Here Comes The Fox News Demonization Of The Butler!

Call a wah-mbulance! The top movie this weekend, The Butler, was unfair to St. Ronald Reagan! Frankly, America Live's "fair and balanced" assessment of Reagan's support of apartheid is - well, not quite.

Although America Live's expert argued that Ronald Reagan partly opposed sanctions against South Africa because he thought they would hurt the people, there's other evidence that he was a lot less sensitive:

Salon.com wrote in 2011:

The Reagan administration demonized opponents of apartheid, most notably the African National Congress, as dangerous and pro-communist. ...Reagan’s record on South Africa was also marked by at least one embarrassing gaffe, when he told a radio interviewer in 1985: “They have eliminated the segregation that we once had in our own country — the type of thing where hotels and restaurants and places of entertainment and so forth were segregated — that has all been eliminated.” Of course, that was simply not true, and Reagan later walked the statement back.

But somehow that got left out of the whine-fest about the movie's liberal bias. Can you say "Fox News grievance industry" anyone?

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commented 2013-12-30 03:00:22 -0500 · Flag

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commented 2013-08-21 09:23:20 -0400 · Flag

From Aria Prescott’s comment:

“If anything, Reagan got off light.”

Yes indeed — and the principal reason why is because he had his good friend Herr Goebbels II (i.e. Rupert Murdoch) protecting his a*s. Keep in mind: Reagan fast-tracked Murdoch’s U.S. citizenship application because federal law stipulates that ONLY AMERICAN CITIZENS can own and operate American television stations.

commented 2013-08-20 17:00:17 -0400 · Flag

I asked the hounds who saw this about this movie, they all said the same thing… the dark side of every president was shown. If anything, Reagan got off light.

So how about a nice glass of shhhh?

commented 2013-08-20 08:11:00 -0400 · Flag

Oh, so he was against sanctions cause he wanted to help black people. I believe that…cause he did so many other things to help end Apartheid.

commented 2013-08-19 22:41:04 -0400 · Flag

@ Brandt Hardin Well Brandt, we DO know these two FACTS: First, during his eight year reign, Reagan had a VERY SYMPATHETIC MAINSTREAM MEDIA in his corner which was led by his good friend Herr Goebbels II (i.e. Rupert Murdoch) — remember, Reagan fast-tracked Murdoch’s U.S. citizenship application — Murdoch became a full-fledged American citizen in September 1985, shortly before the outbreak of the Iran-contra scandal. which, unlike the Iranian hostage crisis that paved the way for Reagan’s election in the first place, was SHUSHED UP BIG TIME by the mainsream media. Second, he DID bellow these words at Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist group that held Americans hostage in Beirut, Lebanon during his reign:

“YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE!”

Reagan DID turn out to be dead on right in this sense: If Hezbollah’s terrorists were hiding, how could he have paid them off with arms shipments?

commented 2013-08-19 19:04:22 -0400 · Flag

Saint Ronnie never spent much time palling around with black people, but he always loved the movie antics of Farina and Buckwheat.

commented 2013-08-19 18:38:33 -0400 · Flag

St. Reagan had his own portrait to paint of Amerikkka, but unfortunately, it avoided so much of the truth that he’d leave out of history to make it seem as if Amerikkka was the bastion of liberty and not supporters of slavery, theft of land, and murder of Native Americans. He carried that outlook on to the rest of the world. Of course, so many Amerikkkans simply do not care about anyone but themselves. That’s what they call the Ugly Amerikkkan.

commented 2013-08-19 18:31:23 -0400 · Flag

How many kids might be adults today if Ronnie had shown at least a bit of compassion toward little ones with AIDS while he was in office?

That is his legacy.