Ronald Reagan - In The Face Of Evil

Today, plus 25 years

March 30th, 2006

From The History Channel:

PRESIDENT REAGAN SHOT:
March 30, 1981

On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a
Washington, D.C., hotel by a deranged drifter named John Hinckley Jr.The
president had just finished addressing a labor meeting at the Washington Hilton
Hotel and was walking with his entourage to his limousine when Hinckley,
standing among a group of reporters, fired six shots at the president, hitting
Reagan and three of his attendants. White House Press Secretary James Brady was
shot in the head and critically wounded, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy
was shot in the side, and District of Columbia policeman Thomas Delahaney was
shot in the neck. After firing the shots, Hinckley was overpowered and pinned
against a wall, and President Reagan, apparently unaware that he’d been shot,
was shoved into his limousine by a Secret Service agent and rushed to the
hospital.The president was shot in the left lung, and the .22 caliber bullet
just missed his heart. In an impressive feat for a 70-year-old man with a
collapsed lung, he walked into George Washington University Hospital under his
own power. As he was treated and prepared for surgery, he was in good spirits
and quipped to his wife, Nancy, ‘’Honey, I forgot to duck,'’ and to his
surgeons, “Please tell me you’re Republicans.” Reagan’s surgery lasted two
hours, and he was listed in stable and good condition afterward.The next day,
the president resumed some of his executive duties and signed a piece of
legislation from his hospital bed. On April 11, he returned to the White House.
Reagan’s popularity soared after the assassination attempt, and at the end of
April he was given a hero’s welcome by Congress. In August, this same Congress
passed his controversial economic program, with several Democrats breaking ranks
to back Reagan’s plan. By this time, Reagan claimed to be fully recovered from
the assassination attempt. In private, however, he would continue to feel the
effects of the nearly fatal gunshot wound for years.Of the victims of the
assassination attempt, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and D.C. policeman
Thomas Delahaney eventually recovered. James Brady, who nearly died after being
shot in the eye, suffered permanent brain damage. He later became an advocate of
gun control, and in 1993 Congress passed the “Brady Bill,” which established a
five-day waiting period and background checks for prospective gun buyers.
President Bill Clinton signed the bill into law.After being arrested on March
30, 1981, 25-year-old John Hinckley was booked on federal charges of attempting
to assassinate the president. He had previously been arrested in Tennessee on
weapons charges. In June 1982, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. In
the trial, Hinckley’s defense attorneys argued that their client was ill with
narcissistic personality disorder, citing medical evidence, and had a
pathological obsession with the 1976 film Taxi Driver, in which the main
character attempts to assassinate a fictional senator. His lawyers claimed that
Hinckley saw the movie more than a dozen times, was obsessed with the lead
actress, Jodie Foster, and had attempted to reenact the events of the film in
his own life. Thus the movie, not Hinckley, they argued, was the actual planning
force behind the events that occurred on March 30, 1981.The verdict of “not
guilty by reason of insanity” aroused widespread public criticism, and many were
shocked that a would-be presidential assassin could avoid been held accountable
for his crime. However, because of his obvious threat to society, he was placed
in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, a mental institution. In the late 1990s, Hinckley’s
attorney began arguing that his mental illness was in remission and thus had a
right to return to a normal life. Beginning in August 1999, he was allowed
supervised day trips off the hospital grounds and later was allowed to visit his
parents once a week unsupervised. The Secret Service voluntarily monitors him
during these outings. If his mental illness remains in remission, he may one day
be released.
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In the Face of Evil World Television Premiere

February 15th, 2006

Keep your schedule open on Presidents’ Day, Monday February 20, 2006 for our World Television Premiere on TBN at 10 PM EST (7PM EST).
Its on right after “24″, so you know Jack Bauer will be watching. After the screening, please check in with your comments and impressions- we’ll try to get a dialogue going with the viewers, and we welcome your input.

If you’d like a sneak peak of the film on Sunday night, Faith TV will air In the Face of Evil twice, once at 8PM and again at 11PM EST.

And don’t forget to take part in our online poll on the greatest president of the 20th century.

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Reagan’s Word Indeed

September 20th, 2005

In many ways, creating a biography of Ronald Reagan is remarkably simple, given his extraordinary consistency. Since his worldview was essentially cemented before he graduated college, there is little of the fodder in his life that most biographers crave, the contradictions that cause conflict. Most of the conflict in Reagan’s life centered around his opposition to communism and to a greater degree, his enemies’ attacks on him, not from his personal life.

Unlike some prominent politicians today (think Kennedy, Clinton, Kerry, et al) who continually waffle on their beliefs to suit their purposes, their audience or the prevailing winds, Reagan has a consistency that spans the decades. Many of the truths in his speeches from the 50’s and 60’s held true throughout his presidency.

