Posted on 05/16/2020 4:15:45 PM PDT by Making_Sense [Rob W. Case]
Great comments on this thread.
Eastwood knows a good film needs heroes and villains and this film delivered both with great performances. Even better that the heroes are the opposite of heroic types. The FBI and the FBI have been teamed up with the same lying, framing, profiling, arse-covering crap for a long time.
I hope Sidney Powell sues the DOJ on General Flynn’s behalf, but they obviously have unlimited funds (ours.)
I liked this movie very much. Underscores how easily bad actors can ruin innocent people, egged on by a rabid press. Sound familiar?
Eastwood certainly extremely accurately portrayed the media as the whore that it is.
rockwell and bates two of my favs. The guy who played jewel was good, given I don’t know much about his personality
Yea and the reason he didn’t back down is because in real life she was every bit as bad as he portrayed Her in the movie. And that’s why the media couldn’t really attack him on that because she was really worse than he portrayed her and there was plenty of proof of that if they tried to
push it.
The FBI hasn’t changed one bit since 1996 still a bunch of keystone cops USELESS!!!
You’re right. That’s what makes situations like these (and ones like Flynn’s) so frightening, intimidating, crippling, & destructive. They set out to destroy their target (both by financial depletion and maligning their reputation) so that they become disgraced, powerless, and irrelevant. And it’s really sad because that leaves a system where only big government power players and the deep state exalt or disparage someone who simply chose to serve our country for the better.
A book about Jewell’s story was written called “The Suspect” by Kent Alexander & Kevin Salwen. In it, they describe Scruggs (from interviewing those she worked with) and one would have to conclude that she was really a “wild child.”
from page 111-112 of “The Suspect”
“Her personal flair often captured more attention than her news stories. She thought nothing of asking a friend to shift her black Mazda Miata convertible while she held the steering wheel and a cigarette in her left hand and a Budweiser tallboy in her right. She starched and ironed her tight jeans. She wore leather miniskirts to the office.
Inside the sprawling AJC newsroom, Scruggs was the most colorful and divisive player among the rows and rows of desks. Many saw her as a delightful throwback to the 1930s newspaper wars. She was loud, she was profane. She would burst into the paper’s downtown offices in a rush, slightly disheveled, hair pulling from its tie. Her future colleague on the Olympics security team, Ron Martz, marveled that “Kathy never quietly entered into a room. She kind of exploded into it.” She lived in Technicolor while much of the newsroom was in black and white. Over time Scruggs accumulated often-conflicting descriptors among her colleagues: tenacious, bombastic, rude, unsparing, wild, authentic.
Scruggs adored newsroom banter, often dishing out an off-color barb about male colleagues’ body parts. ”
It also goes into her getting into cars and hiding in the back seat, but this book complements Eastwood’s portrayal of the character down to a tee.
Just watch the DVD this weekend. Very good movie.
And the presstitute babe in the movie, Kathy Scruggs, she actually died of an overdose back in 2001. Jewel outlived her.
I watched it all unfold here in Atlanta. If you had a functional brain you knew right off the bat that Richard Jewell could not possibly be the bomber. I watched the FBI persecute that poor man for months. Its a miracle he did not commit suicide. That was when I realized that the FBI was not only evil but incompetent. Have had an abiding loathing for them ever since.
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