By Brent Bozell
In August, Rupert Murdoch's FX picked up
a Cold War series set in the 1980s titled "The Americans." Liberals
might have braced themselves for the worst. It sounded like some kind of Chuck
Norris-style "jingoistic" homage to freedom-loving intelligence
agents. But this is Hollywood, so the show instead focuses on KGB spies who
speak perfect English, working to destroy Reagan-era America, which is not
altogether a bad thing to people in Hollywood.
Joe Weisberg, who worked for more than
three years at the CIA, first wrote a script about two CIA case officers
stationed in Bulgaria. Fox bought that script, too, but that project was
deep-sixed. Boring. But exploring the daily joys and sorrows of undercover
Soviet agents, that just thrills the Hollywood Left. Some things never change.
FX couldn't create a series based on
real history because that would entail real heroes, and real villains, like CIA
traitor Aldrich Ames, who was a drunk who took on a feverishly overspending
second wife, and for enough pieces of silver, he sold state secrets to our
mortal enemy. There's plenty of drama in that real-life story, but instead FX
set out to find nice-looking fictional Marxist-Leninists that Americans could
learn to love.
TV Guide previewed the new series, which
debuts Jan. 30, like this: "It's the early 1980s, the Cold War rages…
Source: Town Hall
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