Thursday, October 23, 2003

Lying crapsacks

I'm late to the party on this one, but Investor's Business Daily nicely summarizes the situation with the upcoming CBS miniseries that purportedly portrays President Ronald Reagan.
Next month, CBS will broadcast "The Reagans," a two-part miniseries on the former president and his family. Asking for a fair portrayal was apparently too much to expect from the entertainment industry.
Ya think? What else would you expect from that empty suit, CBS Chairman Les "Pantload" Moonves:
The politics of CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves are more conspicuous. He is everything one would expect of the Hollywood left. His credentials include partying with Fidel Castro for four days in 2001 and defending the far-left Bryant Gumbel when his CBS morning show was tanking some years back.

Moonves was also star struck by a certain family from Arkansas that could not be mistaken for Reagan Democrats.

"I used to watch Moonves fawning over the Clintons at the annual Renaissance Weekends on Hilton Head Island," syndicated radio talk show host Neal Boortz said Tuesday in his blog.
I always liked him hanging with Hillary at the 1996 Democratic convention. As for James Brolin, it's swell that he's got a gig besides humping Babs' leg.

The best part is that these Hollyweird types are so twisted they don't even notice the problem:
To remind the country of what a dimwitted, religious zealot Reagan was, the movie has a scene where his wife, Nancy, played by a self-confessed leftist, asks Reagan to help AIDS patients. He responds, "They that live in sin shall die in sin." Then Reagan, according to Rutenberg, "refuses to discuss the issue further."

That's beyond literary license; Reagan never said that, a fact script writer Elizabeth Egloff even admits to. But because "we know he ducked the issue over and over," she told Rutenberg, she obviously felt it was more a defining moment of his presidency than the historic economic recovery that brought extraordinary job creation.

Well, now, isn't it clear? At CBS, the clowns are all here.
I prefer the term "pond scum".

And as long as we are making stuff up, did you hear that Liz managed to write this tripe while starring in a "one woman, one donkey show" in Tijuana? Neither did I, but it explains everything and makes the story better.