Rob Reiner was “Meathead” in the sitcom “All in the Family.” Now the famed director is calling out Lesley Stahl for going easy on a “moron” — his word for Donald Trump.
“I don’t know if you saw [“60 Minutes” correspondent Stahl] last night,” Reiner said Monday at a Washington screening of “LBJ,” his new film. “It’s embarrassing. It is embarrassing that somebody who has a national platform would softball this moron. He’s a moron.
“And that man is in the White House now, and the press normalized him. They normalized him for a long, long time. And that’s a disgrace.”
The Hill quoted another interesting claim by the filmmaker.
“The way I look at it, if you are trying to take an overview — the holistic approach — we are fighting the last big major battle of the Civil War.
“There’s only been two times in the history of America where upon the election of a president, the people en masse took to the streets,” Reiner said. “One was Abraham Lincoln, and the other was Donald Trump. And for obviously, you know, 180-degree different reasons, but both based on race.”
The Hill said Reiner’s movie, starring Woody Harrelson as Lyndon Johnson, “shows the 36th president’s rise to the White House and his struggle to pass the Civil Rights Act, navigating the contentious politics of the 1960s in search of a compromise.”
“The director hopes the public will be able to learn something about the fight for civil rights from the film, which has no scheduled release date yet.”
Right-wing reaction to Reiner:
No Meathead, it’s not the last battle of the Civil War. It’s a very early battle in the 3rd American Revolution. https://t.co/sdtuxBEIAA
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) November 15, 2016
Well, let’s just call it as it is: Rob Reiner is a moron. Boycott his movies, etc. Let him know how moronic we all are. https://t.co/pCEFRrxIJE
— ClthOwen (@moscowlilac) November 16, 2016
Dumbass alert => Rob Reiner Says Trump ‘Last Battle of Civil War’ https://t.co/9Efg7DvNvj pic.twitter.com/VQsJiVxJKb
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) November 16, 2016