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Three senators slam “Zero Dark Thirty”
Three powerful Senators have sent a letter to Sony Pictures Entertainment slamming the film Zero Dark Thirty as “grossly inaccurate and misleading.”
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Armed Services ranking member John McCain (R-Ariz.) said that Sony CEO Michael Lynton has an “obligation to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film’s fictional narrative.” …
The senators said that because the film opens with the statement “based on firsthand accounts of actual events,” the producers must clarify what is fact and what is fiction.
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“Yeah, we’ll get right on that.” -Hollywood
lowandslow on December 20, 2012 at 8:28 AM
Yeah, gotta keep that meme about waterboarding not working alive and well.
Idiots.
Bitter Clinger on December 20, 2012 at 8:29 AM
Have the Muslim riots begun yet?
albill on December 20, 2012 at 8:29 AM
If so and since the WH fed these clowns information, can we expect WH officials to get frogmarched in the middle of the night and imprisoned indefinitely?
BuckeyeSam on December 20, 2012 at 8:35 AM
And here I thought they were going to be upset about national security secrets being leaked.
Nah
commodore on December 20, 2012 at 8:40 AM
I haven’t seen the movie, does Matt Damon swoop in at some point to give a long, monotonous soliloquy about the demise of the American ideal and the corruption of the military-industrial complex?
Bishop on December 20, 2012 at 8:41 AM
Only after Obama issues an apology.
BigGator5 on December 20, 2012 at 8:45 AM
No, but he does beat the Russian in a game of Texas Hold Em’:)
Clink on December 20, 2012 at 8:45 AM
S’moore and Stone were held to the same standards weren’t they?
Damn sarc font doesn’t work here either.
Xavier on December 20, 2012 at 8:47 AM
Really? I was hoping it was 110% accurate in keeping with the new tradition of the WH and (some) SEALs pi**ing all over OpSec to the benefit of America’s enemies.
Jarrett – you have failed the cause. Hang your head in shame.
CorporatePiggy on December 20, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Wait a moment! I thot this was going to be an “All hail King Obama, the Gutsy Caller” flick. So what happened between the WH giving the filmmakers unprecedented access to the SEALs/WH and the cutting room?
AH_C on December 20, 2012 at 9:24 AM
An Oscar nominated movie depicting the killing of the most heralded terrorist in the Islamic world. What could go wrong? And, yeah, when do the riots start?
rsherwd65 on December 20, 2012 at 9:26 AM
I say to let us see the CIA memos the Senators refer to and let us, the American people, see the true facts.
I believe the three Senators named as much as I believe Hollywood. Which isn’t much.
ButterflyDragon on December 20, 2012 at 9:32 AM
I’d like to slam Homeland, too, which gives the false impression that if civilians die, it is a war crime. It is but the war criminal is the jihadists who hide among civilians.
Blake on December 20, 2012 at 9:51 AM
When the riots do begin, and they will, would that be. . . What’s the word I’m looking for here, hey Schadenfreude help me out I think you might know the word I’m seeking.
But Booooooshhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
D-fusit on December 20, 2012 at 9:57 AM
And what a coincidence that they are all Democrats! (Yes I said that Mccain.) With all of the libs getting PO’d at the movie, there is actually a chance now that I might see it.
Free Indeed on December 20, 2012 at 9:58 AM
A little late for them to be complaining, isn’t it, Senators?
Also, will Hillary demand the Sony people be “brought to justice”? They are dissing the Religion of Perpetual Outrage, aren’t they?
KS Rex on December 20, 2012 at 10:05 AM
What a surprise, John McLame once again showing his lack of spine..waterboarding isn’t torture Mr. Senator! we do it to our navy seals..do we torture our navy seals John? Hmm? I want to ask him how then did we get the intelligence to lead to the courier if it wasn’t for waterboarding? can’t stand him
sadsushi on December 20, 2012 at 2:58 PM