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Jennifer Rubin: President Freeman makes better use of the bully pulpit

Related Topics: Bully pulpit, Once upon a time

Once upon a time (like Sunday after the Emmys) conservatives used to grouse that Hollywood was filled with liberals who disdained America and fancied themselves internationalists.

Well, on Tuesday we learned that Hollywood is more patriotic, responsible and tough when it comes to Russia than is President Donald Trump, who fails to this day to acknowledge conclusive evidence that Russia interfered with the election on his behalf.

Rob Reiner has put together a group called the Committee to Investigate Russia designed to explain Russia’s international behavior and its attempt to subvert Western democracies. (I can’t help but recall other committees, such as the Committee on the Present Danger, created by hawks, once Democrats who migrated to the GOP in the Cold War.