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    Over a year ago Howard Stern kept joking that he was going to make the whole Fox news scandal into "Fox News the musical" for Broadway. Who doesn't like to watch a musical, movie, or play with a bunch of T&A.
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    Good review of the movie, which raises some of the same points I did:

    https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/13...es-like-a-dud/

    The movie also makes the bafflingly wrongheaded mistake of adding a completely fictional major character and a ridiculously phony minor one to what is billed as an “inspired by actual events” narrative. Margot Robbie’s wide-eyed Fox News producer Kayla Pospisil, despite never existing in this plane of reality, is literally the only character shown suffering any on-screen degradation (“lift your skirt … higher”) or discussing giving in to actual sexual demands from Ailes. She also plays an important role in joining the ranks of the victimized. And as a crucifix-wearing conservative, she naturally is so pop-culture clueless that she can’t tell Glenn Frey from Don Henley, because the Eagles aren’t a Christian rock band.

    The minor but more outrageously preposterous fake character is Fox News producer Jess Carr (Kate McKinnon), a closeted lesbian liberal with posters of Hillary Clinton in her kitchen. That’s how desperate the makers of this movie apparently were to inject someone they could present as the voice of reason among what they regard as all of the automatically reprehensible right-wingers at Fox. She even manages to seduce a female Fox true believer into joining her in bed — because if you’re not real in the first place, absolutely anything can happen. Right?

    Before you dismiss this review as being biased trash from right-wing site "The Federalist", read the whole review. You'll see that the author praises a TV series called "The Loudest Voice" about the same subject, which was also dramatized, but was a much more fair (albeit also unflattering) portrait of Ailes and Fox News.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Yes, folks, Hollywood finally did it. There was one powerful, influential, old and overweight man who wreaked havoc upon the lives upon many famous and wannabe-famous women in show business.

    It's great to finally see a movie about the monster whose exposure got the whole #MeToo started.

    You know the man I'm talking about....

     

    Roger Ailes?!?!?!?!!




    Yes, folks, somehow when deciding to make a movie regarding a powerful man in show business demanding sexual favors in order to advance women's careers, the first choice for villain was Roger Ailes, and not Harvey Weinstein.

    The movie "Bombshell" just released this week, and chronicles the supposed story of Ailes' antics at Fox News.




    But okay, Roger Ailes indeed acted reprehensibly, and it's not unreasonable that they would want to make a movie about him.

    They casted Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson, and Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly. They did a good job with the makeup, and both look like the women they're playing. Okay, so far, so good. John Lithgow plays Roger Ailes and doesn't really look like him, but whatever.

    Then things go off the rails.

    The third female lead character in the movie is Kayla Pospisil, played by Margot Robbie.

    Ever heard of Fox News star Kayla Pospisil? Wait, you haven't??

    That's because Kayla Pospisil isn't real. She's a fictional character made up by the writers of the movie, supposedly a "composite" of a lot of different women at Fox. This already starts to hurt the film's credibility. It's one thing to make a lookalike character when the original doesn't want their name or likeness used. It's another thing to invent a completely fictitious woman whose sexual harassment story we're supposed to care about, in a film which is supposed to be depicting close-to-actual events.

    But the Kayla character actually isn't a composite. Kayla calls herself an "evangelical millennial", is young, blonde, and ambitious, and has a big social media presence. Sound like anyone you might know? Yup, she's clearly a fictional version of Tomi Lahren, who oddly enough wasn't even at Fox until August 2017, was only a "contributor" at that point, and never made any sexual harassment allegations against Ailes. Most of the film takes place in 2016, when Lahren was with The Blaze.

    So why the fake Tomi Lahren as the third main character? No fucking clue.

    But it gets worse.

    Kayla eventually joins Bill O'Reilly's staff, and meets a show producer named Jess Carr (played by Kate McKinnon). Jess Carr is a closeted lesbian, you see, and is also a clandestine left-winger who secretly despises Fox and its politics, but hides all of this so she can keep her job.

    Do you remember the story of O'Reilly producer Jess Carr? You don't? Well, guess what? She's fictitious, too.

    Unlike the claim about the Kayla character, the producers of "Bombshell" admit that Jess Carr is completely fictitious, and isn't even a supposed "composite" of other women at Fox. In fact, McKinnon herself told Jimmy Fallon during an interview that the role was "invented for her".

    Anyway, sorry if I'm spoiling this, but it turns out that evangelical Christian millennial Kayla Pospisil is also a hypocritical closeted lesbian, and she begins a secret sexual relationship with the Jess Carr character. Oh, how scandalous! You see, every evangelical Christian is actually a hypocritical closeted homosexual, and most of the women at Fox aren't really on board with the message, but are just faking it. The place is clearly infested with left wing lesbians pretending to be on the right so they can keep their jobs.

