Mr

VIA FAX

Mr. Ed Gillespie RNC Chair

Republican National Committee

310 First Street, SE

Washington, DC 20003

Phone: 202.863.8500

Fax: 202.863.8820

Email Address:

General Information: info@rnc.org

To Mr.

Gillespie,

November 3, 2003

After reading a CNN article of your complaints about the upcoming CBS

mini-series called, “The Reagans”, all I have to say to you and to use

the words of President Reagan himself is, “There you go again”, making

assumptions of what a movie may contain without having first viewed it.

And we all know that age-old saying about assuming anything.  It makes

an ass out of you and me.  Well, frankly you and the RNC are making a

total ass out of yourselves and being belligerent ones at that.

First off, you do not tell a network how they are to present any movie

they choose to present.  You do not ask of them to run anything at the

bottom of the screen if you find what they are portraying is

misleading.  If you feel it is, you have your well-oiled press machine

to deal with that.

While you have the right of free speech to present your side of Pres.

Reagan’s record by selling videotapes on your site, CBS also has the

right of free speech in airing their program in the way it wishes to do

so.  Did you ever hear of the Constitution?  You know that sacred

document that your president has seen fit to shred.  Well, the first

amendment deals with freedom of speech and expression and I highly

suggest you read up on it before shooting off your mouth and demanding

anything, Mr. Gillespie.

There is another age-old saying, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out

of the kitchen” and I highly suggest that you get out of that kitchen.

Mary MacElveen

Posted on the Internet and Sent to Mr. Les Moonves and Mr. Mel Karmazin

Pres. & COO of Viacom

Article:

http://us.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/31/reagans/index.html

RNC asks to review 'The Reagans'

Worried about inaccurate portrayal of the couple

From Mark Rodeffer

CNN Political Unit

Friday, October 31, 2003 Posted: 5:51 PM EST (2251 GMT)

(Snip)

WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Republican National Committee Friday asked CBS

to

allow a team of historians and friends of former President Ronald

Reagan

and his

wife to review a miniseries about the couple before it airs.

Ed:

Mary Mac has been letting the GOP have it weekly or more, since December 18th 2000.