That sort of thing used to be the exclusive province of the left, back when W was in charge and Guantanamo was a bad thing – the editors of the WaPo today find much to recommend it. Now that Barack Obama holds the presidential reins, the Weekly Standard has some questions of their own:
There may be an overtly political reason that moviegoers will be seeing the story of the Osama bin Laden raid just before they vote for president. Sony Pictures, the company distributing next year’s film, hosted a fundraiser for Barack Obama on their studio’s premises in California last April. So far, Sony is the only major studio to hold a political fundraiser this cycle. According to Deadline Hollywood, Sony will release the bin Laden movie, directed by Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, on October 12, 2012–less than a month before the presidential election…
Sony Pictures could not immediately be reached for comment.
Neither could Leni Riefenstahl.
Ouch! Good call with Leni.
Maybe they will title the picture “Triumph of the Kill”
“Triumph of the KIll”
Oh… oh, that’s good. Well done!
10 points to Lex on the Riefenstahl comment! HUZZAH!
What i can’t understand is how the liberals credit Obama with the killing of Osama bin Laden when actually all he did is say to the SEALs, “let’s you and him fight.” Hardly a courageous thing. The courage was all on the SEALs’ side, bless them forever.
Marianne
Marianne – and it took the idiot 16 hours to give the word. Tool.
There was a supposed leak out just after the event that it was actually Panetta who gave the word because for purely political reasons The One was dragging his feet at the insistence of Jarrett. After that first “as told to me by an insider” story there has been a deafening silence about it, so I don’t really give it a lot of credit. Unfortunately, it does have a certain ring of, if not truth, at least high probability.
Funny, I remember that they (they being the ubiquitous “they” since I can’t remember what movie conglomerate was responsible) would NOT release the DVD of “The Path to 9/11″ because it would hurt Clinton’s legacy?
It seems to me that Hollywood will do anything to protect the lefties in charge.
Which is why the deficit commission should include revenue enhancements such as a $5 excise tax on movie tickets, and a 70% tax rate on any actor’s income over scale.
After all, we must share the sacrifice.
Amen!
I don’t recall where I got this, it might have been here at Lex’s place.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/08/sunday-reflection-why-gop-should-give-obama-higher-taxes-he-wants#ixzz1UOPbuuFm
oooo….Nasty shot there at the end, Lex. I’d say it hits them right in the balls. I would.
If I thought anyone but maybe Hillary had any.
As to the “questioning of the timing” being the province of the progressives, it seems that in the past few years the middle and right has finally figured out that using Amateur Boxing Association rules against a cage fighter using cage fighter rules will just gets you stomped.
Gee, imagine if Bush had not been distracted by Iraq and bagged OBL in Tora Bora when he had the chance? What great timing that would have been!
He could have basked in that glory for nearly a decade, now. But as he said, “I’m just not that interested in bin Ladin.”
Well, since Scott nailed you with some history, I’ll play the “Gee, imagine if” game with you.
Gee, imagine if….
Bill Clinton, after the WTC attacks on his watch, hadn’t blown 13 chances to capture or kill OBL rather than being distracted by boffing the help?
+1 Joe and thank you for saying it.
Joe – I’m sure, like me, you remember all of Bush’s speeches about how he inherited a bad situation from Clinton, blah, blah, blah. You remember those, right?
Yep…shore do, every speech he gave. And how he kept blaming Clinton through almost all of his first term.
One mark of a loyal progressive: keep beating the same damn dead horse in the hope that it will finally wake up and behave…
REST ASSURED, nothing but SHEER COINCIDENCE about the release date…oh yeah…”nobody here but us chickens!” ANYONE who believes that? Man o Man, Have I ever got a certain bridge I want to talk to you about. Suspiciously cynical? Moi?
Hey VX…”my good man”…Lex’s the reference to one Leni Reifenstahl in the contex of this post…appropriate ?… obscure ?…uber high brow ?…discuss. Best
Snake, the reference to Miss Leni is obscure only to those who are obtuse and ignorant.
VX, you need to increase the dose of the Barbancourt. Your blood pressure seems to be rising and will soon go out of control without a serious increase.
Pretty sure the Snake Eater was tongue in cheek there, QM. VX and he have something of a pedantic peckerwood competition going on.
Ahhh…precient as always…young grasshopper. Best
Flit – sorry to let the facts get in the way of left wing folklore, but Torah Bora was in December, 2001. The invasion of Iraq was over a year away. But why let that get in the way of a good snark, huh?
And before you go there, let someone who saw the first CENTCOM RFF (Request for Forces) for OIF say that didn’t show up until late spring 2002. So to say there was a “distraction” is folklore.
The Obamanation trying anything to get a bump three weeks prior to the election???? Surely you jest.
On the other hand…..I wonder who our Jug-eared leader will direct Sony to cast as the person playing Rambo Obama…..you know, the first POTUS in history to personally lead a SEAL attack against our enemies. Having killed OBL, as it were.
‘Twould be funny if I didn’t have the sickening feeling that far too many in the MSM might actually believe that he personally led the assault.
