Drudge's "The Reagans" gloat

[J B]

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash9rr.htm

Just read it. My only comment is... this man is launching a full-scale celebration about the right wing's application of the "free speech" movement, where the mob has the right to shout down the speech of anyone they don't like because the mob is free to do so, to the public airwaves, because "we, the public" owns them in principle. This is gloating over the achieving of censorship by mob.

[spotbird]

1. He has every right to gloat, he won.

They win everything these days, I'm starting to thing there is no place for the truth.

[info being]

18. On CBS, no there isn't

When has it been different?

[livinontheedge]

2. I think this will backfire on the republicans.

Doubtless, most thinking people will view this as pure censorship, and will see the republican effort to torpedo this movie as extremist activism.

[spotbird]

6. I wish it would

but it won't. People will just think that it must have been pretty bad for them to have pulled it.

Pulling it is lose-lose for CBS. They have all the negitive press and they look like idiots. They have won absolutely no converts with this move but lost supporters. It is a total disaster.

[11 Bravo]

3. Ronnie was thrilled when Nancy gave him the news.

His exact words were, "The purple albatross just shit on my cowboy boots."

[zbdent]

4. AAAAAAUGH! VOGON POETRY!!!!

commencing gnawing off my own left arm!

[kentuck]

5. They think they have won!

Actually, they have lost, just like the rest of us.

[JewelDigger]

7. Was wondering what this sentence is supposed to mean...

A free broadcast network, available to all over the public airwaves, has different standards than media the public must pay to view.

This is on drudge's mainpage....from the CBS 'official statement'.

What does this mean?

[zbdent]

9. Someone at CBS was channeling Orwell

that "automatic writing" crap.

Orwell wouldn't understand a PC.

[JewelDigger]

13. hmmmm....

eom

[forgethell]

8. Ah, well

the right has finally learned how to do a boycott, at least this once. We'll have to adjust our tactics.

[FunBobbyMucha]

11. ...and make the eventual Showtime airing a huge ratings event.

The fact that this is the same cable network that gave us Action Figure George in that 9/11 P.O.S. makes this a bitter pill to swallow, though.

[LeahMira]

17. Why?

...and make the eventual Showtime airing a huge ratings event.

You really want a film about RR to be a huge ratings event? They might start making more films about him if that works. Frankly, I'm glad he's quiet, although I do feel some normal sympathy for anyone who has Alzheimers. Not a lot, though. Please, let's just let the man fade away in peace... can we?

[tishaLA]

10. Let's look at Tom Shales writing about Bush*

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A33336-2003Sep5¬Found=true

This is Shales reviewing a proppogandizing fils about Sept. 11th that demonstrably alters events...but the freepers were silent about these alterations of the historical record. It kinda makes their hysteria about Reagan a little more transparent.

"The film is an insult to those who perished in the attacks and, really, an insult to America generally, but it's so insanely boring that people aren't likely to become very outraged over it. Written by conservative Republican Lionel Chetwynd, who admits to a bias in Bush's favor, the film -- premiering on Showtime tomorrow night at 8 -- is primitive propaganda that portrays Bush as the noblest hero since Mighty Mouse.

Nothing in historical record suggests Bush acted particularly heroically Sept. 11, 2001, but Chetwynd's script has him all but saddling up a horse and riding over to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban man-to-man. When Bush announces he will give a speech to the nation from the White House and aides try to talk him into seeking a safer location, Bush bellows, "If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell him to come on over and get me. I'll be home!"

Bush repeatedly demands he be taken to the White House as Air Force One flies aimlessly about on that horrible September day: "I've got to get back to Washington because I'm not going to let those people keep me from getting home," he barks. And earlier: "Get me home! . . . The American people want to know where their damn president is." And still earlier: "People can't have an AWOL president!"

All this may be pure fantasy that occurred only in Chetwynd's head, or wishful thinking by members of the Bush administration, who cooperated with Chetwynd in his research. Actual footage of the World Trade Center towers burning and collapsing is used as part of this love letter to the president, an especially unseemly touch. "

[soupkitchen]

12. The Chickenshit Broadcasting System

As they will forever more be named. Not to be confused with Peacock Network

[xray s]

14. I hope they release it to video

I would love to buy a copy

[Snellius]

15. Drudge is aggressively trying to fill Limbaugh's big fat vacuum

Drudge, the great libertarian defender of freedom of expression, now advocating the political intimidation of the media.

[xxqqqzme]

16. too bad

wouldn't have watched it anyway. Don't subscribe 2 Showtime - don't think many do - their series pale next to 'Six Feet Under', 'Sopranos', & 'Sex'n the City'. I did C the Chris Issak show once - not bad but very shabby.