Matthew Dowd claimed Wednesday that if Jesus Christ were still living, people might call him a &#8220;groomer.&#8221;
Dowd, who served as a top advisor for former President George W. Bush and his Vice President Dick Cheney during the 2004 presidential campaign, made the comments during an appearance on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/nicolle-wallace-accuses-desantis-of-using-dehumanization-as-a-tactic-just-like-the-russian-soldiers-who-rape-children/">Deadline White House</a>.&#8221;
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&#8220;The Easter holidays, the entire message of the Gospels of the Easter holidays was &#8216;Love one another,’” Dowd began. &#8220;And I have said this before, and I&#8217;ll say it again: If Jesus Christ was alive today, he would be called a groomer. He would be called woke. And he would be called a socialist, if he was alive today.&#8221;
&#8220;If he was speaking the message he spoke in the Gospels today about treating everybody with dignity — Jesus Christ hung around with prostitutes and tax collectors,&#8221; Dowd continued. &#8220;He was nailed to a cross because he spoke on behalf of the most marginalized people in the Middle East.&#8221;
&#8220;And the idea that a certain segment of the population has tried to capture the faith and corrupt a message that I [may have been] a follower of since I was baptized and was confirmed and served on the altar in the course of this, is something I think all of us — it&#8217;s not just people of faith, but whether Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, or don&#8217;t have a faith, the message of &#8216;love conquers hate&#8217; is a message we should be pushing, but especially Christians in the country that can&#8217;t stand what happened to our faith,&#8221; Dowd concluded.
Dowd announced a bid for the 2022 Lieutenant Governor&#8217;s race in Texas, but <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/07/matthew-dowd-texas-lieutenant-governor/">withdrew from contention</a> in the Democratic primary six days before the final filing deadline. He explained in a statement that he was making an exit in order to clear the way for a &#8220;more diverse&#8221; candidate to take on the race.
&#8220;When I first announced, the only other candidate was a white male Christian,&#8221; Dowd said. &#8220;A diverse field is now emerging in the Democratic primary for this office. I do not want to be the one who stands in the way of the greater diversity we need in politics.&#8221;
State Rep. Michelle Beckley (D), who announced her own bid for LG, voiced her thanks to Dowd: &#8220;Women have been underrepresented in politics for too long. The Democratic Party is a diverse party and a party that supports the goals and aspirations of women, and in stepping back, Dowd is showing his respect for voters.&#8221;
Mike Collier, the other white Christian man in the Lieutenant Governor&#8217;s race, did not withdraw from the race, but said he supported Dowd&#8217;s decision. &#8220;I’m thankful for all that Matthew Dowd has done to demonstrate to the nation the importance of defeating Dan Patrick. With so much on the line, Matthew and I join millions of Texans in committing to do all we can to defeat Dan Patrick in 2022,&#8221; he said.

Time Warner Political Conference 2008 – Day 2

Former Bush-Cheney Advisor: Jesus Christ ‘Would Be Called A Groomer’ If He ‘Was Alive’ Today

Dick Cheney

George W. Bush

Jesus Christ

Matthew Dowd

MSNBC

Nicolle Wallace

Actor Christian Bale claimed this week that former Vice President Dick Cheney sent him an insulting message for how he portrayed Cheney in the Oscar-nominated movie &#8220;Vice&#8221; — an allegation that a source has now denied.
Speaking with Yahoo! Entertainment, Bale claimed that a woman associated with his son&#8217;s school met with Cheney at a party and asked that a blunt message be delivered to the actor.
&#8220;Strangely enough it was through my son&#8217;s school,&#8221; <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/christian-bale-dick-cheney-vice-reaction-message-220039507.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bale said</a>. &#8220;One of the moms was at a party that [Cheney] was at, and she said, &#8216;Oh, I&#8217;m going to be seeing Christian tomorrow, you have anything to say to him?&#8217; And he said, &#8216;Tell him he&#8217;s a d***.'&#8221;
Bale originally thought Cheney was doing a pun on his own name, but that was not the case, according to the woman that delivered the message.
&#8220;I went, &#8216;Oh, at least he’s got a sense of humor,'&#8221; Bale said. &#8220;And she said, &#8216;No, there was no humor to it whatsoever.'&#8221;
A source close to Dick Cheney told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/christian-bale-dick-cheney-insulting-message-vice-portrayal">Fox News</a> that no such an encounter ever took place.
&#8220;Dick Cheney never has and never would send a message to Bale. Totally untrue,&#8221; the source said.
If Cheney did indeed deliver such a message to Christian Bale, the former vice president would not exactly be out of line, considering that the actor literally <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/golden-globes-christian-bale-wins-best-actor-thanks-satan-dick-cheney-inspiration-1173404">compared him to Satan</a> when accepting the award for Best Actor at the Golden Globes.
&#8220;And for all the competition, I will be cornering the market on charisma-free a**holes,&#8221; Bale said to the tune of audience laughter. &#8220;What do you think, Mitch McConnell next? That could be good, couldn’t it? Thank you to Satan for giving me inspiration on how to play this role.&#8221;
Bale’s hat-tip to the bringer of all evil raised the eyebrows of some and the accolades of others. The Church of Satan, which <a href="https://www.churchofsatan.com/faq-fundamental-beliefs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">bills itself</a> as an atheist organization cosplaying as Satanists to troll backward-thinking Christians, <a href="https://twitter.com/ChurchofSatan/status/1082108964907569153" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">praised the former &#8220;Batman&#8221; star </a>on social media for being an embodiment of their values.
&#8220;To us, Satan is a symbol of pride, liberty and individualism, and it serves as an external metaphorical projection of our highest personal potential,&#8221; said the organization on Twitter. &#8220;As Mr. Bale’s own talent and skill won him the award, this is fitting. Hail Christian! Hail Satan!&#8221;
However, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/christian-bale-changes-his-views-based-audience-hank-berrien">noted</a> by The Daily Wire&#8217;s Hank Berrien at the time, Christian Bale&#8217;s view of Cheney flip-flopped throughout the promotion of the movie &#8220;Vice&#8221; depending on his audience. At one point, Bale even hailed the former vice president as a solid family man.
&#8220;He was a wonderful family man — he’s a great dad, he’s an avid reader, he has a brain like a vice and he constantly reads history,&#8221; Bale said on Fox News. &#8220;He was very laid-back. He would have been very happy to be a lineman in Wyoming if he hadn’t met Lynne, who said to him, &#8216;No, that doesn’t cut it. You need some ambition.&#8217; What would have been if they hadn’t met?&#8221;

Premiere Of FOX’s “Ford V Ferrari” – Arrivals

Christian Bale Claims Dick Cheney Sent Him An Insulting Message For ‘Vice’ Performance. Cheney Denies It.

