There was big news at the Sundance Film Festival, formerly the haunt of Harvey Weinstein, a new documentary smearing Justice Kavanaugh, once again, as a high school sex predator.
The folks at Sundance know all about sexual predators. Don’t take my word for it. Take it from this Washington Post op-ed, “Everyone at Sundance knew what Harvey Weinstein was.” But after the requisite political pieties, Hollywood is back to doing what it does best.
Changing the subject and smearing Republicans with projections of their own filth.
The Hollywood Reporter, splashily announced that Doug Liman, “the sought-after features director behind titles like Swingers, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and The Bourne Identity — spent all of 2022 making his documentary debut about the government investigation into now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.” The documentary will be, ironically, titled, “Justice”.
The publication understandably neglects to mention that Harvey Weinstein gave Liman his big break by snapping up “Swingers” for $5.5 million in a mafia style event. “A Weinstein underling showed up at Liman’s house, tapped on the window, handed Liman his cell phone. Weinstein was on the line.” Liman got rich while Vince Vaughn, who actually starred in it, got paid scale.
Now Liman has thoughts about what Justice Kavanaugh was doing in high school. His partners, Story Syndicate, coming off big hits, “Harry & Meghan”, “Fauci” and “Mayor Pete”, plus a doc touting Stacey Abrams, have some more leftist agitprop nonsense here. The Syndicate’s Dan Cogan would like everyone to forget about “The Hunting Ground”: the Weinstein Company’s documentary, which used fake statistics and a scene from a prank video as proof that there was an epidemic of campus rapes. The actual rape epidemic involved Harvey Weinstein.
But it’s 2023 and Liman would like to talk about what happened in 2018, not 2017.
“I can’t stress enough how personally significant the Supreme Court is and how important it is that we vet the people who sit on it,” Liman whines. “We were promised an investigation that never happened.”
Weeks of desperate media efforts to dig up increasingly implausible smears weren’t enough.
“It shouldn’t be this hard to have an open and honest conversation about whether or not a Justice on the Supreme Court assaulted numerous women as a young man,” Liman whines.
Before Liman began conducting an investigation of Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court, perhaps he should have had “an open and honest conversation” about the co-star of his other fictional movie, “The Instigators,” which co-stars Casey Affleck. Ben Affleck’s even less talented brother was sued for sexual harassment by two women. One of them claims that he crawled into bed with her while she was asleep, the other that he “violently” grabbed her to force her to stay in his hotel room. He settled out of court.
Doug Liman’s two projects involve partnering with an alleged sexual harasser to make a movie and making a documentary accusing a Supreme Court justice of sexual misconduct.
This is the height of hypocrisy even for the planet’s most hypocritical industry.
“I don’t have a political ax to grind,” Liman claims of the cinematic smear campaign.
Liman’s political axe is almost as hidden as Harvey Weinstein’s habit of attacking anything in a skirt. He shot MoveOn ads and his dad was leftist activist Arthur Liman who served as the chief counsel for the Democrat effort to take down the Reagan administration with the Iran Contra affair. And Doug Liman has suggested that a character in his Bourne anti-American movie series was modeled on Oliver North. His brother, Judge Lewis J. Liman, is a federal judge.
The director decided to self-finance a hit film on a Supreme Court justice. And if Kavanaugh were to be forced to step down, Doug’s brother could be nominated for the position.
How did Doug’s brother end up as a federal judge? Lewis J. Liman’s nomination was pitched to the Trump administration by Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. Doug Liman has hosted a number of fundraisers for Schumer. You don’t need to be Jason Bourne to figure out this one.
Someone should make a documentary.
But never mind, Doug Liman wants to talk about how Justice Kavanaugh’s high school days in 1982 were not sufficiently investigated by a crack team of experts like Amy Herdy, an “investigative veteran” whose “credits include the college campus sexual assault doc The Hunting Ground”. It’s all over folks. The crack team who didn’t notice that the head of the production company behind the documentary was the one raping everyone is on the case.
“Thanks to this fantastic investigative team and the brave souls who trusted us with their stories, Justice picks up where the FBI investigation into Brett Kavanaugh fell woefully short,” Liman claims. Not to mention the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN and a billion dollars worth of media talent who couldn’t come up with anything more than Christine Blasey Ford who claimed that she can’t fly on planes except for all the times she flies on planes.
“Justice“, Liman’s documentary, claims that it has interviews with “friends of Ford’s” which is a lot like those UFO documentaries which, having completely plumbed the well of that 2-minute clip of the drunken mental patient explaining where the Little Green Men probed him, bring on his friends to testify that he sat kind of funny at the bar for a week afterward.
