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FX's 'Fargo' Paints Reagan as a Bumbling Idiot and a Fake
http://www.newsbusters.org ^ | November 10, 2015 | Dylan Gwinn

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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To: Resolute Conservative

I like Have Gun Will Travel, Wanted Dead or Alive, Cheyenne, The Rifleman and The Lawman. That God for the Western Channel.


21 posted on 11/10/2015 10:07:52 AM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: NKP_Vet

I think BOR’s killing books are a scam. I have actually read some of them. You read them, you learn absolutely nothing (except perhaps for some minor details) that you didn’t know before. Of course these books are mostly written and researched by BOR’s co-author. Yet because BOR has a huge cable audience BOR can promote the books ceaselessly on TV. BOR has a clever gig. He picks well known subjects, has his co-author do much of the actual work, then uses his TV show to promote the book. The reader learns nothing new.


22 posted on 11/10/2015 10:13:15 AM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: NKP_Vet; GOPsterinMA

Watched it, didn’t come away with “they’re smearing Reagan”.


23 posted on 11/10/2015 10:23:49 AM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: NKP_Vet

Sounds kind of incomplete, to me. I am disappointed they didn’t work in the fact that he caused, facilitated and encouraged the spread of AIDS.

Shoddy Journalism!


24 posted on 11/10/2015 10:29:06 AM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: NKP_Vet
I live in Fargo -
You want to hear a funny story about Fargo?

Our oldest daughter spent last summer interning in London. One day she got called into the big bosses office. He said he admired the fact that she was able to overcome being raised in such a violent city. I guess it says on the opening credits the events portrayed are based on "true" stories.

We laughed for two days.

25 posted on 11/10/2015 10:30:24 AM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: NKP_Vet

Pandering to the lowest, the stooges.

When do they bring on the clowns in grease paint to pile out of a Mini-Cooper and whack each other with 2x4’s?


26 posted on 11/10/2015 10:32:27 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: NKP_Vet

I should say, “shoddy entertainment”!


27 posted on 11/10/2015 10:35:17 AM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

His books are amateur hour. Anything he puts in a book can be found in the local library. His most ridiculous was Legends and Lies, about the Old West. Nothing new under the sun. A lot of it was taken directly from Time Life’s History of the West. I know because I have the complete set. His TV special of the same name was comical. Wild Bill Hickock and Wyatt Earp’s fake moustache
was on their face crooked. The show looked like something straight out of a junior high school class.


28 posted on 11/10/2015 10:38:26 AM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: NKP_Vet

Exactly. Fortunately in my case, I signed the two killing books I read out of the library. Didn’t spend a dime on them. I don’t know exactly what purpose these books serve other to inflate BOR’s already inflated ego. They may have some value for people unfamiliar with the subjects.

I think George Will performed a valuable service exposing BOR’s shoddy work. I think BOR was perfectly obnoxious and insulting to Will he “interviewed” (more accurately scolded)him last Friday. How dare anyone have the audacity to criticize BOR!


29 posted on 11/10/2015 11:09:48 AM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Impy

“Watched it, didn’t come away with “they’re smearing Reagan”.”

Same here. I’m watching for it. They’ve done nothing negative that I see yet.

They’ve been quite good in bashing Carter though.

The acting is superb as is the show overall.


30 posted on 11/10/2015 11:44:15 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Not sure the purpose of the TV Fargo is because “they” think they can do better than the movie. Rather it is to just to continue with the genre to the small screen. Fans of the movie are most likely the largest viewer base for the TV program, but that is speculation on my part. I like it and only see a few other programs on TV that are as good as entertainment as it is.


31 posted on 11/10/2015 12:09:23 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: TontoKowalski
I agree with your opinions about last night's episode. There was violence, blood, humor, everything people like in this kind of program.

As for the bathroom scene with Reagan and the deputy, I'm not sure what people expected the Reagan character to do when the man talked about his wife and cancer and the private hells in the world. Reagan was a good leader in real life but he wasn't a minister or a counselor or a psychologist or a man with the answers to everything for everybody. I think the scene was handled about as well as it could have been. Both actors portrayed characters that were nervous in the situation the scene found them in... in the men's room.

32 posted on 11/10/2015 12:19:00 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: NKP_Vet

Yep! I like the show but I was offended by that. They had an actor who looked nothing like Reagan ... he had painted cheeks and they had him seeming to think the movies he played in were real and he couldn’t remember how they ended.

I did something similar in a Fourth of July pageant I wrote... which I had to stop and remember, but mine was gentle fun and I love Reagan.

If I were the right sort of person I would boycott the show.


33 posted on 11/10/2015 12:53:33 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Last Dakotan

The joke is that very little of either the movie or series takes place in Fargo. It’s mostly set in Minnesota, though there was an epic rampage in a Fargo FBI building last season.


34 posted on 11/11/2015 12:19:06 AM PST by Rastus
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To: TontoKowalski

Look, I like Fargo. But I have been dreading the Reagan scenes since Reagan was announced as a character in the show this season. The bathroom bit was a slam at Reagan. The very idea that he would stand there with a two tour Vietnam vet and think his role in a movie was the equivalent of that experience made him a buffoon. It was a double slam, since it also was designed to let the audience know that he didn’t fight overseas during the war (without mentioning the fact that he was prevented from doing so due to medical issues).

But, anyone who knows anything about Reagan knows he would not be so completely clueless and thoughtless to treat a veteran in that fashion. It’s simply inconceivable, and it hurt the show.

I will continue to watch and enjoy the show. I hope we’re past most of the Reagan stuff, though.


35 posted on 11/11/2015 12:26:16 AM PST by Rastus
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To: Rastus
It's mostly set in Minnesota, though there was an epic rampage in a Fargo FBI building last season.

The series is named Fargo because nobody would go to see a movie named Brainerd.

36 posted on 11/11/2015 8:10:03 AM PST by Last Dakotan
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