Posted by
Soldier Dad on Friday, September 08, 2006 11:38:24 AM
A followup to yesterday's blog:Let's flashback a few years when CBS was going to run "The Reagans" and pulled it after
CBS acknowledged that the film did not show a "balanced portrayal" of the couple. They had reportedly ordered a love story about Ronald and Nancy Reagan with politics as a backdrop, but instead received what they later claimed was an overtly political film.*
During the controversy, Tom Daschle called the decision by CBS "
appalling."
There are several differences between that situation and the current one. "The Reagans" depicted our former president in the worst light, with very little research to back it up. One example is the scripted sentence, "Let they who live in sin die in sin," which was meant in the context of the AIDS crisis. However, the filmmakers admitted the only basis for this comment was a similar suggestion in a fictionalized biography of Ronald Reagan.
The new 9/11 docu-drama is based on public record, and supposedly highly researched. For the Democrats to come out with guns blazing on this is not simply hypocritical, it's illustrative of the complete lack of regard for their precious First Amendment when someone attempts to say something "not so nice" about them.
Not that I'm surprised.
*Sourced from Wikipedia.com