HBO: The Reagans

[gator1776]

Wow, what a horrible hit piece on Ronald Regan.

Summation of episode 1:
Reagan was a racist
Reagan was anti-labor
Reagan sold out America to Cooperations
Reagan called Truman's wonderful Health Care Plan "socialized medicine."
Regan was an actor hired by mega-wealthy California Businessmen as their front man to keep government from regulating their business
blah
blah
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Not different ideologies, just a hit piece on how evil Reagan and Goldwater Republicans were.

I'm sure there is some truth in it all, but they don't offer the other side of the argument. The real truth always lies somewhere between the extremes.

 

[BamaFan1137]

I almost watched it last night. I decided not to because I assumed all of the things that you said above.

Thank you for confirming my legitimate confirmation bias while also confirming Hollywood's utter and complete bull$h1t.

 

[gator1776]

I almost watched it last night. I decided not to because I assumed all of the things that you said above.

Thank you for confirming my legitimate confirmation bias while also confirming Hollywood's utter and complete bull$h1t.

Well, it being on HBO is all you really needed to know.

 

[BamaFan1137]

At the risk of sounding like the intro to All In The Family, we sure could use a man like Ronald Reagan again.

 

[Uniformed_ReRe]

I recently watched a YouTube video of Reagan debating George HW Bush during the primaries

It made me sad because they were actually having an intelligent, nuanced debate about foreign policy. Compared to that, today’s debates are like an episode of Jerry Springer.

By 2032, candidates will be throwing shoes and accusing each of other of being the father of their children.

 

[goldmom]

Their son Ron, that loser twit, is involved with this.

 

[Uniformed_ReRe]

I read an interview with him. He whined the whole time about how when people meet him, they would always ask “How’s Ronnie?” instead of focusing on him.