We created our documentary, In the Face of Evil: Reagan’s War in Word and Deed, to honor Reagan’s steadfast beliefs and consistency. And we wanted to be that rare breed of documentary that can actually document its claims.

In response to our film we’ve been attacked in the press and on our website continually by left-wing reactionaries calling us (and Reagan) “Satan,” “warmonger,” “bully,” saying we “should be ashamed of ourselves,” “Reagan laughed at people dying of AIDS and the always reliable “Iran/Contra!”, the precursor to today’s anti-Bush mantra, “Halliburton.” This usually shouted in a Tourette’s-like spasm whenever they’re overwhelmed by the facts or logic.

We’ve learned to have diminished expectations from the left. The years they spend cultivating righteousness and superiority in a vacuum makes for a fragile ego. Confronting an icon like Reagan completely shatters the myth the left likes to promote about themselves, namely that their policies work and Republicans are stupid. It throws them into fits of apoplectic rage.

How dare we have a hero who wasn’t nuanced! This calls for a summit!

So, like Reagan, we bear the insults, understanding that it comes with the territory.

But every once in a while, we’re forced to stand on principle and address what detractors say about us. Usually when it involves our accuracy, such as a recent article by John Meroney, “Night Unto Reagan.” http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-meroney022103.asp

The focus of Meroney’s article on Reagan’s Hollywood years, (in advance of a book due out soon) was that Reagan’s acting career was “far different from today’s conventional wisdom about his work.” Meaning that today, it’s in vogue to dismiss Reagan’s acting as laughable, much like the left dismisses his presidential and political career.

Meroney says of In the Face of Evil that “Reagan’s own supporters [us] have fallen victim to the storyline that depicts him [as an actor] as a disappointment.” He quotes a line from our film:

“In the unforgiving calculus of the studio system, Reagan was weighed, measured and found wanting. Leading man status would never come, and the brass ring of stardom would forever be beyond his grasp.”

While Reagan’s acting skills are certainly open to debate, it holds true that “the brass ring of stardom” eluded him.

In the late 30’s, Reagan was ranked along with Laurence Olivier as the one of the most recognizable and popular actors of his day, By 1942, following his two biggest roles in Knute Rockne and King’s Row, he was on the brink of superstardom.

The onset of World War II however, interrupted his plans. After a stateside stint in the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Corps during the war, he was never able to capture that elusive aura again. His moment had come and gone without him being part of it.

Reagan himself knew he would never reach “leading man status,” recognizing that “I’m no Errol Flynn.” The roles he was offered after the war became less glamorous and more infrequent. His career fizzled just as it was about to take off, with him ultimately peddling soap on Saturday morning cowboy shows. This is hardly the stuff of movie legends.

To put it in more modern terms, while Bob Saget may be a household name, he will never be confused with Tom Cruise.

More puzzling to us is Meroney’s assertion that In the Face of Evil

“…erroneously claims that in 1947 Reagan ‘urged the House Committee on Un-American Activities [colloquially, though inaccurately known as HUAC] to abandon witch hunts and the naming of names.’”

Meroney says “Reagan resented the allegation of a ‘witch hunt’

But Reagan’s sworn testimony before HUAC disproves this.

In 1947, on the heels of a violent jurisdictional strike led by Communist Party thug Herb Sorrell, (whose bid to take over the Hollywood unions and control Hollywood filmmaking for communist propaganda ultimately failed) HUAC was convened to hold hearings to determine the extent of Communist influence in Hollywood.

As then President of the Screen Actor’s Guild, Reagan was called on to testify. When asked directly by Committee member Mr. Stripling about “what steps should be taken to rid the motion-picture industry of any Communist?” Reagan deferred to the system of democracy to root out and defeat any potential threat from communists, or anyone else, saying:

“I think within the bounds of our democratic rights, and never once stepping over the rights given us by democracy, we [SAG] have done a pretty good job in our business of keeping those people’s activities curtailed.” and that …”in opposing those people that the best thing to do is to make democracy work.”

Clearly, this is a man whose unshakeable belief in our system of democracy was much stronger than the revulsion he felt about the philosophy and the tactics of the communists.
Far from believing it necessary to expose and isolate individuals, he stressed the power of freedom and democracy to combat its foes, sayiing “as Thomas Jefferson put it, if all the American people know all of the facts they will never make a mistake.”

Meroney’s contention that Reagan regarded the “Communist Party as a criminal conspiracy” is spoken to specifically in his testimony.

Reagan unequivocally said that “We must recognize them at present as a political party.”