Christian Bale

On Sunday, after Hamas had launched hundreds of rockets indiscriminately at Israel and murdered Israelis while wounding scores of other Israelis, anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) attacked Israel once again, blaming Israel for shooting &#8220;protesters&#8221; and insisting that Israel was occupying Gaza.
Rep. Liz Cheney, furious, fired back with a blistering tweet, blasting, &#8220;how many times will <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN">@IlhanMN</a> rush to the defense of terrorists?&#8221;
Omar tweeted, &#8220;How many more protesters must be shot, rockets must be fired, and little kids must be killed until the endless cycle of violence ends? The status quo of occupation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unsustainable. Only real justice can bring about security and lasting peace.&#8221;
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How many more protesters must be shot, rockets must be fired, and little kids must be killed until the endless cycle of violence ends?
The status quo of occupation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unsustainable. Only real justice can bring about security and lasting peace.
&#8212; Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1125181509114134529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Cheney snapped, &#8220;1. Hamas controls Gaza. 2. Hamas is firing rockets at civilians in Israel. 3. <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN">@IlhanMN</a> is defending Hamas. Real question is how many times will <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN">@IlhanMN</a> rush to the defense of terrorists?&#8221;
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1. Hamas controls Gaza. 
2. Hamas is firing rockets at civilians in Israel. 3. <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a> is defending Hamas. Real question is how many times will <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a> rush to the defense of terrorists? <a href="https://t.co/mrKQBz1TDa">https://t.co/mrKQBz1TDa</a>
&#8212; Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1125187206929428481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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One conservative commenter decided to give Omar a short lesson in history, noting succinctly, &#8220;Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005. There is no occupation. The humanitarian crisis and the violence is all created by Hamas, a terrorist group which victimizes Israelis and Palestinians. Your attempt to blame Israel for the violence Hamas crates is telling and deplorable.&#8221;
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Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005. There is no occupation. The humanitarian crisis and the violence is all created by Hamas, a terrorist group which victimizes Israelis and Palestinians. Your attempt to blame Israel for the violence Hamas crates is telling and deplorable.
&#8212; (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) <a href="https://twitter.com/AG_Conservative/status/1125185834347565057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Cheney has aggressively countered Omar&#8217;s anti-Semitic rhetoric before; in March Cheney gave a statement to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/node/44393/edit?destination=admin/content/articles%3Ftitle%3DCheney%26author%3DAll%26publishing_status%3DAll%26field_article_options_value%3DAll%26status%3DAll">The Daily Wire</a> in which she ripped House Democrats over their lame resolution condemning hate following Omar&#8217;s anti-Semitic rhetoric. Cheney stated, &#8220;Today&#8217;s resolution vote was a sham put forward by Democrats to avoid condemning one of their own and denouncing vile anti-Semitism. While I stand whole heartedly against discrimination outlined in this resolution, the language before the House today did not address the issue that is front and center. Rep. Omar&#8217;s comments were wrong and she has proven multiple times that she embodies a vile, hate-filled, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel bigotry. She deserves to be rebuked, by name, and removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee so that there is no mistake about the values and priorities that the House stands for.&#8221;
Cheney continued, &#8220;For Democratic leadership to kowtow to their radical members and refuse to offer legislative language that criticizes Rep. Omar&#8217;s statements in the strongest possible manner confirms what we already knew: that their party is controlled by far-left extremists who can&#8217;t even muster the courage to stand up to blatant anti-Semitism. This is a sad day for the House and Democrats&#8217; lack of action is fully responsible for bringing us to this unfortunate moment.&#8221;
Omar twisting the facts about Israel and Hamas to fit her narrative is not unusual for her; this is the same woman who blamed the United States for killing &#8220;thousands&#8221; of Somalis in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46285/ilhan-omar-blamed-american-military-alleged-crimes-josh-hammer">The Daily Wire</a> has reported, exaggerating the number of casualties and ignoring the fact that American forces were in Somali <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/7894/ilhan-omar-slammed-us-soldiers-involved-in-black#.XL3YCMYIWgI.twitter">on a humanitarian mission</a> to save starving Somalis and protect food and aid from being stolen by warring factions. Omar seemingly referred to U.S. forces as &#8220;Satan,&#8221; responding to a commenter who noted the number of American lives lost by tweeting, &#8220;In his selective memory, he forgets to also mention the thousands of Somalis killed by the American forces that day! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotTodaySatan?src=hash">#NotTodaySatan</a>.&#8221;
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In his selective memory, he forgets to also mention the thousands of Somalis killed by the American forces that day! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotTodaySatan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NotTodaySatan</a> <a href="https://t.co/wrFocrZymQ">https://t.co/wrFocrZymQ</a>
&#8212; Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/919736859584090113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Ilhan Omar Attacks Israel. Liz Cheney Demolishes Her With One Tweet.

