Live Thread: Showtime's Reagan Movie Panel Discussion Simulcast on C-SPAN

C-SPAN/ Showtime ^ | Monday, December 1, 2003 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Live now at 9 p.m. EST. Hosted by Frank Sesno.

[kristinn]

Link to Lazamataz's live thread on the movie itself.

[T Lady]

Linda Chavez is on the panel. Yay!

-Regards, T.

[kristinn]

Opened with clips from the movie. Panel: Martin Anderson, Marvin Kalb, Carl Anthony, Hillary Rosen, Lou Cannon, Linda Chavez.

[kristinn]

Marvin Kalb: Tone of movie "insensitive and hostile."

[hole_n_one]

I didn't watch the movie but I happened upon the start of the C-Span discussion as they were showing some clips from the movie.

The 1-2 minutes they showed made my blood boil.

Have a jellybean.......wtf?

[T Lady]

Marvin Kalb said this is no "Casablaca"; he also said it is insensitive.

-Regards, T.

[hoagy62]

This clip makes it seem it was pure smarmyness that put him where he is.

[kristinn]

I watched it last night. It sucked.

Now showing clip of schemers plotting to get Reagan to run for governor.

[T Lady]

Hillary Rosen-Human Rights Campaign. That should tell you something...and not something good, either. Lou Cannon just said a cartoon couldn't get this bad.

-Regards, T.

[kristinn]

Good for Kalb. Lou Cannon trashing the just played clip on the schemers. Says the facts were available to anyone who looked for them, the people who made the movie didn't want to.

[hoagy62]

BACKPEDAL, Anthony, BACKPEDAL!!!!

[kristinn]

Martin Anderson calls film "a hate movie" after quoting W. Post TV critic Tom Shales' review trashing the movie.

[Texas_Jarhead]

ah, co-producer is on the panel

[Lazamataz]

Thanks kristinn. The panelists are destroying this movie. I love it.

[kristinn]

He can't backpedal fast enough. Linda Chavez joins in defending Reagan from portrayal as a puppet.

Hillary Rosen defending Al Gore (???)

[T Lady]

Carl Anthony just said he wished he had given more commentary to it...Linda Chavez just nailed it, saying this was a Hollywood Left fantasy...Hillary Rosen just said no one really knew the 'real' Al Gore, basically justifying the smear job Striesand & Co. did on this movie.

-Regards, T.

[hoagy62]

Note that Carl Anthony would NOT answer the question pertaining to whether this was a hate-movie about Reagan. He tried to turn the subject. This is a SURE sign that it was DESIGNED to hurt him!

[hole_n_one]

Is Sesno still with CNN?

[Texas_Jarhead]

I know. WHat was her point? We had 8 years to get to know Gore. WHy was she talking about the election?