TOLDJA! MPAA Sets Tribute To Honor Ronald Reagan

COMMENTS (17)

• Tribute to a B movie actor?

  Comment by Bill — Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 2:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • “President Reagan’s contributions are manifold, but he remains a unique figure in American life because of his career in over fifty roles as an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild, as a television host, Governor of the state of California and eventually president of the United States.”

    There ya go, Bill. I think you missed the above.

    Comment by Justin Poppiti — Wednesday October 12, 2011 @ 1:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Bravo! The greatest president this great nation ever had.

  Comment by Luis — Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 2:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Yeah, Reagan began the deregulation that led to the current economy and the Wall Street leeches. Go Reagan. Thank you.

    Comment by Deregulation — Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 2:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • If you think our current economic malaise is anything but a government made problem then you are willfully ignorant of the facts. It is the late 1970′s all over again thanks to meddling central planners in Wash. DC and elsewhere.

      Comment by Hedge — Wednesday October 12, 2011 @ 7:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • If you ignored the fact that he had Alzheimer’s, sold weapons to Iran, and downplayed the AIDS crisis, then sure.

    Comment by D.Z. — Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 5:34pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Perhaps you’ve forgotten than as President of SAG he SUPPORTED Senator McCarthy and the Hollywood Blacklists. Or that as President of SAG, he sold out his membership so that he could pay his own bills. Or that as Governor of California he had anti-war protesting students at Berkeley arrested. Or that as President, his very first official act was to take down the solar panels Carter had put up on the White House. Or that Iran-Contra was essentially a coup-d’etat that was treason. Or that he personally stood in the way of stem-cell research, even though his own wife now admits it might have helped HIM. Or that he began the modern anti-union movement with his firing of the air traffic controllers who only wanted better pay and more rest so that the rest of us could be safe. Or that he presided over the worst raping of the environment in human history when he appointed James Watt Secretary of the Interior. Or that he ran up the highest budgest deficits in the history of this country, until George Bush and George Bush II. Or that he called John F. Kennedy a communist.

    I could go on for another hour but I’m tired.

    Comment by Ed — Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 7:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • Ed:

      Thank you for singing Reagan’s praises. I love hearing about all those great things he did. Oh, and actually, his first official act was to end price controls on oil which quickly ended the shortages. The shortages were almost entirely created by government efforts to keep the price artificially low. If the oil price had been allow to rise with supply and demand there wouldn’t have been oil shortages in the 1970s.

      “Or that he ran up the highest budgest deficits in the history of this country, until George Bush and George Bush II.”

      Interesting that you forgot to add Obama’s deficits to that list since they are bigger than Reagan’s entire budgets. And there is no George Bush II, it’s George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. Different names, therefore not II or Jr.

      Get your facts right, including this one:

      Reagan is one of the top five greatest presidents of all time!

      Comment by James — Wednesday October 12, 2011 @ 8:18am PDT  Reply to this post

• “Bedtime for Bonzo” wins an Oscar?

  Comment by gary — Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 2:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Fixed it for the MPAA:

  “From humble beginnings as a lifeguard, to working his way through college as a dishwasher, to launching a successful career in radio and television, before becoming the nation’s greatest president, Ronald Reagan’s life is one to be studied, remembered and applauded.”

  Comment by noname — Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 2:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Rock, sometime when (I) the team is up (R) against it (A) and the breaks (N) are beating the boys (C) tell them to (O) go out there (N) with all they’ve got (T) and win just one (R) for the Gipper. (A)

  Comment by Bedtime For Bonzo — Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 3:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Not even close to the best President by a long shot, and a wooden hammy actor to boot. This smells of paid political pandering to prop up his shoddy acting and political career into a mythical one.

  Comment by Bill — Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 5:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Reagan was not a B movie actor; he was quite a big star. Moreover, as president, who liberated Eastern Europe from Soviet tyranny, thus spreading freedom of expression, art, entertainment and HOLLYWOOD to several hundred million people.

  Comment by Lorenzo — Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 6:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Reagan’s contributions to the industry? You mean “the Great Giveaway” where he sold out his SAG members on pre-1960 residuals so he could get out of his own financial trouble and make money with Lew Wasserman of MCA?

  I’ll quote…

  “Reagan was the subject of criminal and civil investigations by both the FBI and a federal grand jury in Los Angeles. A Justice Department memorandum quoted a Hollywood source as saying, “Ronald Reagan is a complete slave of MCA who would do their bidding on anything.”

  Reagan was subpoenaed before the grand jury, but he appeared to experience amnesia during his testimony on February 5, 1962, and failed to recall the major decisions that had been made when SAG had granted MCA the exclusive blanket waiver in 1952. Federal prosecutors were so convinced that Reagan had perjured himself repeatedly during his testimony that they subpoenaed his and his wife’s income tax returns for the years 1952 to 1955.”
  –Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob (Viking Press, pp. 167-201)

  Comment by Ed — Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 7:29pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Reagan helped to destroy communism in Eastern Europe, that will be his greatest legacies. Unfortunately, several of those communist cockroaches have made their way to post on this board. Sorry, trolls, Reagan won by two landslide elections, is heralded as one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century, and has accomplished more than you still-living-in-your-parent’s basement hack liberals will ever do. Begone, Commie Liberals. You lost!

  Comment by joe sixpack — Wednesday October 12, 2011 @ 8:29am PDT  Reply to this post

• And as most Republicans want to whitewash and forget, he actually increased taxes as both Governor and President.

  Comment by Mary — Wednesday October 12, 2011 @ 9:24am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Obviously you are confusing tax rates with tax revenues…let me set you straight.

    Reagan and DP Moynahan rewrote the tax law in 1982 and 1986 to lower rates, broaden the tax base, and close loopholes…to the effect of stimulating private economic activity after 10 years of Nixon/Carter interference which left the US stagnant and suffering over 20% interest rates and 12% unemployment…the economic growth led to expanded revenues from the lower tax rates and 30 years of unprecedented wealth expansion and opportunity in the country.

    Sorry to throw those pesky facts at your willful ignorance.

    Comment by Hedge — Wednesday October 12, 2011 @ 7:00pm PDT  Reply to this post