He insisted that

“…as a citizen I would hesitate, or not like, to see any political party outlawed on the basis of its political ideology. We have spent 170 years in this country on the basis that democracy is strong enough to stand up and fight against the inroads of any ideology…”

“I detest, I abhor their philosophy, but I detest more than that their tactics, which are those of the fifth column, and are dishonest, but at the same time I never as a citizen want to see our country become urged, by either fear or resentment of this group, that we ever compromise with any of our democratic principles through that fear or resentment. I still think democracy can do it.”

So much for a “criminal conspiracy.”

The reality is that we might just be the most documented documentary of all time. No less an expert than Edwin Meese, confidant to Reagan and his former Attorney General, calls In the Face of Evil “a very accurate depiction of the man whose courage, vision and strength of will, did nothing less than transform world history.”

Meese was there and knows first hand how events played out and can vet our information as true. So, say what you will about Reagan and his legacy, call our film propaganda, call us fanatics, Call us satanic. Just don’t say we’re inaccurate, because, as our movie shows, we let Reagan speak for himself.

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The Mighty Mississippi

August 31st, 2005

A short while ago, In the Face of Evil producer Tim Watkins was a guest on Jim Leggette’s radio program in Mississippi. We had a great time with Jim and his cohosts and spoke with some of the great people of Mississippi.
I asked Jim how he was doing after the hurricane Katrina hit. Jim says that he’s doing fine and that the storm passed by without doing major damage to his home and family. I wish we could say that about the rest of the deep south. The less fortunate who were in the direct path of the hurricane need our help. Please contact your nearest Red Cross to see how you can help.
Our prayers are with those who have lost loved ones and faced the devastation of losing everything they have. We know in the end they will persevere and come back even stronger than before.

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Mooreon Traverse City Film Festival

August 8th, 2005

We remain eternally skeptical of Michael Moore’s film festival in Traverse City, MI.
While he claims there is no political agenda behind the festival, you’ll never see a film like In the Face of Evil there.

It, like the Sundance Film Festival, (and many others) will present films that reinforce leftist worldviews and promote challenges to authority, as long as the authority is Republican. No expose’s on media bias, political indoctrination on college campuses, the devastating effects of “Great Society” giveaways or political correctness here.

Well, we just need to work that much harder. In the meantime, here are letters to the editor of Traverse City’s Record-Eagle, the newspaper that allowed Michael Moore to visit their offices after hours and make editorial corrections on ads he didn’t agree with.

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In the Face of Evil review

August 2nd, 2005

Occasionally we post testimonials, articles and movie reviews about our film-

Here’s one from Jim Leggette at the americanthinker.com.

James A. Leggette, Ph.D. is an economist and talk radio host. Michael W. Funk, a former Congressional Fellow, is currently an executive in the telecommunications industry. They are collaborating on a book on Ronald Reagan’s economic legacy.

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Traverse City Film Festival Bait and Switch

August 1st, 2005

While Michael Moore cleverly disguises his radical pedigree under the guise of cultural philanthropy by playing host of the Traverse City Film Festival in beautiful Traverse City, MI, it would pay to remember how other fairy tales have played out for the unsuspecting over the ages. The one old adage that springs to mind is to “beware of the wolf in sheep’s clothing.”

Moore appears to have gone under the spell of a talented public relations firm. Much like Hillary, Moore has been heard in public lately trying to mitigate the damage he and his reputation have done to himself, the Democratic party and the country.

In a cleverly disguised dig on conservatives, he says, “There are two Michael Moores, the one you see on Fox News and the one I really am,” as if by pointing out his radical antics, Fox News editing is actually the dark force behind Moore’s well documented, over the top condemnations of his country, and its president.

These days Moore can be found speaking before local Traverse City organizations, such as the Rotary Club uttering platitudes like, “I love my country,” “I’m actually very conservative,” “I go to church every Sunday,” and the kicker, “I disagree w/ the president on many issues, but we must always be careful not to de-humanize him.”

Imagine the overwhelming self-restraint it must have taken for Moore to spit that sentence out. I can see him now, like Dr. Strangelove fighting the uncontrollable urge to throw the seig heil salute in front of his cabinet, biting his tongue, and hissing out the words through clenched teeth.

Michael Moore can’t help who he is. Its only a matter of time before he starts up his extremist rhetoric again, most likely near the premier of his next hatchet job on another US institution.

The Freedom Film Fest of Traverse Bay, the counter festival arranged to offer an alternative to Moore’s, was not organized to dictate to people what is appropriate to watch, to paint Traverse City movie fans as libertines or impose values on anyone. The Freedom Festival is nothing but a rejection of Michael Moore and the radical baggage that he brings with him. It’s not the movies that aren’t wanted, its him.

