{"id":347923,"date":"2018-02-12T14:35:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T13:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-homeland-season-premiere-takes-on-paranoid-fascist-president\/"},"modified":"2018-02-12T14:35:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T13:35:34","slug":"prison-planet-com-homeland-season-premiere-takes-on-paranoid-fascist-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-homeland-season-premiere-takes-on-paranoid-fascist-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb \u2018Homeland\u2019 Season Premiere Takes on \u2018Paranoid,\u2019 \u2018Fascist\u2019 President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/culture\/lindsay-kornick\/2018\/02\/12\/homeland-season-premiere-takes-paranoid-fascist-president\"><strong>Newsbusters<\/strong><\/a><br \/>February 12, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>While the the liberal media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2018\/02\/11\/north-korean-propaganda-us-media-outlets-swoon-kim-yo-jong\">lauds fascist dictators<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/clay-waters\/2018\/02\/11\/nyt-hails-propaganda-princess-tyrannical-north-korean-regime-taking\">Winter Olympics<\/a>, liberal Hollywood lectures us (with a wink and a nod) about fascist presidents on Showtime\u2019s <em>Homeland<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The February 11 season premiere \u201cEnemy of the State\u201d continues after the shocking season six finale when President Elizabeth Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) ordered the sudden arrest and detainment of 200 intelligence officers for allegedly being connected to her attempted assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/culture\/lindsay-kornick\/2017\/04\/02\/homeland-depicts-brave-female-president-against-violent\">attempted parallels<\/a> to Hillary Clinton from the previous season, the show now seems determined to portray Keane as the paranoid, tyrannical figure that liberals imagine Trump is. Observe how she behaves upon being questioned for suggesting a former general be executed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-filter video-mrctv video-center vf-527338 embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/527338\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wellington: Well, I\u2019m not sure going after him directly was the best move.<\/p>\n<p>Keane: He openly challenged me. What was I supposed to do?<\/p>\n<p>Wellington: Well, you might\u2019ve stuck to the script.<\/p>\n<p>Keane: I had to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington: Senator Paley was on CNB this morning,<strong> calling your leadership style \u201cthuggish\u201d and \u201cauthoritarian.\u201d<\/strong> No one\u2019s doubting how tough you are.<\/p>\n<p>Keane: Good.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington: Which makes it exactly the right time to throttle back a little, take your foot off the gas.<\/p>\n<p>Keane: Not yet.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington: Elizabeth\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Keane: I said not yet.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington: Can I give you a quick brief?<\/p>\n<p>Keane: Sure.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington: Paley\u2019s Committee is about to issue its first round of subpoenas to senior White House staff, including myself.<\/p>\n<p>Keane: I know that, David.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington: <strong>There\u2019s talk of a special prosecutor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keane: I know that, too. How is it they tried to assassinate me, and I am the one under investigation?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wellington: Because we locked up over 200 of their best friends and neighbors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keane: Yeah, for damn good reasons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wellington: Kept them for nearly two months. Some would say denied their civil rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keane: That was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/homeland-season-premiere-takes-on-paranoid-fascist-president.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsbustersFebruary 12, 2018 While the the liberal media lauds fascist dictators at the Winter Olympics, liberal Hollywood lectures us (with a wink and a nod) about fascist presidents on Showtime\u2019s Homeland. The February 11 season premiere \u201cEnemy of the State\u201d continues after the shocking season six finale when President Elizabeth Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) ordered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}