He’s also using Thatcher’s name to praise President Barack Obama.

I always find myself rooting for people who stand up for what they believe in, and it always gives me a great charge to see it happen. But it’s all too rare, and I know this will shock my Republican friends, but I know President Obama is someone who stands up for what he believes, and I know the First Lady does as well. They are strong believers in helping America’s underserved. They might go about it differently than Margaret Thatcher, but their belief is strong. And in the end, lending a helping hand, may achieve the same result as Thatcher, if it is done properly.

Perhaps Weinstein hasn’t noticed that Guantanamo is still open, or that Obama never televised the health care debates as promised, or that all that talk about reaching across the aisle was just that.

So that means Stewart and his fellow humorists, who more often than not set entertainment criteria aside to promote their agendas, will have to do some fancy footwork to keep Obama in office for four more years.

Voila, the race card.

Get the f[bleep] out out of here. Santorum? Really? Republicans, you gonna try every chocolate in the box? Is that, look, look, here’s your candidates. Here’s your candidates. Let’s call it a “White Man’s Sampler.”

Stewart couldn’t find the race card when the overwhelmingly white Occupy Wall Street crowd clogged up public space for weeks at a time. Handy that he found it just now, right?

Republicans were eager to cast their vote for Herman Cain before a series of sexually-charged allegations shut down Cain’s campaign. Don’t tell that to Stewart. He’s got to play the full race card deck before the last vote is tallied this November.

Why else would the “Barbarella” beauty think the president will be “stronger” in his second term of office?

Fonda, currently hitting the talk show circuit like a boxer pummeling the speed bag, shared why she thinks that not only will Obama win re-election next year but he’ll be an even better president come 2013.

Fonda also talked politics with CNN’s Piers Morgan on December 8, saying she wishes President Barack Obama would be “stronger” in office.

“I hope he gets re-elected. I wish that he would be stronger. I think he will be in his second term. I think he’s going to be re-elected,” she said.

“I think he’s a good man, but I wish that he was tougher on the issues that I care about and that a lot of people care about.”

They feared he was another Michael Moore.

Malone eventually earned the trust of politicos on both sides of the aisle to complete his new film, which just had its world premiere at the Starz Denver Film Festival. The film strains to take a non-ideological look at why the current political system is in such turmoil, from the suffocating presence of lobbyists to partisan bickering of epic proportions.

For every Democratic Congressman on camera there’s a Republican member close behind him or her.

It’s everything a Moore film isn’t.

“Michael Moore has opened up a lot of doors for independent filmmakers. In that respect, I like him,” Malone says. “On a professional level, I don’t agree with his methods … he puts himself into the story quite a bit.”

“I don’t want this film to be about me,” he continues. “What I think is not important,” he says. “[The film] allows thoughtful people to make up their minds.”

“Patriocracy” examines the current political climate, from the cable news channels (Fox News, MSNBC) which stoke ideological fires to the influence of money on the political process. Malone didn’t leave the film’s balanced posture to chance. He sought out retired Denver news anchor Ed Sardella to vet some of the material included in the film.

“When I showed him segments or a portion of the script, he’d write back, ‘your bias is showing.’ He helped keep my own personal views in check,” he says.

The filmmaker’s biases nudge through all the same, like when the film attempts to connect the partisan sniping in the media to the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords earlier this year. And, when “Patriocracy” tries to show the origins of today’s ideological bickering, it connects the dots back to both Barry Goldwater and a young, fiery Newt Gingrich.

The film also lets President Barack Obama off the hook for the role his incendiary rhetoric plays, but Malone contends his film’s mission was “not to form any opinions of any particular politician.”

“Patriocracy” isn’t a 90-minute gripe session. The film wraps with potential solutions from retired Republican Congressman Mickey Edwards, from finding ways to get money out of the campaign process to something as simple as making sure politicians get to know each other. Malone says Congress typically meets from Tuesday through Thursday, with members spending the rest of the time spent in their respective districts. He compares the situation to living in a neighborhood where you don’t know the people down the street.

“It’s easier for you to demonize those people as strangers … and make assumptions about them if you don’t know them. The same thing is happening in Congress,” he says.

Malone, a former journalist, says his movie reflects his own mounting frustrations with the political system.