Stalin,Hitler and more recently Kim Jong Il are notorious and insatiable lovers of Hollywood movies. Who of us would celebrate their philanthropy regardless of how much cheese they stuffed in the local coffers??

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And there’s no getting around the selfish and egoistic appetite of a censorious and devious manipulator. Its not benevolence that motivates Michael Moore, its self-gratification.

Exhibit A: In an egregious violation of journalistic standards, the Traverse City Record Eagle allowed Michael Moore to visit their offices after hours and proof ads slated to run in their paper. When he came across one that he “didn’t like” he changed it. That’s right. Michael Moore took it upon himself to make editorial changes to an ad that was paid for by a long time Record Eagle advertiser because it didn’t comport with his “values.”

This is non-political?

But by Moore’s own admission “everything is political.” As for his so-called benevolent desire to enlighten the people of Traverse City with “just good movies,” he’s proven that he does indeed have an agenda with the films he picks.

Like Democrats picking a Supreme Court justice, Moore thinks that films must pass a litmus test, his litmus test (just like the ads posted in the Traverse City Record Eagle).

This from an interview about the festival:

NE: But don’t you think there’s a place for movies like “Herbie: Fully Loaded”?

Moore: No.

NE: But that’s one of the few G-rated movies to hit this area in a long time, so I was kind of happy to have a movie I could take my kids to see, without worrying about it.

Michael Moore is not interested in advancing dialog outside of his leftist defined worldview.

That’s why you’ll never see a film like In the Face of Evil at the Traverse City Film Festival.

In spite of its Best Documentary awards, rave reviews and repeated standing ovations, folks like Michael Moore view a positive film on Ronald Reagan a far right propaganda piece rather than a mainstream historical documentary on the unimaginable accomplishments of a man who was recently voted by the American people as the Greatest American of all time. (Brought together in fact, with the help of many far left liberals).

Reagan’s tale is a truly American tale. The tale of a hopeless underdog overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds to ultimately triumph over evil. Yet anything that is even mildly flattering of a Republican is seen as beating the drum of intolerance. But look at it objectively and ask who is really the intolerant one?

The citizens of Traverse City have every right to be proud of the success of the inaugural Traverse City Film Festival. Michael Moore has done the city a great favor. We reject the overheated rhetoric of both sides when it comes to film.

The people of Traverse City aren’t unpatriotic radicals opposed to heartland values. They are film lovers, like us. They should be given the opportunity to see all sides of any issue and make up their own mind. Anyone who would try to censor that or keep a different view from being heard, can’t be very secure in the strength of their position.

If Michael Moore wants to show the world that he’s really about great movies and not playing politics, he should invite films like In the Face of Evil and films with many different points of view to participate and not show only neutral or left leaning films.

And stop censoring views he doesn’t like.

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The Reagan Code at Conservative University

July 21st, 2005

Tim Watkins, Producer of In the Face of Evil, will be speaking tomorrow at
Accuracy in Academia’s Conservative University Conference. The event will take place on the Captiol Hill Campus and should be exciting. The title of the speech is “The Reagan Code” and is a reflection on the stellar example Reagan left us as a leader and a man. If you are a student, we hope to see you there-

Conservative University is AIA’s FREE student summer conference which serves as an antidote to the liberal bias that college students receive during the chool year.

Conservative University’s top-rate faculty provides free-market and traditionalist perspectives on history, law, philosophy, the sciences, government, economics and a host of other areas.

Who will Speak?
Hear from today¹s leaders within the conservative movement-authors, professors, students, politicians and others‹as they address wide-ranging topics, including:
Social Security reform
The life and legacy of Ronald Reagan
Grassroots and campus activism
and more!

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Traverse Bay Film Festival

July 11th, 2005

As you’ve no doubt heard, In the Face of Evil will be showcased at the Traverse Bay Film Festival on July 29. This festival is a direct response to the continued assault on American values by uber-leftist Michael Moore. His plan to bring his film festival to Traverse City on the same weekend created quite a stir in the normally quiet town.

Incensed at the possibility of a Moore led, anti-American film festival in their home town, Traverse City residents organized a grass roots effort to counter Moore’s proaganda with a film festival of their own. Its called the Traverse Bay Freedom Film Festival.

Billed as a celebration of Faith, Family and Freedom, three of the lib’s most hated values, the festival is almost a lock to drive the leftists crazy.

The festival is organized by Jim Hubbard and Ellen Gard, the good folks who brought you the hugely successful American Film Renaissance, America’s first conservative film festival. We’re expecting a great turnout and look forward to the challenge of attempting to take back Hollywood, one film at a time.

We hope to see you there!

