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TRUTH ALERT(BRABRA STREISAND HOPES PUBLIC WILL TUNE IN TO CBS TO SEE TRUTH BEHIND THIS NONSENSE)
BRABRASTREISAND.COM ^ | 10-30-03 | STREISAND STAFF

Posted on 11/03/2003 9:54:01 AM PST by fight_truth_decay

TRUTH ALERT:
October 30, 2003

What's all this fuss about Barbra Streisand's involvement in the upcoming CBS biopic about Ronald and Nancy Reagan? The Republican spin machine would like you to believe that Ms. Streisand, a well-known liberal activist, was intimately connected to the making of this film. The Drudge Report even said that she spent weeks on the set!

The truth? Ms. Streisand was on the set of The Reagans for a total of only 4 hours of one day. Any one of hundreds of people involved in its making could have told Mr. Drudge this truth, if he had only bothered to ask.

Furthermore, Ms. Streisand has never even read the script! She has also never seen the film, which stars her husband James Brolin. Mr. Brolin, as an actor in the movie, himself was not responsible for what is depicted in it - that was left up to the screenwriter, producers and director involved in the movie's production. Saying that Mr. Brolin's marriage to Ms. Streisand would have affected his performance is as ludicrous as the complaints about the way President and Nancy Reagan are depicted in the film.

What is going on instead is that the Republicans, who deify President Reagan, cannot stand that some of the more unpleasant truths about his character and presidency might be depicted in the movie, along with his positive actions. In fact, the film, we're told, presents a balanced portrait of a complicated man who said, when confronted with the AIDS crisis, "Maybe the lord brought down this plague because illicit sex is against the ten commandments." This has been changed in the film to, "Those who live in sin shall die by sin," but clearly the sentiment behind that statement is the same. No less a source than the World Health Organization recently said that Reagan was slow in responding to AIDS as a public health crisis, and could have even stopped the epidemic if he had taken it more seriously. Public records and multiple sources show that everything in the film, including his controversial statement about AIDS, is based on irrefutable facts.

Reagan is glorified by conservatives because what other Republican leader of recent history are they going to point towards? Richard Nixon? George H.W. Bush? Newt Gingrich? Are these men worthy of exalt? Conservatives love to boast of the 16 million jobs Reagan's economic policies generated. What they are more reluctant to mention, however, is that by cutting taxes and raising military spending, Reagan also created record budget deficits, increased inequality and tripled the national debt. Judged on their own terms, Reagan proponents would have to admit that Bill Clinton, who generated 23 million new jobs in the same amount of time in office and also turned a major deficit into the largest surplus ever, was a more successful president.

Speaking of Clinton, can you imagine what a biopic of Clinton would include? Of course, Clinton fans understand and accept the truth about the former president. They know that although he was a great president in many ways, overseeing economic prosperity and making great strides in creating a more peaceful world, he was also flawed. They don't try to prevent depictions of the truth from getting out there. Similarly, it is accepted by Democrats that portrayals of the Kennedy Family often include scandals. We must all understand that every human being embodies the good and the bad. There is no one out there who is perfect, not even our most prominent leaders ... and we must be honest in the way we portray them.

But this is what the Right Wing does when they are faced with a truth that is not 100% positive for their side - they spread vicious lies and attacks and scream and yell until they get their way. Instead of boycotting and trying to have the movie changed, why don't they all just wait to see the film when it airs like the rest of us.

Hopefully, the public will tune in to CBS on November 16th, and 18th to see the truth behind all this nonsense*, and to watch what is sure to be a very interesting and well-made movie.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brolin; cbs; couplings; drudge; reagan; streisand; thereagans
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To: fight_truth_decay
She's a singer, right? Has been doing cocktail lounges for years and years. Her best movie role, "Yentl." She fooled an idiot guy into thinking she was a guy. It was not believable.

What does she do, anyway?
21 posted on 11/03/2003 10:35:42 AM PST by xzins (Proud to be Army!)
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To: reasonseeker
I'm pretty sure there is a movie already out at the theaters about Clinton called "The Human Stain"?
22 posted on 11/03/2003 10:36:02 AM PST by hotpotato
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To: fight_truth_decay
Hmmm...

... overseeing economic prosperity and making great strides in creating a more peaceful world...

Reagan ended the Cold War.

Clintoon bombed an aspirin factory.

Bush (SR. & JR.) defended Kuwait and liberated the Iraqi people.

Clintoon...ummm...wait what was it again...*cough cough* KOSOVO *cough cough*

What was that about libs creating a more peaceful world? Last I saw, liberal foreign policy consisted of "bend over and take it like you're in prison"

But then, I'm no politician...

23 posted on 11/03/2003 10:36:56 AM PST by Jinjelsnaps ("Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana" - Groucho Marx)
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To: fight_truth_decay
In fact, the film, we're told, presents a balanced portrait of a complicated man who said, when confronted with the AIDS crisis, "Maybe the lord brought down this plague because illicit sex is against the ten commandments."

They put this statement in quotes? They have proof that he actually said this?

24 posted on 11/03/2003 10:38:59 AM PST by Shethink13
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To: Shethink13
In fact, the film, we're told, presents a balanced portrait of a complicated man who said, when confronted with the AIDS crisis, "Maybe the lord brought down this plague because illicit sex is against the ten commandments."

They put this statement in quotes? They have proof that he actually said this?