“I’m a small business owner in Colorado. For me, I was feeling what a lot of other Americans were feeling … I wanted to know why things weren’t working,” he says, What he found was that many politicians on both sides of the aisle truly do care and want to represent their constituents in the most effective manner possible.

The rest is up to us.

“A lot of people feel like they have no power, no voice. They do have a voice if they just apply it,” he says. “The Tea Party demonstrated that. They can change the entire direction of the country … they’ve been able to make a difference. You can argue if that difference is good, bad or ugly.”

Malone emerges from making “Patriocracy” with the same sense of hope – and skepticism – that things will get better with which he started. But he also knows he faces an uphill battle to get his film out into the public.

Striving for balance means other, more strident, filmmakers tend to shout louder.

“Now, anyone with a digital camera and an opinion can call themselves a filmmaker,” he says. “They don’t know how to get both sides of the story or double source their facts.”

“Unfortunately, those are the films that get the most attention, the most commercial value,” he says.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker won’t be voting for Rick Perry, Mitt Romney or Herman Cain next year, but he’ll pull the lever for President Barack Obama with a heavy heart. And no, that’s not a fat joke.

Moore described Obama’s first three years in office to the BBC as “heart-breaking” and a “disappointment.”

“He did not come into office like I hoped that he would, to do what Franklin Roosevelt did in his first few months where he came in and said, you know, ‘I’m in charge, this is the way we’re doing things, if you don’t like it, throw me out of office,’” Moore said.

Moore said Obama spent the past three years “running the ball in the wrong direction” before making somewhat of a turnaround with a jobs bill and other economic plans.

Do we smell a ‘Sicko’ sequel in which Moore travels to Cuba to show how even that Communist country’s medical system offers superior paperwork to Obamacare?

Besides, didn’t Moore hear it when Obama said he was looking for an “ass to kick?” Sounds like a guy in charge to us.

George Moriarty, my father – tacitly known as a “Little George” to my grandfather, “Big George” Moriarty – was easily as “big” as that police officer in Norman Rockwell’s ‘The Runaway.’

Over a decade older than that boy in the painting, I ran away to New York City and London only to face a painfully humiliating return to Detroit where I was born.

Oh, well … we’ve all had those moments in our lives … and, as I’ve learned, “God had other plans for me than my own” and God’s plans turned out more blissfully rewarding than the ones I’d dreamed of as a boy.

However, it seems like more than 40 percent of Americans are now running away from the defining principles of America and America’s individual freedom. They applaud Barack Obama’s efforts to “fundamentally transform the United States.”

Why do I say that?

Obama’s approval ratings are still that high for both himself and his Obama Nation. It is not happening without the help of Radical Leftists, American or otherwise, plus the Islamic organizations that support and fund the Jihadists. Please read this article from The New American.

Into the arms of the Progressive New World Order, that Utopian Lie, the foundations of which were indisputably laid by not only George Bush The Senior but his successor in the White House, Bill Clinton.

The Clinton Initiative is, to the Progressive New World Order, what all window-dressing has always been for inevitable tyranny. Clinton’s so-called “decade of difference” has helped leave America bankrupt. Even a Bloomberg publication thinks Clinton went too far as President. Now, as philanthropist, he’s calling a decade of world, economic disaster a “decade of difference.”

From recent photos of the President, I ask: Is William Clinton’s nose beginning to grow with his Clinton Initiative calling over two decades of Presidential deception a “Decade of Difference?”

A bankrupt, demoralized United States is quite a difference!

I am sure Bill and Hillary were both surprised when their very own Democrat Party made it clear that Slick Willy’s Ways and Hillary’s Heavenly Wiles were now a thing of the past. That Far-Left, blessing-in-disguise, President Barack Obama, has delivered more of the truth beneath the Clinton Smiles than I am sure Bill and Hillary Clinton would have wanted.

Without President Obama there would never have been The Tea Party. The Tea Party is definitely not running away from home. The Tea Party’s growing hopes in Herman Cain may well be the most important turning point, away from the progress of the United States toward its own self-inflicted abortion, its own suicide.

Obama calls this National Hara-kiri a “fundamental transformation of the United States.”

For 89 years, America carried on a love affair with slavery. Our Supreme Court even condoned it with the Dred Scott Decision. Now with our Highest Court’s Roe v Wade Decision, we have carried on a 38-year love affair with legalized murder.

