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Make another movie with the opposite slant


Okay, where are the conservative movie makers out there? I knew this would paint Snowden as a hero since it is out of Hollywood. Que the heroic music, the close ups, all the typical, predictable sympathetic shít.

I wonder what really made him turn traitor. In the movie it's when O'Brian, appearing as Big Brother on a giant screen in the hotel, peers down onto Snowden and says that he is watching his girlfriend. Oh, please. Might as well have called Snowden Winston.

It was interesting, but so predictable. I would truly love to see a counter balance film on this subject.



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I doubt you will. There are dang few conservatives in Hollywood, and even fewer who'd want to "out" themselves by making a conservative movie. Even Eastwood makes ambiguous movies -- if he makes a movie about a war hero, he focuses on the negative emotional impact of war, which is something liberals want to focus on.

I haven't seen this movie, but if they made him a hero -- he is to much of the conservative community -- I'm sure they didn't make Obama's spying on his own people the "what" that Snowden uncovered. They focused on agency overreach, didn't they? Not, say, what happened to AP reporters, James Rosen -- and his PARENTS -- or Sheryl Attkisson, chronicled in her hairraising book, "Stonewalled."

If what Snowden uncovered happened on Bush's watch, you BET they'd have pinned it right on the President. It happens on Obama's watch, with an out-of-control AG, and you hear how awful Snowden was or how the agencies did this or that. They used to say Reagan was made out of Teflon. He had nothing on Obama.

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Conservatives should see Snowden as a hero too. Conservatives care about defending the Constitution, and about the government following the law, and that the USA is "a nation of laws, not of men". Snowden's patriotism is what motivated him to uncover the government's illegal activities and wrongdoing.

And Oliver Stone was critical of Obama too, for campaigning as being for civil liberties and for protecting government whistleblowers, then trying to prosecute Snowden.

What's the opposite slant? That Snowden was just a spy? Why throw away a good career and risk his life and his freedom for that?

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