Ilhan Omar

Joe Biden might be the front-runner among Democratic presidential candidates, but that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s widely beloved by the party&#8217;s progressive base. A newly resurfaced video of Biden admitting that he genuinely likes former Vice President Dick Cheney, describing him as &#8220;a decent man,&#8221; has triggered Biden&#8217;s left-wing critics.
In a tweet noted by <a href="http://thedc.com/2019/05/02/joe-biden-dick-cheney-video/">The Daily Caller</a>, the Young Turks&#8217; Emma Vigeland posted a video from 2015 of Biden&#8217;s positive comments about the man Democrats have portrayed as the Machiavellian architect of George W. Bush&#8217;s &#8220;warmongering&#8221; regime.
&#8220;First of all, I actually like Dick Cheney, for real,&#8221; said Biden. &#8220;I get on with him. I think he&#8217;s a decent man.&#8221;
Vigeland notes that Biden goes on to praise Cheney, &#8220;without irony,&#8221; as &#8220;extremely helpful&#8221; about the &#8220;legal parameters&#8221; of the office he assumed in 2009.
&#8220;[Walter] Mondale then says his view of Cheney is &#8216;a little bit different,'&#8221; Vigeland adds. &#8220;The crowd laughs.&#8221;
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Joe Biden: &#8220;I actually like Dick Cheney&#8230; I get on with him. I think he&#8217;s a decent man.&#8221;
He adds that Cheney was &#8220;extremely helpful&#8221; about the &#8220;legal parameters&#8221; of the VP office. Without irony.
Mondale then says his view of Cheney is &#8220;a little bit different.&#8221; The crowd laughs <a href="https://t.co/udjSlSCrZV">pic.twitter.com/udjSlSCrZV</a>
&#8212; Emma Vigeland (@EmmaVigeland) <a href="https://twitter.com/EmmaVigeland/status/1123975598999789571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Vigeland also posted a video of the entire discussion:
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Anyone looking for the full clip (it&#8217;s around the 56:40 mark): <a href="https://t.co/bMTJSvjBO1">https://t.co/bMTJSvjBO1</a>
&#8212; Emma Vigeland (@EmmaVigeland) <a href="https://twitter.com/EmmaVigeland/status/1124024815420157952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Responses online from the Left to the &#8220;decent man&#8221; clip have been overwhelmingly negative. Some examples of posts replying to Vigeland&#8217;s original tweet:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/nikoCSFB/status/1124041758063636480">This is wild.</a> And it&#8217;s even scarier considering this is from 2015 so he wasn&#8217;t saying it to pander in an attempt to run for office&#8230;he genuinely feels this way
<a href="https://twitter.com/Terrence_STR/status/1124049078764146691">I would be a bit apprehensive</a> towards anyone that describes a war criminal so positively&#8230;like sending thousands of my Brothers &amp; Sisters to their deaths &amp; murdering millions of innocent civilians for profit is just water under the bridge. Glad to see our sacrifice is so honored
<a href="https://twitter.com/MarciaWalteres/status/1123983188085354497">Sooooo when&#8217;s the announcement that he&#8217;s dropping out. </a>Soon? He just basically said Cheney was a &#8220;very fine person&#8221; sound familiar?
<a href="https://twitter.com/smartt_nicola/status/1124117525392916480">How quickly do people forget war crimes.</a> I like people who aren&#8217;t war criminals.
<a href="https://twitter.com/yusuf_VI/status/1123988061661147137">Cheney belongs in Guantanamo with Bush</a> and the rest of his admin for lying the US into two wars. War is bad. War under false pretenses is even worse. That should be obvious yet Biden thinks he can alter history and basic decency to defend himself for supporting the Bush admin.
<a href="https://twitter.com/LuciHoneychurch/status/1124164506173702144">Is anyone surprised?</a> Biden was part of the warmongering Obama team that bombed more nations &#8211; and brokered more arms deals &#8211; than any other admin since WWII.
<a href="https://twitter.com/PuestoLoco/status/1124073869097218048">THIS is one of the BIG things I do not like about Joe Biden.</a> He is old and out of touch, trying to play 20th century collegial &#8220;good old boy&#8221; politics with a viper. There is absolutely ZERO good in Dick Cheney. Nada!
<a href="https://twitter.com/visithesea/status/1124103205363666944">He&#8217;s so entrenched. </a>Biden can&#8217;t see the cruelty of cheney n pence and the disastrous real life results because to him they&#8217;re just people he mingles with at cocktail parties.
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As TheDC notes, the video prompted a rebuke from MSNBC host Chris Hayes and racial activist Shaun King, who added another video he presents as damning to the presidential candidate. &#8220;Joe Biden has many absolutely gross moments where he fought for mass incarceration. This is one of the worst,&#8221; King tweeted Thursday. &#8220;His crime bill already passed. Here he brags about writing the law requiring states to double the average length of prison sentences if they wanted federal dollars.&#8221;
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Joe Biden has many absolutely gross moments where he fought for mass incarceration. This is one of the worst.
His crime bill already passed.
Here he brags about writing the law requiring states to double the average length of prison sentences if they wanted federal dollars. <a href="https://t.co/AqQ7gy8VfO">pic.twitter.com/AqQ7gy8VfO</a>
&#8212; Shaun King (@shaunking) <a href="https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1124300911533350912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46674/nyt-new-details-emerge-about-connection-bidens-james-barrett">NYT: New Details Emerge About Connection Of Bidens To Ukrainian Corruption Scandal</a>

WATCH: Here’s The Video Of Biden Talking About Dick Cheney That’s Triggered Left-Wing Critics

