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   EVIL LIBERALS AND RONALD REAGAN REVISIONISM! LIBERALS HATE AMERICA!   
      
      
      
   CBS will air a miniseries, "The Reagans," Nov. 16 and 18. It will bear   
   as much resemblance to the real Ronald Reagan as Santa Claus reflects   
   the real meaning of Christmas.   
      
   Ronald Reagan Revisionism   
   By Cal Thomas   
   Townhall.com | October 28, 2003   
      
      
   When he was at full ideological and political strength, liberals   
   couldn't lay a glove on Ronald Wilson Reagan. Now that he is in "the   
   sunset of my life," as he poignantly wrote in his final letter to the   
   American people on Nov. 5, 1994, the left is unleashing a distorted   
   and inaccurate attack on Reagan in an attempt to rewrite history and   
   smear a good man.   
      
   CBS will air a miniseries, "The Reagans," Nov. 16 and 18. If a script   
   obtained by the New York Times correctly depicts the final product,   
   the show will bear as much resemblance to the real Ronald Reagan as   
   Santa Claus reflects the real meaning of Christmas.   
      
   The miniseries is produced by Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, two gay   
   activists who will be honored with an award in Hollywood next March at   
   a Building Equity dinner sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, a gay   
   liberal lobby. That has some relevance because of one scene in the   
   script obtained by the New York Times and other sources. James Brolin,   
   who plays Reagan and is married to Reagan-basher Barbra Streisand,   
   depicts the former president as believing people with AIDS get what   
   they deserve, because "they that live in sin shall die in sin."   
      
   Columnist Jim Pinkerton, who worked as an aide in the Reagan White   
   House from 1981 to 1983, said on Fox News Watch (where I also appear)   
   last weekend: "Reagan was the opposite of a gay-basher. (There was) a   
   stink when Nancy Reagan invited her interior decorator and his   
   boyfriend to stay overnight at the White House. Some of the social   
   right was upset when he (allowed that). That's how opposite he was of   
   the tyrannical, judgmental figure he is portrayed in this movie. He   
   was a guy from Hollywood. He dealt with gays all his life. He was not   
   a homophobe and a bigot."   
      
   Further evidence that Reagan had a more compassionate view of people   
   with AIDS came in a 1988 letter to AIDS sufferer Elizabeth Glaser,   
   whose daughter had just died from the disease, which her mother   
   contracted from a blood transfusion. Reagan wrote, "Nancy and I want   
   you to know you are very much in our thoughts and prayers. We know   
   there are no words that can lessen your sorrow - how we wish there   
   were - but please know you have our deepest sympathy. We can only   
   trust in God's infinite wisdom and mercy knowing he has received your   
   daughter in that other world where there is no pain or sorrow and   
   where one day we shall all be joined with those we love forevermore."   
      
   Reagan assured Glaser that his administration was moving "in every way   
   we can and as fast as we can to find answers to the terrible scourge   
   that brought such sorrow to you and to so many others. You will   
   continue to be in our prayers. God bless you."   
      
   Does this sound like an insensitive, judgmental man, or the opposite?   
      
   The film script depicts Reagan cursing his staff during one Oval   
   Office meeting. No staff member I know recalls him using such language   
   in anger. While the script, as reported in the New York Times, does   
   give Reagan credit for ending the Cold War and depicts him as an   
   exceptionally good politician and moral man, it fails to credit him   
   with igniting the biggest economic recovery since World War II. Nor is   
   Reagan credited with converting the nation from the malaise days of   
   Jimmy Carter to an optimistic outlook. Nancy Reagan (played by Judy   
   Davis) is portrayed as a Joan Crawford "Mommy Dearest" shrew who slaps   
   her daughter, Patti.   
      
   On page 16 of the script, as printed on the Drudge Report Web page,   
   there is this exchange among Nancy Reagan, her stepfather and her   
   mother, Edith:   
      
   "Stepfather: 'Nancy, I don't know what you see in Hollywood. As far as   
   I can tell, it's nothing but Communists and drug addicts.'   
      
   "Nancy: 'It didn't used to be this bad - did it, Mother?'   
      
   "Edith: 'Hell, no. When I was here, it was just wall-to-wall Jews and   
   queers.'"   
      
   People interested in the real Reagan should read "Reagan: A Life in   
   Letters," edited by Kiron K. Skinner and Annelise and Martin Anderson   
   (Free Press). There you'll find Ronald Reagan in his own words, not   
   the way the left twists the words of one of our most successful and   
   beloved presidents.   
      
      
   --   
   Left-wing Liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being.   
   They are mean, vicious, hateful, cold-hearted, intolerant, bigoted and   
   racist.   
      
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