The Sony Hacker Terrorists Did Not ‘Win’

Posted by | December 18, 2014 15:00 | Filed under: Contributors Opinion Politics Tommy Christopher Top Stories

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The recent criminal hack of Sony has taken a dramatic and poignant turn, as Sony Pictures has announced the cancellation of the theatrical premiere of The Interview, and with it, the destruction of our most cherished freedom. Movie theater cowards and their studio overlords, overcome by cowardice, have surrendered the First Amendment to hackers making anonymous threats, and the incident has even sent a chill that caused another studio to cancel filming of another North Korea-set film. This is how America ends, not with a bang, but with no Interview.

That’s the general tone of the uproar surrounding the Interview brouhaha (or “Interview-haha™”), and some of that agita is understandable. The First Amendment is our most cherished freedom, and the cancellation of this film’s theatrical release is an offense against that freedom, in spirit if not in substance. According to the U.S. government, there is “linkage” between the North Korean government and the hack of Sony, and subsequent threats of violence at theaters showing The Interview. That government has openly criticized the film, which depicts a fictional plot to assassinate Kim Jong-Un.

According to federal law enforcement agencies, there’s no “credible” information to indicate a plot to attack theaters, and in an interview with ABC News’ David Muir, President Obama said that we should absolutely take the hack seriously, but otherwise just calm the f*ck down…READ MORE 

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

60 responses to The Sony Hacker Terrorists Did Not ‘Win’

  1. fancypants December 18th, 2014 at 20:40

    2 Feds approve of this film and Hollywood pulls the plug on it, If your going to A S S U M E there are lone wolf KJU nut jobs here ready to strike or destroy the internet Why don’t you barricade yourselves in your homes or tell the doomsday preppers they were right all along

    • edmeyer_able December 18th, 2014 at 20:52

      As I posted below I think Sony is more concerned about a lawsuit from some jerk who might be injured than the jerk being injured.

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      This opinion was just stated by MSM …………HA @9:30 Monday morning.

      • fancypants December 18th, 2014 at 21:10

        it looks like sony is screwed they just handed the pranksters over 40 million while telling Hollywood free speech is dead
        BRAVO

        • edmeyer_able December 18th, 2014 at 21:23

          To me the bigger issue is the hack not whether Sony gets to release their movie.

          • fancypants December 18th, 2014 at 21:36

            if ed snowden didn’t get the job done ( while in Russia ) NK doesn’t have a clue

  2. fancypants December 18th, 2014 at 21:40

    2 Feds approve of this film and Hollywood pulls the plug on it, If your going to A S S U M E there are lone wolf KJU nut jobs here ready to strike or destroy the internet Why don’t you barricade yourselves in your homes or tell the doomsday preppers they were right all along

    • edmeyer_able December 18th, 2014 at 21:52

      As I posted below I think Sony is more concerned about a lawsuit from some jerk who might be injured than the jerk being injured.

      ————————————————————————————————–

      This opinion was just stated by MSM …………HA @9:30 Monday morning.

      • fancypants December 18th, 2014 at 22:10

        it looks like sony is screwed they just handed the pranksters over 40 million while telling Hollywood free speech is dead
        BRAVO

        • edmeyer_able December 18th, 2014 at 22:23

          To me the bigger issue is the hack not whether Sony gets to release their movie.

          • fancypants December 18th, 2014 at 22:36

            if ed snowden didn’t get the job done ( while in Russia ) NK doesn’t have a clue

  3. Jones December 18th, 2014 at 20:54

    It sets a bad precedent, encouraging our enemies to censure our entertainment. What stops the same thing from happening again when our news media wants to do critical documentaries.

    • Rape Room Made In U.S.A. December 19th, 2014 at 00:50

      I agree… but I think as for news media wanting to do critical documentaries, when U.S. and/or multinational corporation$ are involved… you know…

      • Jones December 19th, 2014 at 01:49

        I know,… I was thinking more of documentaries critical of foreign powers… although there have been some good documentaries about the Koch brothers, hydraulic fracking, Tea Party, Christian extremist, the NRA, and climate change by independent non-mainstream media…Vice News does some good reporting on HBO.

  4. Jones December 18th, 2014 at 21:54

    It sets a bad precedent, encouraging our enemies to censure our entertainment. What stops the same thing from happening again when our news media wants to do critical documentaries.

    • Banned_By_RawStory December 19th, 2014 at 01:50

      I agree… but I think as for news media wanting to do critical documentaries, when U.S. and/or multinational corporation$ are involved… you know…

      • Jones December 19th, 2014 at 02:49

        I know,… I was thinking more of documentaries critical of foreign powers… although there have been some good documentaries about the Koch brothers, hydraulic fracking, Tea Party, Christian extremist, the NRA, and climate change by independent non-mainstream media…Vice News does some good reporting on HBO.

  5. burqa December 18th, 2014 at 23:09

    OP: “… otherwise just calm the f*ck down …”
    Ahhhh, the obligatory f-bomb.
    How tiresome.

    Of course the NoKos won. Not only did they successfully coerce a massive company, but that rinky-dink dictator in North Korea got his ego pumped up like a blimp.

    Making it worse, in the text Mr. Christopher employs the Dick Cheney “one percent doctrine” in supporting Sony’s decision to back down. One imagines Mr. Christopher would likewise have supported those who refused to publish Salmon Rushdie’s “Satanic Verses.” Enough history has passed for us to be able to learn from that sorry episode.

    While this doesn’t reduce our freedom of speech, it is certainly a bad thing to see.
    I won’t be seeing the movie, not because of fear but because it doesn’t interest me. It sounds kinda dopey anyway.

  6. burqa December 19th, 2014 at 00:09

    OP: “… otherwise just calm the f*ck down …”
    Ahhhh, the obligatory f-bomb.
    How tiresome.

    Of course the NoKos won. Not only did they successfully coerce a massive company, but that rinky-dink dictator in North Korea got his ego pumped up like a blimp.

    Making it worse, in the text Mr. Christopher employs the Dick Cheney “one percent doctrine” in supporting Sony’s decision to back down. One imagines Mr. Christopher would likewise have supported those who refused to publish Salmon Rushdie’s “Satanic Verses.” Enough history has passed for us to be able to learn from that sorry episode.

    While this doesn’t reduce our freedom of speech, it is certainly a bad thing to see.
    I won’t be seeing the movie, not because of fear but because it doesn’t interest me. It sounds kinda dopey anyway.

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