Democratic Party

Joe Biden

Last week, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-08/trump-said-to-seek-huge-premium-from-allies-hosting-u-s-troops">Bloomberg</a> reported that the Trump administration is drawing up demands for Germany and Japan &#8212; and eventually other countries &#8212; to pay for the costs of hosting U.S. troops in their countries, plus an additional 50% or more.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who sits on the Armed Services Committee and is the head of the House Republican Conference, criticized the Trump administration&#8217;s move, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-10/cheney-blasts-trump-desire-that-allies-pay-more-for-u-s-troops">calling it </a>&#8220;absolutely devastating.&#8221;
&#8220;We benefit tremendously&#8221; by stationing soldiers in South Korea, Japan, Germany and other countries, Cheney <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-cheney-democratic-leaders-are-protecting-ilhan-omar-1455313475820?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_mtp">said</a> on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/">Meet the Press</a>&#8221; on Sunday. &#8220;The notion that we are now going to somehow charge them &#8216;cost plus 50&#8217; is really &#8212; it&#8217;s wrongheaded, and it would be devastating to the security of the nation and our allies.&#8221;
Cheney added that she would oppose the move in Congress. 
&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be very important for us to make sure that people understand the danger that that will do to our relationships and to our fundamental security,&#8221; Cheney said. 
&#8220;We should not look at this as though somehow we need to charge them rent or for the privilege of having our forces there, because that does us a huge benefit as well,&#8221; she added.
The &#8220;Cost Plus 50&#8221; formula could result in some countries paying five or six times more than they currently pay.
Last week, South Korea agreed to pay 8.2% more to host the 28,000 U.S. troops currently stationed in the country, the <a href="https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-signs-deal-to-pay-8-more-to-host-us-troops">Strait Times</a> reports. The total cost rose from $920 in 2018 to 1.04 trillion in 2019. The talks reportedly almost derailed when Trump overruled his negotiators by sending a note to National Security Advisor John Bolton saying, &#8220;We want cost plus 50.&#8221;
Since Trump announced he was running for president, he has consistently drawn attention to the amount the U.S. pays for security &#8212; especially in NATO. As recently as January, Trump once again reiterated his stance on the issue. 
&#8220;Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, just stated that because of me NATO has been able to raise far more money than ever before from its members after many years of decline,&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;It&#8217;s called burden sharing. Also more united. Dems &amp; Fake News like to portray the opposite!&#8221;
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Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, just stated that because of me NATO has been able to raise far more money than ever before from its members after many years of decline. It&#8217;s called burden sharing. Also, more united. Dems &amp; Fake News like to portray the opposite!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1089541521139998720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Cheney&#8217;s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, also criticized the Trump administration&#8217;s approach to foreign policy and national security last weekend. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/12/politics/dick-cheney-mike-pence-donald-trump-foreign-policy/index.html">CNN reported</a> that Dick Cheney attended an off-the-record event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute with Vice President Mike Pence that turned tense.
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After asking Pence a few prepared and cleared questions, Cheney began expressing his concern about Trump&#8217;s approach to the major foreign policy issues of the day. &#8220;He was persistent,&#8221; said one attendee of Cheney. &#8220;He just kept coming at him on North Korea, treatment of the allies, the NATO payment issue.&#8221; 
Cheney not only voiced frustration that Trump&#8217;s foreign policy closely resembled that of Barack Obama, but also that it was a significant break from GOP presidents of the past. 
&#8220;I worry that the bottom line of that kind of an approach is we have an administration that looks a lot more like Barack Obama than Ronald Reagan,&#8221; Cheney said to Pence, according to the Post, which obtained a transcript of the discussion that was off-the-record.
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President Trump&#8217;s son, Donald Trump Jr., fired back at the former vice president on Twitter.
&#8220;Isn&#8217;t it fitting that Cheney is the one mad that Trump is ending his reckless and endless wars? I never knew peace would be so unpopular!&#8221; Trump Jr. tweeted. 
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Isn&#8217;t it fitting that Cheney is the one mad that Trump is ending his reckless and endless wars? I never knew peace would be so unpopular!
Former VP Cheney challenges Pence at private retreat, compares Trump&#8217;s foreign policy to Obama&#8217;s approach <a href="https://t.co/NSvNagFViN">https://t.co/NSvNagFViN</a>
&#8212; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1105442968100618241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump Proposes To Have Allies Pay For U.S. Military Presence Plus 50%, Report Says

Donald Trump

Adam McKay&#8217;s Vice ­&#8212; the Oscar nominated bio-pic about Vice President Dick Cheney &#8212; is a remarkably revealing film. In the same way you can watch Hallmark movies to better understand some women&#8217;s daydreams, you can watch Vice to get a gander at the absurd, small-minded and hate-filled imaginings of leftists.
To say the movie&#8217;s political views are simplistic is to insult simplism. Cheney is a conniving moral monster who bombs nations for profit. His president, George W. Bush, is an idiot, whom Cheney leads by the nose. Democrats are good. They put solar panels on the White House roof to save the planet! Republicans are bad. They do mean things for mean reasons because they are mean.
It&#8217;s a child&#8217;s view of the world, full of tendentious factual distortions and lies. But then director McKay is a Socialist, so he is a child in effect, or at least he knows what a child knows about economics, human nature and history &#8212; namely nothing.
What is so revealing about the film though is that it&#8217;s about Bush. Not Donald Trump. Bush. It&#8217;s a reminder that the hatred and rage, the wild charges of racism, and the madcap conspiracy theories with which the left has disgraced itself during the Trump administration are not anomalous, not directed at the outsized Trump specifically. This is just how the left thinks about the rest of us in every administration all the time. Republicans are either stupid like Eisenhower, Reagan and W, or they are evil like Nixon and Cheney, or they are both stupid and evil like Donald Trump.
And it&#8217;s not just the politicians either. This is how the left sees you too. Stupid, evil or both.
The fact that this silly film has been nominated for a best picture Oscar is a message from Harvey-Weinstein-World to half of America. The message is two words long. The second word is you.
If Vice is how leftists imagine life, it&#8217;s no wonder they have to spend so much time and energy preventing their childishly black-and-white viewpoint from being debunked by the complicated truth.
They have to take pains to insure that every movie, every television show, every comedy act, every news program, every college course reflects their ideas and only their ideas. They have to invent and propound primitive racist theories like Intersectionalism that give them license to categorize all disagreements as hateful. And if even that&#8217;s not enough, they have to hire friends to commit hate crimes against them so the world seems to look the way they think it looks.
They so surround themselves with people who agree with them, so immerse themselves in their imaginary narratives, they don&#8217;t even know they&#8217;re demonizing their opponents, they just think (as one leftist says in Vice) they&#8217;re relating the simple facts.
When actor Jussie Smollett reported the hate crime that police now say was an elaborate hoax, CNN&#8217;s Brooke Baldwin mourned, &#8220;This is America in 2019.&#8221; When media race scammer Nathan Philips started a scene with some innocent Trump-supporting Catholic school kids, CNN&#8217;s Ana Navarro falsely described the incident as, &#8220;Native-American elder taunted by racist MAGA-hat wearing teens&#8230;&#8221;
These people don&#8217;t even know that their brains are suffocating in the plastic bag of their own narrative. Who would tell them? They have demonized, blacklisted and condemned everyone who disagrees with them. They have chased them out of Hollywood. They have banned them from speaking at colleges. They have de-platformed them on social media.
While Vice is Oscar-nominated, the TV mini-series Path to 9/11 will not be released on DVD because it accurately depicts Bill Clinton&#8217;s failure to kill Osama bin Laden when he had the chance.
While it becomes more and more clear that the Justice Department&#8217;s coup attempt against Donald Trump is one of the great scandals in American history, &#8220;journalists&#8221; are spending their time speculating on whether Donald Trump is a Russian spy.
Desperate to protect their simplistic imaginations from the healthy debate and interchange of the real and complex world, leftists have transformed themselves into willful idiots. They don&#8217;t know what they don&#8217;t know. And they don&#8217;t know that they don&#8217;t know.

