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Guess Who’s Playing Ronald Reagan in an Upcoming Big-Budget Film

Jan. 23, 2013 4:22pm Becket Adams

This guy:

Michael Douglas Will Play Ronald Reagan in an Upcoming Film About the Reykjavik Summit

Michael Douglas. (Getty Images).

The world discovered last year that Michael Douglas (of “Wall Street” and “Basic Instinct” fame) was in talks to play Ronald Reagan in an upcoming film about the 1986 Reykjavik summit.

And according to U.S. News & World Report contributing editor Peter Roff, this is simply more evidence that Hollywood “hates Reagan.”

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But first, a quick history lesson: The 1986 Reykjavik, Iceland summit was a meeting between Reagan and then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to discuss arms control.

Gorbachev demanded the U.S. abandon its the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program and Reagan refused. Reagan proposed the total elimination of intermediate-range missiles in both countries and Gorbachev absolutely refused.

The talks came to a screeching halt and both parties walked away from a deal.

However, it was Reagan’s refusal to compromise on his position that eventually brought the Soviets back to the table in 1987 for the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.

Ronald Reagan (right) and Mikhail Gorbachev. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

Now it’s important to note that after the initial 1986 talks broke down, the usual suspects attacked Reagan for his failure to comprise and accused him of scuttling the peace process.

But fast forward a couple of years: Reagan’s refusal to kowtow to the Soviets anti-defense demands helped grind the Russian economy into the ground and bring an end to the Cold War.

So, if the upcoming movie sticks to the actual history of the Reykjavik summit, it could be quite thrilling. But let’s not get our hopes up, or so says Roff.

“Done right, with a script that holds to the actual history and not some post-historical fantasy of moral equivalence, it could be a hell of a picture,” Roff writes. “In fact it would be the kind of picture that Reagan himself might have starred in during his own Hollywood days — as the hero, the gritty American, the one man who sees the truth, the loner holding out against all odds for what is right.”

“The kind of role that, in an ‘A picture,’ went to Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, or Randolph Scott,” he adds.

Left to right: Cooper, Stewart, Wayne, & Scott.

But we’re probably not going to get that.

“Instead, Reagan is going to be played by Michael Douglas who, while not a bad actor, is not exactly the kind of guy one immediately thinks of as presidential material,” Roff adds.

Continuing in this vein, Roff points out an oddity: Despite the fact that Reagan’s personal story is the thing of silver screen gold — being born into a poor family, working his way through college, breaking into Hollywood, his Gubernatorial career, winning the presidency by “largest electoral margin,” etc. — there has been no “Lincoln” for Reagan.

“Instead we get movies and mini-series that do a hatchet job on history, with the lead invariably played by someone who hates the man in real life,” Roff notes. “Casting a Reagan ‘critic’ like Douglas is emblematic of how Hollywood liberals feel about the man from Tampico. As producer Mark Joseph, who has his own film about Reagan in the works, observed, ‘There they go again.’”

Indeed, considering the fact that Gordon Gecko is probably Douglas’ most famous role, the fact that many consider Gecko to be a scathing indictment of the Reagan/Freidman-era free market policies, and considering the fact that Douglas himself has been quite vocal about his disapproval of Reagan, it’s probably safe to assume that the upcoming Reykjavik film will follow the Hollywood tradition of hating on The Gipper.

In the movie “Wall Street,” Douglas play a ruthless businessman who delivers the film’s legendary “Greed Is Good” speech. (Screen grab).

And this is where we get to the meat of Roff’s article:

The idea that everybody loves Reagan is a myth created by liberals who want to use him — now dead, buried, and belonging to the ages — as a weapon to pound his political successors over the head. Hence the nonsense that passed for smart analysis that “even Ronald Reagan” could not have been nominated for president in 2012 because his party had moved too far to the right.

This is not the first time Hollywood has attacked Reagan — and it probably won’t be the last. Aside from the infamous and failed mini-series starring James Brolin — husband of liberal diva Barbara Streisand — there have been countless references in films to Reagan being a criminal, an idiot, a national embarrassment, and the cause of just about everything that is wrong in the world today.

