist’. As long as whites continue to lay prone and run away from it they will use race as the battering ram of submission and destruction.


28 posted on 04/17/2010 2:43:32 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: EveningStar

February 11, 2009

Reagan rated by Americans as nation’s greates president

by Lydia Saad

PRINCETON, NJ — Less than a month into Barack Obama’s presidency, Obama’s desire to emulate Abraham Lincoln can be found in his speeches, his bipartisan gestures, and his “team of rivals” approach to picking a cabinet. But Lincoln is not matchless as Americans’ pick for the nation’s greatest president. Given a list of five presidents to choose from, Americans are as likely to name John Kennedy as Lincoln (22% each), while 24% choose Ronald Reagan.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/114292/best-president-lincoln-par-reagan-kennedy.aspx


29 posted on 04/17/2010 2:53:29 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: EveningStar

Don’t these demons ever stop..We are in for the fight of our life from here to the end..The demon spawns will never give up now that they have their master in the white house..


30 posted on 04/17/2010 2:55:30 PM PDT by PLD
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To: EveningStar

I got rid of HBO years ago. Saved some money and I don’t miss it at all.


31 posted on 04/17/2010 3:28:25 PM PDT by Ticonderoga34 (Free Obama's Birth Certificate!)
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To: EveningStar
HBO has a mission...why be surprised at their feeble attempts to actually pull off their mission?

I can't wait till "The Pacific" is over, I know I can watch it without HBO on CastTv, but I can't record it to DVD from there.

32 posted on 04/17/2010 3:34:15 PM PDT by BallyBill (WARNING:Taking me serious could cause stress related illness.)
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To: EveningStar

To whoever’s responsible for this program...weed and PCP is very bad.


33 posted on 04/17/2010 3:39:22 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Altura Ct.

no matter how much whites praise MLK, no matter how much whites look the other way with all the non white race groups
...etc...
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Got a little something going on in Va now —the R Governor was chastised by one Black group for NOT mentioning slaves and slavery in a proclamation (of sorts) and when he made the correction another group went after him for mentioning slaves and slavery in a proclamation (of sorts).
Course my cynicism says that the two groups are actually the same org and they would have split no matter what, just to be controversial and keep the ‘heat turned up’....


34 posted on 04/17/2010 3:41:08 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98 ) FIRE ALL INCUMBENTS)
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To: EveningStar
Makes perfect sense since it was Reagon’s fault Johnson caught AIDS. /S
35 posted on 04/17/2010 3:44:21 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Keep your socialized health care off my body !!)
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To: EveningStar

Bryant Gumble. I’d expect nothing less from that “f’ing idiot” to use his own words.


36 posted on 04/17/2010 3:45:54 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (I don't look for leaders. I follow my own path, my way.)
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BTW. This white guy didn’t like Larry Bird. It wasn’t because he was white, or even that Ervin Johnson was a Spartan. I’m a Pistons fan from the Bad Boys years, and we don’t like the Celtics. Bird, McHale, and Parrish.


37 posted on 04/17/2010 3:51:08 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (I don't look for leaders. I follow my own path, my way.)
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To: EveningStar

HBO, like CNN is owned by Time Warner.


38 posted on 04/17/2010 3:51:30 PM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: EveningStar

Bryant Gumble went to Bates. What would you expect?


39 posted on 04/17/2010 3:59:30 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (This nation, of the people, by the people, and for the people has perished from the land.)
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To: taillightchaser
Is it really trying to make the Marines look bad? That sucks, I wanted to wait till it was out and buy the whole set like I did with Band of Brothers.

Any other FReepers see the HBO series? What do you think of it?

40 posted on 04/17/2010 8:14:19 PM PDT by erman (A day without democrats is like a day without toilets backing up)
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