They heard from someone who heard from their neighbor's housekeeper who heard from the busdriver who heard an office cleaner who overheard the... no, wait... they heard from someone whose aunt heard at the hairdresser from someone whose babysitter heard from someone on the bus....

oh, nevermind. What's important is that they know someone said it!

25 posted on 11/03/2003 10:45:15 AM PST by hotpotato
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To: fight_truth_decay
This stupid, stupid woman has a real talent for taking a bad situation for herself and making it a whole lot worse.
26 posted on 11/03/2003 10:46:28 AM PST by KellyAdmirer
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To: mgist; Ribeye; I_be_tc; paltz
Hollywood Leftist Ping!!! If you wish to be added to or removed from this ping list, please FReepmail me.
27 posted on 11/03/2003 10:46:28 AM PST by WinOne4TheGipper (Have you paid your debt to society yet? Really? My bank account hasn't expanded...)
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To: Libertina
Ms. Streisand has never even read the script! She has also never seen the film, which stars her husband James Brolin

In a related story, Brolin has never heard the song "Send in the Clowns."

28 posted on 11/03/2003 10:49:32 AM PST by presidio9 (a new birth of Freedom)
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To: fight_truth_decay
Ain't no way I am tuning in to this trash.
29 posted on 11/03/2003 10:50:56 AM PST by freekitty
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To: Shethink13
"Maybe the lord brought down this plague because illicit sex is against the ten commandments."

I was equally credulous and googled the quote. Apparently, it can be attributed to Edmund Morris, Reagan's official biographer. Every reference to the quote, other than Babs', puts the "because" outside the quotes. I would like to see the statements in context. Does anyone have a copy of "Dutch"?
30 posted on 11/03/2003 10:53:55 AM PST by rwfok
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To: fight_truth_decay


Ms. Streisand was on the set of The Reagans for a total of only 4 hours of one day. [and 8 hours on another day, 16 hours on another day, 7 hours on another day, etc]

Furthermore, Ms. Streisand has never even read the script! [She had someone read it to her]

If you read this article carefully in Clinton-speak instead of English, you can see how she's telling the truth. It all depends on the definition of the word "is".
31 posted on 11/03/2003 11:23:46 AM PST by birdsman (bs)
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To: presidio9
LOL!
32 posted on 11/03/2003 11:24:00 AM PST by Libertina
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To: Billthedrill
The one person that could have done something to stop the AIDS epidemic was the mayor of San Francisco who could have ordered the closing of the bath houses. Of course, that would have spoiled all the "fun", wouldn't it?
33 posted on 11/03/2003 11:27:24 AM PST by dfwgator (All I want for Christmas is for Ron Zook to stay as head coach (at least till next year))
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To: babyface00
No less a source than the World Health Organization recently said that Reagan was slow in responding to AIDS as a public health crisis, and could have even stopped the epidemic if he had taken it more seriously...

I would love to see what Ronald Reagan could have done to stop the spread of AIDS in Africa.

34 posted on 11/03/2003 11:32:11 AM PST by gridlock (Rooting for the Yankees means you can say, "We'll get 'em next year!", and mean it!)
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To: fight_truth_decay
This article never said BS was not a consultant to those gay producers, or that she never gave them any input.
35 posted on 11/03/2003 11:40:13 AM PST by ampat
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To: xzins
She fooled an idiot guy into thinking she was a guy. It was not believable.

Sure it was, all Babs had to do to make him think she was ugly was to take her mask off.

36 posted on 11/03/2003 12:20:31 PM PST by ItsTheMediaStupid
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To: dfwgator
Actally Delta Airlines could have stopped AIDS dead in its tracts, if only they didn't hire male stewards.
37 posted on 11/03/2003 12:28:55 PM PST by ItsTheMediaStupid
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To: dfwgator
I was living in the area at the time. The people who are now screaming that Reagan didn't do anything were the ones back then who were screaming just as loudly that (1) GRID (AIDS) wasn't communicable, (2) it wasn't a result of lifestyle, and (3) that to shut the bathhouses down would be discriminatory.

It was these activists who were most responsible for the epidemic, not Ronald Reagan. The late Gary Shilts chronicled this horror of politics over health in And The Band Played On, wherein his sharpest barbs are reserved for these guys.

Being a political activist is never having to say you're sorry, and the story now has shifted to point the finger where it doesn't belong.

38 posted on 11/03/2003 12:47:42 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: fight_truth_decay
Similarly, it is accepted by Democrats that portrayals of the Kennedy Family often include scandals.

Yep, that's why Ethel Kennedy got Roone Arledge to spike a 20/20 news story revealing that the Kennedy men had affairs!

39 posted on 11/03/2003 12:48:06 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: NYCVirago
Similarly, it is accepted by Democrats that portrayals of the Kennedy Family often include scandals.

Yes, they often include a bit of drinking and hints of adultery.

They very rarely include the multitude of rapes and sexual assaults, the forced lobotomy, the child rape of the 14-year-old babysitter, the murders (by car or golf club), the drug abuse (by both JFK and that one who turned up dead with testicles injected full of heroin), JFK banging a Soviet spy while in office, the tax evasion, drunken boating, physical assault of a waitress or a female airport security guard, rum-running, Nazi support, oh… I could go on all day.

40 posted on 11/03/2003 1:00:20 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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