CONTROVERSY SWIRLS AROUND CBS REAGAN FILM; SCRIPT REVEALED

Drudge ^ | October 20, 2003 | drudge

[Roscoe Karns]

CONTROVERSY SWIRLS AROUND CBS REAGAN FILM; SCRIPT REVEALED Mon Oct 20 2003 20:30:29 ET

In the upcoming CBS telefilm on President Ronald Reagan producer fail to mention the economic recovery or the creation of wealth during his administration, nor does it show him delivering the nation from the malaise of the Jimmy Carter years.

The film depicts Nancy Reagan as a control addict, who set the president's schedule based on her astrologer's advice and who had significant influence over White House personnel and policy decisions.

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The NEW YORK TIMES has obtained a final script for THE REAGANS, according to newsroom sources.

TIMES reporter Jim Rutenberg does it again, and is planning a Tuesday splash.

"This was very important for me, to document everything and give a very fair point of view," says Leslie Moonves, the CBS chairman and a top Democrat supporter [he sat next to Hillary Clinton during her husband's re-nominating convention].

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The film is set to air during next month's Sweeps. It stresses Reagan's moments of forgetfulness, his supposed opinions on AIDS and gays, his laissez-faire handling of his staff members. The scenes often carry a disapproving tone.

During a scene in which his wife pleads with him to help people battling AIDS, Reagan says resolutely, "They that live in sin shall die in sin" and refuses to discuss the issue further.

DEVELOPING...

[Notwithstanding]

CBS using its power to push the leftish egenda?
This is not news.

[Reagan79]

One word, "trash."

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Yep, producers living in a liberal dream world. BTW, does it include where he goes out on Pennsylvania Avenue and steals Pork and Beans from the homeless?

[sharkhawk]

This will do the Dims a lot of good. Rip on a sick old man who can't defend himself anymore. I think most people still have a nostalgic feeling for the Gipper, and I think this should help Republicans. I actually almost wish they would show this during next years elections, provided Repubs get going with a proper and vigorous defense.

[basil]

I shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

[Welsh Rabbit]

Exactly what I'd expect from CBS...

[Michael.SF.]

But Meron tells the TIMES: "This is not a vendetta, this is not revenge. It is about telling a good story in our honest sort of way."

Correction follows:

But Meron tells the TIMES: "This is not a vendetta, this is not revenge. It is about telling a good story in sort of an honest way.

[Bogey78O]

Projection.

[Pukin Dog]

Matt Drudge is a national treasure.

[MonroeDNA]

The communists never went away.

This is their method.

Reagan abhored thier methods.

[Viking2002]

I haven't watched the Communist Brainwashing System in years, and I don't give a damn what's on. The only people who will watch this contrived tripe are effete elitists and slack-jawed Jerry Springer material. Neither of whom would have the spirit or intellect to ever appreciate who Ronald Reagan is, anyway, so let them wallow in their self-made personal Hell.

[dts32041]

I would assume Judy Davis is playing Nancy, if you want to see her at her leftist best rent "The Final Option".

BTW my favorite line is "Hell, lady anybody can hijack a dinner party."

[Roscoe Karns]

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The film's producers, Zadan and Meron, acknowledge their liberal politics, as do the stars of the television movie, James Brolin and Judy Davis. But Meron tells the TIMES: "This is not a vendetta, this is not revenge. It is about telling a good story in our honest sort of way. We all believe it's a story that should be told."

[Pukin Dog]

Yep, producers living in a liberal dream world. BTW, does it include where he goes out on Pennsylvania Avenue and steals Pork and Beans from the homeless?

You left out the part where he slapped their child and kicked their dog.

[PJ-Comix]

During a scene in which his wife pleads with him to help people battling AIDS, Reagan says resolutely, "They that live in sin shall die in sin" and refuses to discuss the issue further...

And what is the SOURCE of this quote? Nothing more than a liberal scriptwriter's warped imagination.

[PJ-Comix]

But Meron tells the TIMES: "This is not a vendetta, this is not revenge.

Sure. And I remember that Aaron Sorkin, when West Wing first started airing also said he had NO political agenda.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Tactless...disgusting...power-hungry b@stards!!

I'm so enraged over this....

[Flux Capacitor]

Sick, sick, sick. It's troubling to imagine how many skulls-full-of-mush from ages 7 to 70 are gonna buy into this smearing of the Gipper as History.... which, of course, was the objective of the "filmmakers" all along....

Keep the truth of Reagan alive!


-Dan

[dinok]

They will get away with it, because we conservatives let them. If our side had any guts, they would be threatening lawsuits right now and boycots.

When it comes to fighting liberals at home we are worse than the French.