Monday, August 08, 2016

There is a movie coming that will be directed by Steve Bannon (The guy who directed the Sarah Palin movie The Undefeated,), written by Rebecca Mansour, produced by Citizens United, and starring Duck Dynasty's Phil Roberston.

Courtesy of Alternet:

Right-wing moviemaking has been a growth industry in recent years, as conservative activists set out to challenge what they see as the damaging cultural impact of liberalism’s dominance in Hollywood. The latest example is “Torchbearer,” which director Steve Bannon called “a Christian war film” in remarks before a screening in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention last month. 

“Torchbearer” stars Phil Robertson, the Duck Dynasty patriarch who became a folk hero in the right-wing war on “political correctness” when the show was temporarily suspended by A&E amid controversy over Robertson's inflammatory remarks about homosexuality and black people in the pre-civil-rights-movement Louisiana. The movie was shown to distributors in Cannes and will be released in theaters in August.

The hour-long film is a collaboration between well-known right-wing groups. Bannon is executive chairman of Breitbart News; the script was written by a Breitbart editor, Rebecca Mansour. It was produced by Citizens United, the organization whose movie attacking Hillary Clinton was used by conservatives on the Supreme Court to gut regulation of political money in Citizens United the court ruling. Religious Right political operative Ralph Reed attended the premiere, and at a reception following the screening, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., took the opportunity to slam Clinton and praise the work of Citizens United.

The film is only an hour long but it manages to blame Nazi Germany on Nietzsche, mock the teaching of Evolution, use graphic images from Auschwitz and ISIS atrocities to shock and enrage, and of course blame all of the ills of the world on the "worship" of science instead of God.

My first instinct was that surely this must be something from the Onion or some other parody site, but nope it's real.

There is the trailer up above, a website, and everything.

My only surprise is that Sarah Palin does not have a speaking role, nor has she endorsed or spoken of the film on Facebook.

You would think with so many of her former collaborators working on the film, that she would be pitching it to the few simple minded morons who still value her opinion.

Perhaps this is so unhinged that even SHE gave it a pass?

Nah, who are we kidding, she probably was never even told about the film.

92 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:17 PM

    Congratulations Bekki on finally getting a movie made with one of your scripts and your lifelong ambition fulfilled.

    At this rate Hollywood will come calling in 2042. Stay strong.

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    1. Anonymous2:30 PM

      My first thought!

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    2. Anonymous2:42 PM

      Me too!

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    3. Anonymous2:46 PM

      My thoughts, too. All these years. All that writing, and wow, it finally finally finally paid off. I smell an Oscar!

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    4. Anonymous3:04 PM

      "I smell an Oscar!"

      Did someone forget to wash the dried semen from her upper lip?

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    5. Anonymous3:48 PM

      Ram likes to be mean.I wonder if the script encapsulates Ram's essential meanness?

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    6. Anonymous4:29 PM

      I'm sure when ole Becki went off to Hollywood to make her name in filmmaking this is exactly the kind of thing she had in mind.

      What a loser.

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    7. Anonymous4:50 PM

      I smell a Razzie!

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    8. Anonymous8:28 AM

      Gee Becky, guess that "hit" you put out on Ronni Chasen has finally paid off. Amirite?

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  2. Anonymous2:20 PM

    Germany in the 1930's and 1940's: 30% Catholic and 60% Protestant. A very christian country.

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  3. Where's mine, sayeth the grifter granny. What's in it for us, sayeth the Toad. That's what you get b**ch, sayeth track. I hate you f***ot, sayeth sir tripp. Whose f****in' baby is this sayeth the stool.

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    1. Anonymous3:50 PM

      Hah!

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    2. Anonymous11:42 PM

      Victoria Jackson is livid that she wasn't asked to star.

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  4. Anonymous2:26 PM

    So much for railing against "corporate cronyism" with that clever "Citizens United" production credit...fucking morons.

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  5. B Rook Lynn2:26 PM

    My heart soars!

    At the premier my slpodey head may splode!

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  6. Anonymous2:28 PM

    My only surprise is that Sarah Palin does not have a speaking role, nor has she endorsed or spoken of the film on Facebook.


    Maybe Sarah Palin offered to endorse this project and maybe Rebecca Mansour, the financiers and the other backers said thanks but no thanks. We don't want to happen to us what Sarah has done to Track, Bristol, Todd, Donald Trump and to Paul Ryan's opponent.

