Posted on 12/18/2014 12:35:09 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
President Obama on Wednesday said he did not believe Americans needed to be concerned by threats issued to movie theaters, even as Sony Pictures made the decision to pull its controversial comedy “The Interview” amid threats of terrorism.
“For now, my recommendation would be: Go to the movies,” Obama said Wednesday in an interview with ABC News.
The president said his administration was taking very seriously the cyber attack against the movie studio, which unleashed a trove of internal emails and documents, and pledged a thorough federal investigation into the breach. On Wednesday, multiple media outlets citing U.S. intelligence officials reported that North Korea had played a central role in the attack.
Pyongyang appeared to launch the attack in retaliation for the James Franco and Seth Rogen-led comedy, which is based on a fictitious plot to assassinate North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un.
A message purportedly from the hackers threatening a Sept. 11-style attack on those who planned to see the movie caused theater chains across the nation to cancel their screenings. Later Wednesday, Sony announced it was canceling its Christmas Day release of the movie.
Didn’t the Soviets try more circuses to distract the populace from their woes? This guy is reading from the socialist handbook like it was his bible. Or quaran.
~Didn’t the Soviets try more circuses to distract the populace from their woes? This guy is reading from the socialist handbook like it was his bible. Or quaran.~
Vladimir Ilyich, Lunacharsky writes in his reminiscences, said that the production of new films imbued with communist ideas and reflecting Soviet realities should be started with newsreel, since, in his opinion, the time had not yet come for the production of such films. “If you have a good newsreel, serious and enlightening pictures, it doesn’t really matter if you show some worthless film with them of a more or less usual type to attract the public. A censorship, of course, will be needed. Counter-revolutionary and immoral films should be barred.” To this Lenin added: “As you find your feet, what with proper handling of the business, and receive certain loans to carry on, depending on the general improvement in the country’s position, you will have to expand production, and particularly make headway with useful films among the masses in the cities, and still more in the countryside.... You must remember always that of all the arts the most important for us is the cinema” (Sovietskoye Kino No. 1-2, 1933, p. 10).
“For now, my recommendation would be: Go to the movies,” Obama said....
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“For now, my recommendation: Go to Hades, Obama,” said Bigg Red.
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