Edward Snowden Documentary Wins the Oscar, Neil Patrick Harris Makes 'Treason' Joke

Hilarious

And the Oscar for Best Documentary goes to… Citizenfour, the film about Edward Snowden's efforts to expose the National Security Administration for illegally spying on American citizens. It was directed by Laura Poitras and featured Glenn Greenwald; both journalists played an active role in bringing Snowden's revelations to light. (I've written previously about why Snowden is a hero to young libertarians who flocked to the International Students for Liberty Conference last week to hear him speak.)

This year's host, Neil Patrick Harris, made the following joke about the documentary's largely unsurprising victory: "Edward Snowden couldn't be here for some treason." That was actually one of his funnier quips of the evening, lazy and mildly insulting though it was.

Watch Reason TV interview Greenwald about Snowden below.

Comments

[Sevo]

So H'wood stuck a thumb in Obo's eye?

[Chumby]

There's a joke about a black eye I'm going to avoid.

[Sevo]

Good idea; won't help a thing.

[Harold Falcon]

Half-black eye.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Yes, because Hollywood associates illegal surveillance with Obama and not with the Bushpigs back when it started in 2004.

Dumbass.

[Sevo]

Turd lies. That's what turd does. Outside of stink up the place.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Dumbass.

[Sevo]

Turd lies.

[Jake W]

I concur, turd lies. I won't even waste a shift key-press capitalizing its name.

[GILMORE]

"Bushpigs back when it started in 2004."

YEAH OMG DONT YOU REALIZE HOW OBAMA LIKE SPENT HIS WHOLE CAREER TOTALLY DISMANTLING AND REFUSING TO EXPAND THE NSA HORRORS OF THE BUSH EVILDOING PIGSCUM?!?

[Sevo]

Well, ya know, turd lies. That's what turd does.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Obama is no libertarian. What kind of idiot thought he was?

He has just signed far less obnoxious legislation than Dumbya did.

Let me let you in a little secret most know - government never contracts. It grows and suffocates. The POTUS who does it least (Obama) is better than the one who signed the PATRIOT Act, Iraq War, TARP, Medicare Welfare, NCLB, American Dream Downpayment Act, and other big gov bullshit sickass GOP crap.

[Sevo]

Turd lies. That's what turd does. Turd lies.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Dumbass.

[Sevo]

Turd lies. That's all turd can do; lie. Turd lies.

[msimmons]

"The POTUS who does it least (Obama)..."

Hahahahahahahahah!!!

$18,000,000,000,000+ and growing faster than ever...and the unACA hasn't even fully kicked in.

[soflarider]

Nice strawman.

Obama libertarian? No.

Liberal? He should be. Look up the part of classic liberalism that pertains to personal freedom.

[VG Zaytsev]

If only Obama new about the secret fascist spying he'd put an end to it.

/ progtards everywhere.

[Sevo]

It's NOT Obo! It's those horrible people around him! Sob!

[Charles Easterly]

"It's NOT Obo! It's those horrible people around him! Sob!"

I blame those child-hating, intolerant-of-other-people's-cultures Obstructionist Republicans.

And the Dutch.

[mad.casual]

Yes, because Hollywood associates illegal surveillance with Obama and not with the Bushpigs back when it started in 2004.

...

Let me let you in a little secret most know - government never contracts. It grows and suffocates.

In this case, can't we all agree it was Carter's fault?

[Lord Peter Wimsey]

Jesus, Buttplug, you're worst than the Bush apologists who pretend the Iraq war was "everyone's idea."

Obama took the U.S. surveillance system (in place before Bush) and ramped it up by a factor of 10 thousand (made possible by improvements in technology).

Even the Obama people don't deny this; they tend to justify it when they aren't changing the subject.

You not only drink the koolaid; you refuse to share any with the others.

[Harold Falcon]

there's a difference?

[Caleb Turberville]

Looks like The Imitation Game finally won an Oscar. I'm dying to know if it's any good. I was very disappointed in A Beautiful Mind. I was hoping Game would be better.

[Bruce Majors]

It was good.

[Lord Peter Wimsey]

Great movie. Well worth watching.

[Warrren]

Relax dude.

[SIV]

I totally forgot tonight was the Cosmotarian Super Bowl.

[F. Stupidity, Jr.]

I totally forgot tonight was the Cosmotarian Super Bowl.

You see, Reason was setting up a discussion space about Edward Snowden's story gaining traction in the public square. Then, we get comments like this, suggesting to people who come here by other means that we're just a bunch of Republicans in libertarian clothing. Posters such as Palin's Buttplug and myself are appalled.

/Botard

[VG Zaytsev]

Should be - True libertarian posters like me (bo) and buttplug are appalled.

[SIV]

Or is it the Tony's?

[Chumby]

Did American Sniper win Best Plastic Baby?

[Palin's Buttplug]

No, but it won the Bitter Clinger Drive-In Movie of the Year Award.

