This is
a perfect example of how Hollywood
modifies, changes and destroys true history to suit its own political
bias. I will not see the movie because the traitor (Fonda) is in it
however, it’s amazing to see the extent these Hollywood
producers go to twist the truth!!
This is
the movie review by Ronald Reagan’s son.
No Hollywood sugar coating here…
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The Butler
By Michael Reagan | Aug 22, 2013 | Townhall.com <http://
There you go again, Hollywood .
You’ve taken a great story about a real person and real events and twisted it into a bunch of lies.
You took the true story of Eugene Allen, the White House butler who served eight presidents from 1952 to 1986, and turned it into a clichéd
“message movie.”
“Lee Daniels’ The Butler’” stars Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, a fictional character supposedly based on Eugene Allen’s real life.
But let’s compare the two White House butlers.
Guess which one grew up in segregated Virginia , got a job at the White House and rose to become maître d’hôtel, the highest position in White
House service?
Guess which one had a happy, quiet life and was married to the same woman for 65 years? And who had one son who served honorably in Vietnam and
never made a peep of protest through the pre- and post-civil rights era?
Now guess which butler grew up on a Georgia farm, watched the boss rape his mother and then, when his father protested the rape, watched the
boss put a bullet through his father’s head?
Guess which butler feels the pain of America ’s racial injustices so deeply that he quits his White House job and joins his son in a protest
movement?
And guess which butler has a wife (Oprah Winfrey) who becomes an alcoholic and has a cheap affair with the guy next door? (I’m surprised it wasn’t
the vice president.)
After comparing Hollywood ’s absurd version of Eugene Allen’s life story with the truth, you wonder why the producers didn’t just call it “The
Butler from Another Planet.”
Screenwriter Danny Strong says he was trying to present a “backstage kind of view of the White House” that portrayed presidents and first ladies
as they really were in everyday life.
Well, I was backstage at the White House -- a few hundred times. I met and knew the real butler, Mr. Allen, and I knew a little about my father.
Portraying Ronald Reagan as a racist because he was in favor of lifting economic sanctions against South Africa is simplistic and dishonest.
If you knew my father, you’d know he was the last person on Earth you would call a racist.
If Strong had gotten his “facts” from the Reagan biographies, he’d have learned that when my father was playing football at Eureka College one
of his best friends was a black teammate.
Strong also would have learned that my father invited black players home for dinner and once, when two players were not allowed to stay in the
local hotel, he invited them to stay overnight at his house.
Screenwriter Strong also might have found out that when my father was governor of California he appointed more blacks to positions of power
than any of predecessors -- combined.
It’s appalling to me that someone is trying to imply my father was a racist. He and Nancy and the rest of the Reagan family treated Mr. Allen
with the utmost respect.
It was Nancy Reagan who invited the butler to dinner – not to work but as guest. And it was my father who promoted Mr. Allen to maître d’hôtel.
The real story of the White House butler doesn’t imply racism at all. It’s simply Hollywood liberals wanting to believe something about my father
that was never there.
My father’s position on lifting the South African sanctions in the ‘80s had nothing to do with the narrow issue of race. It had to do with the
geopolitics of the Cold War.
But facts don’t matter to Hollywood ’s creative propagandists. Truth is too complicated and not dramatic enough for scriptwriters, who think in
minute terms, not the big picture, when it comes to a conservative.
Despite what Hollywood ’s liberal hacks believe, my father didn’t see people in colors. He saw them as individual Americans. If the liberals
in Hollywood -- and Washington -- ever start looking at people the way he did, the country will be a lot better off.
*Jane Fonda (better known as Hanoi Jane by those my age) playing Nancy Reagan is an outrage*, and an insult to all of us that served in Vietnam !
Send this to your friends and children too young to know about this Traitor...
JANE FONDA as NANCY REAGAN? Those of us that were living in those years will never forget that she was a traitor and did
a lot of damage to our boys.
She has now been chosen to play Nancy Reagan in her life story. I am sending this one out because so many do not know this truth...and
also because she was on 3 times this week talking about her new book... And how good she feels in her 70's. She still does not know what she
did wrong. Her book just may not make the best seller list if more people knew...also...
She can lead her present life the way she wants and perhaps SHE can forget the past, but we DO NOT have to stand by without comment and see her "honored" as a "Woman of the Century."
