“Vilifying” LBJ through historical inaccuracy, is like worrying about depicting Adolf Hitler as being cruel to animals when he was not. Everything else he did...
LBJ doesn’t even deserve to be called a “libtard.” He is a “libturd”. His mismanagement of the Vietnam War (along with MacNamara) was treasonous, his “Great Society” B.S. that he attempted even while trying to finance a war was lunacy.
To say nothing about having recalled carrier aircraft that were dispatched to aid the USS Liberty that was under attack (by the Israelis). And to rub salt in the wounds, Captain McGonagle of the Liberty was given his Medal of Honor by the Secretary of the Navy at the Washington Naval Yard (in an unpublicized ceremony) instead of being presented with it by LBJ at the White House. No loyalty to the men who died for the US.
Its a shame that the beagle that he picked up by its ears didn’t dig up LBJ’s corpse and take a leak on it. But then again, a dog would never be as disloyal and treacherous as LDJ.
Awww. Poor Richard doesn’t like his liberal heroes turned into movie villains. I don’t see him whining and crying as Ronald Reagan routinely gets turned into the living embodiment of Satan in any Hollywood movie. Johnson supported the Civil Rights Movement as a cynical political calculation, period.
LBJ was a lying, cheating POS who never met an election he could not buy.
And the WaPo knows it.
May his body continue to rot, fester, and smell.
Sure, the movie lies, but it helps the narrative. LBJ would be the first to understand.
Saint Bobby? Say it ain’t so!!!!! LOLOLOL
I could care less if I ever ever see another God bless black people movie
Last decent movie about Negroes was Zulu Dawn
If it's King's picture, you wouldn't want to run the risk of having Johnson overshadow King.
It's a chestnut of biopics, isn't it? The guy who tells the hero that he or she wants to move too far too fast, and the hero doesn't listen and goes on to win.
It's already a cliche but many writers find it hard to structure a story without the awkward device of the heavy or the obstacle.
That narrative logic involves a distortion of history, though, and the racial angle incites passionate controversies.
It becomes an emotional White v. Black thing, whichever side of that divide you're on.
About the rest of it: the country wasn't always what it is now or what it was when you or I thought it was at its best.
People then had serious problems just as now and they were just as clever or as stupid, as good-willed or as malicious in dealing with them as we are now.