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ZeroHedge
"The hysteria continues, and this time Hollywood has been enlisted. No this is not The Onion, but yet another
serious committee for
serious people. Meet the
"Committee to Investigate Russia" which launched on Tuesday and immediately garnered broad coverage in pop-culture and entertainment news sites for its release of a short Morgan Freeman narrated
video ... “We have been attacked,” Freeman says in his familiarly reassuring voice while gazing into the camera.
“We are at war.” ...
Not only did the video burn up social media on Tuesday, but the founders of the lobbying group behind the production, barely one day old, were given substantial air time on cable news from CNN to MSNBC. ... actor, director, and lifelong Democrat Rob Reiner is behind it - he's teamed up with neocons David Frum, Max Boot, and national security insiders like James Clapper.
Similar to other recently launched
'Russiagate' campaigns and organizations we've profiled, the initiative is enjoying fawning mainstream media coverage from the very start. ... the historical irony is completely lost on Hollywood, a town which itself fell victim to the original McCarthyite witch hunt and its celebrity 'blacklist'. ...
the "Committee to Investigate Russia" is designed to appeal especially to the popular masses and consumers of pop media ... . For example, ... entertainment news site
PopSugar reads like the "famed" Max Boot himself is on a hollywoodesque mission to save the world from an 'EVIL' cabal bent on total world domination ...
This of course translates to "well we know there's a lot of smoke and no answers, umm... evidence" - but hey, Morgan Freeman's noble and venerable wisdom-from-the-heavens-sounding voice will make it all true. Reiner told the
Daily Beast that Morgan Freeman was chosen as spokesman due to the “weight and gravitas” of his voice. ...
While the public has been assured the committee is stacked with bipartisan experts, it would help if there were any actual... Russian
experts. ...
the advisory board is made up of the following "experts" (in their respective order):
- a neocon blogger
- a perjurer
- wonk with no Russia background
- the director of When Harry Met Sally
- right-wing talk radio guy
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