FILM REVIEW: ‘Vice’ Reveals The Leftist Imagination

Hate Crime

Hollywood

Jussie Smollett

Racism

Socialism

Anyone catching the television ads for the Dick Cheney-trashing movie &#8220;Vice&#8221; found a heavy promotion of the surprising six Golden Globe nominations it received from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The affirmation also became the &#8220;news hook&#8221; for press interviews with the director and the actors to weaponize it politically.
Sadly for them, only actor Christian Bale won an award, for gaining 40 pounds and talking out of the side of his mouth like the Penguin in a Batman movie. This year&#8217;s Golden Globes were refreshingly devoid of obnoxious left-wing fulminating &#8212; except for Bale. He felt it appropriate to sneer as he accepted his award, &#8220;Thank you to Satan, for giving me inspiration on how to play this role.&#8221; He also joked he will now portray a series of &#8220;charisma-free a&#8212;holes,&#8221; possibly Sen. Mitch McConnell. At least it&#8217;s amusing that Bale won the award for best actor in a musical or comedy. No one should be confused about whether this film is based in reality &#8230; even though the commercials claim it is.
The Hollywood left has convinced itself that somehow Cheney is the lowest form of immoral human slime, a war criminal worse than Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden combined. &#8220;Vice&#8221; screenwriter and director Adam McKay, a self-described socialist whose filmmaking resume bursts with Will Ferrell comedies like &#8220;Anchorman,&#8221; even placed Cheney above President Trump on the liberal Evil Meter. The death of every man, woman and child in the Iraq War was President George W. Bush and Dick Cheney&#8217;s fault. &#8220;Don&#8217;t get me wrong, Trump is dispiriting and upsetting and we&#8217;ve essentially shot a drunk orangutan into the office,&#8221; McKay proclaimed to The Daily Beast. &#8220;But it&#8217;s nowhere near the damage these guys did.&#8221;
In a new &#8220;Six Questions&#8221; interview in the back of Time magazine, McKay proclaimed that Cheney became a danger to society, an international menace: &#8220;What intrigued me was that he wasn&#8217;t a sociopathic monster in the beginning. &#8230; Yet somehow that ambition, that American Dream, became something much darker.&#8221; Time interviewer Eliza Berman raised no objection to this character assassination.
McKay&#8217;s passionate loathing, alongside his arrogant belief in his own wicked sense of humor, resulted in a mess. Let&#8217;s face it. This pile of Golden Globe nominations &#8212; including one for best picture in a musical or comedy &#8212; reeked more of political activism than it did artistic judgment. Time magazine&#8217;s own film critic, Stephanie Zacharek, denounced it as faux art. &#8220;(I)f &#8216;Vice&#8217;&#8230; really is aimed at adults, why does it treat its audience like idiots?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;McKay seems to think we can&#8217;t be trusted to grasp what he sees as Cheney&#8217;s Machiavellian villainy unless he spells it out in cartoon language. There are no actual cartoons in &#8216;Vice,&#8217; but McKay packs in so much figurative Wile E. Coyote anvil dropping that there may as well be.&#8221;
Who would waste their money on this, except leftists fully immersing themselves in 132 minutes of hate?
Zacharek wished for a movie that &#8220;could have been an awesome Christmas gift to Dick Cheney haters everywhere.&#8221; The movie debuted on Christmas Day. What sicko celebrates the world-redeeming birth of Christ with a hate-Cheney movie?
The movie isn&#8217;t a box-office flop, like Michael Moore&#8217;s latest bombs. It has grossed over $30 million on 2,500 screens in its first two weeks, according to Box Office Mojo. But the left can stick a sock in the notion that it is the world&#8217;s guardian of humanity, unity and love while it&#8217;s subsidizing this socialist smear canister at the Cineplex.
L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