(I remember this well) For those who served and/or died....
NEVER FORGIVE A TRAITOR. SHE REALLY WAS A TRAITOR!!
and now President OBAMA wants to honor her......!!!!
By Michael Reagan | Aug 22, 2013 | Townhall.com <http://
There you go again, Hollywood .
You’ve taken a great story about a real person and real events and twisted it into a bunch of lies.
You took the true story of Eugene Allen, the White House butler who served eight presidents from 1952 to 1986, and turned it into a clichéd
“message movie.”
“Lee Daniels’ The Butler’” stars Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, a fictional character supposedly based on Eugene Allen’s real life.
But let’s compare the two White House butlers.
Guess which one grew up in segregated Virginia , got a job at the White House and rose to become maître d’hôtel, the highest position in White
House service?
Guess which one had a happy, quiet life and was married to the same woman for 65 years? And who had one son who served honorably in Vietnam and
never made a peep of protest through the pre- and post-civil rights era?
Now guess which butler grew up on a Georgia farm, watched the boss rape his mother and then, when his father protested the rape, watched the
boss put a bullet through his father’s head?
Guess which butler feels the pain of America ’s racial injustices so deeply that he quits his White House job and joins his son in a protest
movement?
And guess which butler has a wife (Oprah Winfrey) who becomes an alcoholic and has a cheap affair with the guy next door? (I’m surprised it wasn’t
the vice president.)
After comparing Hollywood ’s absurd version of Eugene Allen’s life story with the truth, you wonder why the producers didn’t just call it “The
Butler from Another Planet.”
Screenwriter Danny Strong says he was trying to present a “backstage kind of view of the White House” that portrayed presidents and first ladies
as they really were in everyday life.
Well, I was backstage at the White House -- a few hundred times. I met and knew the real butler, Mr. Allen, and I knew a little about my father.
Portraying Ronald Reagan as a racist because he was in favor of lifting economic sanctions against South Africa is simplistic and dishonest.
If you knew my father, you’d know he was the last person on Earth you would call a racist.
If Strong had gotten his “facts” from the Reagan biographies, he’d have learned that when my father was playing football at Eureka College one
of his best friends was a black teammate.
Strong also would have learned that my father invited black players home for dinner and once, when two players were not allowed to stay in the
local hotel, he invited them to stay overnight at his house.
Screenwriter Strong also might have found out that when my father was governor of California he appointed more blacks to positions of power
than any of predecessors -- combined.
It’s appalling to me that someone is trying to imply my father was a racist. He and Nancy and the rest of the Reagan family treated Mr. Allen
with the utmost respect.
It was Nancy Reagan who invited the butler to dinner – not to work but as guest. And it was my father who promoted Mr. Allen to maître d’hôtel.
The real story of the White House butler doesn’t imply racism at all. It’s simply Hollywood liberals wanting to believe something about my father
that was never there.
My father’s position on lifting the South African sanctions in the ‘80s had nothing to do with the narrow issue of race. It had to do with the
geopolitics of the Cold War.
But facts don’t matter to Hollywood ’s creative propagandists. Truth is too complicated and not dramatic enough for scriptwriters, who think in
minute terms, not the big picture, when it comes to a conservative.
Despite what Hollywood ’s liberal hacks believe, my father didn’t see people in colors. He saw them as individual Americans. If the liberals
in Hollywood -- and Washington -- ever start looking at people the way he did, the country will be a lot better off.
*Jane Fonda (better known as Hanoi Jane by those my age) playing Nancy Reagan is an outrage*, and an insult to all of us that served in Vietnam !
Send this to your friends and children too young to know about this Traitor...
JANE FONDA as NANCY REAGAN? Those of us that were living in those years will never forget that she was a traitor and did
a lot of damage to our boys.
She has now been chosen to play Nancy Reagan in her life story. I am sending this one out because so many do not know this truth...and
also because she was on 3 times this week talking about her new book... And how good she feels in her 70's. She still does not know what she
did wrong. Her book just may not make the best seller list if more people knew...also...
She can lead her present life the way she wants and perhaps SHE can forget the past, but we DO NOT have to stand by without comment and see her "honored" as a "Woman of the Century."
(I remember this well) For those who served and/or died....
NEVER FORGIVE A TRAITOR. SHE REALLY WAS A TRAITOR!!
and now President OBAMA wants to honor her......!!!!
