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Pyongyang Shuffle: Hollywood In Dead Panic Over Sony Hack
Daily Beast ^ | December 19, 2014 | James Poulos

Posted on 12/20/2014 5:54:31 AM PST by C19fan

In the ebullience that surrounded the supposed end of the Cold War, few analysts worried about the nuggets of communist opposition that the tide of freedom had failed to sweep away. Cuba was harmless. China was capitalizing. Those weird little statelets left in the USSR’s wake? Whatever, bro.

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In fact, Hollywood has amassed so much undisclosed TMZ fodder that it’s willing to do whatever the North says. There is no margin for error, and no taking of chances. Spend enough time in the right/wrong circles here in L.A., and you’ll pick up a tabloid’s worth of sordid stories. Sometimes they’re open secrets. Sometimes they’re videos sitting on people’s phones. Almost always, they’re about the kind of behavior that ordinary Americans revile (or pretend to), but don’t really want to know about. Massive drugs. Massive prostitutes. Massive expenditures. All somehow sustained in a system that’s run by some of America’s most famous corporations—legitimate, law-abiding businesses, of course.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hack; hollywood; north; sony
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Hollywood sounds like everyone should be in some 12 step program. They all think they can do things that would bring shame and embarrassment if they were caught but they think they won't get caught. The fact that lots of the dirt are in hackable formats just adds to the denial. If you are going to sleep around with hookers use one of those pay on the go phones, create a specific e-mail address, and always cash. These guys and gals never seem to learn despite living in a type of fishbowl with the likes of TMZ always looking for dirt.
1 posted on 12/20/2014 5:54:31 AM PST by C19fan
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Did Hollywood come to the defense of the guy who made that Muhammed Movie that Obama blamed the Benghazi fiasco on?

If Sony had made a movie critical of Islam instead of North Korea, would the Administration have told them not to bow to terrorist threats? Or would Obama have sent his cronies out to arrest the director on a probation violation?


2 posted on 12/20/2014 5:58:21 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: C19fan

3 posted on 12/20/2014 6:01:28 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: P-Marlowe

Geez, do you think the big tough h’wood types will cancel “American Sniper” if the radical evil doers raise a rukus? Wouldn’t want to upset those whose name shall not be uttered by the lyin’king. Shhhh. You know, the hate filled muslims that attacked us.

RIP Chris Kyle.


4 posted on 12/20/2014 6:03:38 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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Did Hollywood come to the defense of the guy who made that Muhammed Movie that Obama blamed the Benghazi fiasco on?

If Sony had made a movie critical of Islam instead of North Korea, would the Administration have told them not to bow to terrorist threats? Or would Obama have sent his cronies out to arrest the director on a probation violation?

Worth repeating! Thank you.

5 posted on 12/20/2014 6:04:25 AM PST by BigBobber (`)
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To: Travis McGee

LOL! Do you believe that a single one of them DIDN’T laugh? He probably got more laughs than the lyin’king with his Santa in fatigues “joke”. “You laugh or you die!”


6 posted on 12/20/2014 6:05:24 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: P-Marlowe
Even worse, now Al Sharpton will be assuming the role of Will Hay. Just as soon as he can rewrite the old Code.
7 posted on 12/20/2014 6:07:16 AM PST by Tupelo (I am feeling more like Phillip Nolan by the day.)
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To: C19fan

Where’s AmbASSador Dennis (Worm) Rodman on the issue?
Time to defend his lil buddy and his adoring Nork friends.


8 posted on 12/20/2014 6:13:10 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyrannye dontchyaknow.)
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Hands up, don’t hack. Sony tee shirts anyone?


9 posted on 12/20/2014 6:15:55 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyrannye dontchyaknow.)
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I'm not buying this BS. It is just another hyped up crisis to hide something the Fed Gov is up to up to. Likely to take focus off the passage of Cromnibus which includes provisions to prop up derivatives which are on the verge of collapsing.

Its a crisis a day with this administration all time to cover up the crap they pulled the previous day.

10 posted on 12/20/2014 6:16:39 AM PST by suijuris
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If America learned just how rotten Hollywood can be, the outcry would blast the entertainment industry with the force of a thousand Interviews.

IF?? I think most do, however very few people are capable of looking in the mirror and coming to the conclusion that by patronizing Hollywood, they are themselves just as Morally Bankrupt.

When you support the Morally Bankrupt with your hard earned money, you are just as Morally Bankrupt.


11 posted on 12/20/2014 6:16:42 AM PST by eyeamok
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Are they afraid that we’ll find out Hollywood is a moral cesspool that makes Babylon look like a convent?

Old news, guys. We’ve known that for decades.


12 posted on 12/20/2014 6:18:12 AM PST by IronJack
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This news item is screaming hot and rich for a SNL skit. Let’s see how the rest of the media bows down or not.


13 posted on 12/20/2014 6:22:48 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyrannye dontchyaknow.)
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To: IronJack

If another country successfully “attacks” the US through the internet, shouldn’t it be seen as a failure of the US government? Don’t the taxpayers spend considerable money on the NSA, CIA, FBI and so forth to protect this country? I see this as another failure of this current communist administration.


14 posted on 12/20/2014 6:24:22 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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We should than the PK’s for exposing Hollywood’s true, inner and hidden self.

They are only aghast because their true nature has been revealed to all. Kinda like a pre-cursor to God’s eventual judgment........

May the exposure and revelations only continue!

Oh, it’s so tragic and sad to see the high and holy fall from their pedestals...... /s


15 posted on 12/20/2014 6:33:08 AM PST by Arlis
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Hollyweird is finding out they must stick to their glorifying their communist heroes and not attack them otherwise they get the Sony treatment. Trashing conservatives and christians is a much safer venue for their cinematic exploitations.
Otherwise Dear Eater will put them too in deep kim-chee.


16 posted on 12/20/2014 6:34:31 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyrannye dontchyaknow.)
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Almost always, they’re about the kind of behavior that ordinary Americans revile (or pretend to), but don’t really want to know about. Massive drugs. Massive prostitutes. Massive expenditures. All somehow sustained in a system that’s run by some of America’s most famous corporations—legitimate, law-abiding businesses, of course.

Sounds exactly like Wall Street. No wonder they all back Democrats.

17 posted on 12/20/2014 6:35:21 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: Arlis
Just two things, payback is a b-I-itch isn't it you Hollywood Humbugs! 😛 and EVERYThING happens for a reason...
18 posted on 12/20/2014 6:40:26 AM PST by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Like we needed Dear Eater’s henchmen to uncover the moral sewage that is Hollyweed? Yawn...... Next.....


19 posted on 12/20/2014 6:41:19 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyrannye dontchyaknow.)
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To: Travis McGee

That’s the line from “Space Balls”


20 posted on 12/20/2014 6:42:50 AM PST by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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