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Topic: ‘Gangster Squad’ set to
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‘Gangster Squad’ set to
debut after reality check
Associated Press, by Derrik J. Lang
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 1/9/2013 10:54:54 PM
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| LOS ANGELES — “Gangster Squad” director Ruben Fleischer was stepping out of the shower on the night of July 20 last year when he received a chilling phone call from a studio executive at Warner Bros. There had been a deadly shooting at a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Aurora, Colo. The studio was pulling the trailer for its “Gangster Squad” movie. The problem was that the preview, which had been scheduled to debut before some showings of the latest Batman film that weekend, featured a peek at a pivotal moment in the 1940s true-crime romp when
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Hooter, 1/9/2013 11:08:05 PM (No. 9108157)
Communist Sean Penn. No thanks.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LittleHoodedMonk, 1/9/2013 11:11:11 PM (No. 9108160)
I´ve seen "Django Unchained" and was really appreciative of Quentin Tarantino´s way of making me feel the horrors of slavery, while he had an unlikely alliance between a white man and former slave become bounty hunters. It was well acted and photographed and definitely an adult movie [it´s over 2 1/2 hours long]. The soundtrack was well done.
Now, will I go out and copy any of it, even though my senses at being called a racist by dRATS are piqued...NO! It was just someone´s idea of fiction. Do I believe that Abraham Lincoln was a vampire hunter or fought zombies because of two movies put out last year...NO!. But, suspect some kids of the "Twilight Saga" and "Harry Potter" era would.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jimK1, 1/9/2013 11:32:29 PM (No. 9108182)
Ditto the Communist Sean Penn. As for Django or whatever, don´t think so.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
FLCracker, 1/10/2013 8:51:14 AM (No. 9108539)
The thing that annoys me about this movie is the glorification of vigilante cops - Los Angeles vigilante cops, at that.
Doesn´t anyone realize that those original events are what had lead to the very real problems the LAPD has faced for at least the last 30 years?
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Petraeus’s role in drafting Benghazi
talking points raises questions
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Washington Post, by Scott Wilson and Karen DeYoung
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 11:03:01 PM
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The controversy over the Obama administration’s response to the Benghazi attack last year began at a meeting over coffee on Capitol Hill three days after the assault. It was at this informal session with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that the ranking Democrat asked David H. Petraeus, who was CIA director at the time, to ensure that committee members did not inadvertently disclose classified information when talking to the news media about the attack. “We had some new members on the committee, and we knew the press would be very aggressive on this, so we didn’t want
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With more clarity, White House
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Washington Post, by Dan Balz
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 10:59:54 PM
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It is never good for an administration when a front-page newspaper article about an ongoing controversy begins as follows: “The White House offered a new account Monday of how and when it learned .?.?. ” That’s what readers of The Post awoke to on Tuesday. In trying to contain the controversy and protect President Obama, White House officials have only added to questions about what happened. Until this week, the story of how White House officials learned that the Internal Revenue Service was targeting conservative groups was fairly straightforward. White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler was notified in late April
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In AP, Rosen investigations,
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Washington Post, by Dana Milbank
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 10:56:21 PM
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There are various reasons you might not care about the Obama administration’s spying on journalist James Rosen and labeling him a “co-conspirator and/or aider and abettor” in an espionage case. Liberals may not be particularly bothered because the targeted journalist works for Fox News. Conservatives may not be concerned because of their antipathy toward the news media generally. And the general public certainly doesn’t have much patience for journalists’ whining. But here’s why you should care — and why this case, along with the administration’s broad snooping into Associated Press phone records, is more serious than the other supposed
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White House meltdown: A truth deficit
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Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 10:53:11 PM
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There seems to be bipartisan consensus that whatever the White House is doing to fend off scandal is making things worse. Howard Fineman sounds a lot like Right Turn these days: “White House aides are tempting fate with their reluctant, piecemeal and contradictory disclosures of what they knew and when they knew it, especially about a report on the Internal Revenue Service’s 18-month effort to target tea party and other conservative groups for special scrutiny.” The constantly shifting stories from Jay Carney and the IRS dissembling and pleas of ignorance only heighten concern that there has been serious wrongdoing.
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A Crack in the IRS Dam
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 10:50:44 PM
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The dam protecting the IRS scandal began to crack today when Lois Lerner, the IRS official who announced, and apologized for, the improper singling out of conservative-leaning organizations by IRS employees under her command, announced through her criminal defense lawyer that she will not testify as scheduled tomorrow before the House Oversight Committee. Rather, she will assert her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. This marks an enormous milestone in the IRS investigation. It can now be taken as more or less established that crimes were committed by Obama administration employees. Lerner’s lawyer tried to minimize the significance
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‘Rosen’s in the Wind!’