    Why include this storyline at all, if this is supposed to be a movie of the bad, evil, goings-on at Fox News? Looks like the writers simply couldn't resist the temptation to bash Christians. Dumb.

    Look, if Hollywood wants to do a dramatized version of some bad stuff that happened at Fox News, I have no issue. Go for it. Expose the truth. Exaggerate a bit for dramatic effect. Whatever.

    If Hollywood wants to release a movie about a fictional story of unlikely lesbian love spawning among staffers at a fictional right wing talk show, I have no issue. It's not a very interesting storyline, but if they want to make it, I have no problem.

    But here they're selling the movie as giving you the inside scoop of what happened to real people at Fox (Calson & Kelly), and then they have to contaminate it with fictional characters created to further the producers' social agenda. When you mix very real characters with very fictional ones, the viewer is left incredibly confused as to what really happened at Fox -- and I don't believe it's made very clear in the movie which characters are fictitious.

    What a bunch of Hollywood crap.

    Now, will we ever see a movie about Weinstein -- whose transgressions were worse and more numerous than those committed by Ailes? Or are they too afraid to make such a thing about one of their own?
    The irony is while Ailes May have begun the MeToo shit it brought down a ton more left wing asshats then it did right leaning.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sloppy Joe View Post
    Which of Druff's conservative sources was so triggered by a fictional character? My guess is his boy Crowder.

    That LPR is going to be out of control as soon as a comprehensive piece comes out about your raping stable genius.

    Anyway, movies are fiction and characters can be written. Check out The Loudest Voice if you want more insight into state TV, no lesbian composites to object to.

    Roger Ailes was an awful person, Bill O'Reilly has paid off over $45 million in rape and harassment settlements, Eric Bolling couldn't stop flashing his dick, even Kimberly Guilfoyle (hilariously now dating one of Trump's retarded boys) got popped.

    Turns out Gretchen Carlson WAS hot enough to face rampant harassment.

    The 'traditional Christian values' network.is anything but.
    Congrats on your typical liberal bullshit deflection. How about the millions in US taxpayer dollars used to pay off sexual misconduct allegations against multiple members of Congress almost all exclusively Democrats. Those of us on the right don’t deny their are scummy bastards who sexist. You dumb fucks are in chronic denial and refuse to accept the stinking pile of shit coming from your side of the political aisle be it DC or Hollywood assholes like Spacey and Weinstein. It’s like the shit with Trump. Every fucking thing he’s been accused of the Democrats did FIRST. Biden admitted to quid pro quo with Ukraine over his sons investigation and the foreign aide. Clinton sold Uranium to Russia in direct contravention and under the table of sanctions against several Oligarchs including Putin who is a significant owner of Uranium One (talk about Russian collusion). Foreign agents interfering in our election process oh shit darn that whole Steele Dossier and involvement of MI-6 a supposedly ally and yes proof Russia was involved in that Dossier. Russia didn’t want Trump to win. Anything but that you dumbasses. Obama already bent over for Putin in his “I’ll have more flexibility after the election” shit in 2012. Hell even that traitorous RINO ass McCain was seen on a Russian Oligarchs boat in 2016 when the whole Dossier shit was put in motion.
    Won’t even go into the crap that happened back East where the top three Gov LTG and AG were all caught with Racist shit in their past (Gov and AG) and the LTG has hard evidence of sexual abuse against a woman and not one single fucker was forced out. The GOP would’ve taken their trash out for that crap and it would’ve been demanded by the media. Yet nothing happened as the media went silent shortly after it came out thanks to the Jussi bullshit and lies in Chicago.

    My point y’all need to clean up your own shitstains on the left before you go casting stones for the same shit just because they have an R next to their name. What’s criminal or Unethical shouldn’t be determined as acceptable simply due to their political leanings otherwise it’s just fucking hypocrisy which the left is amazingly adept at

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hockey Guy View Post
    Wow, movies based on real life events or even biographies have some fictionalized events or characters added.

    Whodathunkit.

    Give us more of your well thought out opinions & present them to us as factual statements.
    Rep got fucked up. Ok my comment was going to be fictionalizing shit and passing it off as the truth is just wrong period. Sadly too many people just accept shit at face value and yeah that doesn’t matter if it’s MSNBC or Fox doing it. Too many fucking lemmings in this country. Idiotocracy coming to a city near you at this rate.

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    If you were a watcher of Fox News during the Ailes time period, or just interested in this subject, this video is an easy watch and pretty devastating


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