Re: Boycott CBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Jonathan Ball" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Jeff McCann wrote:
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> > "Jonathan Ball" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >>Jeff McCann wrote:

> >>>it through protests, criticism, boycotts, whatever.  But some of
the
> >>>criticism has been a little out there.  Blasting the casting of
James
> >>>Brolin because he's married to ultra-lefty Striesand?  C'mon.
> >>
> >>You seriously don't think the Hollywood lefty producers
> >>and casting agents weren't cackling over that?  I do.


> >>>It's a
> >>>movie, not a documentary, for entertainment, not for education.

> >>That's an utterly cynical defense.  It was being hyped
> >>by CBS as a more or less accurate portrayal of Reagan's
> >>life.

> > Cynical about Hollywood and the media?  Who?  Me?
>
> Your defense was disingenuous.  You wouldn't have
> made it had your political favorite been the victim of
> the hatchet job.

I see you have such a keen insight into my character that you can
predict with confidence how I would react to a given hypothetical.  I
doubt I'd whine about a "hatchet job," but your reaction speaks for
itself.  Likewise, please allow me to speak for MYself.

> >>>Reagan's record is a public matter, so it's not like the facts
> >>>aren't otherwise readily available.
> >>
> >>The hatchet piece didn't limit itself to the pulic
> >>record.  They cynically and deliberately lied.
> >
> > Really, they just made a TV movie,
>
> No, it was a good bit more than that, and I suspect you
> know it.

So you sez.  But, to me, it's just a TV movie.  I probably wouldn't have
watched it anyway.  But thanks to all the moaning and wailing, I, like
probably millions of others, am now much more interested in seeing it.
Good job!

> > and lying about Reagan and his
> > administration isn't restricted to Hollywood.  Check out his
> > administration's record for lying.
>
> I suppose you have documented evidence about it?

It's all out there, but you'll either have to take my word for it, or go
educate yourself.

> >>>As a politician, he chose to be in the public
> >>>spotlight, so I think he's fair game.  Politicians on both the
> >>>Left and Right have been the targets of far worse smears than this.
> >>
> >>Name one Democratic bigshot who has been the victim of
> >>a hatchet piece like this.
> >
> > Clinton.
>
> No.  Nothing even close.
>
> > True Colors.
>
> You mean "Primary Colors".  A novel, clearly modeled on
> the early Clinton administration, but not in any way
> claiming to be history.

And the Reagan movie claims to be history, or a documentary, or anything
other than entertainment?

> > LBJ.  I forget the program.

> Yeah, I'll bet you do.  Unflattering depictions of
> Johnson almost always are the work of Democrats trying
> to burnish the image of Saint JFK.

> >>>Overall, I consider the whole thing a bit of a tempest in a teapot.
> >>
> >>Maybe.  We'll see what you have to say when and if Fox
> >>ever does an unflattering docu-fiction on Clinton.

I am not among his fans

> >>Personally, I'd rather see one on the saintly "Dr."
> >>Martin Luther King, Jr., that focuses primarily on his
> >>extra-marital affairs and his outrageous plagiarism in
> >>his doctoral dissertation;

And I'd like to see one on Bush's coke abuse, going AWOL, refusing to
risk a drug test, securities violations, alcoholism, etc.  But since I
don't have a production studio, don't hold your breath.  There's lots of
stuff I hate seeing on TV, as well as lots of other stuff I'd like to
see.  But I ain't cryin' about it.

> >>not because I think those
> >>were the salient features of his life, but rather
> >>because I want to see the crybaby leftists jettison
> >>their "principles" and mount the same kind of outraged
> >>protest that they're currently complaining about.
> >
> > Yeah.
>
> Yeah.
>
> > You're just standing on principle here.
>
> Absolutely true.
>
> > Your ideology has nothin' to do with it.  Sure.
>
> No more so than yours, and probably much less.  I'm not
> a Republican.

Neither am I.  But you might be surprised by my favorable comments about
Reagan posted here on M.S. recently.  You might also note that I began
by saying that the show probably is a hatchet job.  I don't care who or
what you are.  It seems to me that you just don't like having your own
particular ox gored, and that your views are irrevocably tinted by your
ideology.  But I still think the whole thing is pretty silly, overall.

Jeff