BOZELL & GRAHAM: Cheney Haters Flop At The Golden Globes

Don&#8217;t mess with Liz Cheney.
The eldest daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney is now a Republican member of Congress from Wyoming. While her father would often ignore criticism, Cheney comes out with both barrels blazing.
And it doesn&#8217;t take her long to think up a good zinger, either.
Case in point: On Sunday night, the limousine liberals gathered to praise themselves in the annual Gold Globes Awards show. Actor Christian Bale won a Globe for his portrayal of the former vice president in the &#8220;fake news&#8221; film &#8220;Vice.&#8221;
In his acceptance speech, Bale said Satan was his inspiration for playing Cheney and suggested the next &#8220;charisma-free a**h***&#8221; he could play would be Senate GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
First, Bale thanked the movie&#8217;s director, Adam McKay, saying, &#8220;Thank you to that geezer, Adam. He said I&#8217;ve got to find somebody who can be absolutely charisma-free and reviled by everybody, so he went, &#8216;Oh, it&#8217;s gotta be Bale in it.&#8217; Thank you.&#8221;
Then he said: &#8220;And for all the competition, I will be cornering the market on charisma-free a**h***s. What do you think, Mitch McConnell next? That could be good, couldn&#8217;t it? Thank you to Satan for giving me inspiration on how to play this role.&#8221;
While the awards show was still underway, Cheney wrote on Twitter: &#8220;Satan probably inspired him to do this, too.&#8221; She linked a story headlined, &#8220;Christian Bale arrested for &#8216;assault on mother and sister.'&#8221;
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Satan probably inspired him to do this, too. Christian Bale arrested for &#8216;assault on mother and sister&#8217;| The Independent. <a href="https://t.co/kesnNno9Zv">https://t.co/kesnNno9Zv</a>
&#8212; Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1082116119995924482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Independent reported in July 2008:
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The Batman star Christian Bale was released on police bail yesterday after being questioned over an alleged assault on his mother and sister.
Scotland Yard said the Hollywood actor, 34, had voluntarily attended Belgravia police station, in central London, at noon. After four hours of questioning by detectives he was released on bail until September pending further inquiries. His arrest came just 16 hours after he attended the European premiere of the new Batman film, The Dark Knight, in Leicester Square.
His mother, Jenny, 61, and sister, Sharon, claim he lashed out at them on Sunday night in his suite at The Dorchester hotel, in Park Lane. They reported the alleged inci[d]ent at a Hampshire police station on Monday. The complaint was then passed to the Metropolitan Police, who spoke to Mr Bale before the film premiere but allowed him to attend the event on condition that he present himself at Belgravia police station yesterday.
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Ouch.

Liz Cheney Shreds Christian Bale For Saying Satan Inspired His Portrayal Of Dick Cheney

Golden Globes

On Sunday night, after winning a Golden Globe for playing former Vice-President Dick Cheney in the film &#8220;Vice,&#8221; actor Christian Bale decided to curry favor with the typically Hollywood leftist crowd, saying Satan was his inspiration for playing Cheney and suggesting the next &#8220;charisma-free a**h***&#8221; he could play would be Senate GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
First Bale thanked the director of &#8220;Vice,&#8221; Adam McKay, saying, &#8220;Thank you to that geezer, Adam. He said I&#8217;ve got to find somebody who can be absolutely charisma-free and reviled by everybody, so he went, &#8216;Oh, it&#8217;s gotta be Bale in it.&#8217; Thank you.&#8221;
Then he chortled, &#8220;And for all the competition, I will be cornering the market on charisma-free a**h***s. What do you think, Mitch McConnell next? That could be good, couldn&#8217;t it? Thank you to Satan for giving me inspiration on how to play this role.&#8221;
As Christian Toto, editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/">HollywoodInToto.com</a>, told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/awards/christian-bale-credits-satan-inspiration-how-play-dick-cheney-vice-n955506">NBC News</a>, &#8220;&#8217;Vice&#8217; is a cartoonishly biased film, and it took a movie that could have been compelling and turned it into a simplistic screed. Bale&#8217;s speech is icing on the cake. These award shows are not even meant to entertain anymore, they seem to be meant to scold and lecture.&#8221;
What is quite interesting, though, is that Bale seems to change his tune to please his audience. At the Golden Globes, he slammed McConnell and cited Satan as his inspiration to play Cheney. Yet when he was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/vice-star-christian-bale-on-what-he-learned-about-dick-cheney-wont-do-another-body-transformation">interviewed by Fox News</a> in mid-December for the movie&#8217;s premiere, he was effusive in his praise for Cheney, saying:
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He was a wonderful family man &#8212; he&#8217;s a great dad, he&#8217;s an avid reader, he has a brain like a vice and he constantly reads history. He was very laid-back. He would have been very happy to be a lineman in Wyoming if he hadn&#8217;t met Lynne, who said to him, &#8216;&#8221;No, that doesn&#8217;t cut it. You need some ambition.&#8221; What would have been if they hadn&#8217;t met?&#8221;
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Bale continued that he thought Cheney would have a sense of humor about the film, opining, &#8220;I think he&#8217;ll certainly find it entertaining, at the very least. I think he&#8217;s very thick-skinned &#8212; you know. He has no remorse or regrets about what he&#8217;s done &#8212; he always says, &#8216;I would do it again in a minute.&#8217; He doesn&#8217;t back down &#8212; he doesn&#8217;t apologize about anything. So, I think he&#8217;s a thick-skinned guy and I&#8217;d love to hear his thoughts. He&#8217;s a very intelligent individual, no matter what your thoughts are about him &#8212; he&#8217;s a smart cookie. So, I do hope so.&#8221;
With McKay, though, there&#8217;s no doubt about how he holds Cheney and President George W. Bush in contempt; asked whether his film was a comedy or drama, he <a href="https://entertainment.inquirer.net/306151/christian-bales-vice-a-comedy-not-drama-says-director">replied</a>:
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It&#8217;s a tricky thing, given what is going on in the world right now and you see the suffering that resulted from that era with Cheney and Bush. Yet, at the same time, we&#8217;re living with it now. The means that got us there are so ridiculous. The idea that George W. Bush, when he left college, worked for a tropical plant company and he had a 10-year gap in his employment history and we elected him President is ridiculous. And the idea that Cheney knew that this was an opportunity for power is undeniably funny.
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Video of Bale below:
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Christian Bale Changes His Views Based On The Audience He’s In Front Of

