Linda Stasi raves in the New York Post:

“The Kennedys” is the best miniseries you almost weren’t allowed to see.

And considering the size of the cable network ReelzChannel’s usual audience, chances are you may still not see it.

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But the miniseries — starring Greg Kinnear as JFK, Barry Pepper as Bobby, Katie Holmes as Jacqueline and Tom Wilkinson as Joseph Sr. — is without a doubt one of the best, most riveting, historically accurate dramas about a time and place in American history that has ever been done for TV.

The eight-hour, $25 million project — produced by Joel Surnow, the guy who brought you “24″ — was originally commissioned by the History Channel and then killed off by ABC, which owns much of the cable channel, after it was completed.

ReelzChannel picked it up at a fire-sale price. Why? There are more conspiracy theories floating around about that than the Kennedy assassination itself.

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With a movie based on the gossipy, mostly unsourced, pro-Obama, Palin- savaging “Game Change” already casting and likely timed to boost President Barack –War of Choice! — Obama’s re-election bid in 2012, it looks as though HBO’s decided to double down with a miniseries written by a “West Wing” alum that’s based in part on the PBS (your tax dollars used against you again) Frontline documentary, “The Dark Side.”:

HBO has optioned the book Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Barton Gellman for a miniseries to be executive produced by Paula Weinstein.

The mini, which will be based on the bestselling book and the Frontline documentary The Dark Side, tells the story of Richard Bruce Cheney from his early days as Donald Rumsfeld’s protégé in the Nixon administration, to the nation’s youngest Chief of Staff under President Ford, to serving as Secretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush, through two controversial terms as Vice President under President George W. Bush. According to the producers, the project will center on Cheney’s “single-minded pursuit of enhanced  power for the Presidency (that) was unprecedented in the nation’s history.”

Read the full post here.

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Big Hollywood covered this back in May, but it seemed too good to be true. It still seems too good to be true….

And we gave strict orders that our right-wing network television sleeper agents were not to be activated until after the holidays. 

Don’t tell anyone, but the activation password was: Eisenhower.

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No doubt, CNN’s fact-checkers are on alert.

Today’s Chicago Tribune:

“Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.

“The news media swoons in admiration — one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: “Why don’t you show some respect?!” The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader’s origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: “Embracing change is never easy.” (more…)