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Producer Tim Watkins on radio w/ Jim Leggette

July 6th, 2005

On July 7th, 2005, Tim Watkins, producer of In the Face of Evil will be live with host Jim Leggette on Mississippi radio’s WMOX at 8:15am & WJNT at 5:05pm. If you’re in the Mississippi area be sure to tune in. For everyone else, we’ll have the interviews available online in the next few days.

They will discuss everything from the upcoming Supreme Court nominations to the bold legacy established by Ronald Reagan and how that legacy manifests itself today. It should be a great interview.

Plus, Tim will have breaking news regarding In the Face of Evil and a certain portly fantasy aka “documentary” filmmaker that you won’t want to miss!

Host Jim Leggette has written extensively on Reagan and his legacy. You can read some of his articles here: (thanks to The American Thinker)

“Ronald Reagan and the Opening Salvos in the War on Terror” – June 7th, 2005

“Reagan’s vision for Social Security reform” – April 13th, 2005

“Legacy lost: Ronald Reagan’s tax simplification” – May 13th, 2005

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Eureka! Reagan at College

June 28th, 2005

In 1957 Ronald Reagan went back to his alma mater to deliver a commencement speech. It could almost have been written today-

In it he talks about the debt we owe to our founding fathers and how we need to be ever vigilant against allowing a slow erosion of our rights as laid out in their brilliant documents.

He speaks about a struggle against communism, social programs that aim to help the less fortunate, but in the end only manage to stop the industrious, his gratitude towards all the fighting men who gave their lives in war so we can remain free and the importance of private philanthropy, giving what we can instead of relying on the government to give for us.

Reagan’s clear vision and ability to distill complex ideas into memorable phrases, illustrates for us his nimble mind and innate intelligence, the very traits that would serve him so well in his remaining years.

For those who have read yesterday’s blog on the HUAC strike, what follows is Reagan’s interpretation of that strike from the 1957 Eureka College commencement- if you haven’t read yesterday’s blog yet, scroll down to read that section first. BTW, the registered lobbyist Reagan refers to is Herb Sorrell.

“And now today we find ourselves involved in another struggle, this time called a cold war. This cold war between great sovereign nations isn’t really a new struggle at all. It is the oldest struggle of human kind, as old as man himself. This is a simple struggle between those of us who believe that man has the dignity and sacred right and the ability to choose and shape his own destiny and those who do not so believe. This irreconcilable conflict is between those who believe in the sanctity of individual freedom and those who believe in the supremacy of the state.

In a phase of this struggle not widely known, some of us came toe to toe with this enemy this evil force in our own community in Hollywood, and make no mistake about it, this is an evil force. Don’t be deceived because you are not hearing the sound of gunfire, because even so you are fighting for your lives. And you’re fighting against the best organized and the most capable enemy of freedom and of right and decency that has ever been abroad in the world. Some years ago, back in the thirties, a man who was apparently just a technician came to Hollywood to take a job in our industry, an industry whose commerce is in tinsel and colored lights and make-believe. He went to work in the studios, and there were few to know he came to our town on direct orders from the Kremlin. When he quietly left our town a few years later the cells had been formed and planted in virtually all of our organizations, our guilds and unions. The framework for the Communist front organizations had been established.

It was some time later, under the guise of a jurisdictional strike involving a dispute between two unions, that we saw war come to Hollywood. Suddenly there were 5,000 tin-hatted, club-carrying pickets outside the studio gates. We saw some of our people caught by these hired henchmen; we saw them open car doors and put their arms across them and break them until they hung straight down the side of the car, and then these tin-hatted men would send our people on into the studio. We saw our so-called glamour girls, who certainly had to be conscious of what a scar on the face or a broken nose could mean careerwise going through those picket lines day after day without complaint. Nor did they falter when they found the bus which they used for transportation to and from work in flames from a bomb that had been thrown into it just before their arrival. Two blocks from the studio everyone would get down on hands and knees on the floor to avoid the bricks and stones coming through the windows. And the 5,000 pickets out there in their tin hats weren’t even motion picture workers. They were maritime workers from the waterfront–members of Mr. Harry Bridges’ union.

We won our fight in Hollywood, cleared them out after seven long months in which even homes were broken, months in which many of us carried arms that were granted us by the police, and in which policemen lived in our homes, guarding our children at night. And what of the quiet film technician who had left our town before the fighting started? Well, in 1951 he turned up on the Monterey Peninsula where he was involved in a union price-fixing conspiracy. Two years ago he appeared on the New York waterfront where he was Harry Bridges’ right hand man in an attempt to establish a liaison between the New York and West Coast waterfront workers. And a few months ago he was mentioned in the speech of a U.S. Congresswoman who was thanking him for his help in framing labor legislation. He is a registered lobbyist in Washington for Harry Bridges.”

