Sanity -> Hollyweird Naval Gazing (10/18/2014 11:00:46 AM)
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Some highly unusual truth-telling: quote:
Snowden Film Tests Hollywood Obama Backers The Documentary ‘Citizenfour’ Raises Political Questions LOS ANGELES — Early in Laura Poitras’s documentary “Citizenfour,” Edward J. Snowden, who exposed vast electronic surveillance by the United States government, tells what pushed him to go public. “As I saw the promise of the Obama administration betrayed, and walked away from,” says Mr. Snowden, referring to drone strikes and invasive monitoring by the National Security Agency, “it really hardened me to action.” But do some of President Obama’s staunch Hollywood supporters share his sentiment? Her provocative, and deeply admiring, look at Mr. Snowden — which had its premiere at the New York Film Festival on Oct. 10 — arrived here this week amid high hopes, intense curiosity and more than a few raised eyebrows over its sharp critique of Mr. Obama, a president who has enjoyed strong support in the movie world. ... Backwoods Tea-Party source Leftists once screamed about the Patriot Act from the time they awoke 'til the time they went to sleep, but that all changed when the next president had a D by his name and he signed the Patriot Act extension Still, a little water does get around that propaganda dam today
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