Many readers will know by now that there is a recent biopic about President Ronald Reagan currently in theaters nationwide. My colleague Bob Hogue was lucky enough to see a preview of “Reagan” last weekend before the film hit theaters and conducted this great interview with one of the stars, Hollywood legend Jon Voight.
Actor Jon Voight talks to RedState about the “Reagan” film and issues a dire warning
Hoge also wrote before the screening about star Dennis Quaid, who spoke about the obvious attempts by major technology companies to stop advertising the conservative film before it even got off the ground:
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There they are again: Dennis Quaid says Facebook is censoring advertising for Reagan film
You may remember that Chris Wallace left his post as anchor of “Fox News Sunday” and then moved to CNN. But now he also hosts the show “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” on the Max streamer.
He met with Quaid there this week, and tried his best to ask the “Heroes Are Made Of” singer a truly lame trick question – harshly criticizing him for his support of former President Donald Trump during the election campaign and trying to make the connection to a renowned Reagan motto.
As you can see, the so-called “Republicans Against Trump X” account dutifully shared the clip in hopes of attacking Quaid and his film.
Regard::
“Reagan would have been appalled by Trump’s behavior.”
Chris Wallace criticized Dennis Quaid for his support for Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/nX1pMpGoMZ
— Republicans Against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) 5 September 2024
CNN presenter Chris Wallace pressed “Reagan” star Dennis Quaid about his personal support for former President Trump and said the former president, whom Quaid plays in a film of the same name, would be “horrified” by the 2024 Republican nominee.
Wallace asked Quaid, who plays the 40th US president in the recent film, how he could support Trump, saying: “A lot of people say there is no room for Ronald Reagan In Donald Trump’s Republican Party.”
The actor said:
Yes, Ronald Reagan was a man of his time. And Trump is also a man of his time. But I believe that the principles of Ronald Reagan and the principles of Donald J. Trump are very similar.
Notice how Quaid’s full response is cut off. What is wrong with the left that continues to claim it is the champion of free speech, but yet censors any speech it doesn’t like? That’s probably a rant for another article.
Wallace, for his part, strongly disagreed. In the face of Wallace’s scathing questioning, the actor continued his response:
Well, I think there’s a Trump 2.0 here as far as the Republican Party is concerned, and he’s going to get it right this time. Ronald Reagan was America first, I would argue. The circumstances, the issues surrounding the 1980 election, are very similar today.
We had high inflation, gasoline prices, etc., we had hostages in the Middle East. We were told we were a nation in decline, and we felt that unease that Jimmy Carter himself had expressed, and we have very similar problems to those we have today.
Quaid is not wrong, as anyone who lived through the shadowy times caused by the Carter administration’s failed progressive energy and foreign policy in the 1970s and early 1980s knows. Americans are well aware that our economy and other aspects of the country are being rapidly ruined by Biden and the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Harris. If progressives get their ticket to the White House for another four years of failure, we will soon be as bad off, or worse off, than the nation was in that era before Reagan and the Republicans in Congress won a landslide victory in the 1980 election.
Well, one thing can be said about Chris Wallace… he has a wicked and long memory. He probably holds out to the insult Trump hurled at him during a speech in 2020. Considering how much criticism the former president had to endure from the moderator, it’s not surprising that he tried to hit back in this way.
Riley Gaines came forward after seeing “Reagan” and offered a clue as to why the left and its allies in the dominant culture force like Wallace may still harbor a seething hostility toward the Gipper—and attack that film so doggedly:
Just saw the Reagan movie. The whole theater erupted in applause when it was over. During the credits, when real pictures of Reagan from his life were shown, no one left the theater.
No one was as committed to fighting communism as Ronald Reagan. Check it out!🇺🇸
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) 2 September 2024