Does God have “other plans” for America aside from those envisioned by Smiley Bill Clinton and his doppelganger, the charmingly icy Barack Obama?

The Progressive Battle Cry: “It is time for not only The Arab Spring but the American Autumn as well!”

I left America because of the Clinton Administration. I knew for certain that with the Clintons occupying both my home town and home state of New York, that things could only get worse.

Indeed, they did!

Not only did 9/11 happen to Manhattan but both President Barack Obama and his operative in New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, arrived to blame everything on the traditional America they are both helping to “transform fundamentally!”

The New York Police Department will not end a violent protest on the streets of New York and the President of the United States supports the protestors?!

Hmmm …

Obama prefers a runaway America. Is he interested in building some other stable home for Americans?

No.

What the President is building is an undeniably Marxist New World Order. Such a dream demands the end of Capitalist America and its individual freedom and individual responsibility.

With his feet constantly upon the President’s desk, Obama’s contempt for anything traditionally American is intentionally divisive. His greatest success is in the Lincoln axiom: “A house divided cannot stand.”

If anyone can destroy … or … “transform” America in the coming year, Barack Obama can begin the process. With another four years, he could finish the job.

As the Arab Spring is intent upon ultimately destroying Israel, the American Autumn is utterly intent upon disuniting the United States.

Despite the vaunted, “nuanced” thinking among Harvard graduates, the final goal of a Marxist New World Order is simple mathematics: the Obama Nation’s goal demands the “fundamental transformation” of the Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution and the United States itself:

“Gestating infants are not created equal!

Many can and, in some cases, must be aborted!”

The Progressive New World Order, the American Autumn and the Arab Spring were everything our Founding Fathers tried to prevent with America’s founding documents. However, what can The Founding Fathers possibly do with a Runaway America?!

It is now up to Herman Cain to bring America home. Perhaps it is predestined that a child of American slavery should perform that seemingly impossible feat.

No other Republican candidates can do it. They are actually not American enough.

Herman Cain, by God, is American to the deepest sense of that word’s charismatic meaning. Obama Care belongs to not only a different continent but an entirely New World Order.

The only “New World” I’ll ever recognize happened when explorers confirmed that a new continent called America even existed. The only new worlds we should expect to build are on other planets.

Amidst God’s other stars.

My father has spent his life keeping fighter jets flying in the Air Force, fixing your cars, keeping your nursing homes up to code, and remodeling your homes. At 72, there’s still nothing he can’t do, and that includes building a three-car garage from scratch and doing so all by himself. Over fifty-plus years, my father’s hands have been dirty and yet the idea of joining a union is unthinkable to him. He’s self-taught and too disgusted by the very idea of receiving something for nothing to want anything to do with the spoiled, entitled, collective mindset that infects most unions today. Therefore, I was shocked to learn that, because he felt it looked at the world of those who do physical labor for a living in a very entertaining and respectful way, there was a reality show he was enthused about .

If you recall, things were a lot different in pop culturedom in the year of our Lord 2005. This recent flurry of reality programming that portrays working class Americans and entrepreneurs as the everyday heroes they are were still on the horizon, and popular culture was still very much enamored by young, hip urbanites. When you saw blue collar men on television or in films, they were usually the butt of the joke — the moron, the buffoon, the clueless, the creep, the ignorant, the guy with the butt crack who  fixed Rachel, Monica and Phoebe’s sink to hysterical canned laughter.

I was so sick of this, so tired and disgusted with elitist Hollywood and their heroic lawyers, professors, and journalists, that the thought of watching some snarky, superior television host mock and belittle those doing “dirty jobs” — or as I like to call it, the work that keeps the world turning — was the last thing I wanted to see.

Imagine my surprise as the show unfurled and I watched host Mike Rowe display a genuine respect for the intelligence and work ethic of those who do some of the most difficult work in our country. Furthermore, Rowe understood — and this can’t be emphasized enough — the importance of this work within the context of our world, how these people feed, clothe, shelter, heat and in general add to the quality of our lives.