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Reagan at HUAC- a seminal moment

June 27th, 2005

In 1947, as the newly elected President of the Screen Actors Guild, Ronald Reagan went before the House Un-American Activites Commission (HUAC) to answer questions about the infiltration of Hollywood by communists and communist sympathizers.

Just one year earlier, the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU), led by a communist backed Herb Sorrell, attempted a strong-arm takeover of the major Hollywood labor unions. Using tried and true communist tactics, Sorrell organized a violent union strike and declared that “There may be men hurt, there may be men killed before this is over.”

It was partly a result of this action that woke Reagan up to the tyranny of communism and led self-proclaimed “bleeding heart liberal” Reagan to embrace conservativism.

The Communist Party of the USA had also developed a formal plan for its members to infiltrate and control of top intellectual groups in Hollywood to complement their attempts at infiltrating the labor unions. In so doing, it was believed, they would have “complete control of the greatest medium of communication in history”

Violence and threats of violence had failed to deter Reagan from opposing the Sorrell led thugs and increased Reagan’s stature as a tough minded and resolute crusader. In fact, his resolve was credited by some as the reason the CSU strike had failed.

The events leading up to Reagan’s HUAC testimony helped to shape the philosophy and determination that he showed later as president of the United States. It also puts to rest finally, the contention that Reagan was somehow a puppet to a cabal of power mad Washington insiders.

The truth is, Reagan’s belief that communism was evil and must be defeated, was an almost lifelong passion and one that only solidified with time. The confrontation and violence of the 1946 strike helped turn Reagan from a believer to an activist. In many ways, we are deeply indebted to Herb Sorrell and his thuggish goons. He helped shape the man who was to become- the Greatest American

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Ronald Reagan- Greatest American

June 26th, 2005

In Ronald Reagan’s testimony before the House Un-American Activities Commission (HUAC) in 1947, Ronald Reagan paraphrased Thomas Jefferson, saying, that “given the right information, the American people will always make the right decision.”
They did it last November 2nd and they did it again this weekend.

The people of America have spoken: the Greatest American is… Ronald Reagan!

As you probably know, the Discovery Channel has been hosting an event to determine who is the Greatest American. Throughout the month of June, viewers have been invited to go online to cast their vote for a number of notable Americans.

From politicians to sportsmen, entertainers to scientists, the list is an illustrious and grand tribute to the great men and women who have helped to shape our country and its people.

At the end of it all, Ronald Reagan was deemed to be the most outstanding of all the millions of people who have had the honor of being called American.

He is in esteemed company. The top five are:

Ronald Reagan
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther King Jr.
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin

Congratulations, Ronald Reagan-

All this week we will honor the choice of Reagan as Greatest American by highlighting some of his greatest accomplishments, so come back often. Be sure to scroll down to the bottom to read important news stories relating to Reagan and his legacy.

Also, be sure to watch In the Face of Evil: Reagan’s War in Word and Deed again to see why. If you don’t have a copy yet, you can order it here or through Amazon.

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Tim Watkins on WND’s RadioActive w/ Joseph Farah

June 12th, 2005

Timothy Watkins, producer of the documentary film “In the Face of Evil,” will be a guest today on “Joseph Farah’s WorldNetDaily RadioActive,” the nationally syndicated talk program.

Watkins’ moving and power-packed film, ranked “Best Documentary film of 2004″ by The Liberty Film Festival, chronicles Ronald Reagan’s 40-year struggle and ultimate triumph over Communism.

When Farah first viewed the movie, he wrote: “For many Christians, Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ’ moved them like no other movie ever made. I’ve got to tell you that, as an American, this movie had that same effect on me. It is truth. And truth is powerful.”

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In the Face of Evil Producer Video

May 19th, 2005

Tim Watkins, producer and co-director of In the Face of Evil was on Fox News Channel’ s “Your World w/ Neil Cavuto” yesterday. He appeared with producer George Schlatter (remember “Laugh In”?) and Jack Valenti, former head of the MPAA. The topic was on how politics affect the content of movies and does this play a role in how people form judgements about current events? To see a clip go here

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In the Face of Evil Producer on Fox News Today

May 18th, 2005

Today at 4:30 EST, Tim Watkins, Producer and Co-Director of In the Face of Evil will be on Fox News Channel’s Your World w/ Neil Cavuto. The topic will be on politics in Hollywood movies. This comes on the heels of controversy stirred up by allegations that George Lucas’ latest and last installment of of the Star Wars franchise “Revenge of the Sith” is a knock on President Bush’s foreign policy. For the record, George Lucas claims that “Revenge of the Sith” was written long before George Bush became president and that it was really based on events surrounding the Vietnam War.
It should be an interesting discussion

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In the Face of Evil International Release

May 6th, 2005

IN THE FACE OF EVIL: REAGAN’S WAR IN WORD AND DEED is in production on our international dvd release and it should be available in time to remember Ronald Reagan at the anniversary of his passing on June 5.