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    1. Anonymous10:13 AM

      may be Sarah is worried someone will dig and find out she financed that film that got those killed with those congressional hearings!

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  7. Anonymous2:28 PM

    Don't you worry. Now that you've told her about it the Defeated barking chihuahua of Wasilla will now mention it only of course in a way that makes it all about her in 3..2..1.

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    1. Anonymous4:03 PM

      LOL! Yup! That was my first thought, too. After all, the Olympics are all about her, too!

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    2. Anonymous4:37 PM

      4:03, that is so right. She's posting an Olympics Inspirational thought each day now, and even posted two today.

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    3. Anonymous4:49 PM

      Two in one day? Is that even legal?? So much inspiration for one to absorb in a day. I feel so, so... vibrant!

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    4. Anonymous10:14 AM

      bored shitless is more like her forte

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  8. Anonymous2:39 PM

    An Oscar-winner if there ever was one!!!!!

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    1. Anonymous5:37 PM

      Not at 60 min.

      It doesn't qualify as a movie except, possibly, in the Documentary category.

      It's too short for a movie and too long for a short.

      Probably geared toward TV (as in dropped by A&E) and will be a straight to video deal.

      It might be "released" to theaters, but there is no guarantee any theater is going to pick it up and show it. Summer is big bucks season for theaters and they're not going to tie up one screen with this one hour money pit.

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  9. Anonymous2:45 PM

    I watched the trailer. Are you sure that this isn't an Onion spoof?

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    1. Well I'm mostly sure.

      I'm pretty sure.

      Oh hell who knows anymore?

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  10. From the soundtrack, Man … says, "I decide what's right and wrong …

    Listeners are told that it's much better to let God tell them what's right and wrong. What is not pointed out is that it's a group of middlemen (mostly men) who are telling the rest of mankind what it is that God considers to be right and wrong.

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    1. Anonymous5:42 PM

      We are supposed to follow the pronouncements of men that admit to hearing voices? From someone that is invisible no less.

      "How do you know it was God?"

      "He told me."

      Yeah, right.

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    2. Anonymous5:57 PM

      "The Bible is true because the Bible says it is!!"

      ---Actual quote from my fundie neighbor

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    3. Anonymous11:44 PM

      This immediately comes to mind:
      http://www.jhuger.com/kissing-hanks-ass

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    4. Anonymous 11:44 PM wrote: This immediately comes to mind:
      http://www.jhuger.com/kissing-hanks-ass

      Thanks! I had bookmarked that page so many years ago that Rev. Huber has since moved it to a different location on his site. There are lots of other articles linked from the sidebar which I'll have to catch up on.

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  11. Anonymous3:06 PM

    There are so many groups sucking money from the GOP rubes, the well has to run dry someday.

    Dinesh D'Souza, Glenn Beck, James O'Keeth, SarahPAC and many others keep bleeding these fools.

    These folks are almost as bad as the money grubbing TV preachers ... all taking money from the ignorant people.

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    1. Anonymous1:51 PM

      One would think so, but I look at the opposition the GOP has put up for the last 8 years. It's only become worse, scara palin made it ok to be a dumb ass and be a politician. She opened the door for people like trump. The man is a walking brain queef, but ignorant racists take him serious because he speaks their language. HATE HATE HATE HATE!!!

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    2. Anonymous2:25 PM

      One would think so, but I look at the opposition the GOP has put up for the last 8 years. It's only become worse, scara palin made it ok to be a dumb ass and be a politician. She opened the door for people like trump. The man is a walking brain queef, but ignorant racists take him serious because he speaks their language. HATE HATE HATE HATE!!!

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  12. Anonymous3:20 PM

    Phil Robertson is diving back into the culture wars. And Lord, is he angry.

    The ‘Duck Dynasty’ reality-TV patriarch’s next in-your-face project is ‘Torchbearer,’ a film being screened next week for distributors at the Cannes film festival.

    It’s a fire and brimstone look at the decline of Europe and the United States from the viewpoint of an evangelical crusader. And the news from Robertson’s perspective is not good.

    Robertson says the Roman Empire’s bloody debauchery, Robespierre’s French Terror, the Nazi genocide, the Khmer Rouge, Boko Haram, the ISIS terror army, and America’s embrace of abortion – yes, he goes there – are the predictable results of cutting God out of entire societies.

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/05/10/duck-commander-phil-robertson-documentary-torchbearer-hit-cannes/

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    1. Anonymous5:46 PM

      I sincerely doubt Cannes is going to invite a screening of this at their festival. They probably saw it out of politeness to someone or other.

