# RNC to ask CBS to review Reagan miniseries for "accuracy"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-to-ask-cbs-to-review-reagan-miniseries-for-accuracy/210823>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 1, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-to-ask-cbs-to-review-reagan-miniseries-for-accuracy/210823 "2003-11-01T13:15:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-to-ask-cbs-to-review-reagan-miniseries-for-accuracy/210823/41 "2003-11-06T13:21:10Z")

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> It just occurred to me that in War & Peace Tolstoy uses Napoleon as a character. He has Napoleon saying all sorts of things he never said in real life. Perhaps a boycott should be organized against stores that sell this lying book! Get the RNC on this!

Actually, bad choice to make your point. I researched this precise point for a paper I did in a course on War and Peace – Tolstoy was careful to use verified sayings and actions of Napoleon in his novel. What Tolstoy did that was very different was to interpret those words and actions in ways completely different from the way they had been interpreted.

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**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-to-ask-cbs-to-review-reagan-miniseries-for-accuracy/210823/42 "2003-11-06T15:59:39Z")

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**DMark** wrote (and others said basically the same)

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> Honestly - I hated Ronald Reagan for lots of reasons - especially his total lack of caring about AIDS. Who knows how many lives could have been saved, or prolonged, if the government had jumped on this disease at the onset.

Over in Great Debates, I propose that had Reagan never spent a dime on AIDS research, the number of deaths wouldn’t be significantly more. Therefore the actual number (billions of dollars) that he allocated was a shit-load of caring about the problem, and he should be your hero.

[Come](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=221665) join the fun!

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**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-to-ask-cbs-to-review-reagan-miniseries-for-accuracy/210823/43 "2003-11-06T16:57:21Z")

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> _Stephe96_
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> Great point! Imagine the howls of protest from the NAACP if, say, Fox decided to make a movie about the ‘dark side’ of Martin Luther King…

Yes, imagination is fun. But lets wait until it happens before you think you have a point.

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