“two U.S. government officials screened a rough cut of the Kim Jong-Un assassination comedy The Interview in late June and gave the film—including a final scene that sees the dictator’s head explode—their blessing”
Censorship.
Right there.
So if the two bureaucrats had given the movie the thumbs down, the movie would have been pulled?
Which 0bama bureaucrats do you trust to have veto power over the content of political speech?
http://nypost.com/2014/12/18/sharpton-to-have-say-over-how-sony-makes-movies/
Well, after what happened after the widespread viewing of that YouTube video that sparked the spontaneous Benghazi protests, you can’t be too careful...
</sarc> (just in case you missed it)
I skimmed the title of the thread and wondered what an unassassination was.
It’s fiction, it’s a comedy, it’s not reality.
The Obama-Hollyweird ties backfire on Sony Pictures Entertainment and the U.S.
Kept out of it altogether, U.S. government hands would have been clean and the U.S. government would have been able to say with 100% accuracy that whatever is in the film is the film maker’s exercise of their freedom of speech. ANY seeming “approval” by the White Houses changes that and gives a charge of “propaganda” some legitimacy. I am not saying North Korea is right, in any sense, nor do I think SPE was right to cave-in to the threats. But all would have been better if no U.S. officials had any meetings with or gave any even tangential approval to the film makers.
Capitulation time!