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McParadigm wrote:The president of the United States tweeting about a cable television airing of Home Alone 2 because a routine time slot edit hurt his ego is the end of 2019 we’ve all earned.

96583UP wrote:wouldn't you want to include that cameo at this point

the man is a ratings machine

Home Alone 2 sales are probably going through the roof right now

The CBC edited out multiple scenes from "Home Alone 2" to shorten the two-hour movie for television -- eight minutes in all, the CBC says. The CBC's deletion of scenes entirely unrelated to Trump is confirmed by a search of viewers' complaint tweets. Trump was not cut as Canadian retribution for his policies in office: He has been omitted from the CBC version since at least 2015, the earliest we could find viewers tweeting about the deletion. CBC says it actually cut the Trump cameo in 2014, before Trump launched his presidential campaign in June 2015.
Since 2014, people have scolded CBC for failing to air such "Home Alone 2" scenes as "Kevin going swimming," "THE TURTLE DOVE EXCHANGE" and a scene in which a homeless man warns Macaulay Culkin's protagonist, Kevin McCallister, to "Watch it, kid."

The CBC said in a statement: "As is often the case with feature films adapted for television, 'Home Alone 2' was edited for time. The scene with Donald Trump was one of several that were cut from the movie as none of them were integral to the plot. These edits were done in 2014 when we first acquired the film and before Mr. Trump was elected President."
The CBC is a Crown corporation -- owned by the Canadian government but making its decisions on what to air independently from the party in power. There is, obviously, no evidence that Trudeau or his party had any role in the decision to dump the Trump appearance.

Conservative Stephen Harper was Canada's prime minister in 2014. (We couldn't immediately confirm on Thursday night that Trump was omitted from the CBC's 2014 airing of the film.) Trudeau, a Liberal, took office in November 2015. Trudeau's office declined to comment.

Peeps wrote:actually disney nor politics have anything to do with

apparently the film was edited for television by canada some years ago and that part was edited it out so it would fit in time slots

oasisfan35 wrote:

Peeps wrote:actually disney nor politics have anything to do with

apparently the film was edited for television by canada some years ago and that part was edited it out so it would fit in time slots

You have your facts...

oasisfan35 wrote:

Peeps wrote:actually disney nor politics have anything to do with

apparently the film was edited for television by canada some years ago and that part was edited it out so it would fit in time slots

You have your facts...

McParadigm wrote:These people are fueled by a culture of pathetic, whiny grievance. This is embarrassing on a national level.

surfndestroy wrote:

McParadigm wrote:These people are fueled by a culture of pathetic, whiny grievance. This is embarrassing on a national level.

It's also stupid for a state owned media company to not be aware of what they are broadcasting and understanding how edits to it will be taken.

McParadigm wrote:

surfndestroy wrote:

McParadigm wrote:These people are fueled by a culture of pathetic, whiny grievance. This is embarrassing on a national level.

It's also stupid for a state owned media company to not be aware of what they are broadcasting and understanding how edits to it will be taken.

So...and I want to make sure I understand this...you feel that somebody there should have said “oh, shit! We can’t broadcast Home Alone 2 with the edits we previously used! The president might get mad!”

verb_to_trust wrote:Sorry, no

tragabigzanda wrote:Hang in there, team!

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