Whew. Maybe we won’t need that Republican National Committee censorship review after all:
Drawing Republican fire over the accuracy of its upcoming mini-series “The Reagans,” CBS appears ready to present a kinder, gentler portrait of the ailing former President Ronald Reagan than originally produced — if the network airs it at all.
Sources close to the production said on Monday CBS is considering canceling the docudrama, slated to air Nov. 16 and 18, under mounting criticism from political conservatives that the two-part series unfairly depicts Reagan and his wife.
I don’t really care about this movie, but it’s interesting observing how people respond to current issues.
Our country recently launched an unprovoked invasion of another nation costing thousands of lives and billions of dollars. And many Americans have raised nary a question about it, even though we’ve found no evidence supporting the alleged justification for the war.
But when a T.V. network proposes to broadcast a partially-fictitious movie on a former president, you’d think from the volume of howling that the entire nation was teetering on the verge of collapse.
A revealing insight into some people’s priorities.
Well, considering CBS took so many liberties with the truth perhaps they are getting what they deserved.
And the idea that the “volume of howling that the entire nation was teetering on the verge of collapse” is laughable. This was inside Washington politics plain and simple, and CBS blinked. There was no “public outcry.” It’s a show that would have gotten stomped in the ratings anyway because people just don’t watch political miniseries unless a Kennedy is involved.
Right. There hasn’t necessarily been howling on the streets. But this past week there’s been plenty of it on the national news and talk radio outlets. That’s what I was referring to.
I’d be interested to hear the howling this blog’s owner would be singing on the streets himself had the miniseries been THE CLINTONS and written by conservatives. Knowing this author for over 25years, I can say with rather complete certainty that he would have been angry had THE ACTUAL TRUTH about the Clintons made it on the air.
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