Friday, December 19, 2014

OBAMA: SONY ‘MADE A MISTAKE,’ SHOULD HAVE CALLED ME FIRST…SONY: UM, WE DID



◼ “I wish they had spoken to me first,” he said, when asked his opinion on the matter. “I would have told them, ‘Do not get into a pattern in which you’re intimidated by these kind of criminal attacks.’” - Charlie Spiering/Breitbart
◼ SONY RESPONDS TO OBAMA: ACTUALLY, WE DID CALL THE WHITE HOUSE - John Nolte/Breitbart
◼ Sony: We called White House - The Hill [Washington, DC]
◼ Sony exec fires back at President Obama - CNN
Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton, denying that the studio had "caved" by scrapping next week's opening of "The Interview," fired back Friday after President Obama said the studio had "made a mistake."

"The president, the press, and the public are mistaken as to what actually happened," Lynton said in an exclusive interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria. "We do not own movie theaters. We cannot determine whether or not a movie will be played in movie theaters."

Lynton said he would be "fibbing" to say he "wasn't disappointed" in Obama's remarks.

"I don't know exactly whether he understands the sequence of events that led up to the movie not being shown in the movie theaters," Lynton said. "Therefore I would disagree with the notion that it was a mistake."

Lynton's response came just hours after a White House press conference where Obama criticized Sony's decision.
◼ “We have not caved. We have not given in. We have persevered, and we have not backed down. We have always had every desire to have the American public see this movie.” - Deadline
◼ CLOONEY: ‘WE CANNOT BE TOLD WE CAN’T SEE SOMETHING BY KIM JONG-UN, OF ALL F***ING PEOPLE’ - Daniel Nussbaum/Breitbart

◼ Hackers send Sony a new message: Cyber attacks will end ‘unless you make additional trouble’ - HotAir











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