MUST SEE TV tonight at 9:00 pm on HBO

[William769]

REAGAN

Lets see how much revisionist history is in this piece what can only be called fiction.

[hlthe2b]

1. well, now there is a reason to be glad that I don't have HBO

;) I look forward to other's reports, however.

[Sonoman]

2. I heard an interview with the producer, yesterday. Bring some waffles...

because there will be syrup a'plenty.

Sonoman

[pretzel4gore]

3. they have got to revise...the rightwing is a fraud!!

it's always been a fraud- after all, who gives precedence to rightwing privilege for the few over the leftwing needs of the many?
In an honest country, no body, that's who!
That's why the rightwing always must seek control of the news/info media, in order to sell the people snake oil!...Aristotle said way back when, that that's why 'democracy' could never work (and notice how this issue- ie political leaders become corrupt by human nature- is quietly hid away, as if no one knows that power corrupts)...

[pacalo]

4. I believe HBO will present both sides after reading this review...

(...)

Interview subjects range mainly from former Secretary of State George Schultz to liberal author Thomas Frank (What's the Matter With Kansas?) to son Ron Reagan Jr., who sums up his dad thusly: "My father was smarter and better than many people on the left thought he was and less than the giant that many people on the right thought he was."

(...)

Through conversations with friends, associates and Reagan biographers Errol Morris and Lou Cannon, we hear about how leading SAG during a time of communist "agitation" - and a bitter strike - hardened his anti-communist views, and how he learned retail politicking and sharpened his future anti-government message while working as an "ambassador" for General Electric (he was eventually fired for refusing to stop talking politics on GE's behalf as the Kennedy era began).

We also see how Reagan was perceived while governor of California in the 1960s and '70s - as an angry figure railing against the counterculture, a far cry from the genial profile he cut while president. And we're told that despite his geniality, Reagan was a difficult man to get to know.

Particular attention is paid to the Iran-Contra scandal that dominated his second term (it gets slightly more screen time than "Reaganomics" or his Gorbachev-era about-face on dealing with Soviet Union), and it's here where Reagan's complexity is most apparent.








http://mobile.multichannel.com/article/463579-Review_HBO_s_Reagan_.php

[DCKit]

5. Can't watch. The S.O. is from El Salvador, and I like the TV too much to see it smashed.

No matter how "fair and balanced", there are sure to be interviews that will enrage.