[Chumby]

Team Blue's likely 2016 presidential candidate voted for the Iraq Invasion. Is Hillary a bitter clinger?

[The Last American Hero]

As did their 2004 nominee and Sec of State, as did their 2008 and 2012 nominee based on his decision to not get out in 2009 like he promised.

[Harold Falcon]

Obviously you've never been to a drive-in. Asshole.

[GILMORE]

No it won "RIGHT WING RACIST WARMAKING PROPAGANDA AND LIES AND CULTURAL-INFERIORITY BECAUSE REDNECKS ARE VIOLENT SIMPLETONS AND DONT HAVE FEELINGS"-AWARD... but, like, if it didn't well, uh, it totally *should have*, amirite??. And Fake Baby! pppppfffft yeah that movie sucked dude.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Beat you to it. Step your game up, son.

[GILMORE]

lol

he thinks being a living, breathing cliche means he's winning

[Sevo]

Not sure "thinking" is part of the process.
"Smelling" certainly is!

[Palin's Buttplug]

We both knew the audience American Sniper would appeal to. We both captured it except I used brevity and clarity because I can write/think better than you can.

[Sevo]

Turd lies. Regardless of the subject, turd lies.
The reason is easy to understand; turd is a fucking lefty idiot.
So turd lies.

[Jake W]

Sometimes I think it is a shared account.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Bradley Cooper should be concerned about being typecast. He played the same role in AS that he did in 'Silver Linings Playbook' (which was very good) - a shell-dense fucked-up victim of the Bush terror-overreach years.

OK, the Oscars were pretty lame again tonight. The most interesting part was when Lady Gaga did a tribute to Julie Andrews and the 'Sound of Music' which she sang well but looked like a whore whose pimp had beaten her arms with a fucking tire iron (the ugly ass tats).

The rest was shit.

The Buttplug has spoken.

[Sevo]

Turd lies.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Dumbass.

[Sevo]

Turd lies. That's what turd does. Turd knows no other; turd lies.

[Palin's Buttplug]

In other words you have nothing. You are an empty can, a vacuous know-nothing and you prove it every day here.

[Sevo]

Turd lies and turd especially lies when turd is called on turd's lies.
Turd lies.

[Palin's Buttplug]

You're an empty tomato can, Sevo. Tomato paste has more substance than you do.

[Vulgar Madman]

Do they pay you in peanuts?

[Chumby]

Michael Palin'a Buttplug

[msimmons]

So, you actually watched the fake illuminati such each other off?

[Bruce Majors]

Since you brought up Sniper and Eastwood calls himself, I think with sufficient reason, a libertarian, something everyone has forgotten is that Eastwood helped launch Roberta Flack's career http://947thewave.cbslocal.com.....-eastwood/ His contributions to the better parts of popular culture are not just recent

[Lord Peter Wimsey]

"she sang well but looked like a whore whose pimp had beaten her arms with a fucking tire iron (the ugly ass tats)."

Why do you hate people who are different?

Don't be a hater.

Some teenage girl with tats is committing suicide right now. It's your fault.

[Harold Falcon]

LOLOLOLOL. The Huff Po wrote exactly the same thing this morning. Wonder where douchebag assfuck got his talking points from.

[GILMORE]

Hollywood is so brave the way they stand up for controversial opinions and defend the little guy and speak truth to power and stuff

[Rock Action]

I'm just as big a fan about how the industry certainly will be unafraid to take a national spotlight and single out people within the industry for all their bravery.

[Sevo]

Can't agree more, and the AA is nothing other than the town sales-meeting.
*BUT* Obo is threatening to toss Snowden in the clink if he ever shows up in the US, and here the hot-bed of Obo-slurp is giving a film about his nemesis an award!

[GILMORE]

"*BUT* Obo is threatening to toss Snowden in the clink if he ever shows up in the US"

Hold on there, mr I HATE AMERICA?! You can't just go 'criticising the President' just because of some difference of opinion over a complex law!?!? I mean, National Security is complicated, and there are many dimensions at play... not like, uh, Iraq and stuff?

[Sevo]

Well, you're right. And that smelly piece of shit tells us it's BOOOOOOOOOOOSH besides!

[Ted S.]

I think we should praise Elia Kazan for having the courage of his convictions to out totalitarian collectivist Communists.

[BigT]

Did you miss the big Charlie Hebdo skit where Michael Keaton played Mohammed?

So did I.

[Paul.]

This year's host, Neil Patrick Harris, made the following joke about the documentary's largely unsurprising victory: "Edward Snowden couldn't be here for some treason.

Remember, the Oscar crowd is the Obama crowd, so...

[Winston]

What about the Selma song making reference to Ferguson and one of the winners referring to the large number of prisoners, in particular blacks? Or Imitation Game winner bemoaning Turing's fate and gay teen suicide?

[Sevo]

I'd rather get a poke in the eye that watch a minute of it, so I'm not sure what you mean.

[Winston]

Acceptance speeches and the performance of the eventual winning song.

[Sevo]

OK, I'll take your word for it.

