Of course there is going to be a movie about January 6 and the knuckleheads who went into the Capitol building. The film, which is not out yet, is called J6 and is written by Billy Ray, who directed Showtime’s 2020 miniseries The Comey Rule, a love letter to FBI clown James Comey. “The goal was to do a ground-level view of a momentous day,” Ray told Indiwire about the project. “It’s about protesters who became rioters and cops who became defenders of democracy. Someone else can tell the story of the chaos at the White House on that day. I wanted to stay in the trenches.”
Hollywood is expert at making conservatives look wild-eyed, ignorant and dangerous — while also ignoring or whitewashing the left’s brutal history of violence. The movie industry and the Stasi who run it are so good at this that they leave would-be conservative rivals in the dust. Conservatives should try and change that, putting some money into film rather than foundations and politics. There are some great ideas already out there.
There will be several films about January 6, but none about James Hodgkinson, a former campaign volunteer for socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), who showed up at Republicans’ practice for the annual Congressional Baseball Game and shot congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA), a congressional staffer, a lobbyist, and two Capitol Police officers. (Hodgkinson had tried to wipe out the entire GOP leadership.)
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