Posted on 11/10/2015 8:41:37 AM PST by NKP_Vet
It s been quite an entertaining couple of weeks for misremembering Ronald Reagan. First, Bill OReilly and George Will duke it out over memos claiming Reagan was mentally out of it and spent a good chunk of his presidency as more of a Days of Our Lives fan than he did a President. This week the Reagan Crazy Train made a stop on FX as Fargo, a mystery/crime drama set in 1980, decided to take a break from mafia wars and body dismemberment to take a shot at The Gipper. Brent Baker described the opening salvo at Reagan here. But that wasnt to be all.
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Reagan was THE LAST president this country had. Of course these idiots IGNORE that fact. And look at what he accomplished — and in his case, who cares HOW he did it.
Losers can never see the good in anything. RINOs and DemocRats.
Genesis Land of Confusion music video from 1986.
And a bunch of folks here couldn't be bothered to defend Reagan against BOR's smear, simply because George Will(RINO) was defending Reagan.
The same show did a pretty good job of slamming Jimmah Cahtah and his handling of the economy a couple of weeks ago.
Having actually WATCHED Fargo season 2, it’s actually quite good.
The Reagan scene was at the beginning of the 1st episode in a flashback to a Western being filmed in the area in the 50’s.
There hasn’t been anything else with him in it since.
You didn't watch last night's episode? While I like Fargo, and season two is looking to be very good, and I like Bruce Campbell, the portrayal of Reagan last night was very poor. Yes, they are slamming Carter left and right, as well, but they paint a man who truly loved his country, and wanted us to again be a "Shining City on a Hill", as a bumbling idiot, already suffering from Alzheimer's and being disingenuous.
liberals know their time in office may be numbered and so we’re going to see them all launching nasty attacks as they throw their fits when they lose hteir seats and lose viewers because of their idiotic political agendas in their TV shows and movies
Prepare yourself for massive whining by the left when they lose the next couple of elections
You missed last night then.
Fargo portrays just about every one of it’s characters as bumbling idiots overcome by events not of their own making.
I thought season 2 sucked compared to season 1- season two is just way too over the top with the violence and angry attitudes- in my opinion-
I dunno- the bizarre detached-ness of the players was fine for oen movie or series, but now it’s kinda gimmicky now that it’s going on for another season- the first season it was interesting just because it was different- but now it’s just getting a bit long in the tooth in my opinion- too unrealistic I guess- especially when everyone in the show has that same weird emotionally detached attitude
[[Fargo portrays just about every one of it’s characters as bumbling idiots overcome by events not of their own making.]]
Yeah, it could be just the show sticking to their bumbling idiot mantra where everyone is seen that way- it seems to be the show’s signature- (again, in my opinion, it was fine for one season, but it’s growing a little old for a second season- )
I think maybe they are taking the theme of the show from the Andy Griffith show in Mayberry- everyone being a bumbling idiot- with a foil/straight man with a down home “Aw Shucks” sensibility to provide a small amount of relief to the overwhelming bumbling of the rest of the characters
I prefer to look at these shows as just entertainment and not a political message. It's a scripted, make-believe TV show for entertainment. It's not real life, no matter what they try to claim at the beginning about it being a true story. One can be entertained without taking literally what is said or how some actor depicts a real person. It's not real life.
I enjoy the heck out of Fargo because it's so different. It pretty accurately depicts society in the 70s and it is so different than the tiresome vampire, zombie and alien stuff that pervades TV and movies nowadays. It's violent and bloody but at the same time, it's also funny and campy. A dark comedy typical of the Coen Brothers. One has to take everything with a grain of salt and not take too seriously what you see on TV or in the movies. It's written for effect. I can't wait for the next episode every week.
Watched Monday Night Football and DVR'd it.
Mostly true. It depicts virtually all residents of small town Midwest as rubes and dimwits who are constantly bewildered by everything out of the ordinary. Which is probably what left and east coasters think about small town Midwesterners. Strange creatures worthy of a anthropology study.
And a local cop has guns pulled on him by KC and local thugs, and he doesn't call for help from the state to track down and arrest the thugs.
Give me the Coen brothers award winning movie any day of the week. The entire cast was great. Never understand why TV thinks they can do better than a movie classic.
“In 2006, the film was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and inducted into the United States National Film Registry for preservation, making it one of six films to have been preserved in their first year of eligibility.[5] The American Film Institute named it one of the 100 greatest American movies of all time in 1998.”
The bit in the bathroom at the end wasn't so much about Reagan. When the deputy was talking about his wife having cancer, and Reagan didn't have an answer for him... I think it demonstrated that some things, like cancer, are beyond anyone's control.
Alternatively, the scene showed that in the midst of the Presidential election, when everyone's eyes were on Reagan and Carter, that people all around were going through their own private hells that had nothing to do with politics.
Aside from that, I had the biggest belly laugh I've had in a long time when the guy told the deputy, "Ask him if Joan Crawford really had crabs."
The line was all the more funny because it came on the heels of a horrific scene in which two different sets of bad guys were blowing each others brains out in a forest.
Last night’s episode had Reagan and the State Patrol guy, Lou Solverson, discussing life & politics in the Men’s room, standing at the urinals. Won’t spoil it anymore than that for you.
Fargo bump . . .
I’ll stick to my Gilligan’s Island reruns. I do not watch any episodic drama show on any network for about 20 years now.
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