By Michael Reagan
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.
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The whole movie is a farce based on a real life person whose biography is as close to this movie as the movie Bravehart was to the real William Wallace. If you love fictional propaganda that amplifies the so called “Black” American Experience that makes heroes where none actually existed, then this is the movie for you.
ReplyDeletethis is yet another example of Hollywood being either misinformed, uninformed or ill informed.
ReplyDeleteMichael Reagan was estranged from his father the whole time he was in the White House. Ever see him in any family photo's at that time? He has no more idea what was going on than any ordinary person.
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