The international editition will have slightly different bonus material, as well as closed captioning for our hearing impaired friends, and multiple language subtitles. We are looking into packaging an award winning documentary from 1969 that shows the changes and oppression that are visited upon the good citizens of Czechoslovakia by the different incarnations of tyranny such as the Nazis and Soviet Union. Its a great piece of work and we’re looking forward to it.

We will also produce a domestic retail edition of IN THE FACE OF EVIL that will have a bonus disc of Ronald Reagan in
SANTA FE TRAIL.

If anyone has any special requests regarding the international release or other things you’d like to see in the bonus material, please forward them to us.
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A New Beast, Maybe More Evil

May 6th, 2005

One of the lessons we learn in the film In the Face of Evil is that we can’t be afraid to confront evil when it threatens us and our interests. Appeasement won’t ever work.
With this lesson in mind, we have been active with various groups in trying to spread democracy and freedom around the world. Our latest effort is with the Iran Freedom Foundation. We have created a commercial for them that exposes the threat of the Iranian mullahs gaining nuclear power. They WILL make nuclear weapons. As worldwide leaders in the exporting of terror, these mullahs cannot be trusted.
As the commercial states: Terrorists don’t stockpile weapons. They use them.
This is the latest news report on our spot, which is beginning to raise a lot of controversy where its being broadcast.

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In the Face of Evil at the NFRA Convention

May 1st, 2005

In the Face of Evil will be screening at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) Convention in beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona on Labor Day Weekend.
Following the Ronald Reagan Dinner on Saturday, September 2, 2005 we will be screening In the Face of Evil. The event will feature a question and answer session with Producer/Director Tim Watkins.
We will be raffling for an In the Face of Evil promo pack- which is a copy of the movie, a poster, buttons and T-shirts.
The film and posters, along with other In the Face of Evil gear, will be available for sale at the event.
For more information on the NFRA Convention,or to sign up go here.

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Honoring Reagan on President’s Day

May 1st, 2005

“We believe that America should be a source of support, both moral and material, for all those on God’s Earth who struggle for freedom. Our cause is their cause…American foreign policy is not simply focused on the prevention of war but the expansion of freedom.” –Ronald Reagan

How do you thank someone to whom you are so indebted to, you couldn’t repay him in a hundred lifetimes?

When history looks back to write the final chapters of the 20th century, one man will stand above the rest as an icon of hope, faith, freedom, and courage: Ronald Reagan. In fact, Ronald Reagan will go down in the annals of history as one of the greatest men to ever walk the earth.

Ronald Reagan spent most of his life fighting against terror and tyranny, both from foreign governments and from the far left right here at home. The left often attempts to portray Reagan as a doddering old fool, a benevolent grandfather or toastmaster in chief. That this confused bio doesn’t mesh with the facts drives the left into fits of apoplexy.

Showing why they are rarely accused of accuracy, objectivity or sincerity, even as they mock him, the left is forced to acknowledge his victories. Through clenched teeth they hiss platitudes, invoke his legacy in campaign speeches and even attempt to co-opt his language of faith and freedom in television interviews and talk shows. (To little effect though. The people can spot insincerity).

The fact is Ronald Reagan was a consistent and aggressive advocate of the need to confront evil and tyranny both in America and throughout the world. He recognized early on that appeasement and concessions against evil would only serve to embolden and strengthen our enemies while ensuring the quick demise of freedom from tyranny

One of the first public records of Reagan speaking out against oppression was in 1947, as President of the Screen Actors Guild at the Committee on Un-American Activities for the House of Representatives. These hearings were colloquially, if somewhat inaccurately known as “HUAC,” and focused on the communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. In response to questions of communist tactics in overtaking the Hollywood guilds in order to control and create communist propaganda, Reagan testified:

“I detest, I abhor their philosophy, but I detest more than that their tactics, which are those of the fifth column, and are dishonest…we have exposed their lies when we came across them, we have opposed their propaganda…and we have been eminently successful in preventing them from (their) usual tactics.”

In 1952 at a commencement speech to William Woods University in Missouri he said:

“(T)he great ideological struggle that we find ourselves engaged in today is not a new struggle. It’s the same old battle. We met it under the name of Hitlerism: we met it under the name of Kaiserism: and we have met it through the ages…in the name of every conqueror that has ever set upon a course of establishing his rule over mankind.”