“Great man, strong leader, and, were it not for his policies, someone who would have been a great president. Sheesh. Get me rewrite,” Roff concludes.

Final Thought: Personally, if it were up to us, we would cast Christopher Plummer as Reagan. He’s a wonderful actor and with a little makeup and hair dye, he could pull it off.

Christopher Plummer. (Getty Images).

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Comments (144)

nocalifornia
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:19pm
It won’t work, Mr. Reagan was better looking and a better actor!

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- michael48
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:35pm
  he was an American…no wanna be EU socialist dem-wit…hollo-wood has rendered itself ..meaningless and a joke…at best…
  
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- Brother Winston Smith
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:48pm
  Actually, I couldn’t care less about what he “looked” like. Reagan was a socialist who POSED as a “conservative”… same as every other republican. As a Constitutional Libertarian Tea Partier, I’m frankly SICK TO DEATH of hearing about him.
- Chuck Stein
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:55pm
  It is a very bad match, but Hollywood has done worse: “Jefferson in Paris” with Nick Nolte cast as Jefferson! Ewwww
  
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- ThatsJustCrazyTalk
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:17pm
  @BROTHER WINSTON SMITH: Get your own party, Freaky Paulbot, and quit sucking off the teet of the Republicans. You’re NOT Conservative. Libertarians are Socially Leftist (support for prostitution, drugs, “gay” marriage, etc).
  
  Quit using the Republican parties money to try and win seats. If your ideology is so great, you’d be able to stand on your own two high heels, er, feet by now.
  
  http://www.therightscoop.com/zonation-zo-scolds-republicans-for-allowing-both-libertarians-and-liberals-to-distort-the-republican-party/
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:11pm
  BWS, is there any person in the Cosmos who matches your outlandishly high standards? Do even you?
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:58pm
  Tom Selleck would be a much better choice.
  
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- Dustoff
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 7:45pm
  Plus… he LOVED America.
  
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- resme
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:05pm
  “Quit using the Republican parties money to try and win seats. If your ideology is so great, you’d be able to stand on your own two high heels, er, feet by now.”
  
  Lulz, The republican party barely stands on it’s on.
  
  “The problem with American conservatism is that it hates the left more than the state, loves the past more than liberty, feels a greater attachment to nationalism than to the idea of self-determination, believes brute force is the answer to all social problems, and thinks it is better to impose truth rather than risk losing one’s soul to heresy. It has never understood the idea of freedom as a self-ordering principle of society. It has never seen the state as the enemy of what conservatives purport to favor. It has always looked to presidential power as the saving grace of what is right and true about America.”
  
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- resme
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:06pm
  “The picture generally given of the relative position of the three parties does more to
  obscure than to elucidate their true relations. They are usually represented as different
  positions on a line, with the socialists on the left, the conservatives on the right, and the
  liberals somewhere in the middle. Nothing could be more misleading. If we want a
  diagram, it would be more appropriate to arrange them in a triangle with the
  conservatives occupying one corner, with the socialists pulling toward the second and the
  liberals toward the third. But, as the socialists have for a long time been able to pull
  harder, the conservatives have tended to follow the socialist rather than the liberal
  direction and have adopted at appropriate intervals of time those ideas made respectable
  by radical propaganda. It has been regularly the conservatives who have compromised
  with socialism and stolen its thunder. Advocates of the Middle Way with no goal of
  their own, conservatives have been guided by the belief that the truth must lie somewhere
  between the extremes – with the result that they have shifted their position every time a
  more extreme movement appeared on either wing.” ~ Hayek
  
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- resme
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:12pm
  own*
  
