Posted on 04/01/2015 4:00:45 PM PDT by Perdogg
Clint Eastwood may follow up American Sniper with another dose of real-life drama. He’s circling The Ballad of Richard Jewell, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill‘s movie about the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing. Billy Ray wrote the script based on a 1997 Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner
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If Leonardo is involved we all know that the leftist hysteria about Jewell being a klansman or something isn’t going to be played up. As a matter of fact I have a feeling it will work hard to do the opposite.
Circling?
"Even though the conception and the purpose of the so-called Olympic movement is to promote the values of global socialism as perfectly expressed in the song "Imagine" by John Lennon, which was the theme of the 1996 Games—even though the purpose of the Olympics is to promote these ideals, the purpose of the attack on July 27 was to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand.
"The plan was to force the cancellation of the games, or at least create a state of insecurity to empty the streets around the venues and thereby eat into the vast amounts of money invested." - Eric Rudolph
They knew as a security guard he idolized "real cops" and after their initially harsh interrogation, they pretended to relent.
They pretended to finally honor their fellow security professional, and they started to "talk shop with him".
The FBI got Richard good and loosened up, and then they leaned back in their chairs:
"Shoot, Dick, we got this silly Training Film to make, ya know? And it's about some dumb perp finally breaking down under interrogation, and confessing to a bombing. Shucks, our actor guy isn't here, and, eh....sheesh, this is embarrassing, but would you just maybe HELP US GUYS OUT, OLE BUDDY...?"
And Richard was within a nanometer of actually DOING IT, would you believe...?
He remembered his college roommate had gone on to become a lawyer and he called his old friend up:
"Richard, you idiot, GET OUT OF THERE, NOW...!"
In other words:
THE POLITICIZED FBI WAS PERFECTLY OKAY WITH FRAMING UP AN INNOCENT MAN, PER BILL CLINTON'S ORDERS
I know Leo is a leftist.
As an actor, he has grown on me.
The two are not necessarily tied together.
Same here. I have followed his career when he started with Growing Pains. When he did “What’s been eating Gilbert Grape?” his performance was just so magnificent. For being a young kid he knocked it out of the ballpark. I then knew Leo was someone to watch. Now on his politics, that is separate. His father is a full fledge liberal whose friends happen to be Allen Ginsberg. I recall an article that Leo did an interview. The reporter asked Leo about Allen Ginsberg, Leo responds...”I don’t want to talk about him can we go on to the next”. I can only speculate why Leo made that statement.
Leo’s funny, sometimes I like him, sometimes I hate him. In his younger work, like “Basketball Diaries”, “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”, “This Boy’s Life”, I thought he was great. Then there was a decade or so when I couldn’t stand most of his stuff, with a few exceptions, like “Catch Me If You Can”. Now that’s he’s grown up a bit, he seems to be back on his game.
I still say he was completely miscast in “The Departed” though. He just comes off as too soft, too delicate to actually be accepted in those corners of society. He is the type of guy that career criminals would see as either an easy victim, or someone they would instantly resent just because of the way he carries himself. I mean, if he ever had to spent any time in jail, he would instantly be someone’s woman. Those kind of guys do not get anywhere in the criminal world outside of prison either.
Well, Ginsberg was known to favor adolescent boys as his preferred sexual partners, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he couldn’t resist trying something on a young Leo.
They KILLED Richard Jewell and his Mother prematurely.
I must be out of touch..old, and uninformed.
Poor old Richard Jewell. He was hounded almost to death by the FBI. It was a truly horrible thing. The guy never did anything wrong.
Well, if you are old, you would probably enjoy “This Boy’s Life”, since it is a memoir type piece about a kid growing up in the 50s. DeNiro turned in a good performance in that one too as the stepfather. It isn’t a rosy nostalgia film though, there are some dark issues brought up in it too.
Leo DiCrapio, the champion Hollywood Hypocrite who spoke in front of the Urine Nations to promote the Climate change scam while he rides around in private jets, parties it up in 500 foot yacht, is driven around in monster sized SUVs while sucking up the electricity of a small town for his several 100 room mansions. And if you try to debate the little bitch he sends in his effeminate bodyguards to woosh you away. Doesn’t even have the gonads to debate a girl. What the hell is Eastwood doing dealing with a turd like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQxia_M-NkU
There was a veteran, independent newsman who reported a conversation he had with an FBI agent that confirmed exactly that -- though the Fibbie would go no further than "the highest authority, the very highest authority".
Bttt.
Eastwood is making a mistake coupling with the super-lib hypocrite Leonardo DiCaprio.
I refuse to put a nickel in DiCaprio’s pocket and won’t see the movie.
I don’t like DiCaprio’s whacko politics at all, but if his pretty face gets a million or so more young, apolitical dummies aware that our highest law enforcement authorities have transmogrified into politicized hit-men who never scrutinize their orders...
THEN I APPROVE.
I hope a millions and millions of mortgage-paying, sit-com watching wage-slaves learn the truth of how they framed up this fat, well-intentioned do-gooder who was swept up in the myopic ambitions of a pleasure-seeking, prevaricating demogogue.
THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE THAT EASTWOOD IS WORKING OFF OF:
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1997/02/brenner199702
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