[Ted S.]

I spent yesterday evening watching The Man Who Would Be King on TCM, which I figured was probably a better use of two hours than watching the Oscars.

[GregMax]

Agreed.

[wwhorton]

My wife heard that last night and chuckled. She thought it was a joke. I told her that we've got the highest incarceration rate in the world and she found that so hard to believe she had to look it up. And she's a well-educated, self-labeled Progressive.

[Bruce Majors]

Gay teen suicide is an actual problem. But's it cause, homophobia, seems to me to be rooted in part in the anti-happiness, anti-joy, punitive worldview that leads Democrats to condemn wealth and success and Republicans to condemn pleasure and personal freedom. And that leads Leftover cultural warriors to turn any celebratory event, like the Oscars, into an occasion to hector people about things like gay teen suicide.

[mad.casual]

Gay teen suicide is an actual problem.

Says you.

Homophobe or not, it's not my explicitly always my place to stop someone from committing suicide. Moreover, it's really not my place to compel others to do so.

If *all* teens were committing suicide at an increasing rate or some group or race were committing suicide at a pace that would cause them to vanish in the future there might be cause for some amount of concern.

Instead, you invent/perpetuate an epidemic of victimhood similar to the problem of 1-in-5 women getting raped on college campuses and deem it a problem.

[Harold Falcon]

Oh horseshit. Not all the baby turtles will make it to the ocean. I don't care if they're gay or straight turtles.

[np]

Guess what job is this

Entry is with a high school diploma and 5 years of experience, or an Associate's degree and 3 years of experience, or a Bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience, or a post-baccalaureate certificate.

[Sevo]

Dunno. Did Bo approve the credential requirements?

[JeremyR]

To be an accountant for Reason?

Oh wait, that required a college degree.

[Don'tTreadOnMe]

High school grad going through our e-stuff looking for threats....for the NSA. We. Are. Fucked.

[Harold Falcon]

i would say lawyer, but only in certain jurisdictions. A lot of places don't allow it anymore.

[Lyle]

Hollywood would shower glory upon a Putinist stooge.

[Sevo]

Poor Lyle! All that gov't ass to lick and you only get some of it!
BTW, fuck off, slaver.

[Lyle]

Snowden isn't spitting out what Putin gives him.

[Sevo]

Poor Lyle. No one gives Lyle enough gov't ass to lick!
Are you going to help Lyle find enough gov't ass, or are you going to turn the page?
BTW, fuck off, slaver.

[Lyle]

The only master-slave relationship to talk about is the one between Putin and Snowden.

[mr lizard]

Wow I didn't know the NSA counter propaganda division had a third shift?

FUCK OFF, PAID SLAVER

[Lyle]

The only master-slave relationship to talk about is the one between Putin and Snowden.

[Vulgar Madman]

You're going to lose, slaver.

[Lyle]

I am going to lose what?

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Gawker already shit the bed:
http://newsfeed.gawker.com/her.....socialflow

[GILMORE]

"#WHITETEARSMATTER"

lol, that's pretty good for gawker snark

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Hmmmm. Somebody did a little too much blow while watching the Oscars....

[Winston]

Did Jesse Walker cry like Chris Pine?

[cavalier973]

OT

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[Charles Easterly]

Thanks, cavalier.

I read the whole letter and found it cogent and compelling. I hope that Attorney General Ferguson accepts Mrs. Stutzman's offer.

[cavalier973]

The Grand Budapest Hotel had a pretty good soundtrack/score. Did it win?

[Winston]

The Score did win.

[cavalier973]

Huzzah!

[vkp69035]

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[Winston]

http://www.theguardian.com/fil.....cars-white

[Libertarian]

Reading that link was fun. Lefties and their political correctness. Surely a huge implosion is overdue.

[wwhorton]

Wow. So now NPH should check his privilege because he "told a black woman what to do"? I wonder how long until he's forced to make a contrite apology. This shit reminds me of nothing so much as the forced self-criticisms of the Cultural Revolution.

[Almanian!]

The butthurt is wonderful.

[Lord Peter Wimsey]

God, what a joyless bunch of douchebags!

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[Boomer]

I didn't view the treason comment as bashing Snowden. I thought it was an ironic comment on the only government in the world that views Snowden as a traitor.

[Joshua]

Same here.

[Liberty and Order]

Snowden did commit treason, i.e "making war on the United States, or adhering to its enemies lending them aid and comfort." He also violated the oath he took and the nondisclosure agreements he signed. Everything you think you know about Snowden is BS. He is not a "whistleblower" or hero, he is a spy and a traitor and an enemy of all Americans.

[ace_m82]

Not sure if sarc...

Idiot if not...

Darn it!

Veritas Liberabit Vos

[The Last American Hero]

I think you've confused Snowden with James Clapper, who violated his oath to protect and defend the US Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic and then lied to Congress about it.

[teg48791]

my mum in-law recently got a nice twelve month old Cadillac CTS Vsport Premium only from working parttime off a laptop
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