Continuing the theme, in what was perhaps Reagan’s most spectacular speech, “A Time for Choosing” Reagan’s 1964 appeal to the public to support Barry Goldwater for President, Reagan ignited a fierce and fanatically loyal group of supporters who would eventually help propel him to the White House.

In this speech, he clearly has found his voice, and the sentiments he so passionately evoked remained largely unchanged through his entire presidency. They also finally shatter the leftist argument that Soviet communism was destined to fall and Reagan was just a happy go lucky chap who happened to be in charge when it happened. Instead, it was because of his fierce opposition to communism and the policies he implemented to combat it that led to their demise. In his speech he cautioned:

“We’re at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said that if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.”

It could be argued that the resulting election was a complete rejection of Reagan and his ideas. Just a few days after the speech, Goldwater was soundly defeated by uber-liberal Lydon Johnson who hoisted upon America his vision of a “Great Society.” The only thing great about it were the massive tax and spend programs which, in the words of Senator Clark serve “to meet the needs of the masses through the full power of centralized government,” aka socialism.

Instead of a defeat, though, “A Time for Choosing became a seminal moment in the political movement that he was to trumpet. This speech served as a call to arms that galvanized right thinking people across America. Martialing his momentum, Reagan proceeded to cut his political teeth as two-term governor of California where he further synthesized the different factions of the Republican Party into a cohesive and formidable conservative movement.

As governor, he lashed out at the welfare state, cleaving programs that only encouraged dependence on the government. He was also an outspoken critical supporter of the war in Vietnam. Unlike the short-sighted appeasement monger Democrats of today, Reagan knew it was crucial that America fight the spread of communism (like terrorism) and wholly supported the effort.

His critique was that the US insisted on fighting the war according to arbitrary rules, which served to hamper the effectiveness of the military. He wanted to take the fight to the North Vietnamese where he felt they would be crushed under the weight of the mighty US Military. It was not meant to be.

Before too long, American hating activists like John Kerry would testify before Congress that US troops were little more than butchers of babies and instigators of heinous crimes against the people of Vietnam. In due time, the Socialists, Maoists, Trotskyites and other ist groups across the country, would hasten the inglorious exit of the US Military from Vietnam.

They would also become complicit in the decision not to uphold our commitment to aid the South Vietnamese when they were invaded by the communist North, which set the stage for the butchering of millions of people throughout Vietnam and Cambodia.

After Nixon’s scandalous and expedited exit from the White House and Gerald Ford’s startling transformation in front of a national television audience from a Republican to an apologist for Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, the nation was ready for a change.

Just not the one they got.

By the time Reagan ran for President against Jim Carter, the country was suffering from a collective melancholy angst, its spirit slowly transforming to a malaise of staggering proportion. As if things weren’t bad enough at home, Carter’s steadfast liberalism also heaped a never-ending stream of inane capitulation after asinine appeasement to autocrats and tyrants the world over, further depressing the good people of the United States.

From giving away the Panama Canal to overseeing a crippling inflation and jobless rate, to kowtowing to Islamic radicals who imprisoned fifty two Americans for over a year to allowing the Soviet Union unchecked aggression across the globe, the “human rights” President did little to help the people of the United States or the right of humans around the world to live in peace, freedom and liberty.

As we learned through Carter’s maladroit experiment with onerous liberal programs and policies, those policies might sound good on paper but in practice they are a prescription for disaster, not just for the US, but also for oppressed people around the world who look to us as an advocate for freedom from despotism.

All that was about to change. In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States. He assumed the post from Carter on January 20, 1981, and he came out swinging. The Iranian mullahs sensing that their foreign policy tactics were not going to wash with the new President, released the US hostages a mere twenty minutes after Reagan began his inaugural address.

Ronald Reagan never looked back. And neither have we. Under his watch, the United States became proud state sponsors of freedom and liberty and a beacon of hope to people the world over. Natan Sharansky has said that when Reagan gave his “Evil Empire” speech, he and his fellow dissident celebrated Reagan’s message as a validation of their cause and gave them hope to continue their quest for freedom.

We as a nation are indebted to Reagan: For his unbounded enthusiasm, his utter conviction in America as that “shining city on a hill,” his dissolution of one of the most despicable governments the world has ever seen, his willingness to battle the liberals on their turf, for reinvigorating our economy and for once again making us proud to be Americans.

On this President’s Day, we honor Ronald Reagan’s service to his country and the people of the world. Though we could never hope to repay him, each of us can strive to uphold the principles he so tirelessly fought for and to do all we can to preserve in his honor, this, “the last best hope of man on earth.”

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