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    2. Anonymous8:11 PM

      There are film markets that are scheduled in affiliation with major festivals where producers try to sell their shows to distributors. Most of the films at market are NOT in the festival itself.

      Becky's film is destined to go directly to the $3.99 DVD bin in the center aisle of Walmarts in the bible belt.

      When it fails to sell (or as Sarah would say "fells to sail") the inventory will end up in dumpsters from Georgia to West TexASS.

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    3. Anonymous2:34 AM

      Poetic justice would be if the torchbearer's torch sets that lice filled beard of his on fire. Where does this phony buy his clothes? Omar the tentmaker's store?

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  13. Anonymous3:24 PM

    i wanted to laugh, but then i was sad. what a waste of digital space.

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  14. Anonymous3:25 PM

    Pamela Geller's association with the trailer Innocence of Muslim video in 2012.

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Innocence of Muslims[1][2] is the title attributed to a controversial anti-Islamic movie "trailer" that was written and produced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.[3][4] Two versions of the 14-minute video were uploaded to YouTube in July 2012, under the titles The Real Life of Muhammad and Muhammad Movie Trailer.[5] Videos dubbed in Arabic were uploaded during early September 2012.[6] Anti-Islamic content had been added in post-production by dubbing, without the actors' knowledge.[7]

    What was perceived as denigrating of the Islamic prophet Muhammad caused demonstrations and violent protests against the video to break out on September 11 in Egypt and spread to other Arab and Muslim nations and to some western countries. The protests have led to hundreds of injuries and over 50 deaths.[8][9][10][11] Fatwas calling for the harm of the video's participants have been issued and a Pakistani minister has offered a bounty for the killing of Nakoula, the producer.[12][13][14][15] The film has sparked debates about freedom of speech and Internet censorship.[16]

    dowl

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  15. Anonymous3:29 PM

    WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!!

    (smh)

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  16. Anonymous3:32 PM

    We have a transfer site up here in Fairbanks, and perusing the many treasures put there is a fun hobby. Once, I found a book from a local christian school. The United States history was totally rewritten in that book. It also referred to the Native Americans as savages, and that we should be glad that the whites came and civilized us. Huh? Mama say whaaaat? Anyways, these movies tailored to the so called Christians is the same thing. They can tell a story that they want, and their people can stay in the bubble. I myself, like to stay in the real world. I don't believe anything on tv and or in movies. I have learned to be very discerning. Including not getting mad at Bradley Cooper when he shows up at the DNC and not the RNC. And I know Clint Eastwood is not Josey Wales, just a stink old butt man with some talent for making movies despite the fact that he tries to indoctrinate those that need indoctrination. There are the sheep and the shepard, right? And Christians need that bubbled spin for their sanity. I see it. It's ok. I watch Avatar and Star Trek all the time to soothe my weary soul.

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    1. Anonymous5:56 AM

      I feel torn because I want to see Eastood's next move: Sulli, about the flight that Captain Sullivan landed in the Hudson, with Tom Hanks. It looks good and the story is fascinating.
      But I hate that Clint directed it or produced it or something.

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    2. Anonymous10:21 AM

      Brainwashing the masses! It occurs to me that as a child we are 'global' and 'polite' to others differences! It's only when we grow up that we get an 'attitude' about it!

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  17. Anonymous3:36 PM

    Where are these godsuckers getting the $$$$ to make films? Or was it done on a cellphone camera?

    Ole Beki done wroted herself a scrip. If'n she wants to make big bucks, she'd better write that expose book on the Wasillabillies.

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    1. Anonymous6:00 AM

      7 mountians agenda.
      LOTS of money there.
      Did you see David Bodia and Johnson the US divers last night? Preaching at their interview after winning silver? Christ this and christ that. It was annoying as all.
      But I do think David is releived that he was able to pray away the gay.....his wife and kid are front and center.
      I can recognize a gay man - was in the figure skating world for many years. David is a gay man. I feel very sorry for him. He was saying he was a basket case prior to competing. Sure...probably seeing many divers who know he is a gay man and now a wife and kid??

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  18. Anonymous3:38 PM

    Gotta love that they shopped the film in godless libruhl Cannes in Sharia-controlled libruhl France. They love to bash godless Europe and the film industry, but oh boy do they crave approval from those same kool kids.

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    1. Anonymous6:01 AM

      yep!