Is there a villain that Donald Trump isn&#8217;t worse than in the minds of his Hollywood critics? Well, one that he is emphatically more evil than, in Luke Skywalker&#8217;s view anyhow, is one of the most iconic bad guys in cinematic history: Luke&#8217;s tyrannical, dark Force-wielding father, Darth Vader.
In what The Washington Post clearly felt was a perfect Christmas day piece, Jonathan Capehart gave readers a chance to reflect on just how awfuleviltyrannicalcruelHitlerian Trump really is by &#8220;bringing back an old favorite,&#8221; Mark Hamill, to provide some more Tinseltown trashing of Trump.
&#8220;For Christmas, we&#8217;re bringing back an old favorite: Mark Hamill!&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/25/mark-hamill-lukes-fate-trump-vs-vader-more/">writes</a> Capehart. &#8220;He talks about why Star Wars still resonates so strongly and shares some stories from Star Wars history that you might not have heard before. If you follow Hamill on Twitter, you know he loves politics. So, when I asked him about his thoughts on comparisons of President Trump and former vice president Richard B. Cheney to Darth Vader, you won&#8217;t be surprised by his answer.&#8221;
So what is Hamill&#8217;s response to comparisons of Trump (and Cheney) to the fictional, mostly mechanized man who spent most of his adult life terrorizing the universe?
&#8220;Listen, I really get upset then when people compare [Trump] or even Dick Cheney to Darth Vader &#8230; &#8217;cause Darth Vader repented. He saw the error of his ways. I don&#8217;t see either one of them doing that,&#8221; Hamill told Capehart, who was clearly happy to report the response to the left-leaning Post&#8217;s readers.
As Capehart mentions, Hamill&#8217;s Twitterfeed, like so many of his colleagues&#8217;, is littered with political posts &#8212; most of which are obsessively focused on Trump. A few examples of his Trump-themed posts from just the last week:
&#8220;&#8216;The fact is there is nothing ELSE&#8217;S that will work&#8217;?&#8221; Hamill wrote Friday, quoting a Trump tweet. &#8220;Seriously? I wish you knew GRAMMAR better than anyone. At least get a proof-reader, dude! As for technology, you know you&#8217;re on film struggling &amp; failing to close an umbrella, right?&#8221;
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&#8220;The fact is there is nothing ELSE&#8217;S that will work&#8221;? Seriously? I wish you knew GRAMMAR better than anyone. At least get a proof-reader, dude! As for technology, you know you&#8217;re on film struggling &amp; failing to close an umbrella, right? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MexicoWillPayForTheWall?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MexicoWillPayForTheWall</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpResign?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpResign</a> <a href="https://t.co/TKYCdrAT5u">https://t.co/TKYCdrAT5u</a>
&#8212; MarkHoHoHoHamill (@HamillHimself) <a href="https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/1076146256626487297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Just two tweets later, Hamill used a post by another celebrity who is likewise obsessed with Trump, Stephen Colbert, as another opportunity to swipe at the president, this time for supposed &#8220;Russian collusion,&#8221; or something:
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Too Vlad! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpResign?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpResign</a> <a href="https://t.co/nQqTEHa75Z">https://t.co/nQqTEHa75Z</a>
&#8212; MarkHoHoHoHamill (@HamillHimself) <a href="https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/1076391461107757056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Hamill couldn&#8217;t hold off slamming Trump again even for a single tweet, posting an image of the &#8220;Worst. Christmas. Movie&#8230; EVER&#8221;:
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Worst. Christmas. Movie&#8230; EVER. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpShutdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpShutdown</a> <a href="https://t.co/XzE97f1mBj">pic.twitter.com/XzE97f1mBj</a>
&#8212; MarkHoHoHoHamill (@HamillHimself) <a href="https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/1076401896808726530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Managing to keep himself from tweeting about Trump for a full day, Hamill hit him again on Christmas Eve.
&#8220;Bad News: You repeatedly promised American taxpayers a FREE wall that would cost our country NOTHING, because MEXICO would pay for it! Remember? (It&#8217;s on film if you need to refresh your memory) The Good News is: I think you just found your 2020 Campaign Slogan: #PoorMe!&#8221; Hamill wrote.
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Bad News: You repeatedly promised American taxpayers a FREE wall that would cost our country NOTHING, because MEXICO would pay for it! Remember? (It&#8217;s on film if you need to refresh your memory) 
The Good News is: I think you just found your 2020 Campaign Slogan: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PoorMe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PoorMe</a>! <a href="https://t.co/Dme70JlJG1">https://t.co/Dme70JlJG1</a>
&#8212; MarkHoHoHoHamill (@HamillHimself) <a href="https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/1077275918094065666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Even on Christmas day Hamill couldn&#8217;t help himself, jumping on the &#8220;Trump ruined a little girl&#8217;s Christmas&#8221; train:
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Contrast this with JFK&#8217;s letter to a child concerned about Santa&#8217;s well-being I just RT&#8217;d. 
1st time I&#8217;ve seen our current &#8220;President&#8221; laugh &amp; he seems positively gleeful to demolish this youngster&#8217;s hopes &amp; dreams. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PoorHim?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PoorHim</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MerryChristmasKiddies?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MerryChristmasKiddies</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpChristmasShutdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpChristmasShutdown</a> &#11088;&#65039; <a href="https://t.co/ILZQLPZbZQ">https://t.co/ILZQLPZbZQ</a>
&#8212; MarkHoHoHoHamill (@HamillHimself) <a href="https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/1077764969234452480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2018</a></blockquote>
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(In case you didn&#8217;t see the follow-up to that story, <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/39680/no-trump-didnt-ruin-christmas-little-girl-actually-james-barrett">Trump didn&#8217;t ruin anything for the girl</a>; in fact, he made her and her family&#8217;s Christmas even more special.)
Related: 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32462/watch-luke-skywalker-laments-radical-changes-last-james-barrett">WATCH: Luke Skywalker Laments &#8216;Radical Changes&#8217; In &#8216;Last Jedi&#8217;</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24804/luke-skywalker-gets-shredded-ted-cruz-donald-trump-joseph-curl">Luke Skywalker Gets Shredded By Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Jr. In Twitter War</a>

