My new President Bryan CRANSTON has three words for CHEENEE.

I usually get to a theater once per decade, so I've got an embarrassment of movies this decade: "Truth" and "TRUMBO".



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[font size=5]Bryan Cranston’s First Amendment Crusade: On ‘Trumbo,’ Trump, and Why He Respects Fox News (& 3 words for CHEENEE)[/font]

Marlow Stern

.... What do you think we’ve learned from the Hollywood blacklist, and do you think that, given how politically polarized we are today, something like the HUAC witch-hunt could happen again?

There are always lessons to be learned, and held. But yes, this can happen again—and it is happening again. There’s evidence of this type of suppression of First Amendment rights all the time. It could be in the name of the Red Scare or it could be under the name now of “terrorism.” There’s all this fear mongering of, “Oh, if we don’t do this then the terrorists will attack us,” and people go, “Oh! I don’t want the terrorists to attack us, so let’s take away this right.” And the right of the National Security Agency to just wiretap unchecked—that’s an example of it. Our forefathers worked extremely hard to set up a structure of government of checks and balances so that no branch of government gets larger than it should. It works very well. Honoring the intent of the First Amendment and putting that into practice is always to be considered before making policy. Of course the world changed. And the number one responsibility of a government is to protect its people, absolutely. But at what cost? ....

Even the term “socialism” has been demonized now by association. But if you look at [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]two of the greatest American presidents of the 20th Century—FDR and LBJ—they would be classified as socialists.[/FONT]

It has been demonized—and they’ve done well. The fear mongers have been able to do that. And back in Trumbo’s day, they were able to convey the perceived truth, which is far more important than the truth itself in the eyes of the public. What the public perceives to be the truth is how they behave—and how they respond—and they were able to get this sensibility out and scare the people into thinking that this was happening. We saw that in the middle of George W. Bush’s presidency where Dick [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Cheney[/FONT] said something to the effect of, “If Bush isn’t reelected, there will be another attack on American soil.” That’s nothing but fear mongering. And [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]shame on him. If I ever get a chance to meet him, I would say those three words: Shame on you.[/FONT] ....

Do you see this happening a bit in Hollywood? It seems like if you’re a Republican in Hollywood, you’ll be cast off a bit and demonized.

It shouldn’t. The biggest problem I think we have is the polemic nature of politics, and in Hollywood, it’s castigating someone who doesn’t think the same as you and branding them the villain. I look at Fox News and I honestly don’t demonize them at all; I honestly believe that what they’re saying they believe in, and for that I can’t fault them. I disagree, but I hope they can say the same about me—that I’m truly fighting for what I think are in the best interests of the country—because I think they are, too. We can have discourse and we can disagree with each other, and as Trumbo says in the movie, “We both have the right to be wrong.” That’s America.

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