This is my long way of saying that Mr. Rowe’s classy and respectful critique or President Obama’s craven class warfare found in a discussion thread on his Web site was not at all surprising:

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“My fellow Americans. I know that many of you are suffering. And I know that many of you look around and see a country where not all things appear to be equal. Well, guess what? They aren’t. They never have been, and I can assure you, as long as liberty and freedom remain supreme, they never will be. Let’s be honest – looking for equality is a democracy is like looking for love in a wh0re house. You might see something that comes close, but in the end, that dog don’t hunt.

No, my fellow Americans, I believe our best hope for a true recovery will come not from a temptation to make all things more equal, but rather, to make all things more possible. To do that, we must rethink everything we currently hold dear in our modern economy, beginning with our obscene relationship with Debt and Spending. These are the true enemies of prosperity – not your neighbor. Our problems today were not caused by the success of others. They were caused by the mistaken belief that we could have some things we wanted – but in fact, could simply not afford.

I look now to the wealthiest among us. To the ones who have in the past, provided the jobs we need so desperately today. To the innovators and risk takers that truly drive our economy. We need your help. Even though just 1% of you pay nearly 30% of all the Federal Taxes we collect, I must now ask you to pay even more. It pains me to ask those of you who have already given so much because as any fool can plainly see – it simply isn’t fair. Alas, I believe that I must. Our country is suffering, and we need you.”

Rowe not only sees through Obama’s cynical tactics…

He wants people to see “the rich” as the problem – not him, not spending, not debt, and not some other failed policy. He wants the Rich to be the scapegoat.

…and understands the math….

What you are proposing Meg, would result in a MASSIVE tax cut for the richest people in the world. If the government asks me to “do my part” in the same way that teachers, public sector workers, policeman and fireman “do their part, then my federal tax rate will drop from 36% to 28%. So will lots of others. This will cost the government hundreds of billions in tax revenue.

The truth is simple, but really hard for people to say. It goes like this. “We don’t really want the rich to pay their fair share. We want them to pay an unfair share. We just don’t like to say it that way because it makes us sound kind of unreasonable.”

…but he’s not a big fan of unions either, though, like many of us, he admires individual union-members:

Personally, I find all of those vocations [teacher, bus driver, health care professional in a psychiatric hospital, sanitation worker, policeman, fireman] to be noble in the extreme. And I respect the people who do the work very much. But if you’re asking why public sentiment seemed to turn against them, I would suggest that it had to do with their respective Unions, and their absolute failure to persuade the masses. They took the same sort of aggressive posture that their private counterparts often do with management. In this sort of economy, that just isn’t persuasive to a lot of concerned voters. The entire country is struggling, and the issues facing public servants were old news for people in the private sector. They made a loud, strident, and unproductive case.

You can read the entire thread here.

My takeaway from this is that Rowe is as advertised, a thoughtful, intelligent man who knows of what he speaks. And while I’m sure others could make a different case, I’ve always credited ”Dirty Jobs” (and “American Chopper”) for bringing the working class hero back to television.

This has been one of the most important cultural shifts in the pop culture landscape of the last 20 years — important enough that I’ve been writing about it for a few years now.

But his biggest culinary passion comes from running a “pay what you can” restaurant in his beloved home state.

The restaurant provides gourmet-quality meals to the hungry while enabling them to volunteer on community projects in return without the stigma of visiting a soup kitchen. Paying customers are encouraged to leave whatever they want in the envelopes on each table, where the menus never list a price.

“With the economic downturn, one of the things I noticed was that disposable income was one of the first things that went,” Bon Jovi told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday before the restaurant’s grand opening ceremony. “Dining out, the family going out to a restaurant, mom not having to cook, dad not having to clean up—a lot of memories were made around restaurant tables.

If Bon Jovi’s continued support for President Barack Obama in 2012 earns the leader a second term he’ll have plenty of restaurant patrons for at least five more years.

Before you go to sleep, however, or bump up another article, stay with me and this article’s title.

The cited video is Michael Tilson Thomas’ exceptional and exceptionally moving tribute to the soul of Dimitri Shostakovich and the hidden meanings within his Fifth Symphony that has profound relevance to the direction we are headed into with the Progressive New World Order.

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The Tilson Thomas complete video is an intensely condensed portrait of Stalin’s Russia. I consider the Tilson Thomas lecture/documentary a “must-see” for anyone viewing America primarily through the eyes of Hollywood and the performing arts.

