Because it shows how corrupt the FBI is.
Is this a trick question?
I have known one retired FBI Special Agent in my life. He was a complete POS and cost me a great deal of money and a once in a lifetime career opportunity. That happened about 25 years ago. He’s probably dead by now. I need to find his grave so I can go p1$$ on it.
I saw it and thought it was awesome!
Excellent write up. Will watch the movie when it comes out on DVD, as I don’t do the big screens anymore. 8>)
The critics tried to sabotage the movie by not reviewing it at all.
After that failed and the movie generated buzz anyway, isn’t it a bit late to try to convince people that its actually a bad movie.
The left has been criticizing the FBI and CIA for decades, sometimes with good reason, but suddenly the left treats them as sacrosanct, above criticism, even suggesting that any criticism of those agencies is unpatriotic or even treasonous.
Why? Because they don’t like him being a filthy rick conservative.
This is a great movie. A true must-see, and the acting is fantastic!
Tough titty, Katie.
I have no doubt that men would do this too, but it generally doesn't happen.
But boy, oh boy, it sure does happen the other way. Men know it. And most rational women know it too. Only the rabid leftists rail that it is a slander, because they know it is true, but it doesn't fit their narrative of the "unempowered woman" being exploited by men.
The most recent case in point:
How a young reporter’s affair with a top government staffer became the center of a classified leak investigation
All of Clint E’s stuff is quality,to the point and fact. That is all any well rounded normal american needs to know.
All his work has been proven to be excellent
Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 96%
“Why might he have chosen, at this perilous moment in our history, to make a movie that depicts not just the press but also the FBI as fundamentally corrupt and uninterested in the truth?”
Notice the critic understands that this is a true story and not something Eastwood concocted to slander the FBI or the press. He just takes issue that Eastwood is “choosing to depict” this truth, rather than letting it be swept under the rug and forgotten like a good little leftist drone.
Folks, this is a movie to take your family and even liberal friends to see.
The parallels with what the FBI has done with Donald Trump and those around him are stunning.
HOORAY Clint
I saw the movie. I don’t usually take in movies but I thought I would see it to show my contempt for the powers that be. I didn’t really expect much. I didn’t think Richard Jewell was a very sympathetic character for one reason. But, I found it was really a good movie and the subject was very sympathetic. Jewell is what elite liberals look at and see a “redneck” ignorant, backwards etc. and that is why it is easy for them to pounce on it. He was in fact a very ordinary low talent person. He was over zealous and wanted to be something he was not. But, in one short stroke fate played out and he was in spite of himself a hero. After that it was quickly taken away from him and his past and everything about him was held up to scorn and ridicule. But, good in the end won out and he was a very sympathetic under dog that the average person could relate to.
>>The film’s detractors say the idea that Scruggs would trade sex for a scoop is unimaginable.
Whether SHE traded sex for a scoop is not unimaginable. There was a NYet Times ‘journalist’ who sexed several government officials for inside scoops.
What’s unimaginable is how the media smeared President Trump for YEARS with Comey’s off color “pee pee video” rumor.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3661701/posts
Ali Watkins’ past tweets come back to haunt NYT reporter amid leak case
foxnews 6-8-18 Alex Pappas
New York Times reporter Ali Watkins’ past tweets are raising eyebrows after revelations she had a three-year romantic relationship with a Senate Intelligence Committee aide now accused by federal prosecutors of leaking sensitive information to journalists, including herself.
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In an April 2013 tweet, Watkins also tweeted about the fictional Netflix television show “House of Cards,” where a young reporter has an affair with an older member of Congress.
“I wanted to be Zoe Barnes...until episode 4,” she tweeted. “Sleeping with your source- especially a vindictive congressman? #badlifechoice #
Saw it last night. They HATE that journalists in general were the bad guys here. They were portrayed as essentially a pack of wolves. The Scruggs character was portrayed as mean spirited, win at all costs, competitive biotch.