Posted on 12/25/2014 10:47:32 AM PST by Inkie
Does anybody else think all the righteous indignation over the video parody of Leroy Brown at a retired cop's party - including calls for attendees to be fired, lose their pensions, etc., and the Elks Club somehow to be punished - is awfully odd, considering the recent hoo-ha over "The Interview" and all the demands for Sony, in the name of the First Amendment and creative freedom, not to let North Korean hackers push us around ? Or is it only me?
Why shouldn’t they make fun of Leroy Brown? After all, he’s the baddest man in the whole damn town.
Badder than old King Kong. And meaner than a junkyard dog.
(but to your point, it seems that once again liberals prove they are very selective when it comes to free speech. Free speech for ideas they agree with, not so much for anything else. Compare the WH reaction to The Interview to their outrage over the fake Benghazi video)
So true. It’s just that the Michael-Leroy-Brown video and The Interview film are only days apart. How quickly the left forgets.
I don’t think No. Korea had any interest in the film. My guess is that Sony sensed a flop and pulled off a brilliant publicity stunt to turn a profit knowing the lemmings would stand in line if they could create a perceived controversy.
That’s what I went with. This movie is right down there with Zapped, Ishtar and Attack of the Killer Tomoatoes.
I don’t assume Hollywood has that much intelligence.
I haven’t forgotten that the first thing we discovered was that they were insulting Obama which resulted in Al Sharpton being brought in to approve scripts for them. And then we’re supposed to believe Obama just wants to protect the people who insulted him. Meanwhile we have useful idiots like McCain talking about the need for cyber security legislation.
Seems to me that this helps the DC progressives most of all.
Cattle.
Maybe not intelligence; but they have plenty of power and influence. They got Obama elected, remember.
The only dictator Americans aren’t allowed to ridicule is our own.
No, it’s not just you Inkie...
I seem to remember a filmmaker who made a YouTube video nobody saw, that supposedly sparked a “spontaneous demonstration” of enraged Muzzies that ended with the deaths of a US diplomat and two former SEALS,and the filmmaker ended up in jail for offending Muzzies...
Selective outrage...Just one more of the many things the Left is so good at...
Charlie Chaplin’s first real “talky” The Great Dictator...
During its production the British government announced that it would prohibit its exhibition in the United Kingdom in keeping with its appeasement policy concerning Nazi Germany.[34] However, by the time the film was released, the UK was at war with Germany and the film was now welcomed in part for its obvious propaganda value. In 1941, London’s Prince of Wales Theatre screened its UK premiere. The film had been banned in many parts of Europe, and the theatre’s owner, Alfred Esdaile, was apparently fined for showing it.[4] It eventually became Chaplin’s highest grossing film with a total of 11 million worldwide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator
Joseph P. Kennedy father of JFK was the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain...- “Kennedy rejected the warnings of the prominent Member of Parliament Winston Churchill that any compromise with Nazi Germany was impossible. Instead, Kennedy supported Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s apparent policy of appeasement.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Sr.
That’s so awful, it’s good. (as a joke)
Please! that's one of the funniest movies I ever saw. A perfect parody of action movies.
Baddest man in the whole darn town!
And there was also a movie that involved the assassination of President GW Bush WHILE HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. That was apparently A-OK. Can you imagine if somebody tried doing that about the current occupant of the White House?
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