Michael Reagan Responds to the Movie The Butler and How it Falsely Portrayed His Father

Worldview Weekend ^ | 22Aug13 | Brannon Howse

[ReformationFan]

Brannon Howse is host of the daily, live, national radio program “Worldview Weekend Radio” which airs on 50 stations live each day at 1pm CT. The program can also be heard at www.worldviewradio.com. Brannon has been a friend of Mike Reagan’s for almost twenty years. Brannon served as Mike’s education reporter for many years and served as his literary agent for his best-selling book, “Twice Adopted.” Brannon was also the executive producer of a television production that featured Mike speaking about his life story and testimony in front of 2,000 people at one of Brannon's Worldview Weekend conferences. Mike was very gracious in giving Brannon and his radio audience the first interview on his response to the movie The Butler and how it portrayed his father, President Ronald Reagan. Here is a transcript of a portion of this interview. The complete interview can be heard by members of the Worldview Weekend Situation Room at www.situationroom.net

[Slump Tester]

Shows how much attention I pay to things. I didn’t even know it had anything to do with Ronald Reagan, just knowing that Fonda bitch was in it was enough for me.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Conservatives should get revenge for the traitor Fonda portraying our first lady: Have Rush portray King of the hippies John Lennon.

[napscoordinator]

The character of Ronald Reagan was on the movie for no more than 5 minutes. He had basically one scene where he said he was against the sanctions in South Africa. I don't know if Reagan was against them or not but that was it. Facts are what? Was he or was he not against sanction's in South Africa and why do we care 30 years later? I guess Michael has not been in the spotlight lately so he needed to get his little butt in their. All of Reagans kids turned into liberals which is so hard to believe.

[ErnBatavia]

http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/08/23/veteran-theater-owner-refuses-show-‘-butler’-because-jane-fonda

[windsorknot]

[Albion Wilde]

Facts are what? Was he or was he not against sanction's in South Africa and why do we care 30 years later?

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[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Awesome! Probably the best story I ever heard was when she was signing one of her books in a bookstore and this Viet vet was waiting on line. And gueeess what he did when it was his turn? Spit in her face. DOH! Bullseye!

[Gay State Conservative]

Historical accuracy from The Oprah? Yah,that’ll happen!

[ReformationFan]

Michael’s not a liberal. He’s a staunch conservative Christian. Ironically, President Reagan’s children by his first wife Jane Wyman turned out more conservative than his children by Nancy.

Reagan and other conservatives(Alan Keyes, William F. Buckley) and/or Republicans(then living former President Richard M. Nixon) in the 1980s opposed sanctions against South Africa largely because they thought they would cause more harm than good and did not want its economy destroyed(see how “well” things turned out in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe?) For all its faults, South Africa was the richest nation in Africa at the time and was an ally of ours against the Soviets and the spread of communism. SA also maintained a strong alliance with Israel for many years. For good or for ill, that’s simply the way it was at the time.

[Flag_This]

"The character of Ronald Reagan was on the movie for no more than 5 minutes. He had basically one scene where he said he was against the sanctions in South Africa."

Isn't that the point? Out of an 8-year presidency, Hollywood takes 5 minutes to try and portray him as negatively as possible.

[I want the USA back]

What? a movie that trashed a honest Republican? What a surprise!

[colorado tanker]

I was interested in this movie, but I see Oprah and Hollyweird couldn’t stop themselves from politicizing it. I’ll pass.

[napscoordinator]

Isn’t that the point? Out of an 8-year presidency, Hollywood takes 5 minutes to try and portray him as negatively as possible.

Wow. FDR had hardly anytime and he was a 16 year term. JFK was hardly on. Nixon was barely on. Reagan had most of the time. Carter didn’t even make it in the movie at all. The movie was very short with the Presidents. It was about him and the fellow butlers and his sons and wife. The Presidents were a VERY small part of the movie.

[Guenevere]

If you read post #10, you will see that Michael Reagan was not, is not a liberal like Ron and Patti Reagan.

Michael is as conservative as they come...a nice guy.

[ReformationFan]

Indeed. Also, the real people and real events depicted in so many Hollywood movies are much more fascinating in reality via good history books and good documentaries. For example, I tried watching some of Oliver Stone’s “Nixon” but could not get into it. Stone’s leftwing garbage worldview penetrated it so and the real characters were so much more interesting than the way they were portrayed in what little I saw.

[WomBom]

Actually, Lennon was a fan of RWR

[Flag_This]

"It was about him and the fellow butlers and his sons and wife. The Presidents were a VERY small part of the movie."

Really? I would swear every description and review has started out with "eight presidents" somewhere in the first sentence. I was under the impression the movie was about a butler who worked for 8 presidents and maybe, you know, his interactions with them. Otherwise, who gives a shiznit? Will the sequel be "The Podiatrist" - the heartwarming story of a doctor who worked in Washington D.C. from 1942 - 1988?

[Catsrus]

Unfortunately, the low information voters rely on these types of movies for their history lessons. Not only rely on them, but believe them as well. I can’t believe the ignorance of half of the American voters.

[dfwgator]

Goebbels would be envious.