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| 'We're so proud': The Obamas are thrilled their Netflix documentary American Factory gets an Oscars nomination as Barack says 'it's the kind of story we don't see often enough' |
| 2020-01-14 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #15 There's nothing real about Obummer. His books were ghost written by Bill Ayers it has been said. A phony from even before the gitgo. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-01-14 19:09 |
| #14 Payola. Consider the sequence of events: 2009: Dems/Zero take presidency and create a Dem majority on the FCC, which regulates access to streaming video. Netflix lobbies furiously for the bogus giveaway, "net neutrality" Dems side with NFLX against big telcos. 2017: Zero leaves office and immediately receives at $68 MILLION contract from... Netflix. To "produce" films. 2020: Zero's first film, which no one has ever seen and which was probably produced by someone else, is nominated for an Oscar. Most corrupt era since the Robber Barons. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-14 18:06 |
| #13 Perhaps they still have hopes for "a legacy". |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-01-14 16:30 |
| #12 Higher Ground Drug front? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-01-14 14:20 |
| #11 still kissing their ass huh |
| Posted by: Chris 2020-01-14 12:52 |
| #10 Obamas' production company Higher Ground That sounds so James Comey. Obama gets a Nobel Peace Prize before he has done anything? The Obamas are up for an Oscar before the film's release? I see a pattern here. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-01-14 12:16 |
| #9 Like the Nobel Prize, the Obamas had nothing to do with making this documentary. The Participant Media production focuses on the dramatic culture clash when a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Following its Sundance premiere, the film impressed Barack and Michelle Obama, who launched their Netflix-partnered Higher Ground Productions last spring “to harness the power of storytelling,” as the former U.S. president described it at the time. This marks the first title from Higher Ground to premiere on the streaming service. |
| Posted by: Elmique Uloluck7261 2020-01-14 10:49 |
| #8 We're all so proud of you, too. Really we are - even DarthVader! |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-01-14 09:02 |
| #7 Has it appeared in theaters? If not, how does it qualify for an Oscar? |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-01-14 08:19 |
| #6 Soon to follow the Royals. |
| Posted by: Dale 2020-01-14 05:05 |
| #5 as earned as that Nobel Peace Prize. Affirmative Action |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-01-14 04:34 |
| #4 'We're so proud." I believe retired Congressman Lynn Westmoreland called it correctly when he used the term "uppity." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-01-14 03:08 |
| #3 A former POTUS thrilled to get an Oscar nomination as producer? A fitting comment on Obama presidency. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-01-14 02:58 |
| #2 uh.. their appeal is becoming more selective. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-01-14 02:27 |
| #1 Of course it got a nomination. Will anyone watch it? |
| Posted by: KBK 2020-01-14 01:24 |