I hardly ever watch network TV anymore, but I find it sad that CBS would cancel a multimillion dollar production, which most people probably would have been amused by, because of political pressure. It just stupid TV, for crying out loud. It's fiction. It's a show. It's fantasy. It's not real life. It's just TV.
Two of Reagans premier biographers were not even consulted about the script... nor was Ed Rollins. That's odd. The pressure came from the sponsors who were wanting to pull out fearful of repercussions not from the griping of the RNC.
I think that if you're going to be making a television program about someone, especially without their input, you should at least make it as true and faithful to real life as possible. Those who say it's fiction are forgetting that they were playing it off as based on reality.
Yes you are correct. None of those shows should be on television. I could care less if they demonize Reagan using the plenty of real facts that are out there to demonize him with or used make up stuff to demonize him. I could care less if they made a movie making him look Christ-like. The whole thing sounded like horrible television, and I'm glad it's gone. Just because there are other horrible shows on TV or soon to be on television is no reason we can't rejoice because this one is gone.
Exactly. If it wasn't supposed to be based on reality, what was the point in doing it in the first place? I wouldn't watch crap like that even if it were about Clinton. Most of us have minds of our own and we don't need our "history" interpreted for us then spoon fed to us like we're mindless baboons. Especially via some lame network docu-drama. CBS probably just figured (correctly) that no one would watch it and pulled it.
And who do you think was pressuring the sponsors? -------------------- GOP Leans on CBS to Protect the Reagan Legacy http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51254-2003Nov1.html
I'm pretty sure everybody would watch a lie filled Clinton movie. Even if you know they aren't true, the lies that float around about him would make an interesting movie nonethe less. A president having people offed like a commom mob boss, that's be hard to pass up.
The RNC et al, no doubt. Could it be, though, that the sponsors were responsive to a logical argument that this project was inaccurate and destructive? Just maybe... It's time for that constipated.... er, make that diarrheatic, elephant to fly over the land!
Right giddyup, that must have been it, and maybe they will pull advertising from Joe Millionaire because it is at heart, dishonest............
Weren't they going to do a p*rn based on the Starr report, with actors who looked Monica and Bill? Just wondering.
To believe that this movie was anything but a hatchet job is naive. You can always count on the fact that some people will believe it because it's on TV. It's got to be true, right? Just like the evening news with Dan Rather. If you want a piece of fiction about a president, watch The American President or, better yet, Dave. You don't create a fictional work (more accurately, an historical fiction work) based on the life of a living president--not unless your intent is to either cast him in a better light than he deserves or a worse light than he deserves. The fact that both the director and the actors who made the Reagan movie don't want any part of an edited version is telling. I wouldn't be surprised if their reason for making it was to harm his reputation. Would some people do the same thing to Clinton if they could (i.e., make an inaccurate movie for the purpose of harming his reputation)? I have no doubt that they would. Does that mean it's okay to do it to Reagan? Not really.
You can speculate about it all you want, but you're delusional if you think that CBS pulled that miniseries because of anything other than the bottom line.
Jeepers, all of this Reagan talk makes me want to throw on some Dead Kennedys... from the album In God We Trust Inc. 1981 We've Got A Bigger Problem Now Last call for alcohol, last call for free of speech. Drink up, happy hours now inforced by law. Don't forget our house special, it's call the chicky-diggy screwdriver... I am emperor Ronald Reagan Born again with fascist craving Still, you made me President Human rights will soon go 'way I am now your Shah today Now I command all of you Now you're gonna pray in school And I'll make sure they're christian too California Über Alles California Über Alles Über Alles California Über Alles California Ku Klux Klan will control you Still you think it's natural ****** knockin' for the master race Still you wear a happy face You closed your eyes, can't happen here Alexander Haig is near Vietnam won't come back you say Join the army or you will pay Join the army or you will pay California Über Alles California Über Alles Über Alles California Über Alles California Welcome to 1984 Are you ready for the Third World War? You too will meet the secret police They'll draft you and they'll jail your niece You'll go quietly to boot camp They'll shoot you dead, make you a man Don't you worry, it's for a cause Feeding global corporations' claws Die on our brand new poison gas El Salvador or Afghanistan Making money for President Reagan Making money for President Reagan And all the friends of President Reagan California Über Alles California Über Alles Über Alles California Über Alles California
I was the first to point that out. I cited pressure from sponsors who were wanting to pull out. Do you just <b>have</b> to argue with me or something?! I backed you up on Michael Moore. Show a little love...
I thought you said it was because they had second thoughts about truth and honor and dignity? Ehh, I was never that into this thread anyway. I'll concede whatever it was we were arguing.