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    2. Anonymous10:23 AM

      who care what they think? money! smirk...

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  19. Anonymous3:40 PM

    OT: I apologize if this has already been posted. Recall reading here at IM that the Palin AZ house had been sold so I was curious and checked Zillow b/c they sometime include the selling price. What I found was:
    08/03/16 - *Listing removed*, $2,375,000

    Not sold. Removed. So I guess no buyer after all.
    http://www.zillow.com/homes/29005-N-82-ND-ST-Scottsdale-AZ-85266_rb/

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    1. Anonymous4:33 PM

      I noticed the same thing.

      I Googled the address . . . 29005 N 82d, Scottsdale . . . and found a mixture of results. A couple of sites showed the listing with the note PENDING (sale pending ??). Others had the listing as though nothing had changed. There were a couple of "not found."

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    2. Anonymous4:36 PM

      Thanks, 3:40. My guess is that they read whomever's comments a while back that said any qualified real estate person would take the thing off the market, make a few changes and relist it.

      That would start the clock over again and it wouldn't seem to have been for sale for almost a year.

      Also, too, by pretending there was a sale they got attention and that's really all it's about.

      Look at meeeeeee. Look. Look. Look at meeeee!!!!

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    3. Anonymous5:51 PM

      It doesn't look good for a home to sit on the market for too long. So it's not unusual for it to be taken off for a while, then relisted again like it was a new listing.

      She's still not going to get asking for that trailer trash white elephant.

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    4. Anonymous5:56 PM

      "Whomever's" comments was the man himself, Old Redneck!

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    5. Anonymous6:33 PM

      5:56 and Old Redneck,

      I thought maybe it was. But someone also mentioned it as well.

      No intention to slight OR. I greatly appreciate his input (assuming it is a he, who knows?)

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  20. Anonymous3:46 PM

    O.M.G.

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  21. Anonymous3:50 PM

    Self-righteous holier-than-thou 'Family Values' Pappy Duckface pals around with a pedophile that preyed on his sleeping baby sisters for years.

    Hypocrite Phil Robertson can shove it up his duck caller.

    http://reverbpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/zz-Josh-Duggar-12-Phil-Robertson.jpg

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  22. Anonymous3:55 PM

    A. 92-ton barge of omplete HORSESHIT.

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  23. Anonymous4:16 PM

    What a bunch of horse shit. I hope Miley lets loose on those ignorant asswipes, for using her images (I'm sure without permission). Is camo Phil's sacred undergarments ? Really, he would make a better mormon.

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    1. Anonymous10:24 AM

      not Miley but her pit bull attorneys! hu Sarah

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  24. Anonymous4:19 PM

    me hurt in me head thingy. watching scary movie piece thing made me sad. and skeerd and a little stoopid. make it go away. pleeze. bad, man phil. bad man bannon. bad manish ram.
    Q

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  25. Anonymous4:20 PM

    Boring. Trash.

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  26. Anonymous4:27 PM

    Becky Mansour is an asshole.

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    1. Anonymous4:46 PM

      Look who is the "star" of the movie!

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    2. Anonymous8:21 AM

      https://youtu.be/fOpgL4mqEis

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    3. Anonymous10:25 AM

      can we include a clip of her appearing in court? oh that might dampen the festivities!

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  27. Anonymous4:33 PM

    Okay, FFS I got 33 seconds into it and realized that it's not meant for intelligent people such as myself, it's meant for the ignorant 25% of Americans that will believe in anything, including god.

    I can't wait until our tax dollars stop keeping these morons alive.

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    1. Anonymous4:50 PM

      Now you know why Sarah Palin likes him. They speak the same language.

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    2. Anonymous5:14 PM

      These movies NEVER do well at the box office.

      At least RAM finally gets her name up on the screen if she can even fit into a seat to watch it. There'll be no red carpet premiere, that's for sure.

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    3. Anonymous5:40 PM

      "These movies NEVER do well at the box office."
      A movie called "Clinton Cash" (or some such shit) premiered a few days ago. A c4per claims she tried to purchase tickets online, but they were sold out. Yet, when she got to the theater, tickets were available and the theater was almost empty. The theater owner was deceptively claiming"sold out" to keep people from viewing the anti-Clinton movie! Much like bookstores hiding copies of Palin's last book, to purposefully inhibit sales. Delusion and deception go hand in hand at the pond!

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    4. Anonymous5:53 PM

      Maybe they can run it on a double bill with Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas.