  Let me return, however, to the main point, which is the characteristic complacency of the
  conservative toward the action of established authority and his prime concern that this
  authority be not weakened rather than that its power be kept within bounds. This is
  difficult to reconcile with the preservation of liberty. In general, it can probably be said
  that the conservative does not object to coercion or arbitrary power so long as it is used
  for what he regards as the right purposes. He believes that if government is in the hands
  of decent men, it ought not to be too much restricted by rigid rules. Since he is essentially
  opportunist and lacks principles, his main hope must be that the wise and the good will
  rule – not merely by example, as we all must wish, but by authority given to them and
  enforced by them.[7] Like the socialist, he is less concerned with the problem of how the
  powers of government should be limited than with that of who wields them; and, like the
  socialist, he regards himself as entitled to force the value he holds on other people.
  When I say that the conservative lacks principles, I do not mean to suggest that he lacks
  moral conviction. The typical conservative is indeed usually a man of very strong moral
  convictions. What I mean is that he has no political principles which enable him to work
  with people whose moral values differ from his own for a political order in which both
  can obey their convictions.
  
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- resme
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:13pm
  “It is the recognition of such principles that permits the
  coexistence of different sets of values that makes it possible to build a peaceful society
  with a minimum of force. The acceptance of such principles means that we agree to
  tolerate much that we dislike. There are many values of the conservative which appeal to
  me more than those of the socialists; yet for a liberal the importance he personally
  attaches to specific goals is no sufficient justification for forcing others to serve them.”
  
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- resme
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:15pm
  “In the last resort, the conservative position rests on the belief that in any society there are
  recognizably superior persons whose inherited standards and values and position ought to
  be protected and who should have a greater influence on public affairs than others. The
  liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people – he is not an
  egalitarian – bet he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people
  are. While the conservative inclines to defend a particular established hierarchy and
  wishes authority to protect the status of those whom he values, the liberal feels that no
  respect for established values can justify the resort to privilege or monopoly or any other
  coercive power of the state in order to shelter such people against the forces of economic
  change. Though he is fully aware of the important role that cultural and intellectual elites
  have played in the evolution of civilization, he also believes that these elites have to
  prove themselves by their capacity to maintain their position under the same rules that
  apply to all others.”
  
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- flipper1073
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:48pm
  RESME
  That’s what happens when You let the Blaze set Your Tabs.Press Enter when you think it should be.
  
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- MadinIllinois
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 9:13pm
  OMD (Oh My Damn) – this has to be a joke! There is no comparison to Ronald Reagan, in looks, mannerism, let alone character & honor…no matter how much I drink, he’s still not going to pull it off!!
  
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- noczars
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 9:41pm
  Reagan was also much TALLER.
  
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- crackerone
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 10:13pm
  Just looking at the headline, I figured it would have been, that POS, Alec Baldwin.
  
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- larryk7777
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 10:16pm
  People, please take the time to see something so disturbing Ive been losing lots of sleep! See who these people really are! Not wild conspiracy! http://www.johnnygosch.com/cos.htm
  
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- crackerone
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 10:20pm
  That other POS, Rachel Maddow, could play Ron Jr………or vice versa.
  
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- JohnofOregon
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 1:26am
  @Dustoff; has this correct.
  
  Reagan loved this country. ALL liberals hate this country. everything is wrong. that mental disorder feeds upon itself.
  
  If you study Reagan and his writtings, you learn that his love for this country was something that most politicians cannot understand (both parties). First off to do that, you have to identify the many things in your life is greater than youself.
  
  Liberal minds only believe there is no greater force in ones life than government. They see government as a way to get back at those people whom they believe have a better life than themselves,so therefore the government needs to take it from them.
  
  What Reagan understood was most people of faith understand that this covetous behavior was a sin and that the silent majority of americans knew that. In turn americans loved him back.
  
  hollywood elitist and many politicians desire that kind of compliment. they know that thier addictions and weaknesses disallow them to gain that kind of respect so they have to destroy the hero to elevate themselves. They did this to others throughout history. In the end history remembers the real heros for who they were and the evil will always be known for evil and the small minded will never be remembered.
  
  Constantine gave us the state freedom of religion
  Jefferson refused Locke’s version of state secularism and gave us freedom of faith nd speech along with the founding fathers
  Obama, polosi and ried ended that freedom
  
  who will be ou
  
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- old white guy
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 6:23am
  it is after all hollywood. most of “hollywood” did not like reagan when he was president. i would not expect a film that would be positive or flattering.
  