The Soviet Union ravenously fed on the terror we can find breathing beneath the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony. The nightmare is only there, however, and can only be perceived if we begin to understand the musical code with which Shostakovich is constructing an obligatory deception.

Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony is a lie?

How do you appease a terrorist, the homicidal Communist Joseph Stalin, while, at the same time being true to yourself and your calling as an artist?

With that challenge in mind, why would I ever come up with the title, Bringing America Home Again?

The history of Stalin’s Russia is vitally important as a measure of how far the Progressive New World Order has dragged America and Americans away from their original faith in individual freedom and individual responsibility.

The last four Presidents have steadily transformed a Democracy into a Progressive New World Order Oligarchy and from there into an increasingly centralized, world power not within Washington, D. C but woven and strengthened daily out of the United Nations. That international body’s increasingly bloated animosity toward the three thousand year old Judeo-Christian civilization, the culture out of which most of America’s fundamental values have evolved, is a matter of historical record.

However, President Obama is determined to question America’s self-image with his “fundamental transformation”:

We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

–President Barack Obama

Quite frankly, we are being dragged by this imperial vision of a New World Order into the undeniably Marxist vision of man as a manageable herd as versus a humanity with Judeo-Christian faith in the sacredness of the individual human being.

I now feel obliged to remind my readers of the obvious: Karl Marx and his writings are a great deal closer to both Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong than they are to the Holy Bible. With President Obama as a self-admitted Marxist and an avowed “secularist” when it comes to defining the soul of America, the Holy Bible and the entire Judeo-Christian Civilization appear increasingly irrelevant to the Obama Nation of America.

I recently examined my old hometown of New York City and its recent 9/11 Memorial Ceremony.

Clergy had been summarily excluded by Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama from an American memorial ceremony?

Are clergy somehow un-American?

From the President’s words cited above, one might certainly think so.

Clergy are “un-Progressive”!

A devout Marxist believes that religious faith is an “opiate” that the human race must replace with increasing dependence upon the opiate of centralized government and the spin-doctoring of Michael Bloomberg and President Barack Obama.

Is the President of the United States to be the only major spiritual leader we can depend on for guidance? He seemed to be the only one to quote scripture or invoke God’s name at the ceremony.

Yet some Americans, like former Ambassador John Bolton, seem to think that President Obama has neither a clear nor consistent vision. In the former Ambassador’s eyes, the President is “naïve”. Though Obama is clearly the fourth, Presidential nail in the prophecy of George H. W. Bush’s New World Order, the Ambassador doesn’t see a connection.

Ambassador Bolton’s appears totally out of touch with George H. W. Bush’s Progressive New World Order and its innermost circles, including the increasingly suspect, New World Order efforts of John Bolton’s onetime boss, George Jr.

Does the White House regularly lie to its United Nations’ Ambassador?

Misinform him so often that he’s made a regular arm of mainstream misinformation?

Particularly at this moment in American history?

Ambassador Bolton claims that President Obama has no coherent plan or strategy that supports both his domestic and foreign policies.

Really?!

Wiping his own mind clean of even its own intelligence, John Bolton writes this breathtaking sentence about the Obama administration’s conduct:

“But it is folly to look for rhyme and reason

(in it)

when there is neither.”

The President’s belief that America has no specific religious tradition and his dismissal of clergy at the 9/11 Ceremony show a pattern of considerable rhyme and reason.

The Marxist/Islamic alliances, which Ambassador Bolton refuses to recognize within the Obama Nation’s “Progressive” strategies, reveal a clear and calculated connection between President Obama’s Arab Spring and his Marxist economic policies being thrust on the United States.

Beginning the second segment of Maestro Thomas’ exegesis of the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony are a few but powerfully familiar measures from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Beethoven, until the moment Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself an “Emperor”, had been a Bonapartiste, a devoted disciple of Napoleon’s dream of uniting Europe.

Shostakovich, particularly in his second and third symphonies, had shown himself a devoted child of the Communist Dream. When the Revolution began in 1917, Dimitri was only 11 years old.

How had Shostakovich put himself into such disgrace with the “authorities” that he feared for his life?

Stalin had attended a performance of the Shostakovich opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

The dictator leader of the Soviets had walked out of the theater after the first act.

Then a second and literally life-and-death evaluation of that opera appeared in the official Communist newspaper, Pravda. It was a scathing indictment of both Shostakovich and his music.