“What Doug and Amy were getting to was a lot of new information, and also a stunning look at the absence of diligence for one of the most important jobs in our country,” Liz Garbus, the other half of Story Syndicate, claims.
Speaking of a lack of due diligence, Garbus had interned at Miramax.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Liman kept the agitprop smear movie secret “for the safety of those working on the film”. Was the production terrified that Justice Kavanaugh would show up in Brooklyn and hit someone with a brogan?
It was Kavanaugh who faced an actual assassination attempt by a leftist nutjob last year. That attack happened because the media colluded with a court insider to leak the Dobbs decision. The Biden administration refused to enforce the law against harassing justices in their homes.
Perhaps someone should make a documentary about that.
But this isn’t the first time that Liman has played this same dishonest game.
When dramatizing the story of discredited antisemitic activist Valerie Plame, Liman’s movie, “Fair Game”, threw in fake scenes of them in danger because they were exposed for what they were by the Bush administration. American audiences were not told that the movie was being produced by a Muslim government that at the time was aligned with Islamic terrorists.
“It was important for me to create a film that lets people come to their own conclusions about the truth and to hear voices that were silenced in 2018 that should not have been silenced in 2018,” Liman claims of his latest effort into the sub-basement of leftist agitprop.
Is there anyone who would doubt that he had spent all this money to make a movie about Justice Kavanaugh whose goal is to let “people come to their own conclusions”?
“Justice” will, according to Liman, let people “hear voices that were silenced in 2018 that should not have been silenced in 2018.” The new definition of “silenced” is being platformed by every media outlet and site in the country, by Senate hearings and by Hollywood. Finally, the director of episodes of the TV series, “I Just Want My Pants Back’ will tell the real truth about what happened in Georgetown Prep in 1982. Then maybe Liman can tackle the question of what happened when the co-star of his new movie allegedly crawled into a woman’s bed in 2010.
Leftist agitprop is woke garbage
He will never let up on justice Kavanaugh. Is it will not let up on justice Clarence Thomas. While still celebrating Anita Hill .
Just as old red diaper babies still think Alger Hiss is innocent. And the Rosenbergs that nothing to do with the bomb. Their motto is confuse me with the facts.
Somewhere on their sleeve tattoos there Hass to be a picture of Stalin or Mao woven into the ink.
Do you think they have signs in their front yard that say there’s no “hate in this house”.? Are they have criminal minds And they get vicarious pleasure spending their time attempting to make others miserable.
Give the Left credit, it keeps every one of its agendas, even the ancient history stuff, alive.
And conservatives easily forgive or forget, the Left never does.
Hell, the Biden administration took time out to rewrite Oppenheimer’s record. A Republican administration can barely keep up with what happened last week.
Yeah, the left is using stuff from Lenin, that even Lenin gave up on, after it was tried and led to disaster, when he was in charge in the Soviet Union.
Imagine the minds of the left, that they are so obsessed with destroying people’s lives while their own faults seem to go unchecked. One needs to look no farther than the wisdom of the Bible on the times we are in.
2 Peter 2:1 says But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. (They will secretly introduce destructive heresies,) even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them…bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth Into disrepute. In their greed, these teachers will exploit you with (fabricated stories) . Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping; ( False prophets tried to contradict the true prophets of the Messiah.) They encouraged immoral acts, and sexual sin.
False accusations are one of my chief bugaboos. It is very easy to accuse a man of such stuff, and very hard (or impossible) to disprove it.
Movies are a great tool for spreading false propaganda. I guess Oliver Stone was one of the best at that. His “JFK” practically had me convinced, even though I knew while I was watching that it was fiction and I tried to resist falling for it.
That’s why movies were such an effective weapon of 20th century propaganda. The Nazis and Communists went wild to see what could be done with them.
And the FDR administration got into them too.
You can also add “An American President”, and “Madam Secretary” to the list.
(Bill & Hillary need all the help they can get.)
And so many more.
For several years every TV show & movie had a non-sequitur reveal that the bad guy turned out to be is a tall blond leader with confederate flags and guns who hates Black people. Yawn.
I’m concerned that that theme has not been used recently.
Are they no longer afraid of Trump?
Now it’s just any white person. Since all white people are inherently evil.
badly misquoting Jefferson was powerful.. but a fabrication.
