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MILLER: Harvey Weinstein and Meryl Streep new movie to make NRA ‘wish they weren’t alive’
Washington Times ^ | 1/15/14 | Emily Miller

Posted on 01/16/2014 2:47:17 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

Movie producer Harvey Weinstein announced for the first time on Howard Stern’s radio show that he is making a full feature drama to try to destroy the National Rifle Association.

Mr. Stern asked Mr. Weinstein on Wednesday whether he owned a gun. The Hollywood heavyweight replied that he did not and never would. “I don’t think we need guns in this country. And I hate it,” the producer said. “I think the NRA is a disaster area.”

... then revealed his secret project about the gun rights group. “I shouldn’t say this, but I’ll tell it to you, Howard,” he said. “I’m going to make a movie with Meryl Streep, and we’re going to take this head-on. And they’re going to wish they weren’t alive after I’m done with them.”

The shock jock asked whether the film was going to be a documentary. Mr. Weinstein said no, that it would be a “big movie like a ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.’”

The movie mogul said his vision was to scare people away from firearms. He foresees moviegoers to leave thinking, “Gun stocks — I don’t want to be involved in that stuff. It’s going to be like crash and burn.”

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; celebrity; duplicate; guncontrol; guns; hollywood; propaganda; usefulidiots; weinstein
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1 posted on 01/16/2014 2:47:17 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
Give Howard Stern credit:

Mr. Stern pointed out the inconsistencies in Mr. Weinstein’s earlier comments about a project about Jews defending themselves during the Holocaust. The producer replied that the justification for using a gun is “when you’re marching a half of a million people into Auschwitz.”

2 posted on 01/16/2014 2:47:53 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Mr. Weinstein went on to say, “WE’LL WIN THIS FOR MOTHER RUSSIA!”


3 posted on 01/16/2014 2:49:12 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“I’m going to make a movie with Meryl Streep, and we’re going to take this head-on. And they’re going to wish they weren’t alive after I’m done with them.”

He foresees moviegoers to leave thinking, “Gun stocks — I don’t want to be involved in that stuff. It’s going to be like crash and burn.”

Yeah - right - he’s in make believe land...there has never been nor ever be a Hollywood movie - or any movie for that matter that will be so influential as to change my mind about owning guns or anything else in my life...movies are entertainment - that’s it - nothing more!

What a tool...


4 posted on 01/16/2014 2:51:25 AM PST by BCW (Salva reipublicae)
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To: SoFloFreeper

..gun sales will increase


5 posted on 01/16/2014 2:52:10 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: SoFloFreeper

Useful idiots at work!

Mind bogglingly stupid people.


6 posted on 01/16/2014 2:52:59 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Will that dump get rid of his armed body guards? Dubious


7 posted on 01/16/2014 2:54:23 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: SoFloFreeper
The movie mogul said his vision was to scare people away from firearms.

But I thought movies have no effect on peoples' behavior? That's what Hollywood says every time there is a mass shooting and the perps were mimicking a movie or a video game.

8 posted on 01/16/2014 2:57:29 AM PST by South40 (Liberalism is a Disease)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Oh no, I am so frightened


9 posted on 01/16/2014 2:59:25 AM PST by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: Doogle

Guaranteed.


10 posted on 01/16/2014 3:01:03 AM PST by RC one
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To: SoFloFreeper
The movie mogul said his vision was to scare people away from firearms. He foresees moviegoers to leave thinking, “Gun stocks — I don’t want to be involved in that stuff. It’s going to be like crash and burn.”

This could be a pretty passable definition of "wishful thinking"

11 posted on 01/16/2014 3:01:07 AM PST by Fzob (Jesus + anything = nothing, Jesus + nothing = everything)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Or more likely, “I have a different constitution, a different brain, ....I have Tiger Blood.”


12 posted on 01/16/2014 3:01:19 AM PST by paint_your_wagon
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To: SoFloFreeper; All
The shock jock asked whether the film was going to be a documentary. Mr. Weinstein said no, that it would be a “big movie like a ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.’”

TRANSLATION: There will not be even a single fact in the flick.
13 posted on 01/16/2014 3:01:31 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: SoFloFreeper

‘The shock jock asked whether the film was going to be a documentary. Mr. Weinstein said no, that it would be a “big movie like a ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.’”;

IOW this is a propaganda film hatched by some political hack in DC and executed by Hollywood.


14 posted on 01/16/2014 3:02:44 AM PST by 556x45
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To: SoFloFreeper

Just remember that the defining characteristic of these people is the ability to think two different and contradictory thoughts at the same time. And consider it perfectly natural and logical.


15 posted on 01/16/2014 3:05:02 AM PST by The Working Man
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To: SoFloFreeper

To paraphrase the farmer in ‘Babe’ to Harvey and Meryl... “That’ll do, fascist pigs. That’ll do.”


16 posted on 01/16/2014 3:05:45 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Yeah sure, Harvey, whatever.


17 posted on 01/16/2014 3:11:23 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Prediction:

This movie either has zero effect or causes an increase in sales.

Anti gun movies from Hollywood are a dime a dozen


18 posted on 01/16/2014 3:11:23 AM PST by LMAO ("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Bm


19 posted on 01/16/2014 3:17:54 AM PST by Vision (Tune out, drop back)
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To: Vision

Actually my little film company had considered ways to make Ross’s great pro-gun book “Unintended Consequences.”


20 posted on 01/16/2014 3:20:16 AM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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