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- dtrent387
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:31am
  isn’t Hanoi Jane playing Nancy Reagan??? I would love to see a movie about a true patriot, but i refuse to spend my hard earned money on anything that has her name on it
  
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- HappyConservative
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:12am
  Oh great! Yet another hollywood movie to boycott! It sounds like it’ll be an incredibly boring film. I hope they lose their shirts after paying Douglas’ inflated salary!
  
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- 1956
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:32am
  Reagan was a very muscular man… they’d need a total body makeover to make Douglas convincing just from a physical perspective.
  
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- poorrichard09
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 8:52am
  This will be an attempt at revisionist history to warp the image of Reagan.
  
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- lillymckim
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:20am
  Patriot Gary Sinise would have been a much better pick!
  
  Douglas is a Democrat who has and voted for & donated money to Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, & Al Franken!
  Douglas is also a major supporter of gun control.
  
  Another movie I won’t fund not one RED CENT!
  
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- fortdick
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 11:07am
  LOL!
  
  You are absolutely correct. Reagan was a better human being as well.
  
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- jakartaman
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 12:22pm
  What idiot goes to the movies these days and supports these liberal airheads?
  I have not been to a movie in over 25 years and do not intend to go in the future!
  Boycott hollywood and the MSM and their advertisers!
  Boycott taxes
  Boycott any gun bans/laws
  
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- THX-1138
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 1:18pm
  @Brother Winston Smith
  
  Not fond of Reagan? So tell us, how do you feel about Lincolin? (poke, poke)
  
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- Jim in Houston
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 2:57pm
  Brother Winston Smith: Can you spell MORON, moron?
  
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synergy4one
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:07pm
In 4 more years, both Lincoln and Reagan will be remembered as the 3rd and 4th greatest Democrat Presidents, behind, Obama and Clinton.

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- checkingbothsides
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:05pm
  I suspect I see Reagan like right wingers see FDR – a great foreign policy president with a lousy domestic record.
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:33pm
  Lincoln was a Republican…
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:32pm
  Lincoln was a Republican and freed the slaves.
  What’s his name to play Reagan is a travesty. Please say it’s not true~
  
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- Michael
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 9:44pm
  That’s just your sick imagination working. What are you on? They are by far the worst two we have ever had. Go dry out and read that again, then come back with a honest reply.
  
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- asybot12
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:06am
  hey synergy4one, kind of a narcissistic name emmm like Obama maybe?
  
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- Rokytop
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:37am
  checkingbothsides? Where do you get your information?
  
  Who in their right-mind would think FDR did great on foreign policy.
  He and his policies helped to foster the war between Nationalistic Socialism
  and World-wide Socialism. Have you studied his foreign policy? It is on
  par with the convoluted mess we now call foreign policy. No long term
  goals except for one-world government.
  
  Domestic? FDR’s policies; like Obama’s; kept us in a depression/recession
  for years after a downturn. FDR’s policies didn’t put people back to work
  until the war started. (World . . . . War . . . . II) He kept the hard-times
  rolling and Obama is following in the same lousy foot steps. Ray-gun put
  us on track for many good years, except for the reigning in spending by
  Congress.
  
  I really do not think our fore-fathers thought ever un-informed person in
  the country should be allowed to vote. The Dems want people to vote
  even when they are too stupid, too lazy, too un-motivated or too illegal
  to get an ID. Tell ‘em they can get $50 for an ID on Election Day, and
  they’ll have ID in 10 different names.
  
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- exilemusic
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 1:16pm
  Lol. Wow synergy, I seem to be the only one who sees the sarcasm in your post. You’re right, the libs have tried hard to frame Lincoln, for one, as a Democrat. Not as a Republican, as he was. There are actually many younger people who now think he was a dem. My girlfriend’s 18 year old daughter thought he was. It’s all about changing history. The libs are great at it.
  