Luke Skywalker Asked To Compare Trump To Darth Vader; You Can Guess How It Goes

Mark Hamill

Trump Administration

Washington Post

The Golden Globe nominations are in, and Hollywood has managed to remind Middle America, once again, that they detest their political opinions and will take every opportunity they can to tar and feather politicians Americans elect if they don&#8217;t embrace the progressive agenda.
By giving the most nominations to yet another openly partisan film created by an openly partisan filmmaker about respected Republican figures &#8212; this time former Vice President Dick Cheney and former President George W. Bush &#8212; Hollywood has also managed to undermine its attempts to argue that their hatred for Trump is special. The truth is, as &#8220;Vice&#8221; reminds us, the Hollywood left have loathed all recent Republican presidents about as passionately as they currently despise Trump.
As <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/2019-golden-globes-nominations-full-list-1165090/item/best-screenplay-motion-picture-1165148">The Hollywood Reporter</a> announced triumphantly Thursday, &#8220;Vice&#8221; leads the way with 2019 Golden Globe Awards nominations with a total of six. &#8220;The Favourite,&#8221; &#8220;Green Book&#8221; and &#8220;A Star Is Born&#8221; tied for second-most nominations, all earning five.
&#8220;Vice&#8221; was nominated for: Best Motion Picture &#8211; Musical or Comedy; Best Performance by an Actor &#8211; Musical or Comedy (Christian Bale as Dick Cheney); Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture (Amy Adams as Lynn Cheney); Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture (Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush); Best Director &#8211; Motion Picture (Adam McKay); and Best Screenplay &#8211; Motion Picture (Adam McKay).
Here&#8217;s the trailer, which promises viewers a chance to &#8220;discover the untold true story that changed history forever&#8221;:
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But while the trailer promises to give us the &#8220;untold true story&#8221; about Cheney&#8217;s secret deal with Bush to indulge his Machiavellian plans, and while left-leaning outlets are busy praising the &#8220;transformation&#8221; of Bale and Rockwell into what we&#8217;re supposed to accept as authentic portrayals of the two famous political figures, what is most clear from the early looks and the declarations of the director is that this is yet another example of Hollywood ridiculing conservatives and the Republican Party.
As Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/vice-movie-dick-cheney-anti-conservative-vitriol/">Ben Shapiro</a> noted, while Hollywood is doing its best to pump up &#8220;Vice,&#8221; it &#8220;isn&#8217;t unique&#8221;:
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It follows W, starring Josh Brolin, a box-office failure; Truth, another box-office failure starring Robert Redford about Dan Rather&#8217;s attempt to take down George W. Bush with a fake letter about his military service; and You&#8217;re Welcome, America, starring Will Ferrell, which aired on HBO. None of these films raked in the cash. But that&#8217;s not stopping Adam McKay, producer of HBO&#8217;s Succession, from taking on a president who left office a decade ago.
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Meanwhile, the director, McKay, has made sure the public knows exactly his true motives in making the film, and it certainly isn&#8217;t any sort of respect for the figures he portrays.
&#8220;I would choose Trump over Bush and Cheney,&#8221; McKay told <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/christian-bale-takes-washingtons-ultimate-gamesman-vice-1162366">THR</a> in November. &#8220;Donald Trump has no belief system. So I would take the hyenas, the random wild animals running through the White House over Cheney any day of the week.&#8221;
&#8220;I was 100 percent Bernie Sanders, but once Sanders didn&#8217;t win, I was like, &#8216;All right. Let&#8217;s all be grown-ups. I now support Hillary Clinton,'&#8221; McKay told the paper. &#8220;And once she was running against Trump, it was the easiest choice you&#8217;d ever have to make. I was very excited because I have two daughters, and we were going to have a woman president. And I just thought, &#8216;That&#8217;s awesome!'&#8221;
He suffered the same disappointment on election night back in 2004, he said. He was all geared up for a John Kerry victory, surrounded by fellow Hollywood Democrats at David Geffen&#8217;s Malibu home for the election night party. &#8220;Everyone you could imagine was there,&#8221; says McKay, including Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell. &#8220;Once again, we&#8217;re like, &#8216;Oh, they&#8217;re going to lose.&#8217; There&#8217;s no way you&#8217;d reelect these guys after the disaster we just had. I remember [then-New York Times op-ed writer] Frank Rich was on the phone, and he&#8217;s like, &#8216;It&#8217;s over.&#8217; And within two minutes, the entire party had cleared out.&#8221;
So, no, Hollywood hasn&#8217;t just recently developed disdain for conservatives and special disgust for the Republican president. They&#8217;ve felt that way for quite some time, as &#8220;Vice&#8221; helpfully reminds us.

Golden Globes Reminds Americans Hollywood Hated Bush & Cheney As Much As They Hate Trump

Conservatism

Republican Party

This week, The Hollywood Reporter featured a lengthy paean to the new anti-Bush film Vice. This particular film is dedicated to the apparent evil of former Vice President Dick Cheney, the Left&#8217;s all-purpose nefarious bugaboo during the Bush years. The film isn&#8217;t unique: it follows W, starring Josh Brolin, a box office failure; Truth, another box office failure starring Robert Redford about Dan Rather&#8217;s attempt to take down George W. Bush with a fake letter about his military service; and You&#8217;re Welcome, America, starring Will Ferrell, which aired on HBO. None of these films raked in the cash. But that&#8217;s not stopping Adam McKay, creator of HBO&#8217;s Succession, from taking on a president who left office a decade ago.
What&#8217;s driving McKay? The need to live out his anger against Bush. McKay recalls attending the victory party for John Kerry &#8212; who, needless to say, did not win. &#8220;Everyone you could imagine was there,&#8221; McKay describes, including Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman, and Ferrell. &#8220;Once again, we&#8217;re like, &#8216;Oh, they&#8217;re going to lose.&#8217; There&#8217;s no way you&#8217;d re-elect these guys after the disaster we just had. I remember Frank Rich was on the phone, and he&#8217;s like, &#8216;It&#8217;s over.&#8217; And within two minutes, the entire party had cleared out.&#8221;
McKay turned away from political projects until The Big Short. But now he&#8217;s back, and he&#8217;s betting a $60 million budget that Americans are desperate to see Christian Bale put on 45 pounds and play Cheney as a Machiavellian devil hell-bent on sending American troops into battle for no good reason. The cast is massive, and includes Sam Rockwell as W., Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld, and Tyler Perry as Colin Powell. According to McKay, Cheney was far more powerful than W.
This, of course, is untrue. But the punch line is this one: &#8220;I would choose Trump over Bush and Cheney.&#8221; Why? Because, according to McKay, &#8220;Donald Trump has no belief system. So I would take the hyenas, the random wild animals running through the White House over Cheney any day of the week.&#8221;
This is how you got Trump.
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