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Tom Cruise's 'American Made' Nixed Scene With Bill Clinton Getting Lap Dance
Hollywood Reporter ^ | 9/29/2017 | Tatiana Siegel

Posted on 09/29/2017 7:42:25 AM PDT by mairdie

The film draws from a conspiracy theory that implicates both Clinton and George H.W. Bush in a massive operation that involved cocaine smuggling, money laundering and illegal arms exporting.

American Made, opening today, was poised to be the rare movie that could unite those on either side of the political divide. After all, it's based on the one conspiracy theory that implicates both Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush in a massive operation that involved cocaine smuggling, money laundering and illegal arms exporting.

But those hoping for some Clinton dirt will ultimately be disappointed. The filmmakers decided to cut a scene showing a young Clinton getting a lap dance at an Arkansas strip club. In the script, it's the moment when the movie's real-life protagonist Barry Seal, played by Tom Cruise, hatches an idea to enlist Clinton, who was then governor of Arkansas, in the CIA-backed scheme. ... The Doug Liman-helmed film's original title, Mena, also was changed to American Made in an effort to downplay the Arkansas connections. "Mena" references the name of the town in Arkansas that contained a clandestine airfield used to smuggle guns and drugs back-and-forth to Latin America, during Clinton’s watch as governor. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: History; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: americanmade; clintonscandals; coverup; mena; movies; nothingtoseehere; olivernorth
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Another movie not to see.
1 posted on 09/29/2017 7:42:26 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: mairdie

I already saw how it ended for Barry Seal, on Narcos.


2 posted on 09/29/2017 7:44:41 AM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: mairdie

I’m guessing the script also makes no mention of the boys on the tracks.


3 posted on 09/29/2017 7:45:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: mairdie

I can’t wait not to see it.


4 posted on 09/29/2017 7:45:12 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: WKUHilltopper

I do love a well-turned phrase.


5 posted on 09/29/2017 7:46:54 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: mairdie

Boycotting the NFL is turning out to be as easy as my boycotting of Tom Cruise movies all these years! :)


6 posted on 09/29/2017 7:48:08 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: mairdie
I thought Hillary was the one into lap dancing


7 posted on 09/29/2017 7:49:14 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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To: COBOL2Java

That is an eye-bleach candidate for sure.


8 posted on 09/29/2017 7:50:25 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: mairdie

“What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?” Romans 6:21


9 posted on 09/29/2017 7:51:26 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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Somehow I can't imagine either of the Clintons being ashamed of anything they do. But I really HATE the film making Oliver North the bad guy. I really liked him in the original hearings and, when I put up the edited videos, I remembered why. There's someone who doesn't have to be ashamed of his life.

North Hearing - Day 4 Afternoon - NBC - 10 Jul 1987
10 posted on 09/29/2017 8:00:49 AM PDT by mairdie
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I think Tom should have gained at least 75 pounds for the role.
Instead, he grows out his sideburns. What a noob.

11 posted on 09/29/2017 8:01:33 AM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: mairdie

I think the difference is the Clintons’ shame is not like a normal person’s shame. But it’s still there. Otherwise they wouldn’t try to hide their sins.


12 posted on 09/29/2017 8:06:30 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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dont think it is shame, really...

they hide their crimes because they dont want to go to prison. period

shame does not factor in...they cannot and do not feel “shame”, like normal people do...


13 posted on 09/29/2017 8:09:10 AM PDT by QualityMan (The Adults are back in town)
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To: reasonisfaith

Psychopaths have no conscience. Any shame they happen to garner is immediately transferred to others. Nothing is ever their fault.


14 posted on 09/29/2017 8:10:22 AM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: PhiloBedo
Found this on another site:

"My dad was an airline pilot and early in his career when he was making beans he was approached multiple times to fly "private" planes in and out of central America for exhobidant amounts of money. He declined but a buddy of his from the Air Force signed up. One day the guy is landing at a small strip in California and the feds come out from all angles."

"He got busted, goes to the clink, keeps his mouth shut... and got murdered in the joint anyway... probably by the cartel who didn't wanna risk anything."

15 posted on 09/29/2017 8:11:37 AM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: mairdie

Does it include the phone call from Barry Seal to HW Bush days before he died where he threatened to blow the lid on everything if he didn’t get the IRS off his back? Or that Bush’s name and personal phone number was in his black book that was found in the car he was shot in?

Or that his prized plane was used by the Governor of Texas, George W Bush, after Seal died?

This not a conspiracy theory. Even the phrase ‘conspiracy theory’ was created by the CIA in 1967 to attack people who didn’t believe the Warren Report.


16 posted on 09/29/2017 8:15:07 AM PDT by Vic S
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To: QualityMan; Slyfox

I think Nietzsche would have called it shame.

The point here is that shame in the broadest category is more than just the feeling a person has inside. It has to do with whether something can be made public, or whether by its very nature it must remain hidden. The Clintons don’t have a conscience, that is true. But neither do they have the sort of ultimate power they think they have.

If they did, they wouldn’t have to hide their sins.


17 posted on 09/29/2017 8:16:25 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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They probably nixed the lapdance scene to replace it with a “hidden cigar” scene. Ya think? Nah...


18 posted on 09/29/2017 8:18:10 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("We should fear the tyranny of the easily offended." Stossel)
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To: reasonisfaith

Analogous to this and for the same reason, progressivism can never be sold at face value. It has to be packaged as something other than what it really is, with its overwhelming ugly parts entirely hidden from view.

With special care taken to hide the ugliness from progressives themselves.


19 posted on 09/29/2017 8:18:56 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: mairdie; doug from upland

At the 2000 Hollywood Gala where Bill was being set up with $1.5 million slush fund to represent Spiderman, Bill’s pimp was James Levine of the Chicago Crazy Horse Too topless bar. Ask DougfromUpland. See video Hillary Uncensored.


20 posted on 09/29/2017 8:20:07 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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