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National Review Online, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 9:29:36 PM
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John Podhoretz has a good column today on the Obama administration’s travails. I did not know this bit until I read the column: Even more startling, the search warrant makes clear that the FBI already had everything it needed on the leaker, as the request for a search warrant features quotes from an interview that were tantamount to a confession. It asked that the warrant be sealed — in other words, that Rosen not be told — because knowledge might “cause subjects to flee”! Imagine it: Rosen, an on-air reporter
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All of Obama´s Scandals Are
Ultimately About Information Control
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National Review Online, by Jim Geraghty
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 9:26:54 PM
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There’s really no reason for the press to suggest that the recent slew of scandals involving the Obama administration — Benghazi, the AP phone-record seizure, the snooping in James Rosen’s e-mail, the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, and so on — are a confusing jumble. There is a very clear thread running through all of the administration’s actions: The U.S. deputy chief of mission in Libya, Gregory Hicks, says that he was told not to speak to a member of Congress about Benghazi without a State Department lawyer present, that he received a phone call from Hillary Clinton’s
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White House Chief of Staff knew about
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New York Post, by S.A. MILLER
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Posted By: FlyRight- 5/20/2013 4:15:03 PM
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WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Serviced scandal today spread further within the White House and closer to President Obama. White House spokesman Jay Carney today disclosed that Obama’s chief of staff, Dennis McDonough, and other top White House officials had advance warning that the IRS was targeting conservative groups. But he insisted McDonough and the other White House officials purposely kept Obama out of the loop.McDonough “rightly chose not to take action” to inform Obama, Carney told reporters at the daily White House briefing.
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Leaks turn to deluge
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New York Post, by John Podhoretz
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/21/2013 4:49:13 AM
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The wheels came off the Obama administration yesterday. We learned of a startling assault on freedom of the press by the Department of Justice, following the revelation last week of the unprecedented information-gathering foray by that department against The Associated Press. Then, a few minutes later, the Justice Department’s inspector general released a report declaring that the US attorney in Arizona used the leak of a confidential memo to try to discredit a whistleblower in the notorious “gun-walking” scandal known as Fast and Furious (which got two federal agents killed). The leak was called “egregious.”
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Top IRS official will
invoke Fifth Amendment
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Los Angeles Times, by Richard Simon and Joseph Tanfani
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/21/2013 3:53:35 PM
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WASHINGTON – A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups. Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening – or why she didn’t reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd. Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday.
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Howard Dean: ‘Benghazi
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National Review Online, by Andrew Johnson
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 11:59:15 AM
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Former Democratic National committee chairman Howard Dean considers the controversy over Benghazi a “joke” and “silly.” “Benghazi is a laughable joke,” Dean proclaimed twice in a discussion with Republican National Committee communications chairman Sean Spicer last week. “With all due respect, governor, when four Americans die serving this country, that’s not a joke, sir,” Spicer responded. “Oh, stop it,” said Dean. The former Democratic presidential candidate also said that there were “no serious questions being asked about Benghazi” and brushed it off as an effort by Republicans to score political points.
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If Your Doctor Asks You About
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/20/2013 1:12:07 PM
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Stuart Varney said this morning on "Varney & Co." that one of his producers was given a questionnaire with some surprisingly intrusive questions on it when he switched doctors. One of the questions was whether he/she was concerned about unsecured weapons in the home. Another asked whether he/she was "in a relationship in which you have been physically hurt or are you afraid of your partner?" Judge Andrew Napolitano explained that the question about guns comes out of a post-Sandy Hook executive order by President Obama, but it will be required under Obamacare. Varney expressed amazement
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Democratic Senator uses Okla.
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Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor
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Posted By: bamapreacher- 5/20/2013 8:20:54 PM
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While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Whitehouse spent 15 minutes chastising GOP senators and justified his remarks by alluding to states that seek federal assistance in the wake of natural disasters. “So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said. “Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care
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McCain warns Obama-Nixon
comparisons are ‘overreaching’
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Boston Herald, by Hillary Chabot
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/20/2013 9:36:39 PM
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U.S. Sen. John McCain bucked the party line coming from many of his fellow conservatives this morning, saying suggestions that compare the trio of scandals gripping the White House to Watergate are “overreaching.” “I think it’s overreaching. We need a full and complete investigation and then we will decide the dimensions of it,” said McCain while campaigning for Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez in Dorchester. “It is terrible but we have to have a full investigation before we leap to conclusions.” The maverick’s caution is a sharp contrast to the response of many Republicans
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