Further, this clip furthers the lie that we ARE a “democracy”. Cant recall with absolute certainty but I believe it was Franklin whom when asked “what kid of givernment did you men form” (referring to the writers of the new US Cnstitution) responded “a republic IF you can keep it”. We obviously have not. There is the old but true saw that democracy is two wolves and lamb voting on what’s for supper. I am wholly committed to the truth that we ARE a democratic republic. The LAW overrides popular sentiment, mob appeal, power struggles, and the power of the sword. And we select those who make and enforce and define the law. at least in theory. Sadly reality is falling rather short of this principle.
Yes, Franklin said a ‘republic’. We’re not a ‘democracy’, but leftists claim that we are. And, obviously the Democrats, originally Democratic-Republicans, were built on that premise.,
I’ve just watched JFK last week, it seems to be true, is it really fiction?
This is a genuine question from someone who hasn’t followed American history for very long.
JFK was killed by a leftist. The establishment tried to blame the right first by claiming that there was a climate of hate in Dallas and then by forging some sort of Cuban refugee conspiracy.
All of this, like Russiagate, was about directing attention away from the Left.
Leland Keyser, an acquaintance of Christine Blasey Ford, was pressured to change her story to help the lying bltch slander Brett Kavanaugh. (She even testified about it to the FBI.)
Ford, who repeatedly lied under oath, got $842,000+ from GoFundMe, got 7-figure advances on book deals (for books that won’t sell without a blockbuster promotion campaign), got a “Rodger Baldwin Courage Award”, and got an “Empowerment Award” from the YWCA Silicon Valley. (Apparently that empowerment didn’t spill over on Tara Reade. She gets only death threats & harassment from the tolerant left.)
Since the party of Weinstein, Epstein, & Slick Willie marinate themselves in sexual harassment, we can add this movie to the exhaustive list of leftist projection.
Two movies about Roger Ailes. Zero movies about Harvey Weinstein or Bill Cosby.
Enough said.
There was a documentary on Bill Cosby – it was pretty damning but yeah, Roger Ailes is the bad guy!
Yes there have been a bunch of docs, but nobody really watches docs.
When it comes to dramatic narratives with actors, there have been two on Ailes, zero on Weinstein, even though that story begs for a cinematic retelling.
The (pound)metoo movement was started to take out Trump, then Kavanough, but it backfired and took out some dems instead. It didn’t help that the dems found obvious and clear mental cases to make the false accusations.
I’ll never quite understand how and why they sacrificed their own to “me too.” As they show no signs of being truly concerned about women ( They’re fond of Sharia, they don’t know what a woman is, they ruined women’s sports). Perhaps there is more infighting within the left than we peons ever hear about.
Keep in mind that they had Epstein taken out as an act of self preservation.
Bill Clinton had visited Orgy Island almost 30 times. How many 12 year olds Slick Willie fondled will now never be known – the blackmail video’s have been erased & Epstein was silenced.
(Only sadness that the DNC had with Epstein & Weinstein gone is that their generous donations are also gone.)
Terrorist tactics work. Ask John Roberts.
Is Justice Kavanaugh allowed to sue this little Leftist P.O.S. for defamation?
Oh he can (and perhaps should) file a legal complaint, but he will have to invest considerable time in first identifying then qualifying a suitable venue. Court shopping is big business these days. I admire the way certain factions have done their homework well in venue shopping for some recent Second Ammendment cases. this is a GOOD use of the tactic, with good aims in view.
Woke film festivals. What are they good for? Absolutely nothing.
All film festivals are woke now though and they were never good for much.
There is one Film Festival that does NOT fit this charge. It started in the mid-twenty-teens in San Antonio Texas, then moved to Franklin Tennessee. It was pot on hold because of the covidiocy and I do not know its present status, but I hope it will reawaken this year. It was called the Christian Worldview Film Festival (and included a very well run filmakers academy. I attended several years running, but then could not make the trip to Tennessee. I have known the mind/heart behind this organisation and event for several years. The filmmakers whose work was featured are amazing ,far beyond “amateur” level.
That’s good to hear.
We have even more reason to add another leftists propagandists to the Boycott List
Thank you for your reporting. As a former reporter myself I know how hard it is to get the time to do a thorough background check on anyone making news. Your editor demands something immediately while you know in your gut there is more to the story. That doesn’t matter at the local level. Write your piece and move on.
Good job on this!
Thank you. I appreciate that from a fellow reporter.
And yes it’s challenging and there are a lot of blind alleys. You just follow your instincts and do your best.
The worst in leftists propaganda from Hollywood Reds and The Butler are just two of them