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Why the Left Was Worried About Our Peter Strzok Play
Townhall.com ^ | June 28. 2019 | Phelim McAleer

Posted on 06/28/2019 5:00:02 AM PDT by Kaslin

Peter Strzok was one of the most senior FBI agents. In fact, a congressman has described him as one of the top counter intelligence agents on the planet. He was having an affair with Lisa Page, one of the FBI’s most senior lawyers. Along with bitching about work, they also worried and plotted to scupper the Trump candidacy and then his presidency of the United States.

In private text messages, they discussed starting the investigation into Donald Trump’s supposed ties with Russia before the election as an “insurance policy” in case he was elected. Strzok also pledged to stop Trump getting elected at all - shortly after Strzok launched the “collusion” investigation. In between sending teenage-lovestruck texts, they also spoke with revulsion and contempt of Trump and his supporters. Strzok wrote that he could “smell” them during a visit to a southern Virginia Walmart. In the middle of this political conspiracy, there also existed a couple of arrogant, insecure bureaucrats embarking on a doomed, extramarital affair.

It is an amazing love story and an amazing political story which is why I choose it for my latest Verbatim Play. FBI Lovebirds: UnderCovers uses only their texts and closed door Congressional questioning about the texts. Pure verbatim theater means nothing was added, and because it is very often an unfiltered court case or inquiry, it can lead to explosive theater. Adding to the drama and the attraction was the news that “Young Superman” Dean Cain, and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Kristy Swanson, had agreed to play Strzok and Page. It attracted enormous publicity and above all it was the truth.

This is why the left was afraid of FBI Lovebirds: UnderCovers and what it reveals. How could they argue with Strzok and Page’s actual words? The theatrical world is an ultra-hard-left cult within the already far-left entertainment industry, and so before the staged reading, they pulled out all the stops attempting to try and stop the production. The Studio/Mead Theater, which had originally agreed to host the event, pulled out at the last minute over supposed “security concerns” (which turned out to be a single tweet). Then, several outlets proclaimed falsely that the event had been “cancelled.”

This is becoming a trend. My play, Ferguson, another piece of Verbatim Theater, faced similar hurdles. Nine actors walked out before the production, and for a play I put on in San Francisco, a website run by a former Berkeley Professor refused to run a review it had commissioned - because it was positive!

The same people who preach diversity and tolerance seem to act pretty cowardly and intolerant when they’re faced with facts they don’t like.

Despite the attempts to kill it, the staged reading of FBI Lovebirds: UnderCovers premiered in Washington, D.C. and it was a hit. The Federalist said that it “plays like a ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketch, only every word is true and it’s actually funny.” National Review described the play as “DC satire at its best...that left the audience howling.”

Rick Manning at The Torch wrote that he participated in a meeting at the White House the day after and those in attendance “couldn’t stop talking about it.”

Even left-leaning outlets found it difficult to lambast the play. HBO’s Vice News described it as “underground...edgy..the most dangerous play in Washington DC.”

So often we hear that conservatives can’t make art, or films or plays, but the people making these claims never ask about the barriers put in the way of those who dare to question the consensus. They are denied funding, support and in my case venues, actors and even reviews.

Thankfully, I was able to crowd-fund to ensure the show went ahead. The play was filmed and we will be releasing it to a massive worldwide audience shortly, that is, if the social media giants decide to allow it.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: cultureofcorruption; demonrats; fbi; fbiagent; fbiinvestigation; leftists; lisapage; mcaleer; peterstrzok; theleft; washingtondc; worrieddems
Strzok sounds like a Russian last name. So is it any wonder that he did, what he did?
1 posted on 06/28/2019 5:00:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

You know, after three years of knowing that the Russia intrigue has always been a red herring even though the media and establishment powers tried to convince us otherwise because we all know damned well that if russians tried to influence or assist Hillary’s campaign, the FBI would have gone straight to warn her, instead of setting up counter-intelligence against her, but it occurs to me with this article that if they had gotten away with it, Strozk would not be a hero, on a pedistal, and none of the nasty business of those texts would ever have seen the light of day. He’d have been smirking and smugging his way through all the cable networks on interviews and getting invited to the best sunday talk shows.


2 posted on 06/28/2019 5:22:36 AM PDT by z3n
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To: z3n

By smirking I’m sure he knows he’s off the hook.


3 posted on 06/28/2019 6:02:04 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Its becoming apparent the worlds problems are caused by too many dumb people going to university combined with way too many people with way to much time on their hands. I really should be doing something else ...


4 posted on 06/28/2019 6:40:06 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: Kaslin

Truth to Leftists, is like Holy Water to vampires.


5 posted on 06/28/2019 6:47:22 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: z3n

Yes, Hillary would have richly rewarded all of her camp followers.


6 posted on 06/28/2019 7:28:24 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: datricker
the worlds problems are caused by too many dumb people going to university

Put an idiot through college, you get out an educated idiot. Put a Democrat through college, the answer is the same. Except in AOC's case, she is NOT educated.


7 posted on 06/28/2019 8:46:03 AM PDT by politicianslie (OPTIMIST-Glass 1/2 full- PESSIMIST 1/2 empty TO ENGINEER, Glass is twice as big as it needs to be!)
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To: Kaslin

The theatrical world is an ultra-hard-left cult within the already far-left entertainment industry, and so before the staged reading, they pulled out all the stops attempting to try and stop the production. The Studio/Mead Theater, which had originally agreed to host the event, pulled out at the last minute over supposed “security concerns” (which turned out to be a single tweet).


8 posted on 06/29/2019 6:54:47 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: originalbuckeye

The same people who preach diversity and tolerance seem to act pretty cowardly and intolerant when they’re faced with facts they don’t like.


9 posted on 06/29/2019 6:55:22 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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