If the “first rough draft of history” in the news media sounds dubious, the second draft made by Hollywood will almost certainly be worse. I’m not talking about documentaries, which can be judged as journalism. I’m talking about movies and TV shows, which will inevitably be pressed to dramatize things so they are evermore loosely “based on real events.”
CBS has been preparing a miniseries based on former FBI Director James Comey’s memoir, pompously titled “A Higher Loyalty.” In the memoir, he lectured, “Ethical leaders choose a higher loyalty to those core values over their own personal gain.” But the personal gain was sweet for Comey.
First came the high-roller book deal with 850,000 copies, heavily promoted by all the Democrat-repeating networks. In Comey’s case, that included an hourlong prime-time ABC “news” special during which he was interviewed by that nonpartisan George Stephanopoulos. The book sold like hotcakes to Trump haters. Add some more millions for his optioning the book to Hollywood for “entertainment.”
Production was slated to begin last November, but there’s no word if it was anywhere near done before the coronavirus pandemic kicked in. Apparently, CBS Television Studios hasn’t even decided where this Heroic Comey miniseries will land, either on Showtime or the CBS All Access streaming service, where it would be an easy match with the network’s Trump-trashing drama “The Good Fight.”
Comey will be played by Trump-hating actor Jeff Daniels, who recently made the New York media swoon by starring as heroic lawyer Atticus Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird” on Broadway. The miniseries director, Billy Ray, said Daniels was picked because he had “instant integrity, loads of warmth, intelligence, complexity and gravitas.” That’s obviously how they expect to portray Jim Comey: as another heroic lawman on the actor’s resume.
Ray promised he would make a “fair, responsible and comprehensively documented account of real-life events,” CBS said in a press release. But current events are intruding on Comey’s memoir and his picture of a heroic and nonpartisan FBI battling a president with no respect for the rule of law. For example, new documents have surfaced that purport to show the FBI agents who investigated President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn sought “to get him to lie” so they could “prosecute him or get him fired.” Does that sound nonpartisan?
Comey bragged to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace in 2018 that he flouted the usual protocols for interviewing a top White House official. Usually, the White House counsel is contacted and an interview is carefully arranged. In this case, Comey just sent in his agents, the ones scheming to “prosecute him or get him fired.” Former Comey aide Josh Campbell admitted in his own memoir that Comey said, “We just decided, you know, screw it.”
Flynn didn’t see the attack coming. He said sure and did the FBI interview — without a lawyer present. He walked right into shark-infested waters and lied to the sharks, turning his life upside down.
Attorney General William Barr has decided to vacate Flynn’s conviction, finding the adventurous FBI interview was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn.”
I think we can guess the CBS miniseries will glide right over the latest developments to keep its focus on Heroic Comey, no matter how much that narrative is collapsing.
They made that big Obama movie a few years ago SOUTH SIDE WITH YOU it Bombed and i see where they want to make Anti-Trump movie and that airhead Robert DeNiro wants to be in it. Yeah Sore Woo Hoo this is just another rotten movie to Boycott
So, who will honest, fair, non-partisan CBS get to play President Trump… Danny DeVito?
Comey looks like an excellent place for Gen. Flynn to get his $6 million back… and then some. He has made a butt-load of money off his raping of due process. I think it should belong to Gen. Flynn.
china broadcasting system (cbs) like cnn is becoming a passing element in the media. what is not exposed by the media is the following: The Mueller “investigation” was never intended to discover new evidence. It had two, largely successful, objectives: To delay accountability for the effort to derail the peaceful transfer of power to the duly-elected president, and to continue that interference as long as possible. why one should not listen or watch cnn,abc, nbc cbs or other networks is like eating out of a soiled toilet bowl. george stephanopoulos is still here-why. recall his most grandiose statement that if Trump was elected he was moving to canada. so why is he still here? the irony of a government’s stupidity now rests in canada under the idiot trudeau. like marcum he has no brains, IQ less than 20. recall that canada is banning and confiscating all weapons and banning import of the same. Ever heard of Black Rifle Coffee Company?? Right it is a coffee company now banned in canada are a weapons maker. trudeau does eat out of a soiled toilet bowl as does biden, the squat of nothing four, the ex gay muslin pres.