Tag Archives: Sam Bacile

Sep 13 2012

More on Anti-Islamic Film

Bloggers and the mainstream media are all on the hunt for the provenance of the “Sam Bacile” anti-Islamic movie.  One blogger has just posted a very interesting analysis of the people behind this movie and has some startling disclosures:

This is a Swift Boat Attempt upon the current president. But instead of using film, a medium whose threads could be trace, they decided to use Muslims who have no accountability, and basically  pull out of the same play-book as 1980, and stage an embassy takeover to bring down Jimmy Carter and put Ronald Reagan (oh my… what a wonderful coincidence that the hostages get released as soon as Reagan ,pronounced as President of the United States of America, gets beamed to Iran…)  Oh, yeah that’s right.  It was Dick Cheney was authored that. With that much guilt, I’d have heart attacks too…

The link got pulled within the past three hours,  but earlier according to Google, one of  the backers of this $5 million film was Sheldon Adelson, who once backed Gingrich,  and then flipped to Romney.   Very soon we will know who the others were.

From Kavips.

Unless you have been hiding under a rock and did not get the memo, Sheldon Adelson is the Las Vegas casino mogul who allegedly has pledged 100 million dollars to super PACS to support Mitt Romney’s campaign.  While this may seem like an enormous sum of money to some of us, it is reported that Adelson will likely receive over 2.3 billion dollars in tax benefits should Romney win.  With an outcome like that, investing a few million in a low budget movie is chump change.

Like I said in an earlier post: Follow The Money

Sep 13 2012

How Did This Movie Unfold

There is more that has been learned about “Sam Bacile” and his anti-Islamic movie “trailer.”  It appears that it was made in 2011 using a script about a desert adventure set in the past.  According to CNN this was how it was sold to cast and crew, who have gone on the record as saying that the film was not shot as an anti-Islamic film.  After the initial filming, the movie was dubbed or “looped” according to one actor who was interviewed by CNN.  The actor said that she was asked to come back and do some more lines for the movie, but says that even at that time, it was still a desert adventure movie with no mention of the prophet Mohammed.

Between the filming and its first showing last year, the film had morphed into something called, “The Innocence of Bin Laden” and opened to puny crowds.

In July of this year it surfaced on YouTube as a movie trailer, and was translated into Arabic sometime thereafter.  “Sam Bacile” was identified as the uploader and producer.  It appears that “Sam Bacile” may be a fictional character, himself.

The questions that need to be asked are:

1.  Who is “Sam Bacile.”

2.  Who is the financial backer of this film.

3.  Who financed the alterations to this film to make it anti-Islamic.

4.  Why was this film uploaded to YouTube in July of this year.  What was the significance of this timing.

5.  Who financed the translation of the dialogue in this film into Arabic.

6.  Do we know the staffer in the American embassy in Egypt who issued the first message that was picked up and commented on by Mitt Romney.

This shabby episode has the trappings of a political dirty trick that went horribly wrong.   The United States needs to have answers to these questions.  To recall a famous quote from Watergate: “Follow the money.”

 

Sep 12 2012

Political Trick Gone Awry?

Politics in America has a long history of dirty tricks or stunts that are pulled off to cast opponents in either harsh or unflattering light.  Many times, the political tricks are actually funny and entertaining.  However, there are times that the trickery takes on dark and ominous tones, such as the smear campaign against John McCain in 2004 in which the trickster mounted a campaign alleging, amongst other things that McCain’s adopted Bangladeshi daughter was actually the result of an adulterous liaison with an African-American woman. That hurtful and untrue claim is credited in part with McCain losing the South Carolina primary to George W. Bush.

We are finding out that “Sam Bacile” the supposed film maker of the crude anti-Islamic film that inflamed Egyptians and Libyans to riot against U.S. interests resulting in the tragic death of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three of his aides may not even be a real person.  Apparently, a lot of mystery surrounds who this person really is.  If “Sam Bacile” is not the real name of the film’s producer, the American public needs to know who the real person is and what was the motivation behind producing the infamous film trailer.

Could it be possible that “Sam Bacile” is a political trickster?  Taking the last name “Bacile” for instance, is it a handy disguise for “bacillus” or germ?  Was this clue left in that name to let people know that the film was meant as a political trick to inflame the passions of Islamic people in Egypt and Libya to somehow disparage the Obama Administration?

Did the tricksters think all that would happen is some flag burning and unruly mobs in front of American embassies?  Did they not intend that other parties might use this inflammatory rhetoric to launch a deadly attack on our consulate in Benghazi?

Was this a political dirty trick that went horribly awry?

I truly hope that the government investigates who this “Sam Bacile” really is and prosecute him and his political/financial backers, if any, to the fullest extent of the law for fomenting the riots that directly resulted in the death of Ambassador Stevens and his colleagues.

Free speech is one thing, but instigating terroristic attacks on our consulate is punishable by law.