Posted on 09/21/2017 11:52:43 PM PDT by RC one
Russia has aimed its entire media arsenal at the veteran Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman over his appearance in a video accusing the Kremlin of waging "war" on America during last year's presidential election.
The video shows the Oscar winner accusing President Vladimir Putin, a "former KGB spy", of launching cyber attacks and spreading false information in order to avenge the collapse of the Soviet Union.
He urges President Donald Trump to tell the nation that "during this past election, we came under attack by the Russian government".
The clip was produced by The Committee to Investigate Russia, a group set up by Hollywood director Rob Reiner to expose what it calls Russia's "aggressive effort to subvert the American democratic process".
The committee includes former National Intelligence Agency director James Clapper on its advisory board.
Freeman 'duped'
The official Russian reaction has adopted a knowing rather than angry tone, suggesting that Morgan Freeman is more to be pitied as a dupe of political interests.
President Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin was not taking the film seriously, as its accusations were "groundless and of an exclusively emotional character".
"Many creative people easily fall victim to emotional strain, and don't have real information about the actual state of affairs," he said, comparing the "emotional manipulation" of Hollywood stars to the McCarthyite anti-Communist campaigns of the 1950s.
"It will pass with time," concluded Mr Peskov.
The foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, wrote on Facebook that Morgan Freeman had been "duped" in an attempt to stop alleged wiretapping of the Trump campaign under the Obama administration from "turning into a new Watergate".
She predicted a "spectacular finale" when the truth comes out - "I can't wait".
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I am not a U.S. basher but is there a nation on earth that has not had its leader overthrown or its election interfered with by our government? The left is famous for this.
It is worse than that; this “Russian interference” BS, which is rightly regarded by most people (including leftists) as nonsense, will be included in the official history of the 2016 election. Within a few decades it will be “the truth”.
It is being done to sanitize the worst presidency in my lifetime (Obama), and excuse/explain the loss of the most vile Dem politician in my lifetime (Hillary) - because both are held up as gods by the left.
Hillary lost because she was the greater of the two evils and America saw it.
” The Committee to Investigate Russia”
Is Joe McCarthy their hero now?
“F” Morgan Freeman... he does pretend for a living... and he’s in NO WAY credible.
Is that the same Rob Reiner who went on television and likened Trump supporters to the KKK?
Russia didn’t make Harpy unlikable.
He must have been the potato peeler for the Air Force mess hall.
Yep.
Said on the 1st tread about this that its hard for me to put any credibility behind what blotchy faced old black guy with 2 earrings has to say.
Yep.
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