Why Liberal Hollywood Poisoned 'The Reagans'
Amid all the hullabaloo about CBS's decision to demote "The Reagans"
to the cable channel Showtime, a lot of people didn't notice the
fascinating reason the miniseries evolved into such a venomous hatchet
job: Tinseltown's abhorrence of the decent and the normal.
Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron initially brought the project to
ABC, which enjoyed hits with their musical version of "Cinderella" and
their movie about Judy Garland.
But ABC rejected "The Reagans" because an early version "was very
soft; it was not controversial in the least," one network executive
was quoted as saying.
Yes, the media bigwigs couldn't stand to run anything positive or even
neutral about the Republican icon. Time to bring out the arsenic.
CBS bought the $16 million production only after the filmmakers made
it NASTY enough.
When the network announced it would air "The Reagans," it deliberately
lied in describing the program as a love story between Ronald and
Nancy.
NewsMax was the first to point out, many months ago, that the film was
set to be a hatchet job on Reagan. We knew that when the producers
openly talked that the movie would delve into the Reagans' "troubled"
relations with their children.
Those of us who eventually saw the promotional video and read the
leaked excerpts of the script know that the schlockumentary is the
opposite of a love story. It's all about La-La Land's hatred of anyone
with a differing viewpoint.
According to the New York Times, "one executive involved in the
production said the producers had made it clear in several meetings
they were aiming to produce a highly controversial film. That was also
the message they conveyed in an article in The New York Times on Oct.
21, that for the first time
provided details about the ****trayal of the Reagans, and that alerted
conservative backers of the former president that the film was not
going to be entirely sympathetic."
Note to the Times: If you want to be accurate, try changing "entirely
sympathetic" to "at all sympathetic."
We have to give the Times' critic Alessandra Stanley credit, though,
for noting that the "producers appear to have sacrificed showman****p
to self-righteousness, adopting a preachy, liberal agenda.... Rather
than
treading lightly, the stars gloated about how controversial their film
would be. James Brolin said his ****trayal of Mr. Reagan was partly
inspired by the Reagan puppet on the British satirical show 'Spitting
Image.' Judy Davis, who plays Nancy Reagan, pompously said she hoped
the film would teach Americans to scrutinize their elected leaders
more carefully."
"Handled more delicately, the series could have been shown on CBS,"
Stanley wrote. "The eight-minute trailer that CBS sent out ...
suggests that the movie is bad history and good television."
In particular she faulted the partisan but usually talented Davis for
abandoning all nuance and ****traying Mrs. Reagan as a monster.
As for Malibu Barbi Streisand, Little Tommy Daschle and the other
Democrats crying foul about CBS's decision, let's see if they would
object to a pseudo-biopic in which Bill Clinton is falsely quoted as
calling himself "the Antichrist" and saying that AIDS patients deserve
to "die in sin."
That we'll never know, because Democrat-run Hollywood, of course,
would never invent such lies about its fallen idol.
Plenty of NewsMax readers wrote in to put the issue in perspective.
Rich Engle of Elk Grove, California put it best: "The liberals who are
crying foul on cancellation of CBS's hack job of President Ronald
Reagan are truly out in left field. The U.S. Constitution's First
Amendment right of free speech has no bearing on this case. No
government agency demanded the cancellation of the program, popular
opinion did. The fact is that the producers made a poor quality
product, and consumers rejected it. Citizens of the United States of
America have conducted business in this manner for well over two
hundred years with unequaled success."
Newsmax: Sticking it to the left.
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Left-wing liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being. They
are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, selfish, intolerant,
bigoted and racist.
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