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November 04, 2003
Ronald Reagan was an out
Ronald Reagan was an out of touch, befuddled old man who, in his few rare moments of clarity, was a mean-spirited, closed-minded, confrontational right wing extremist.
There. I said it. That noise you hear is the Republican Thought Police pounding down my door for expressing an opinion they do not like.
Thankfully, I am not CBS. I don't cave to intimidation and scare tactics. I believe that every opinion has the right to be expressed. And I believe that no political party ought to be allowed to dictate to the broadcast media - which operates on THE PEOPLE'S airwaves! - what can or should be put on the air.
Admittedly, by most accounts, the program "The Reagans" was flawed and inaccurate. Fine. That doesn't give the Republican Party the right to intimidate a network into pulling it from the air. Besides, since when have Republicans had a problem with inaccurate and mean spirited portrayals of presidents? Do they think we weren't paying attention to the entire decade of the 1990s, as they attempted over and over to engage in the character assassination of Bill Clinton - the innuendo over the airstrip in Mena, Arkansas and their total fabrication of his alleged drug running... or worse yet, their innuendo that he was involved in Vince Foster's death? Republican hypocrisy is showing through yet again. And they want to argue that CBS should have been required to run a disclaimer that the program was a fictional account of the Reagan presidency? Well, in that case, Fox "News" should be required to run a disclaimer 24/7 that their programming is a fictional account of the news and of the world.
The Republicans are Stalinists, and CBS is Pravda, as far as I am concerned. I will not ever watch ANYTHING on CBS ever again.
Screw 'em. Reagan was a terrible president and a mean-spirited and cold-hearted person. And I am not afraid to say it. Bring on the Republican Thought Police. I'll take 'em on.
