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Murdoch's KGB-Friendly Series

christiancon Wrote: Jan 04, 2013 11:47 AM

I think there is more to it than that. Reagan and the cosnervatives are forever portrayed as the CRAZY ones-ie the statement of Reagan was going to blow the world up- Brents point is the IMBALANCE and the sympathy the left consistently receives while the right receives NONE. I felt is was a great point at the end- werent Nazis human too? Didnt they have feelings? Where are the sympathetic portrayals of these people? --Go ahead and ask a school age kid about Hitler- he or she will know and should. Ask them about Stalin,Pol Pot, Mao , Castro and they wont- thats Brent's point and its a damn good one.

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Murdoch's KGB-Friendly Series

In August, Rupert Murdoch's FX picked up a Cold War series set in the 1980s titled "The Americans." Liberals might have braced themselves for the worst. It sounded like some kind of Chuck Norris-style "jingoistic" homage to freedom-loving intelligence agents. But this is Hollywood, so the show instead focuses on KGB spies who speak perfect English, working to destroy Reagan-era America, which is not altogether a bad thing to people in Hollywood.

Joe Weisberg, who worked for more than three years at the CIA, first wrote a script about two CIA case officers stationed in Bulgaria. Fox bought that script,...

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