Just so. After all, CarrotTop needs the work…
Well, that would depend. If it were a documentary that claimed this stuff and the DNC complained, I’d agree with them.
However, if it were a freaking Made-for-TV movie, (which aren’t exactly known for their accuracy), I’d think that they were a bunch of whining, thin-skinned crybabies.
Context, my dear Shodan, context.
Well, CBS caved in:
Since there were no concessions for the other side, in the Showtime movie case on Bush, I present this as exhibit 4087 that the media is NOT liberal. Many of their workers may be, but money will talk in the end.
For all Republicans out there: do you realize this was something that we could expect from repressive regimes?
Hi Guin! I did not notice your post in the preview! Yes, I also agree: Context is the key.
Hey. 
UGH!!! Now that just sucks.
:mad:
And the right whines about everyone trying to be “politically correct”!
ARGH!!!
Well, yes, Guin, we whine when people tell lies about us.
Sometimes they listen. Go figure.
Regards,
Shodan
Shodan, no one’s telling lines about you.
For crying out loud, it’s a tv drama based on actual events, with some embellishments. What do you EXPECT, a word for word accuracy?
I’m SOOO sorry that some of us do NOT see Reagan as the greatest president since sliced bread.
That was not the point Shodan, if the tables were turned I would also scream bloody murder, This is a case were artists, making movies, suddenly find someone else editing their movie for political expedience: that is a move wordy of soviet Russia.
Likewise, even if I agree that that Clinton tape was trash, I would not demand that I get to take editing control away from the creators of that piece of fiction. Regardless if it is from the right or the left, this was the most un-American thing I have seen in a long time.
wordy=worthy
[sub]Sorry, I have recently been called an abuser of word counts![/sub]
It seemed to be from the very beginning that anyone who can put 2 and 2 together should have been able to tell that this movie and its creators were not operating from a position of objectivity or neutrality in the creative interpretation of the facts. That was obvious simply by the casting. James Brolin is playing Reagan. James Brolin, who seems to be making a career out of portraying Republicans and military personnel in the worst light possible of light. James Brolin who is married to the leftest of the leftists, the screeding harridan herself, Barbra Streisand.
Hearing that Brolin would be portraying Reagan was enough for me to know, as a currently not-so-happy-with-my-party Republican, that this was not going to be factually accurate and was bound to be closer to a smear than a straight biopic, and if that turns out to be as true as the detractors have said or even worse, I won’t be surprised one eensy weensy little bit.
But no matter how much people might try to paint this as dramatization or even a work of fiction as opposed to a work of biography, there is considerable danger in dramatizing the lives of people who are still alive and can and will go to great lengths to fact-check you when you misrepresent the things that they’ve said and done. Every human has an instinct to protect themselves and their reputations, especially when they feel that they’ve been greatly wronged, which Nancy Reagan apparently did in this case. What exactly did anyone expect her to do?
But, TeaElle, some people are trying to put 2 & ? together.
So, I see James Brolin is the real problem here. :eek:
Damn, I guess Arnold was too busy saving California.
If only Coulter, Hannity, O’Liely, and their ilk were held to the same standard of truthfulness that CBS is. If those on the right imbellish, it’s only entertainment. God forbid any one from the other side stray from the truth though. Then it is a national emergency. I’m only surprised that Cheney didn’t come out and say that this movie puts the soldiers in Iraq in danger.
I lost a lot of respect for CBS over this, watching them bow to the power of the right, as if they were Fox news or something. It is a disheartening trend that I hope doesn’t become more frequent.
Liberal media, my ass.
I’d love to see them slip in Donny Osmond as a last minute, “politically correct” replacment 
Ah, chickens coming home to roost.
Republicans trot out a canard that John F Kennedy would have supported Bush’s tax cuts, the Kennedy family insists that such statements are inaccurate, the Republicans refuse to withdraw a bit of fiction.
The leftists in Hollywood trot out a lousy bit of pop-history-infotainment on Reagan, Republicans think the sky is falling, and Hollywood refuses to make changes.
Good for the goose, good for the gander.
You know, the conservatives always do this. They win a couple elections, gain a little power, and then they go freakin’ crazy.
No wonjder they never actually get anything done.
Well, maybe FOX is working on a bio of WJC. A lot more juice there. Perhaps it could be aired the Sunday before election Tuesday. Or in '08 when HRC is running.
…and if the Clintons and/or the Democratic Party ask to review the movie for accuracy, the Republicans would be squawking about how they’re trying to “revise history” and “don’t want to let people see the truth.” :rolleyes:
I ask again, did any of the folks objecting to the alleged bias in the CBS Reagan-flick also objected to the bias in the Showtime 9/11 George W. Bush love-in? Or shall we just admit the Republican party is a bunch of bald-faced propagandists and move on?
I bet the hypothetical FOX/GOP movie, ‘William Jefferson Clinton: Holy Crap, Can You Believe Some People Voted For Him Twice??? Like, WTF!?’, wouldn’t have writers just making shit up, as the farcical Ronnie movie does.
And if you think the Showtime 9/11 flick was inaccurate, why don’t you point out those inaccuracies for us? And why didn’t you address those concerns when the movie came out?
Brutus- Not only do you know the unreleased Ronnie movie will be farcical, but that a non-existant WJC movie would be fair and balanced! Damn, you’re good. Somebody fetch Brutus a cape.
I never saw the Showtime movie, so I did not feel comforable dissing it. But it would be more relevant to ask, did the Democratic party ask to edit the movie to fit their view of history? No. No, they did not.
If the rolleyes was directed at me, it was misplaced. I agree with you on this. Both sides fight their partisan fights. And of course you’d be upset if the WJC movie portrayed the alleged rape of Juanita Broaddrick as an actual fact. Just as Reagan supporters don’t like the “homosexuals deserve to die” inuendo in the Reagan film.