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    5. Anonymous6:12 PM

      Perhaps if they hand out free copies of Good Tidings and Great Joy with every tub of popcorn, it will dramatically increase ticket sales....wonder if there are any unsold copies available anywhere?

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    6. Anonymous2:45 AM

      I bet there are lots of unsold copies in the PayMe garage. Remember when she used them as "prizes" for donations? Lots of autographed hockey sticks, bumper stickers with ISIS should be WASWAS, stuffed bears and all the other crap she tried selling on her website.

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    7. Anonymous3:15 AM

      Yep!

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  28. Anonymous4:35 PM

    Lots of Hitler, Muslims, and Miley Cyrus. Hilarious, especially the obsession over Miley.

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    1. Anonymous5:05 PM

      Personally, I think Hannah Montana was Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler AND bin Laden all in one. And, don't get me started on Zack and Cody...
      Q

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    2. Anonymous6:35 PM

      Lassie was a Red Commie Spy.

      For. Sure.

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    3. Anonymous6:04 AM

      Miley was chosen to be a 7 mountains entertainment infiltrator and she was when she was little. Then she grew up and told them to fuck off.

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    4. Anonymous10:27 AM

      604 oh I was going to take a sip of coffee!
      glad I didn't! still laughing out loud! go Miley you tell em girl! hahahaha

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  29. Anonymous4:50 PM

    I guess the movie (documentary?) will include Beyonce's Lemonade Formation and more scantily clad 'evil' women and maybe 'evilly gay' men?

    Someone will have to tell me about it, I won't make any attempt to see the Citizen's United propaganda piece created for Donald's favorite demographic, the poorly educated.

    dowl

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  30. Anita Winecooler5:05 PM

    Gee, Roma Downey always gets a virgin role, this time Miley Cyrus got it. Oh old Pat's gonna have his way with some duck in that swamp after getting horned up on debauchery, blood lust, hitler, and other disgusting filth. Becky twerking some skunk grass while filming them, but hey, it's a huge step up in pay I suppose, from Sarah.
    People actually PAY to see this crap? How pitiful.

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  31. Anonymous5:07 PM

    One of my favorite t-shirt slogans:

    "Science Doesn't Care What You Believe"

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    1. Anonymous5:40 PM

      Here's mine.

      "Science doesn't give a shit what you think"

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  32. Anonymous5:24 PM

    Her silence is probably a vindictive reaction to being refused a walk on or speaking role in the movie. Maybe she wanted to be the narrator and be PAID for it and was refused.

    Whatever the reason, I'm sure it's petty and payback.

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  33. UGH! That was 2:43 minutes of utter nonsense.

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  34. Randall7:11 PM

    Is this a great country or WHAT?
    We're allowed to say all KINDS of crazy, outrageous shit!
    Even sick and twisted motherfuckers like those responsible (responsible? HA! hardly) for that film get to say whatever they want to.
    Price of freedom, folks.

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  35. Anonymous7:35 PM

    Gloom and doom and Duck Dynasty. Hokay! RAM is just the icing on the case.

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  36. Anonymous7:56 PM

    I think that it is time to start the whisper campaign that Trump has to go, and we have the right candidate who can step in to fill his shoes-- Sarah Palin! Endless entertainment! Trump is boring when he reads from a script. Time to go, bring out Sarah. She still has the clothes from 2008.

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  37. Anonymous9:32 PM

    OT: 55 YEARS STRAIGHT...
    http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/ex-cobb-gop-chairman-dendy-indicted-on-molestation/nsB6K/

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    1. Anonymous10:10 PM

      This is BULLSHIT! Criminals>
      https://thinkprogress.org/unholy-secrets-the-legal-loophole-that-allows-clergy-to-hide-child-sexual-abuse-9a6899029eb5#.mhoc1cxiq

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  38. Anonymous5:42 AM

    They'd never tel her about it - that Palin curse carries serious bad juju.
    Hey RAM! You are finally a hollywood scriptwriter.
    LMAO.
    I thought perhaps you had some talent in the field. Now we know. No talent.
    However, keep honing those skills Perhaps you do have the great american screenplay in your head. REVEAL THE FAKE PREGNANCY
    I will be your medical/nursing/technical consultant FOR FREE.Call me! Let's do lunch!

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  39. Anonymous10:32 AM

    GUARANTEED LOOSER.. ALL OVER THE SOLAR SYSTEM...

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