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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 09:25 AM Jan 2016

‘13 Hours’ Is Porn for Conspiracy Theorists

Will the new Michael Bay movie become a colossal political firestorm for Hillary Rodham Clinton? Well, there certainly are plenty of people who want to turn it into one.

Bay’s newest explode-a-thon, this one based on the Benghazi attack, has already captured the attention—if not affections—of many famous conservative figures who have for years indulged in conspiracy-mongering about the siege.

On Friday, Paramount Pictures releases the action-thriller, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, which dramatizes the story of the six-man security team that defended the U.S. compound and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, at the time of the 2012 attack. Bay, the pyrotechnics-loving director who gave the world the majestic hits Armageddon and Transformers, has promised that he is not making a political statement with his Benghazi picture.

“No, no, there is no political agenda,” he emphatically told The Hollywood Reporter late last year.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/14/13-hours-is-porn-for-conspiracy-theorists.html
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‘13 Hours’ Is Porn for Conspiracy Theorists (Original Post) SecularMotion Jan 2016 OP
I totally pictured all of Alex Jones' drooling, slack-jawed flying monkey army bullwinkle428 Jan 2016 #1
Peel away this onion packman Jan 2016 #2

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
1. I totally pictured all of Alex Jones' drooling, slack-jawed flying monkey army
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 09:58 AM
Jan 2016

lining up for tickets when I first saw the trailer for this dreck-a-thon.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
2. Peel away this onion
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 11:10 AM
Jan 2016

and I will bet there is conservative, right-wing money somewhere in the making of this movie at the heart of it - Koch brothers ?

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