Top 5 Inaccuracies in 'The Butler'

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Hollywood again changing history and perception. I figured before the reviews came out, there would be a racist narrative portrayed for the Republican Party. I will never see this movie as Oprah used "racism" to promote it. Bad form. :thumbsdown


Top 5 Inaccuracies in 'The Butler'

1. President Ronald Reagan was indifferent to the suffering of people of color.

2. The Democrats helped pass the Civil Rights Act: This is more of an inaccuracy by omission.

3. President Nixon dismissed black Americans--save for their votes:

4. The Butler disliked President Reagan:

5. The Butler met Obama:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/08/16/top-5-butler-inaccuracies

The Butler’ Fact Check: How True Is This True Story?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/16/the-butler-fact-check-how-true-is-this-true-story.html

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How shocking that Hollywood would show Republicans in a bad light! LOL Thanks for posting this info. I was curious to know how the Republican Presidents were portrayed and you have confirmed my suspicions.

I remember reading one time that when Reagan was Governor of California he appointed more blacks, other minorities, and women to state positions than all of the other Governors before him. As President he appointed the first female to the Supreme Court. Of course he gets no credit for any of this from the mainstream media or intelligensia.

[Barb]

Hollywood again changing history and perception. I figured before the reviews came out, there would be a racist narrative portrayed for the Republican Party. I will never see this movie as Oprah used "racism" to promote it. Bad form. :thumbsdown

Yes, it is the screenwriter's and director's bias at play here, but this is not news to me, for that is the way of the motion picture industry. It is not the first time history was changed, nor will it be the last.

The story is "based" on the life of Mr. Allen, which was "inspired" by an article in The Post.

All of this means that Mr. Allen lived and was a butler in the White House...all the rest is literary license and trying to reach a certain demographic.

And I agree...Oprah's antics only serve to destroy a desire to see the movie.

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Yes, it is the screenwriter's and director's bias at play here, but this is not news to me, for that is the way of the motion picture industry. It is not the first time history was changed, nor will it be the last.

The story is "based" on the life of Mr. Allen, which was "inspired" by an article in The Post.

All of this means that Mr. Allen lived and was a butler in the White House...all the rest is literary license and trying to reach a certain demographic.

And I agree...Oprah's antics only serve to destroy a desire to see the movie.

Well said, Barb. Not only is Oprah destroying one woman's life, the shopgirl, to promote a movie, but Obama is destroying one man's life, Zimmerman, in order to further his racist, progressive, reparations narrative.

The United States of Racism
The progressive agenda is advanced, its power obtained, by dividing people. That’s why so many have embraced the lower standard for this current president.

Luckily, fewer and fewer people are falling for this “equal-but-separate” deception. With each new day, there is more indifference to the politics of race. The president is sinking in the polls not because he’s black but because America does not accept his radical progressive agenda. Calling opponents racist will fall on deaf ears increasingly as time goes by because those ears aren’t deaf, they just know they’re being lied to.

Ruining the life of a rodeo clown won’t be the Berlin Wall moment for the politics of division. But that moment is coming. We see it in the polls, in the continued ratings drops for MSNBC. Before long, we will see it at the voting polls.

And it can’t come a day too soon.

http://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2013/08/18/the-united-states-of-racism-n1666949

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What ‘The Butler’ gets wrong about Ronald Reagan and race

As president, in the same March 1983 speech in which he called the Soviet regime an “evil empire,” Reagan decried “the resurgence of some hate groups preaching bigotry and prejudice” in America. And at a reception for the National Council of Negro Women in July of that year, Reagan declared: “I’ve lived a long time, but I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t believe that prejudice and bigotry were the worst of sins.”

These are just a few examples of Reagan’s sensitivity to racial discrimination.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-the-butler-gets-wrong-about-ronald-reagan-and-race/2013/08/29/5f6aa21e-0e87-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html

[Barb]

What ‘The Butler’ gets wrong about Ronald Reagan and race

As president, in the same March 1983 speech in which he called the Soviet regime an “evil empire,” Reagan decried “the resurgence of some hate groups preaching bigotry and prejudice” in America. And at a reception for the National Council of Negro Women in July of that year, Reagan declared: “I’ve lived a long time, but I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t believe that prejudice and bigotry were the worst of sins.”

These are just a few examples of Reagan’s sensitivity to racial discrimination.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-the-butler-gets-wrong-about-ronald-reagan-and-race/2013/08/29/5f6aa21e-0e87-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html

Michael Reagan said in an interview just a few days ago that the movie is incorrect in it's portrayal of his father.

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Michael Reagan said in an interview just a few days ago that the movie is incorrect in it's portrayal of his father.

Isn't it amazing how Micheal, as the adopted son, has been more loyal to his father than the biological son, Ron?

[Barb]

Isn't it amazing how Micheal, as the adopted son, has been more loyal to his father than the biological son, Ron?

Sure seems to be that way...

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all I had to know was that hanoi hanna was playing Nancy Reagan and I was OUT.


wont be seeing that stupid movie.

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all I had to know was that hanoi hanna was playing Nancy Reagan and I was OUT.


wont be seeing that stupid movie.
Ditto! :thumbsup

Never, never, never in my long-legged life! :sing

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all I had to know was that hanoi hanna was playing Nancy Reagan and I was OUT.


wont be seeing that stupid movie.
That, and Oprah Winfrey was involved...

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That, and Oprah Winfrey was involved...

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