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With regard to the brand new film “REAGAN,” I absolutely admit to a really massive and enduring bias in favor of the previous president. I labored as a author within the White Home of President Ronald Reagan from 1987 till the top of his administration in January 1989.
Greater than that, I used to be blessed to share a deeply private and emotional second with the president. He had invited me to the Oval Workplace to commend me for one thing I had written.
As we flowed into a really heat dialogue, I discussed that my dad and mom, like his father, had been dysfunctional alcoholics. As quickly as I did, he stepped nearer to me and put his hand on my shoulder and started to discuss the cruelty of different kids once they see your father or dad and mom in such a situation. As he spoke to me, his voice turned virtually a whisper as he requested me to inform him about my mother and pa.
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No sooner did I accomplish that than his eyes started to fill with tears. Upon seeing that, I’m not in the least embarrassed to say I broke into tears of my very own. Paying attention to my tears, the chief of the free world stepped in and gave me a hug.
Dennis Quaid and Penelope Ann Miller in character as Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan within the new film, “REAGAN.” (Rob Batzdorff/Rawhide Photos)
I had by no means felt such grace, empathy and kindness. Fairly satirically, the rationale the president invited me over was to thank me for defending him towards the critics of that point.
Flash forward to now, and filmmaker Sean McNamara’s distinctive film “REAGAN” starring Dennis Quaid is within the theaters. Sadly, however fairly predictably, it’s being savaged by a lot of far-left film critics. A number of gloatingly declaring it “the worst film of the yr.”
Whereas these far-left, seemingly soulless haters could also be nearly slapping one another on the again for his or her predictably biased and unprofessional assaults on the movie and our fortieth president, they’re forgetting — or purposefully ignoring — one important truth. That being, Ronald Reagan was a person of the folks.
People from all walks of life cherished him as a result of he was certainly one of them. He had walked of their sneakers and so they knew it. Not in the least surprisingly, whereas these insuffable critics — who oftentimes exist solely to tear down the blood, sweat, and tears of really artistic folks — look down their entitled noses at “REAGAN,” the folks completely adore it.
Those that have seen the film are usually not solely giving it an incredible 98% “contemporary” viewers rating on “Rotten Tomatoes,” however rave evaluations in exit polling. Greater than that, it’s exceeding expectations on the field workplace.
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Whereas we would want a military of educated psychologists to clarify why these entitled critics hate so, two causes appear self-evident. The primary being that they’ve been indoctrinated from start, in some instances, to detest something remotely related with the president or his extremely profitable administrations. Second, is the truth that “REAGAN” star Quaid has talked about that he will likely be supporting former President Donald Trump within the upcoming election.
As now we have found, if there’s a president the far left extra irrationally hates than Reagan, it’s Trump. A person who has folded in a lot of the Reagan doctrine into his previous administration and peppers his commonsense speeches with it now.
As these critics know, Reagan was additionally part of Hollywood again within the day. Even then, he noticed that business taking a tough flip to the left. It was a socialist-leaning motion which helped to push him nearer to his conservative and populist ideas.
Aspect by aspect pictures of Dennis Quaid and Ronald Reagan, the person he portrays within the new film. (Getty Pictures)
Have been Reagan alive at this time, I believe he wouldn’t be in the least shocked by the hate directed at him and his legacy by these far-left critics. Nonetheless, along with his trademark smile and giggle, he would have most probably stated: “Nicely … there they go once more.”
Afterward, that man of the folks would have taken humble pleasure within the evaluations the movie “REAGAN” is getting from not solely those that cherished him, however those that want they may have skilled his management firsthand.
“REAGAN” — 1. Liberal critics — 0.
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