On August 30, 3,500 theaters will show the big-budget film about Ronald Reagan.

“Reagan” tells the inspiring life story of how Reagan revived America’s economy and spirits while winning the Cold War. Dennis Quaid is cast as Reagan and he says it is his favorite of all the 85 films he’s made.

Quaid called out Facebook for throttling the marketing of the film. “I have personal experience with Facebook banning and suspending advertisements and promotion of the film,” he says in a statement.

The most egregious example involves a post that contains the title of the movie and an image of Quaid along with a quote from the 40th president; “Don’t let anyone tell you that America’s best days are behind her–that the American spirit has been vanquished.” It has been suppressed. Meanwhile, clips of Quaid discussing the movie on TV and podcasts caused the suspension of the movies Facebook account at least twice.

Facebook has made a series of lame complaints that the movie is “too political.”

Gee, nothing else you will find on Facebook is political!

And films about Abraham Lincoln, LBJ, and Barack Obama that were released in an election year suffered no restrictions.

Facebook is a private company with a private social media network, so it should be able to post and not post whatever it wants. Originally Facebook denied the censorship, but to its credit the company has since admitted that “we did identify a handful of ads from this account that were incorrectly rejected…..This was a mistake and the restriction on the ads has been lifted.”

We haven’t seen the film yet, so we can’t recommend it, but our attitude is that the left’s campaign against the film is all the more reason to watch it.