The Ronald Reagan presidency was enormously successful. I know, I lived through it. Obama touts his pitiful record of job growth, which is mostly part time and can’t even keep up with population growth. Lefties snickered at him because he wasn’t elitist but the world respected us and he was the main impetus behind the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of Communist USSR. Overall there was a feeling of optimism and respect in the US.
Well, that can’t stand. He stood for everything the left hates and his success belies everything the left promotes. What can lefty/Democratic politicians do? They can team up with Hollywood to smear Ronald Reagan with a former WH butler’s book and turn it into lies against Reagan. http://neoneocon.com/2013/08/24/the-butler-and-other-hollywood-propaganda/ Lefties Hanoi Jane Fonda, Oprah, director Lee Daniels and producer Harvey Weinstein teamed up to establish lies that will play forever on cable television. They’re betting that in a few years, few will remember the real Ron Reagan and the smears will revise history. BTW, his son liberal Ron was an analyst on MSNBC, wonder if he has the guts to stand up for his dad? I’m betting Michael Reagan will.
Propaganda is extraordinarily powerful. It exploits hearts, it shapes minds, and it affects history. Films are just one form of propaganda, but an exceptionally popular one that often reaches people who are disinclined to dig deeper and find the historical truth, and yet still vote.
Here’s a take that compares the real-life WH butler Eugene Allen to the fictional butler in the movie. http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/154366
Mona Charen complies some of the lies in the film: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/08/23/is_obama_good_for_black_americans_119685.html
Eugene Allen, the actual White House butler on whom the film is supposedly based, kept signed photos of Ronald and Nancy Reagan in his living room (pictures of the other presidents he had served hung in the basement).
According to a 2008 Washington Post profile, Allen served eight presidents for 34 years until his retirement. He did not, as the movie portrays, resign to protest Reagan’s policies on civil rights or South Africa. His wife happily reminisced to the Post about the time the couple were invited by the Reagans to attend a state dinner in honor of the West German chancellor. “Drank champagne that night,” Mrs. Allen recalled with pleasure. The film apparently depicts the invitation as tokenism. The filmmakers also insert a horrific childhood “memory” for Allen — his mother being raped and his father shot by a white landlord. Didn’t happen.
Would it interest black moviegoers to know that under Ronald Reagan’s policies, median African American household incomes increased by 84 percent (compared with 68 percent for whites)? The poverty rate dropped during the 1980s from 14 percent down to 11.6 percent. The black unemployment rate dropped by 9 percentage points. The number of black-owned businesses increased by 38 percent and receipts more than doubled.
Oh, the nation that Reagan inherited from Jimmy Carter was in dire straits all around.
If monthly job gains going back to 1946 are ranked in order of best to worst, the difference between job growth during the first four years of economic recovery under President Ronald Reagan and Obama is astounding. Total job growth during the first four years of the Obama recovery has been 4,657,000 or just 97,020 jobs per month. That’s not even enough to hit the breakeven level of 150,000 jobs per month when population growth is taken into account. (video after break)
Now, contrast that with the Reagan recovery. That generated a total of 11.2 million new jobs or 233,333 per month, more than enough to put people back to work. Reagan’s best job month garnered the very top ranking since WWII with 1,114,000 jobs added in September 1983. A single month with more than a million jobs added. So far Obama can only wish for such a total.