George Clooney On Innocence of Muslims Makers: Freedom of Speech Means ?The Idiots Get To Have Their Say?

To be honest, I came up with this idea before I actually saw Argo on Tuesday night, but now that I have seen Ben Affleck's�gripping, well-directed film, I can't let it go. �When I learned about the plot of the movie ? in which a CIA agent (Affleck), a Hollywood make-up artist (John Goodman) and a movie producer (the wonderful Alan Arkin) ? gin up a fake movie to rescue a group of diplomats trapped in Iran during the hostage crisis ? it struck me that Argo was the inverse or the flip side of another fake movie that got a lot of press this past summer: Innocence of Muslims.

Argo�is about the power of film harnessed for humane reasons ? specifically, to extract American diplomats who would have probably faced grisly, public executions had they been caught after slipping out of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran when it was taken over by militants in 1979.

Innocence of Muslims�is about the dark side of that equation. It's the power of film ? still potent even when the so-called movie is little more than a collection of half-assed scenes cobbled together and thrown on YouTube ? misused to incite violence and stoke mistrust and anger between Muslim nations and the United States. �Argo, which is based on a true story, is about saving lives. �Innocence of Muslims was linked to violent attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Libya on Sept. 11 that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

When I saw George Clooney, who is one of �Argo's producers,�at a private screening and dinner for the film at the Time Warner Center on Tuesday night, I ran my idea by him. Was there…

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