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Come on, man: Paramount bans showings of Team America: World Police in place of The Interview
Hotair ^ | 12/18/2014 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 12/18/2014 1:09:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Oh, the irony. After Sony cancelled the release of The Interview, a few theaters declared that they would show the 2004 hit Team America: World Police in its place as a protest against threats to free expression. That film also derided the government of North Korea, as well as the liberal Hollywood establishment that catered to anti-American despots in what was a prescient (if irreverent and very R-rated) satire.

As if to emphasize the latter critique, two cinemas have announced that Paramount Pictures has forbidden them to show the film publicly:

At least two movie theaters say Paramount Pictures has ordered them not to show Team America: World Police.

Breaking Plaza news : Team America World Police pulled from all theatres as per Paramount Pictures .

— Plaza Atlanta (@PlazaAtlanta) December 18, 2014

Please note: Our Late Shift screening of Team America: World Police has been canceled by Paramount Pictures. pic.twitter.com/TlPVzIeICW

— Capitol Theatre (@CapitolW65th) December 18, 2014

You might think that this would be a moment for some in Hollywood to stand up for free expression. You would, apparently, be wrong. In this case, it’s all the more ironic, as TAWP features this send-up song that actually has the perfect message for this week. Freedom isn’t free, folks. Sometimes it costs a lot more than a buck-oh-five, but in this case Paramount stood to make a lot more than a buck-oh-five, and still caved.

The video’s NSFW because of language, but this week I’m willing to say, “f*** it.”

If Paramount — which stood to gain in this transaction — won’t throw in its buck-oh-five, who in Hollywood will?

Updated: Gizmodo calls this “a staggering act of cowardice“:

Terrorist threats are no laughing matter, of course, but the Department of Homeland Security has found no credible threat and evidence that the Guardians of Peace have any sort of manpower that could do anything within the boundaries of the United States (much less at thousands of locations simultaneously) is practically non-existent. This sort of panicked cowardice would be laughably absurd if it wasn’t so damn sad.

No kidding.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2ndthread; banned; censorship; corporateliberalism; northkorea; paramount; teamamerica; theinterview
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To: SeekAndFind

Dirka dirka.


21 posted on 12/18/2014 1:21:15 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: cripplecreek
Obama rooking at Lil Kim rooking at
Obama rooking at Lil Kim rooking at
Obama rooking at Lil Kim rooking at
Obama rooking at Lil Kim rooking at..........

Kim Jong Un sees Obama riding a girl's bike

22 posted on 12/18/2014 1:22:22 PM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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To: kaehurowing

SCENE FROM TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE

KIM JONG-IL TO UN WEAPONS INSPECTOR HANS BLIX....



Hans Blix in Kim Jong-il's Palace

Kim Jong-il: Oh Herro, Great to see you again Hans Brix!
Hans Blix: Let me look around, so I can ease the UN's collective mind.
Kim Jong-il: Hans, ya-breakin' my barrs here, Hans, ya breakin' my barrs!
Hans Blix: I'm sorry, but the UN must be firm with you. Let me see your whole palace, or else...
Kim Jong-il: Or erse what?
Hans Blix: Or else we will be very, very angry with you... And we will write you a nasty letter, telling you how angry we are.
Kim Jong-il: Ok, I show you around. First, move to your to reft a rittle.
[Blix moves]
Kim Jong-il:Rittle more.
[moves again]
Kim Jong-il:Good.
[opens trap door then walks to shark tank]
Kim Jong-il:There you go Hans Brix! How you rike that ?
[watching a shark tear Hans apart]
Kim: What, you think I'm just a petty arms dearer? I'm pranning the attack. Congraturations Team America, you have stopped nothing.



23 posted on 12/18/2014 1:23:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

North Korea is probably not even behind this hack.


24 posted on 12/18/2014 1:25:55 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: kaehurowing

Lyrics to Kim Jong Il’s I’m So Ronery

Yes...
Cerebrate the new world

I’m, so, ronery
So ronery
So ronery and sadry arone

There’s no one
Just me onry
Waiting to kiss me back home

I work very hard to be number one guy
Stirr there nobody who rite up my rife
Seems that no one takes me seriorousryyyy
And so..

I’m ronery
A rittle ronery
Poor ritter me..

There’s nobody
I can rerate to
Feer rike a bird in a cage

It’s kind of sorry, but not rearry
Because it’s firring my body with rage
I rork rearry hard to stay nice and fit
But none of da women seem to give a shit
When I rure da world, maybe dey’ll notice meeee
Until den..

I’ll just be ronery
Sigh.. a rittle ronery
Poor ritter me..

I’m .. so.. ronery


25 posted on 12/18/2014 1:25:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have Team America on DVD.

Thank you very much.


26 posted on 12/18/2014 1:26:02 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: SeekAndFind

Unfortunately the joke is on America for caving to this runt.


27 posted on 12/18/2014 1:26:07 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Bon mots

Lol. Girr’s bike.


28 posted on 12/18/2014 1:26:18 PM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: SeekAndFind
Dont WORRY

revrunt SHARPTON is GWINE to DEAL with this!!!!



http://i.imgur.com/qTqBiyV.png
29 posted on 12/18/2014 1:27:07 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: cripplecreek

photo appears “flipped” along the vertical axis or a mirror image?

Look at the stenciling above the Pres-Seal on his left-brestical and the “name-tag on the other side.


30 posted on 12/18/2014 1:28:17 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: PghBaldy

I read that the first emails did not even mention NK... People are saying it was an inside job. Someone wanted to hurt Sony (or the characters involved) and succeeded. At first I thought it was NK, but upon reflection and some evidence on the emails, it seems not.


31 posted on 12/18/2014 1:28:42 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The terrorists have won.


32 posted on 12/18/2014 1:29:16 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: SeekAndFind

I want to ask y’all a question:

If this had been any company other than a big Dem contributing Hollywood outfit would Washington be so upset and call this a national security issue? Let’s say if it was Exxon. Would Obama just say “it is your problem and in your own interest to secure your computer network.”

Actually I kinda feel that way right now. Why the he77 can’t Sony protect their own intellectual property? Now on the other hand, I wouldn’t mind the US dropping a couple of 1,000 pounders on the mini midgets headquarters.


33 posted on 12/18/2014 1:29:18 PM PST by biff (Et Tu Boeh-ner)
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To: SeekAndFind
All your sony paramount are belong to us . .
booya
34 posted on 12/18/2014 1:29:50 PM PST by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: SeekAndFind
You could always buy it:

Team America: World Police.

35 posted on 12/18/2014 1:30:05 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Film Actor’s Guild is unhappy


36 posted on 12/18/2014 1:30:14 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: 1Old Pro

:: caving to this runt “”

Ummm, you may have accidentally tripped upon an alliteration insult that could catch fire on FR...

To wit, “raving to this...”
:-)


37 posted on 12/18/2014 1:30:41 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hows about falling back and showing THE CHAIRMAN with Gregory Peck!


38 posted on 12/18/2014 1:31:26 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I survived I-35W through Fort Worth in Rush hour! MILE AND MILES OF CONSTRUCTION!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am going to hold a private screening in my house of Team America! Whoo hoo!


39 posted on 12/18/2014 1:32:08 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: SeekAndFind

If I can’t watch vulgar puppets then the terrorists will have won.


40 posted on 12/18/2014 1:32:41 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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