The best part of this whole farce is the released emails which show what venal ######s the oh-so-tolerant movie people really are when they think nobody is looking.
It's the artists that are tolerant and liberal. The producers and CEOs just want to make money. Also, hard to find a best part in something like this.
Bull hockey. Those two Co-Presidents are some of the largest donors/supporters of every liberal cause there is... But they can make the jokes about Pres. Obama's supposed taste in movies with no repercussions.
Those jokes were tame (and lame). Do you really think they were overly salacious or offensive?
I mean, these people aren't elected officials or anything. They are in the entertainment industry. That exchange was like the lamest SNL skit ever.
I don't disagree, but I think there's sort of a double standard in play in that the same people would gleefully trash a big name conservative if they had said the same things. So more that their hypocrisy got exposed rather than them saying anything truly awful.
Their hypothetical hypocrisy? Or have Rudin and Pascal actually trashed a conservative for making similar lame/tame jokes?I imagine that there's got to be better stuff yet to be leaked. Because this Obama movie email exchange is really hard to get excited about.
I, like most of us, fancy myself a centrist. Probably lean left in terms of this board. But I'm guessing this would be a fireable offense per the SONY handbook on such matters.As for Rudin, working independently of the studio, if its not hypocrisy, I don't know what it is, but making black jokes while producing two major "black" films currently in release and to be released has to be something. What kind of work environment is this?
Yeah, I don't see how making a joke about Obama liking "black" films while also producing "black" films is hypocritical.
Ill grant you, its a grey area.
But, if you are producing a film about Selma, presumably a project advocating for civil rights, I don't think he would make such comments in about Obama in a public venue. Would it be racist to suggest he liked fried chicken and watermelon, even if in fact he did? Or do we as a collective general acknowledge these to be statements of bias.
Does saying a black guy likes "black" films meet that same standard? I don't know.
I know I wouldn't use any such things in a work email, and if I worked for Mr. Rudin and did so and it came to light, I expect I would be fired and with cause.