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- THX-1138
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 1:22pm
  @oneshiner
  
  “Lincoln was a Republican and freed the slaves.”
  
  And repeatedly violated the Constitution while 600,000 human beings needlessly died because he wanted to turn America into the Mafia (the only other “club” you can never leave). A Mass Murder world record up the that point in History.
  
  Phuckem.
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:03pm
If that guy is going to play Ronald Reagan, there is no such thing as a low information voter, only voters that get high amounts of information that distort the past?

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Too_Far_Gone
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:00pm
“we must change our history”

~~Chewy

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- rawmilker
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 8:23pm
  yep, that is exactly what they are trying to do…change history and give the bad rap to past GOP Presidents, Washington, the founders themselves & those founders that were Presidents, all to steer this generation that has not been taught correct history toward socialism….
  
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Sumrknght
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:58pm
I know what I’m doing when this movie comes out – staying home – digging out some of Reagan’s old movies, popping some popcorn and enjoying the evening with my family. May use some of some of Ronald Reagan’s speeches for the ‘previews’… just to remind us what a REAL President was.

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- Inkmage
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:38pm
  @SUMRKNGHT
  
  No you should go see the movie, to see what they did, how they tell his story. If it is lies, you should go on youtube, twitter, and any other sit that says anything about this movie, and put the facts out. Everyone should do that, that’s how things get talked about thought about, challenged and changed. Don’t just stay quiet and ignore it, because that’s how they get away with it, and have been for years.
  
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- Robert999
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:44pm
  If you have Turner Classic Movies, Saturday mornings they have been playing Reagan’s Secret Service “B” movies he made during 1939-40 before he got “A” roles. Reagan plays Brass Bancroft of the Secret Service tracking down illegal aliens, counterfeiters, saboteurs, etc. The movies are fun, and it’s nice to see a young Ronald Reagan. This Saturday (the 26th), they will show Murder in the Air which supposedly incorporates newsreel footage of the crash of the Navy dirigible USS Macon in 1935.
  
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- spirited
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:30pm
  ROBERT999
  
  Yes, they are rather enjoyable.
  
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sensible99
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:56pm
This is how history is re-written. A biased tweak here, a stretch of the facts there, and suddenly you’re arguing with the next generation about a great American hero whom they’ve been convinced by the liberal media is anything but.

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hauschild
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:45pm
More revisionist history in the making. I’ll pass.

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PK_SEA
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:33pm
Christoph Waltz is playing Gorbachev. Waltz will outshine anyone who plays opposite him. Thus, Reagan will look dull and Gorbachev will look multi-dimensional and brilliant. If you have any doubts, watch Django Unchained. Waltz’ character and his acting makes the movie. Jaimie Foxx who? Same with Inglorious Basterds.

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LOJ
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:31pm
Douglas is a good actor…hope he does Ronnie proud…Reagan is one of the greatest leaders to communicate with people, a real patriot, and lover of Freedom and less government….very hard to find anyone else who fits his mold or the special place he occupies in American History, Just like Abraham Lincoln.

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- Robert999
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:11pm
  Lincoln was for anything but smaller government. During Lincoln’s administration, the first US income tax was enacted. He refused to allow the Southern states to exercise their right to secede from the Union and would have imposed even more centralized control on the South during Reconstruction if he had not been assassinated.
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:24pm
Reagan is one of the great biographies ever written. Reagan had been a Democrat until he saw the devastation that Democrats have caused with their hairbrained schemes. Reagan said “A Government bureaucracy is the closest thing we will ever see to eternal life”
There were found to be something like 200 ‘farm bureau’ offices that nobody knew of and nobody could say how many employees the farm bureau had on payroll, but payroll checks were going out to these bureaus. “food stamps” were originally implemented to help prop grain and other commodity prices, as the Government was paying for grain to destroy to keep supply in check. The farm bureau also pays people to NOT grow anything by the acre. Democrats jumped on Food stamps as a way to grow the bureaucracy, not to see that it was efficiently serving a purpose. NOW – YOU pay higher prices for your own food AND taxes for the privilege of buying soda pop, rib eyes lap dance for food stamp recipients.

