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Archae

(46,301 posts)
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 12:09 AM Dec 2019

Just read about Clint Eastwood's movie "Richard Jewell..."

It's not as the ads depict, "The Truth."
It's a fraud.

Eastwood depicts a female reporter, Kathy Scruggs, as trading sex for tips.
And according to all who knew Kathy Scruggs, who died in 2001, this is slander created for "artistic license." (Translation: A lie.)

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/clint-eastwood-richard-jewell-kathy-scruggs-1203429660/

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bdjhawk

(420 posts)
2. Shocking that a right winger
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 12:33 AM
Dec 2019

would use misogynistic stereotypes of women who apparently can only get ahead by using sex rather than their professional talents. I do want to see the movie as I was there the night the bomb went off and also hope the legacy of this man an be remembered after he was treated in such an awful way. Sad he isn’t alive to see this.

marble falls

(57,013 posts)
3. That's just plain dismal. Slandering the dead for "art". No wonder he's reduced to talking to empty
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 12:43 AM
Dec 2019

chairs.

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
4. in 1996, many right-wingers used this case to go after Bill Clinton
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 12:59 AM
Dec 2019

...it's no surprise that Clint "Empty Chair" Eastwood would make this movie.

That being said, AFAIK, Richard Jewell was fucked beyond belief.

exboyfil

(17,862 posts)
5. It was Clinton's FBI Director Freeh
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 01:42 AM
Dec 2019

who did not have administrative control of his agents. I don't think AJC has ever come forward with which FBI agent told them that Jewell was a suspect.

Demonaut

(8,914 posts)
7. he made the reporter a sexual deviant in the eyes of trump supporters
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 02:50 AM
Dec 2019

I can't say I'm sorry anymore, Fuck Clint

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
9. Eastwood is a disgraced, senile piece of reich wing horse shit
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 03:07 AM
Dec 2019

His idiotic stunt with the chair lost any respect that I might have had for this egotistical dumb ass. Honestly...his acting career was almost all bloviating self aggrandizement garbage, in my opinion, anyway. Entertaining....but real fiction macho crap. 3rd rate shit...even worse than ronnie and the monkey.

Jim__

(14,063 posts)
12. Richard Jewell was badly mistreated by both the media and the FBI.
Wed Dec 11, 2019, 08:17 AM
Dec 2019

But to make a movie about Jewell that libels a reporter in the same way that Jewell was libeled is pure idiocy. It's what we've come to expect from the right.

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