# New CBS Ronald Reagan movie appears wildly biased - What does CBS gain with this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cbs-ronald-reagan-movie-appears-wildly-biased-what-does-cbs-gain-with-this/208646 "2003-10-21T05:38:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cbs-ronald-reagan-movie-appears-wildly-biased-what-does-cbs-gain-with-this/208646/41 "2003-10-24T05:17:49Z")
I hated the Reagan/Bush administration at the time (probably still do), but I will at least acknowledge the [economic improvements](http://www.msu.edu/~herrer20/documents/ho1.pdf) during that time: **Growth in Gross Domestic Product** 1980: -0.3 1989: 3.4 **Unemployment Rate** 1980: 7.1 1989: 5.3 **Inflation Rate** 1980: 12.4 1989: 4.6 ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cbs-ronald-reagan-movie-appears-wildly-biased-what-does-cbs-gain-with-this/208646/42 "2003-10-24T06:01:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RikWriter \* > \*\*They (insert the “L” word here --DG) HATE Reagan with a passion, because he was the greatest president of the second half of the century and he had the temerity to be a conservative Republican. \*\* And the greatest president of the _first_ half of the twentieth century was ::Tah-Dah!:: Calvin “The business of America is business” Coolidge? Or maybe Herbert Hoover? :rolleyes: The answer to the OP is obviously that lots of people will tune in either to revel in seeing Reagan pilloried or to rant at those who do. The result will be big ratings. That’s what TV is for, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cbs-ronald-reagan-movie-appears-wildly-biased-what-does-cbs-gain-with-this/208646/43 "2003-10-24T06:08:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DesertGeezer \* > \*\* “The business of America is business” \*\* 😕 What is wrong with this? What then is the buisness of America? ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cbs-ronald-reagan-movie-appears-wildly-biased-what-does-cbs-gain-with-this/208646/44 "2003-10-24T06:27:26Z")
I don’t want to hijack the thread any further, but I think the business of government is to provide a safe and secure environment for its people. Prosperity is part of it, too, but not the biggest part, especially if it means “trickle down.” Color me liberal. That’s just what I think. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cbs-ronald-reagan-movie-appears-wildly-biased-what-does-cbs-gain-with-this/208646/45 "2003-10-24T07:45:19Z")
What, don’t any of the resident conservative Dopers want to complain about that Hollywood liberal piece of trashy cinema, “DC 9/11: Time of Crisis”? 😕 Or is “wildly biased” works acceptable when they suck up to your sacred cows? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cbs-ronald-reagan-movie-appears-wildly-biased-what-does-cbs-gain-with-this/208646/46 "2003-10-24T07:47:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Muad’Dib \* > \*\*😕 > What is wrong with this? What then is the buisness of America? \*\* Jazz dance. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cbs-ronald-reagan-movie-appears-wildly-biased-what-does-cbs-gain-with-this/208646/47 "2003-10-24T10:57:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DesertGeezer \* > \*\*And the greatest president of the _first_ half of the twentieth century was ::Tah-Dah!:: Calvin “The business of America is business” Coolidge? Or maybe Herbert Hoover? > :rolleyes: > \*\* Actually, Teddy Roosevelt, with FDR a close second. But thanks for playing. Rod, tell him about our wonderful consolation prizes… ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2003, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cbs-ronald-reagan-movie-appears-wildly-biased-what-does-cbs-gain-with-this/208646/48 "2003-10-24T11:52:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tars Tarkas \* > **Reagan eating puppies and sacrificing virgins to Ba’al** GREATEST. MOVIE PITCH. EVER. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cbs-ronald-reagan-movie-appears-wildly-biased-what-does-cbs-gain-with-this/208646/49 "2003-10-26T04:47:06Z")
[http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/kmiec200310230835.asp](http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/kmiec200310230835.asp) An article written by Douglas W. Kmiec, one of Reagans constitutional legal advisors, about Reagans response to the AIDS crisis. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cbs-ronald-reagan-movie-appears-wildly-biased-what-does-cbs-gain-with-this/208646/50 "2003-10-26T07:55:28Z")
This hatchet job on Reagan ought to die a quiet death (which it probably will). Imagine: Ronald Reagan was RESPONSIBLE for the AIDS epidemic! His wife Nancy was a psychotic bitch who consulted astrologers! Lets face it, people know that Ronald Reagan was one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century,and this smarmy little smear job won’t change this. But , for all you reagan haters…was the astrology thing true? Who was the strologer…and what did he/she tell the Reagans to do? (The whole thing sounds like something made up by democratic party speachwriters). ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cbs-ronald-reagan-movie-appears-wildly-biased-what-does-cbs-gain-with-this/208646/51 "2003-10-26T08:09:36Z")
It wasn’t a Reagan hater, **ralph124c**. Former chief of staff Donald Regan revealed in his 1987 memoir _For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington_ that Nancy Reagan dictated the president’s schedule after consulting her personal astrologer, Joan Quigley: > [@](#): > > Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House Chief of Staff was cleared in advance with a woman in San Francisco who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in a favorable alignment for the enterprise. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cbs-ronald-reagan-movie-appears-wildly-biased-what-does-cbs-gain-with-this/208646/52 "2003-10-26T08:31:55Z")
More from Donald Regan’s memoir: > [@](#): > > Mrs. Reagan passed along her prognostications to me after conferring with [Quigley] on the telephone — she had become such a factor in my work, and in the highest affairs of the nation, that at one point I kept a color-coded calendar on my desk (numerals highlighted in green ink for “good” days, red for “bad” days, yellow for “iffy” days) as an aid to remembering when it was propitious to move the President of the United States from one place to another, or schedule him to speak in public, or commence negotiations with a foreign power. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cbs-ronald-reagan-movie-appears-wildly-biased-what-does-cbs-gain-with-this/208646/53 "2003-10-27T03:12:58Z")
I believe I saw Nancy admit it on a History Channel episode of _The 20th Century_ with Mike Wallace. I’m sorry, I can’t site which episode it was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cbs-ronald-reagan-movie-appears-wildly-biased-what-does-cbs-gain-with-this/208646.md?page=2)