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Hollywood Rewriting History . . . Once Again

The new movie, The Butler, is getting rave reviews. Too bad it's not remotely historically accurate. But why bother with facts when you can rewrite history and take cheap shots at folks on the right?!
As Mona Charen points out in her latest column, The Butler is full of fiction, specifically designed to embrace The Left's ongoing narrative that conservative white folks are all racists who only treat blacks as token citizens. Here's a snippet:

The press resolutely ignores these figures, while the propaganda arm of the Democratic party in Hollywood serves up distorted history to distract and pacify the public. The latest entry appears to be The Butler, which misrepresents President Reagan (as I gather from those who've seen it) as, at best, insensitive to blacks, and at worst as racist. 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.

By Robert on August 24, 2013 2:00 PM |