John Lennon: Reagan Supporter.

"the attitude of being anti-bush can never be idiotic"

But what does anti-Bush have to do with John Lennon? It was a different day and a different time. The morons who filmed this documentry want us to think the world hasn't evolved in thirty years when John first was a protester. Now Lennon might have supported this movie, but I got a feeling he was moving into a moderate age like most liberals did during that era when they saw what doofus Carter was. Reagan was very much a moderate type of guy, who had geniune liberal support during his day and age. Not extreme leftist support, but some moderate liberals loved the man. Loved the fact the man meant business and didn't let the Commies *beep* with us.

Well Spliter, I am not the one making the link, the makers of this propoganda piece are. Gore Vidal is featured in the trailer making an idiotic comment like "Mr Nixon and Mr Bush dealt in Death". And the movie focuses in only a few years of Lennon's life when the Vietnam War was still going on, and the Nixon administration wanted JL deported. The website features the blurb 'The Film That Will Change The Political Landscape" first off, these bufoons seem to arrogantly think that they can do this. They don't say "The Man Who Changed The Political Landscape" they claim the film will do that! HOW? The only conclusion seems to be that they think Nixon is Bush, Vietnam is Iraq, and John Lennon is Cindy Sheehan! None of this is the case. On top of it all, they do not address Lennon's support of Ronald Reagan in 1980, or the fact that his politics were often wrongheaded. and misguided by his own admission (The whole 'Do The Oz' debacle), often he was woefully underinformed and vauge (His bizzare debate with right wing crackpot AL Capp shown in the film 'John Lennon: Imagine') and that he was continually shifting his opinions and positions on matters (common for men in their 30s). My point is that he was not Emma Goldman, and he was never predictable. Had he lived he may have become THE voice of the modern day movement, he may have sided with Bush, He may have retired again, and kept a ow public profile. We just can not predict with any accuracy what he would have done, said or thought. This film and it's makers seem to think they can, and they can't!

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"the fact that bush is mentioned in the trailer as a "dealer of death""

Well, it's a sound bite from Gore Vidal, apparently. That is, I heard that in the movie, but I never saw the trailer. The movie explains how the activism against the war linked up with John Lennon's personal activities. However, clearly the people who made the documentary are ani-war now, as in Iraq, as in Bush. Clearly, that is a live issue, whereas Vietnam is just history . . . being repeated. This has been said elsewhere, by others. This documentary simply echoes it.

Clearly Lennon's views and other controversial views turn a lot of people off.

"Reagan was very much a moderate type of guy"

he was the DEFINITION of a Conservative, no where near moderate.
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