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A Golden Age for Right-Wing Content on Streaming Services

By Michael Brendan Dougherty

April 29, 2020 6:30 AM

Jon Hamm (left), Ian Gomez, and Paul Walter Hauser in Richard Jewell. (Warner Bros. Pictures)

No political faction’s stranglehold on storytelling is absolute or unchallengeable.

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here’s something fitting about the times. While many of us live under a form of house arrest, the Internet is delivering to us the purest vintage right-wing anti-government storytelling available, if you know where to look.

Various on-demand services now have Clint Eastwood’s little masterpiece from last year, Richard Jewell. The title refers to the security guard who foiled the 1996 Centennial Park bombing, then turned into the lead suspect of the FBI’s investigation, and was ultimately proven a wronged man. The script is more complex than some of the initial reviews gave it credit for being, but the message comes …

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