What a Shame For ABC That Madeleine Albright

…doesn’t have Alzheimer’s and can publicly dispute the network’s version of her and her cohorts’ colleagues’ conversations

Susan Lyne knew it was a bad idea. That’s why the ABC Entertainment president passed on what morphed into The Reagans, CBS’s now infamous—and now scrubbed—miniseries. “Either you were going to get something very soft, and you weren’t going to get an audience for it,” she said. “Or you did something where you played up whatever elements you could and ended up having a bad reaction.”
…CBS President Leslie Moonves, who accepted responsibility for the cancellation, said it was based solely on the merits—actually, the lack of merit—of the miniseries, in which, conservatives complained, Reagan was wrongly portrayed as a doddering gay-basher whose wife, Nancy, pulled all the strings.
…Some Democrats on the Hill did weigh in, however. Rep. John Dingell who knocked heads with the Reagan White House in the 1980s, couldn’t resist tweaking outraged Republicans and sent Moonves a letter expressing his own “concern” prior to the cancellation announcement. The final cut, Dingell, said should include “$640 Pentagon toilet seats, ketchup as a vegetable, trading arms for hostages” and other scandals that plagued the Reagan administration.
Senate Minority leader Tom Daschle later called the decision to pull the show “appalling.” CBS “totally collapsed,” he told National Public Radio.

It’s just so much easier when you pick on the weak and infirm, right Tom?

One Response to “What a Shame For ABC That Madeleine Albright”

1. Gunslinger says:

   September 8, 2006 at 5:12 pm

   “Senate Minority leader Tom Daschle later called the decision to pull the show “appalling.” CBS “totally collapsed,” he told National Public Radio.”
   Oh HO HO! Someone should get Tommy boy’s opinion on his party’s malfeasance cocerning television programs…
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