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- TulsaYeeHaw
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:23pm
  Reagan figured out the communists had succeeded in capturing the Democratic leadership.
  
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OBUMAURMAMA
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:19pm
Now this is acting. A far left multi-millionaire 1%r playing a conservative. He must have broken his little finger on his right hand so he can claim to be right winged.
Wouldn’t give him a dime for his movies and t.v. so he would take the money, and shove his leftist agenda up my butt.

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Robert999
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:13pm
There are not a lot of conservatives in Hollywood who would be suitable to play Reagan, they are mostly Commies. Christopher Plummer is Canadian. I would prefer to have a native born US citizen playing Reagan.

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:10pm
How about Rosie O Donnell, she kind of looks like reagan, and without any make up.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:16pm
  DARMOK, I dunno, Rosie’s five o’clock shadow is thicker.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 5:14pm
  I think Ruth Buzzi is playing Nancy.
  
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- circleDwagons
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 6:07pm
  Morgan Freeman, He played God he can play Reagan
  
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- sparkyrules
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 11:29pm
  Verceofreason,Nancy Pelosi is your Mom?
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:00pm
This movie might do almost as well as Promised Land, which, LOL, has not yet broken even. In fact, its made almost half of what it cost to make and distribute.

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Just_Us2
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:57pm
I am surprised that the left didn’t choose Chris Burke….with the way they portray Reagan. It doesn’t matter to me, I won’t be tuning in….original thought and talent has escaped most in hollyweird. It’s the same script over and over again…white men are stupid and they are ruled by women who can scarcely tolerate them, the relationships are dysfunctional and they are religious fanatics….meanwhile, their black counterparts are appalled by their behavior…or the gay couple who are raising a perfect child shield themselves from the terrible white heteros whose kids have run wild. Find me a TV show that has no gays….4% of the population, 100% saturation in TV shows. The gay agenda is force fed by every holier than thou show. Find me an intelligent white male who has a loving wife and adoring kids on TV today…hmmmm Little House on the Prairie? Would that show even make it on TV today? I can answer that, no. Crap is what’s on 99.9% of TV and movies. Script writers have no creativity, no imagination and little or no intelligence. Even sports programming leans left. I don’t care about your politics, just play ball, talk about the game afterwards and keep you leftist tripe limited to your buddies at the bath house. I don’t watch. Why would I care to watch anything done by people less intelligent than Chris Burke?

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woodyee
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:52pm
He says – “The idea that everybody loves Reagan is a myth created by liberals…”

I don’t think he was paying attention in the 80′s, and I think he ignored the National mourning at his passing.

In contrast, Rush just announced that 17,000,000 watched Gaybama’s inaugurgitation in 2009, and that only 7,000,000 watched the inauregurgitation 2013. No wonder they lined Penn Ave. with the crowds – appearance, you know…for the cameras…and Gaybama’s ego…

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:03pm
  WOODYEE, I remember only too well how Reagan was treated while in office, and afterwards too. The media pounded him daily, and only got slightly nice when he passed away.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:54pm
  Hello RJJ – screw the media. there’s 300,000,000 of US, most of who expressed how we felt in 2 landslide elections and crowded streets and tubes on his passing.
  
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SamIamTwo
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:40pm
Sorry but prob won’t go to see any of his movies. Just seems to be a seedy sort of person. A liberal. LOL

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pap pap
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:40pm
How about Bill Murray. Seriously.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:04pm
  I liked Murray in Meatballs, but not much since.
  
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- Look4DBigPicture
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 7:24pm
  Bill Murray was FDR in the movie Hyde Park on the Hudson, which was released last month.
  
  Roff needs to do his homework. He said: “Instead, Reagan is going to be played by Michael Douglas who, while not a bad actor, is not exactly the kind of guy one immediately thinks of as presidential material,” … He obviously hasn’t heard of The American President — Michael Douglas played the widowed president with a pubescent daughter, and Annette Benning played his girlfriend.
  