/sarcasm
I’m thinking Carl Weathers. Or The Rock.
Lex, while we are glad you are writing for us and appreciate your talent, it is really going to waste. You really should be writing for the National Review.
+1
I love Lex’s writings on all topics, but he really deserves a wider audience. And a pay check for his literary efforts! One of the general aviation magazines, or National Review would be a great match.
I’d rather see him on Ricochet. You have to pay-to-post there. I love NR, but there are a lot of lefty trolls haunting the Corner lately. Some topics are flooded with them.
AmSpec would be a better location I think. NR has been getting a bit squishy, and with the place being taken over by children like Goldberg and Lowry, it has become a shadow of what it once was.
AmSpec is still run by adults.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I prefer to be among friends.
I just pick the topic. You guys and gals provide the entertainment.
Mr. Lex, this lovely board is much like The McLaughlin Group, but vastly more entertaining.
Its similar to playing golf…senior hacker grade if you please…an avocation yes… its fun, some laughs/exercise a few brews,swap some lies…then home to chase the Bride around the house…but thats it…
…play it professionally (assuming I could)…not a flippen chance…thats real work bordering on drudgery. Best
This strikes me as an in-kind contribution to a political campaign. Aren’t there laws about that?
Of course with 46% of registered voters saying they definitely won’t re-elect Obama, compared to ~20% who definitely will, I don’t think the 1-2% bump he’d get would do more than convert a rout into a definitive rejection.
You want “in kind” contributions, look at how the news and entertainment media did all they could to promote The One. See:
http://www.livinglakecountry.com/blogs/communityblogs/45008387.html
Whodathunkit? Media admits they supported Obama!
By Amy L. Geiger-Hemmer
Nov. 24, 2008
Two liberal publications, Time Magazine, as well as The Washington Post, have come out and actually admitted that they gave favorable coverage to Barack Obama while printing many more negative stories about Obama’s rival, John McCain.
Wow! What a revelation! Fessing up to something that conservatives knew all along. Guess we have to give the mainstream media credit for at least being honest…
Here are some actual excerpts: From Time:
“The mainstream media’s support for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was so biased that even major insiders are now admitting they were shocked by its depth and depravity.
Last week, Time magazine’s Mark Halperin called the media’s performance during the campaign simply “disgusting.”
For the entire article, click on: http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/media_bias_halperin/2008/11/23/154417.html?s=al&promo_code=71E0-1
Columnist David Limbaugh noted: “Never has that been clearer than in the 2008 presidential election, during which they are covering up rather than covering Barack Obama’s shady past and alliances, his knee-deep involvement in corrupt practices threatening the very core of our democratic system, and his many policy misrepresentations.”
Limbaugh noted that the press went into a tizzy over Sarah Palin’s wardrobe, but ignored extravagances like Obama’s “obscenely idolatrous million-dollar Greek coliseum mirage.”
Here’s the article referring to the Washington Post: http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/post_obama_bias_media/2008/11/09/149343.html
Some telling points from the Washington Post article: “Now that the presidential election is over, the liberal press can freely admit it was in the tank for Barack Obama.
On Sunday, The Washington Post’s ombudsman admitted that the paper’s coverage was strongly skewed in favor of Obama and against John McCain.
This report is not so much “news” — readers knew that papers like the Post were working for the Obama campaign and had thrown claims of journalistic “objectivity” out the window to help the Illinois senator become president.
And the Post’s bias didn’t stop with McCain. Howell also admits the Post was out to get Sarah Palin.
“One gaping hole in coverage involved Joe Biden, Obama’s running mate. When Gov. Sarah Palin was nominated for vice president, reporters were booking the next flight to Alaska. Some readers thought the Post went over Palin with a fine-tooth comb and neglected Biden. They are right; it was a serious omission.”
Anyone still want to comment on how the media is not biased? How the media didn’t help Obama become president? Again, I say, Obama owes the mainstream media big time. It is obvious that our journalists of today are nothing more than Democratic campaign workers. How sad.
While at the moment some of the media bigs are starting to question The One, I think in 2012 they will go back to being his good little tuchas lechers.
No coincidence there. the problem is that Captain Zero’s base has pretty much the intellectual heft of a sixth grade middle school class with the right to vote. As a friend said, the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by the people who vote for a living… . And they are rabid koolaid drinkers.
“the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by the people who vote for a living”
Awesome quote.
When 47 percent of Americans pay no income tax and 45 percent think the US tax system is just fine, one can see where one may come up with a statement like that.
http://www.businessinsider.com/coincidence-47-of-americans-dont-pay-income-tax-45-think-tax-is-just-fine-2010-4
Hey, don’t you pick on my Leni! I weren’t her fault she had a crush on Adolf; you know how girls are!
Ah, that’s “It” weren’t her fault. Therewith. Or in German, Dammit.
They’ve got a hard release date? Not just “fourth quarter”, but an actual date? Before they have a script?
Yeah, something fishy there.
Yup, they’re beginning with the end in mind