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Reagan miniseries
Posted: 10/23/2003, 11:12 am
by Venom
Anyone else appalled at the blatent Ronald Reagan lies in the CBS miniseries that airs next month? Just more proof of the lengths some people will go to to help their cause. The producer of the series even admits that there is no proof that President Reagan made comments even remotely similar to the ones he is portrayed to have in the movie. CBS should remove that scene before airing it or at least not promote it as a true docudrama.
Posted: 10/23/2003, 11:44 am
by doug
can you produce the quote where the movie producer throws out his own credibility?
Posted: 10/23/2003, 6:51 pm
by call me andrew
how can you defend ronald regan. he was bad. a liar.
Posted: 10/23/2003, 9:04 pm
by Corey
or he was the best president ever
Posted: 10/24/2003, 6:26 am
by Venom
can you produce the quote where the movie producer throws out his own credibility?
Its a she and yes I'll get a hold of it and post it later on my lunch break.
Posted: 10/24/2003, 8:34 am
by doug
why was reagan the best ever?
Posted: 10/24/2003, 11:02 am
by Venom
Elizabeth Egloff, a playwright who wrote the final version of the script, acknowledged there was no evidence such a conversation took place. But, she said, "we know he ducked the issue over and over again, and we know she was the one who got him to deal with it."
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/1003/21reagan.html
That is only one of the MANY inaccuracies in the series. I hope CBS gets sued for this.
Posted: 10/24/2003, 11:27 am
by Sufjan Stevens
Do we know any of the supposed "quotes" that are falsified in this movie? It's just an honest question, I would like to see how they're spinning this movie.
Posted: 10/24/2003, 4:40 pm
by Venom
did u read the article? It gives examples. THere are more though
Posted: 10/25/2003, 1:21 pm
by Sufjan Stevens
Shit, I completely didn't see the link. Sorry about that.
Posted: 10/25/2003, 10:11 pm
by Dabekk
Corey wrote:or he was the best president ever
nothing to say he can't be BOTH a liar and the best president ever.

Posted: 10/25/2003, 10:52 pm
by I AM ME
arn't all politicians liars though? it just depends on whether they're lies hurt their people or not.
As for Regan i'm not educated enough in him other then he was conservitive to form an opinion
Posted: 10/26/2003, 4:09 pm
by Corey
He won the Cold War.
We should replace the Statue of Liberty with this:
<img src="http://www.sendbackliberty.us//images/statueofreagean.jpg">
Oh, and can we please stop spelling his name wrong?
It's <b>Reagan</b> people!

Posted: 10/26/2003, 7:12 pm
by I AM ME
sorry Canadian here
Posted: 10/26/2003, 7:41 pm
by doug
that's all he did? the russians collapse - that makes him the greatest?
there's a lot of other things he did that weren't so great.
Posted: 10/26/2003, 8:17 pm
by I AM ME
i'm going to have to.....*shudder* agree with Doug on this one.
Posted: 10/26/2003, 10:35 pm
by Corey
Calm down guys, I was *mostly* kidding. Although, the USSR didn't ONLY collapse on its own. He won without dropping thousands of bombs. Reagan is very peaceful and always looks to solve tensions without conflict.
He also was for very low taxes and fixed the economic slump created by the Carter administration.
What kind of things did he do that weren't so great?
Posted: 10/26/2003, 11:57 pm
by I AM ME
meh i remember reading a ton of shit, but i'm to lazy to look it up, me being non-american and it being in the past. i really dont even care much
Posted: 10/27/2003, 6:32 am
by Venom
Posted: 10/27/2003, 8:08 am
by happening fish
Corey wrote:What kind of things did he do that weren't so great?
Iran Contra