Many said and many still say that it was Joseph Stalin himself who wrote the condemnation.

The Message had been sent!

Shostakovich had been thrown into such terror that he sometimes waited on the stairs of his apartment building for the KGB to show up for him. He didn’t want his loved ones to see him taken away.

The composer had cancelled his own Fourth Symphony shortly before its premiere performance for fear that what he had written was exactly what Stalin had criticized about Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

This is when the export of Soviet propaganda and Stalin’s propagandists to the United States and the infiltration of the American performing arts began.

Stalin’s theory was: if you control a nation’s arts, you control the soul of that nation.

For the over eighty years that have passed since Stalin began his indoctrination of the Free World, the performing arts in America have been the main target of both Stalin’s policies and those of his still-devoted disciples.

Ever since then, the films and television series of Hollywood have been decidedly fed a Marxist and, in some cases, an actually Soviet bill of fare.

Tragically Hollywood has made the Far Left view of America its own perspective and the films arising from its studios and independent filmmakers mock, criticize and humiliate traditional American values.

No, America is not the Soviet Union yet and the Progressive New World Order isn’t undiluted Communism.

However, Barack Hussein Obama’s “fundamental transformation of the United States” and his Obama Nation has no other visible destination than a Marxist New World Order.

In my next segment of this series, Bringing America Back Home, I will be recalling our last and longest contact with a leader of the Soviet Union: Ronald Reagan’s efforts to come to some peaceful solutions with Mikhail Gorbachev. 

With the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony as our emotional guide, we can see with increasing depth the massively homicidal inevitabilities in an increasingly centralized governing system with worldwide ambitions. A creation such as the Progressive New World Order and its increasingly empowered, increasingly selective oligarchy.

What will be the fanfare to the Progressive and Increasingly Tyrannical New World Order?

The very riots predicted by Progressive Mayor, Michael Bloomberg of New York and actually promoted by the deliberately failing prescriptions of Bloomberg’s fellow provocateur, President Obama.

What is the “fundamental transformation of the United States”?

Martial law.

With that as the objective of the entire Obama Nation, everything Obama has done makes perfect sense.

New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd, broke a story last Saturday on the White House’s curious role in the production of a new Hollywood movie that tells the story of the killing of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEAL Team 6. The movie is set to be released October 12, 2012, conveniently just before the November presidential elections.

The movie’s creators are none other than director Kathryn Bigelow and journalist Mark Boal, whose 2009 movie, “The Hurt Locker,” won six Academy Awards in 2010.

The White House has offered Bigelow and Boal a questionable in-depth look into the mission which ended the terror king’s reign and is getting “top-level access to the most classified mission in history from an administration that has tried to throw more people in jail for leaking classified information than the Bush administration,” according to Dowd.

Predictably, The Washington Post, Reuters and, The Los Angeles Times led their coverage of the story with White House denials of jeopardizing national security. The Politico took a more balanced approach.

According to a Politico article on the matter, Rep. Peter King (R-NY), who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, has written a letter to the CIA and Department of Defense demanding an investigation into the White House role in allowing unprecedented access into the mission and is quoted as saying, “It shouldn’t have been out there that SEAL Team 6 did this, and there have been so many details out there.” King continues, “And now we find out they are cooperating with a movie — what are we doing?”

White House press secretary Jay Carney chimed in on King’s remarks saying, “We do not discuss classified information and I would hope that as we face a continued threat from terrorism, the House Committee on Homeland Security would have more important topics to discuss than a movie.”

King responded saying, “Obviously, I hit a sensitive nerve, what he said was nonsense — there has been so much classified information released over the last 90 days.”

It appears that a double-standard exists when the presidential administration demands that intelligence agencies take painstaking efforts to seal (no pun intended) leaks of classified information and then are held responsible for anything that does end up in the public domain — a mistake that would most likely cost someone’s career — yet the White House can allow journalists and movie directors top-level access into highly secretive information in order to boost the public’s view of a President who is suffering from unfavorable poll numbers just in time for reelection.

“The Administration’s first duty in declassifying material is to provide full reporting to Congress and the American people, in an effort to build public trust through transparency of government.  In contrast, this alleged collaboration belies a desire of transparency in favor of a cinematographic view of history,” King concludes.