A perverted director making a perverted film to earn the plaudits of the perverted cinema industry is just another day at Sundance. The mind-boggling A1 news story from Netflix’s distribution of Cuties is entire media reflexively defending the film featuring cinematography luxuriating on the nonexistent curves of twerking 11-year-olds and the striking silence the Obamas, who have a production deal with Netflix, and board member Susan Rice.
To date, the only quasi-famous Democrats I have seen go on the record to denounce Cuties are former presidential contender Tulsi Gabbard and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s daughter Christine. Another critic has been Elizabeth Bruenig, the resident socialist of the New York Times opinion page. Every other lefty wasting space on the internet who decided to weigh in on the matter came to the film’s defense, and Rice and the Obamas, the most high profile personalities attached to the streaming company, have remained mum on the matter.
The Obamas, at least, have the defense that they’re merely producers, not literal decision-makers of Netflix. But the Obamas are also the Obamas, the most famous couple in the country, one of whom just launched a lucrative and expertly candid podcast on Spotify to muse on topics such as these. A single word of condemnation about Netflix’s decision to distribute Cuties, which claims to criticize the sexualization of children while overtly sexualizing children, from the Obamas would cause a sea change among the Left.
But Rice’s silence is even worse because she could take probable action. Unlike the Obamas, Rice will surely be a part of Joe Biden’s administration should he beat President Trump come November. And according to the polls, Biden is still favored to win the White House. If so, she would likely withdraw from Netflix’s board, meaning that the time to utilize her clout at the brand is now. That this is not the moment for her to do so speaks magnitudes of her priorities.
Cuties shouldn’t be a story past a film review and a scoffing at Netflix, but the Left’s celebration of it and, almost worse, their quiet acceptance of it, has made it national news. Just don’t be one of those dastardly conservatives pouncing.
LOL @Axios what are you doing pic.twitter.com/k7q0oqFt7Y
— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) September 14, 2020
