FLASHBACK: When Hollywood Went All In on Russian Collusion
'SNL,' Showtime pushed false narrative that divided America, crippled Trump 1.0
Stephen Colbert went too far for even his media enablers in 2017.
The “Late Show” host blasted President Donald Trump with a gay slur as part of a scathing monologue. The language proved so foul that the host quasi-walked it back after media pressure.
He didn’t apologize for the crux of the joke. Colbert thought Russia had colluded with Trump to win the 2016 presidential election. And he wanted his viewers to know it.
Why? The Legacy Media told him so, and Colbert and his fellow late-night clones leaned into the false narrative night after night. Month after month.
And he wasn’t alone.
“Saturday Night Live” played the same game.
Cold open after cold open mocked Russia’s ties to President Trump, a relentless satirical meme with little room for debate.
“You trust me more than American C.I.A.,” a faux Vladimir Putin (Beck Bennett) asks Trump (Alec Baldwin) in one such sketch.
Hilarious. Except…
We began learning, step by step, how the collusion narrative was one of the dirtiest tricks ever deployed in D.C. (and that’s saying plenty), Colbert and co. couldn’t muster as much as a simple mea culpa.
We’re still discovering just how filthy it was now, thanks to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s explosive revelations.
That wasn’t necessary. We officially learned there was no “there-there” in 2019 with the Mueller Report’s release. That didn’t stop a major Hollywood production from steamrolling ahead, insisting that the faux scandal actually happened.
Showtime’s “The Comey Rule” aired Sept. 27-28 2020 on the pay cable network. The two-part series went into production while key parts of the collusion narrative were crumbling in real time. The show went on all the same, and few critics brought that inconvenient truth to their reviews.
Seems important, no?
Writer/director Billy Ray all but forced Showtime to air the miniseries before the 2020 presidential election, hoping its content would influence the results.
He got the results he wanted, but it’s hard to say if his factually-challenged project pushed Joe Biden over the finish line.
The IndieWire review of “The Comey Rule” proved as reflexively liberal as anticipated, but it summed up the miniseries all too well.
“The show doesn’t offer any breaking news about the Russia investigation, but it’s clear in its message that Trump already destroyed one election — via meddling, blackmail, and all-around discord — and he’s absolutely trying to do it again.”
Or, Fake News on steroids.
Here’s what this critic said upon the miniseries’ release. It bears repeating.
This isn’t Resistance Fan Fiction. It’s one of the most deeply dishonest productions in recent memory. It shouldn’t be banned or canceled, just mocked into oblivion.
One huge update? According to Showtime’s official YouTube page, “The Comey Rule” is no longer available for screening on the platform. JustWatch.com confirms it can’t be viewed on Showtime.
Why would Showtime hide one of its original programs?
Consumers can purchase “The Comey Rule” on Amazon’s VOD platform. No one should try to ban the production, unlike the fate of “The Path to 9/11.”
It’s important to remember how Hollywood pushed a false narrative for so long with all of its creative might. Heck, it might just happen again.
Can anyone name an actor more smug, pompous and self-important than Jeff Daniels?
Harris-Walz had 90% of Hollywood celebs, Beyoncé, Oprah, Bruce…
And still lost.
Late night talk has lost all credibility with the public and that means they can no longer influence politics or intimidate anyone.
No One Notices As Entire Cast Of ‘The View’ Replaced With Shrieking Feral Pigs
Helsinki press conference:
REPORTER (Jeff Mason from Reuters): President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election, and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
PUTIN: Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the US/Russia relationship back to normal.
” all your mouth is good for is Putin’s cockholster.” And he kept his job. Rodeo clown lost his career for Obama mask. what more do you need to know?
GREAT POINT
It’s just all so delicious. Like watching Jenga in slow motion. And the best part? That it’s baked into the cake. The Left CAN’T course correct. They are a cult that WILL…..NOT…….step out of the KoolAid line.
The law of objectivism can be ignored. But the law of causality will be avenged.