The Ugly Specter of Patriotism in America – History as Revised By Liberals

By Lisa Sarrach and Kevin Fobbs

 

Do you remember the falling of the Berlin Wall and how dramatic it felt?  Do you remember how your heart felt?  “Do you remember what it symbolized for you?  The end of communism?  A safer world?  A more secure peace?  And President Ronald Reagan’s words that preceded its falling, “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down that Wall!”?

 

What would you think if it turned out that what you thought was the cherished fresh breath of freedom that symbolized the ending of an area of tension, uncertainty, escalation of armaments, and a de-escalation of security was called nothing more than American patriotism gone rampant?  Well according to certain well-heeled Hollywood elites, what hundreds of millions of people around the world saw and felt during the tearing down of the wall was in fact a painful example of “Ugly Patriotism.”  These Hollywood detractors have decided to hijack the truth and replace it with what they hope will be an entertaining and revisionist historical fiction -- a telefilm about Ronald Reagan. 

 

The driving force in this real life drama was a man, a celebrated hero on the Silver Screen, who helped to remind Americans that we could all endeavor to find that “Shining City on a Hill” in our own hearts and in our own communities across this nation.  Well as it turns out to the Hollywood elite, it was now payback time on the version of America we saw and felt.

 

What network would be better to host this fiction than the giant whose symbol is a gigantic eye?  A network that has an eye on a different reality and a different America than we know and embrace.  This giant eye would like you to join it over the course of two evening and watch the telefilm, which depicts the unraveling of the truth about our 40th President and replace it with a film that “…can help create a bit more questioning in the public about the direction America has been going in since the 1970's.”  Judy Davis, who portrays Nancy Reagan in the telefilm, believes that and also said, “I guess then I think it will be doing a service.”

 

In the October 21st, New York Times article, Davis goes on to explain what she means by the direction of our country under Ronald Reagan, and now President Bush.  She claims that “with the climate that has been in America since Sept. 11, it appears, from the outside anyway, to not be quite as open a society as it used to be.”  She doesn’t quit there.  Ms. Davis said during an interview at her hotel in Montreal, "By open, I mean as free in terms of a critical atmosphere and that sort of ugly specter of patriotism."

 

Interesting…  Pride in our democracy now has become “an ugly specter of patriotism.”  What we are seeing as Americans is gradual marginalization and quite frankly, the demonization of patriotism.  Davis and other Hollywood elites want us to believe that this “ugly specter of Patriotism” is best personified in our 40th President.  And what better time to air it than during sweeps month in November. 

 

Broom out the truth.  Sweep in the fiction.

 

Leslie Moonves, the CEO and President of CBS television, whose political leanings are well known as is his support and affection for former President Bill Clinton, has given the green light on this one.  Is his full cooperation and direction suspect?  A clue, he sat next to then First Lady Hillary Clinton during Clinton's re-nomination, and has been a bona fide supporter of the former President’s, 60-Minutes gig, and a big democratic fundraiser.  Can viewers possibly expect an objective representation?

 

 

It depends if you believe the producers of the film.  They are also well known liberal activists who are quoted in the Times story as saying, "This is not a vendetta, this is not revenge.  It is about telling a good story in OUR honest sort of way.  We all believe it's a story that should be told.”  The real question here is, “What story is being told”?  We guess it depends on what the meaning of OUR, is.

 

It is one thing to produce a film based on fiction to promote a particular political ideology.  Hollywood does that every day.  However, it’s quite another matter when you purposely decide to air a film about an historical figure -- one revered by many in this country who is ill and can’t defend himself -- from the perspective of your own biased political view of the world and purport that it is fact.

 

Just what are the facts about the “Ugly Specter of Patriotism”?

 

During the Reagan Administration, this is what the vilified symbol of “Ugly Patriotism” accomplished:

 

  1. A renewed faith in America – Proud to be American once again meant something.
  2. Economic Policy -- Responsible for largest economic growth in our history.
  3. Defeated communism – our biggest threat before the age of terrorism.
  4. Reduced Taxes - Slashed tax rates resulting in 20 million new jobs between 1981 and 1989
  5. Missile Defense -- The genesis of the “Star Wars” program for missile defense which frightened the Soviets and whose original framework is the basis of the current plans for missile defense.
  6. Pride in Party -- Rebuilt the Republican Party after the Nixon Administration – This Republican won election with 489 electoral votes in 1980 and 525 electoral votes for his reelection in 1984.
  7. Military -- Rebuilt and strengthened the military – his dedication and commitment to our armed forces brought this country our successes in the Gulf War and beyond. 
  8. Freedom -- "Perhaps the most important way we benefit from President Reagan’s legacy today is from the expansion of human freedom that took place with his leadership.  Today America carries on the mission that animated President Reagan’s life and his presidency: very simply, the defense of human freedom.  And looking at what has been accomplished in the past two years -- tyrannies defeated, nations rescued, millions of people liberated, 46 million in those two countries -- and I suspect he would approve."  – Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
  9. Humor and grace -- The second debate between Reagan and Mondale in 1984.  Answers age question with a quip "I will not make age an issue of this campaign.  I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”  And to his wife Nancy in the emergency room after being shot by John Hinkley, “Honey, I forgot to duck!” 
  10. Honor and Pride – Farewell letter in 1994 after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.  “In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president.  When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future.  I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life.  I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead."

 

Do we need to go on? 

 

So when James Brolin, who portrays Ronald Reagan on the small screen, said he, too, hoped that the film would prompt Americans to be more suspect of their leaders.  "We're in such a pickle right now in our nation," he said, "that maybe if (sic) learn something from this."  What was he hoping we should learn?  That fiction is better than truth?  What sour taste was he savoring of the pickle he hoped to place with the facts of Reagan’s accomplishments and bottle them up in?  Or is it the truth according to Mr. Brolin’s wife, Barbra Streisand, who recently said on the Oprah Winfrey show, that she didn’t mind her husband portraying Ronald Reagan, “as long as he tells the truth about Reagan” with a smirk on her face.

 

With her smirk, and Brolin’s and Davis’s comments, the actors involved are perpetrating a fraud on the viewing public under the guise of an historical portrait of our 40th president.  Shame on CBS and the producers of this film for your love letter to liberalism.  We at Hollywood-Hero will spread the word loud and clear to the patriotic American public to choose to watch another network’s programming that evening.

 

Or better still, perhaps we will keep our patriotic eye on what we know as history that we lived through.  We’ll support a president then and our current president now who says, “We will not tire, we will not falter, we will not fail,” and who stands for freedom, justice, and patriotism. 

 

Smile when you say that, pardner.

 

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