“Vice” filmmaker Adam McKay refuses to believe that it was Richard Armitage, who at the time was Deputy Secretary of State under Colin Powell, who leaked CIA officer Valerie Plame’s name to the press in 2003. According to McKay, “Cheney almost definitely leaked it”:
lol https://t.co/YZ0bFMOmqO pic.twitter.com/A9wP9EOLmY
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) January 29, 2019
The coverup went so high even the special prosecutor was in on it:
The special prosecutor was in on the cover up https://t.co/q6Gs67zPi0
— Eli Lake (@EliLake) January 29, 2019
McCay right now:
Scooter libby…scooter libby…it was scooter libby.. pic.twitter.com/NhN2nmuEe4
— Secret Asian Man (@anangbhai) January 29, 2019
We also like the use of “let’s be real” in the interview right before McKay just makes stuff up:
The repeated use of "let's be real" got me
— Elliott Schwartz (@elliosch) January 29, 2019
TBH, many people in Hollywood probably believe him:
This issue was tried in a court of law. It'd be great if Hollywood people making movies about the subject were familiar with the facts.
— Gregory Sturges (@gts109) January 29, 2019
The Oscar draft is safe:
OMG I can't believe I lost the Oscar draft because of this moron. https://t.co/PjqGTG95qN
— Jonathan V. Last (@JVLast) January 29, 2019
But kudos to the New Yorker for calling McKay on it during the interview:
When New Yorker confronted him with hard cold facts on Cheney, @ghostpanther stutters like one of the Stepbrothers from his 2008 film. https://t.co/d2bi4hRp4G
— Jim Stinson (@jimstinson) January 29, 2019
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