I am not surprised that Reagan is being lampooned. He was lampooned erroneously during his life, too.

Would someone please come up with an "ism" that is appropriate to anyone who would make fun of Alzheimer's patients? Even though such people are anti-human, we can't label them as humanists. Humanists ought to continue to have a positive connotation.

It is time that we turn their own weapons against them.

The notion that Reagan had Alzheimer's in his 2nd term is ridiculous, no one in the world has better medical care than the POTUS. His diagnosis came 5 years after his service.

Ferrell was quick to abandon this project only because of the uproar against it. The PC that Hollywood espouses bites him in the ass.

The Reagan admin is revered by many, and he led and revitalized the military (busted the USSR) The economy had a revitalization during his presidency due to lower tax rates , a friendlier business climate he reigned in the unions. He was way tougher on the S and L scandal with 1000 convictions. Than the Justice dept of today's biased prosecutors.

I have a high standard for the POTUS and Reagan was a disappointment in my opinion. Better than any since. They aroused suspicion with a lack of transparency .Too many corrupt advisors, 21 convictions among them. He armed and radicalized OBL in Afghanistan.The Iran contra scandal. C I A Cocaine for weapons . His VP and the start of that Bush/Rove group dynasty. The education system pushed to a Pavlovian style continuing its downward flush. Wm Casey ugh. Their mysticism.

Not as many complaints as I would have for his predecessors though.

Agreed, completely tasteless and deserving of "all due respect." Its been open season on "conservative leaders" for some time. The disgusting insulting film about Margaret Thatcher precedes this one. (At least Thatcher was well acted, albeit politically motivated and insultingly written.)

Who is Will Ferrell and why should I care?

I lost my mother to Alzheimer's during 2006. It was horrible. Don't care to go into details.
I have four brothers and no sisters. Much respect goes to the sister-in-law who devoted much time to the care of my mother.
On the night of my mother's funeral my sister-in-law got drunk at an Italian restaurant.
Never saw her get like that before but it was just fine.
She had earned the right to do anything she wanted.
She was also there for my father when lung cancer took him last June.a day short of his 98th birthday,
No, she did not drink much at that funeral.

I hope he loses his ass on the venture and has to declare bankruptcy. Further, I hope that Hollywood has the good sense to shun any further work by him. (Probably not.)

I think a quick observation that needs highlighted is this--the whole touchy feely, hugging, snail loving, Hollywood left-the nice guys-Republicans are mean and catsup is a vegetable--that whole crowd still think it's ok to attack an individual because they hate his politics. There are few things less PC than Alzheimer's. Can you imagine the shrill, wailing, take to the streets, burn the F down crowd if the other side did something this mean spirited. What a bunch of hypocritical pr#$%@. Maybe use a whiner like Reid or Durbin-to front this.

Will Ferrell must already have brain issues, as his comedy is not funny, his acting questionable but his ego remains huge.Obviously, like his PC crowd, his compassion is selective. Perhaps he should make a movie about a Muslin who becomes president, does ntt know how many states are in the US, cannot pronounce "corp", has done cocaine, and likely is gay.and sets out to destroy the country he runs. Lot of material there. I dare you Will, go for one of your own for once.

The plot of the script was revealed yesterday. A person convinces Reagan in his dementia that he's just an actor playing the role of president. This not only denigrates Reagan, but whatever he accomplished during his second term. Excuse me, just writing this made me want to take a shower.

To be truthful, I won't watch anything with Ferrell in it. He's not funny. I can't stand him

Will Ferrell, whom I cannot stand, IS NOT DOING this movie. He changed his mind.

He pulled out of it after reading the script.
http://pagesix.com/2016/04/29/will-fe...

Jesus. What a bunch of Politically Correct, triggered, SJW's we have here. Gone are the days when people had a sense of humor. A senile old person was a comic character for centuries until the PC crowd ruined art.

And Reagan shriveled in fear after Bush shot him and threatened his family. A better man would have arranged to kill that POS and made sure Cheney had an accident.

Ferrell backed away from the movie, but he's still a
boor and a grafter. -- j
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I was hoping for a time that the film was intended to be an exposé into the horror that the families of Alz. patients suffer.

Personally, I don't find Ferrell funny at all. But people do change... or at least I had hoped.

I heard about this today and thought it had to be a mistake. I hope Ferrell reconsiders.

Talk about PCness taken to extremes, even from Objectivists and conservatives. Doesn't anyone else see the ironic humor in a President that very probably suffered from a debilitating disease while in office and even while going through the early stages, was still lionized by conservatives? Didn't we all laugh about the SNL skits of Gerald Ford's stumbling and falling, about Bush's 'Read my lips', about Clinton and Lewinski's episodes in the Oval Office--all while they were still in office? But the heavens forbid that we should look at humor about Reagan and Alzheimers.

I can fully understand and empathize with Ms. Davis's dislike of satire and public humor about her dad and the disease that destroyed his later years, but come on--when we take on the same PCness that we so loudly decry from progressives, we no longer deserve to call ourselves Objectivists.

Alzheimers is a human condition, Presidents are human, and some of the things that humans do while suffering from Alzheimers is funny. When we can no longer laugh at ourselves, there's nothing left but to cry..