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Meemster
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:39pm
Michael Douglas would be better to play the sleeve ball Clinton.

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lid.smoker
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:36pm
george clooney

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- Clownzilla
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:19pm
  Don’t scare me like that
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on January 24, 2013 at 10:10am
  Clooney? That would make me stay away from movies for sure.
  
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freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:35pm
Was guessing Obama

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amerbur
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:35pm
Regan would never have had a mullet haircut.

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kaydeebeau
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:34pm
I don’t care who is playing him – no more of my money is going to support Hollywood – I do not give aid and comfort to the enemy -

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Supah_Patriot
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:30pm
Oh, no! Conservatives won’t like a liberal actor playing their savior!

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- toiletclogga
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:37pm
  Are there Conservative actors? Reagan wasn’t our savior, he was just a man. Maybe you should start realizing that about Obama. He’s somewhat of a man!
  
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- Jarhead 88
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:40pm
  For the majority of us, Jesus, the son of God, is our savior. Keep running your mouth, enemy.
  
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- Supah_Patriot
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:46pm
  LOL, Jarhead!
  
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- Shasta
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:48pm
  Nah. As long as it is honest, I don’t care which lefty actor plays him.
  
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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:50pm
  conservative actors..
  
  Bruce Willis
  Clint Eastwood
  Gary Senice (sp?)
  and there are others…Beckle…not Bob from FoxNews..but his brother…very conservative…libertarian really..in Atlas Shrugged and other films…
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:51pm
  Conservatives know who our savior is, liberals are the imbeciles who think that a man that occupies the White House could be their savior.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:51pm
  @SUPAH_PATRIOT
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:30pm
  Oh, no! Conservatives won’t like a liberal actor playing their savior!
  ————————————————————————
  Most conservatives I know arent STUPID enough to equate ANY politician as a SAVIOR regardless of political persuasion.
  
  Progressives, on the other hand are AN ENTIRELY different story:
  http://lonelyconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Newsweek-Second-Coming.jpg
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:00pm
  As an ex-Sailor that use to give and take crap from Marines daily I have some advice for you there SUPAH. Pray that you don’t run into this Marine in real life one day. They honestly believe they’re invincible. There’s a reason we send these guys in first. Just sayin…
  
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- 50211bs
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:02pm
  Wow, someone hasn’t had their metamucil this morning. We conservatives never claimed Ron Reagan as our savior(he was a great president). Its you libs who call BhusseinO your lord and savior
  
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- Supah_Patriot
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:02pm
  Gonzo, you’ve illustrated your ability to regurgitate what your true masters (talk radio jokesters) have told you. You are very good at knowing nothing.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:15pm
  STUPOR_P, The left literally had a melt down when they made a movie about the Kennedy family. The media protested it so much that it was eventually run on some obscure TV channel. Not only that, I understand it was well done and made the Kennedys look good, but the libs were just not going to take that chance.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:09pm
  You’re projecting again Supah Dupah. We never worshiped Reagan we respected him. You WORSHIP Obama! Halos? LOL! You people are pathetic.
  
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- smokie
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:11pm
  Conservative actors- the usual list, but also look at the ones that don’t air their views. In Hollywood, if you are not liberal, you learn to not speak out.
  
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- AllPeopleFreePeople
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 10:30pm
  Barack Obama… starring Sean Hannity..
  
  you’d like that… wouldn’t ya
  
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toiletclogga
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 12:29pm
I thought it would be his twerpy son, Ron Jr.!

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:22pm
  TOILETCLOGGA, Doesn’t Ron Jr lay pipe with ENCINOM and WANGO?
  
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- toiletclogga
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 1:47pm
  LMFAO. I would suspect Wango and Encinom to be the female fitting in the relationship.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 23, 2013 at 2:08pm
  TOILETCLOGGA, I remember that from a cartoon strip in an issue of National Lampoon back when Reagan was first running for office. Couldn’t help but make the connection to ENCINOM and WANGO.
  
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