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CONSERVATIVE MEDIA MOGUL Ben Shapiro’s latest foray into moviemaking has big-name actors like Harvey Keitel and Danny Trejo.
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But just a few weeks into production, the pro-ICE film tentatively titled Pawn Shop has hit a serious roadblock.
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On Saturday, two days after I reported on Pawn Shop’s recreation of the ICE killing of Renée Good, town commissioners in Livingston, Montana voted to “immediately temporarily suspend” the Daily Wire’s filming permit.
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“I am absolutely infuriated with the either malfeasance or lack of competence by the people that are operating a movie production event in our town,” commissioner and vice chair James Willich said in the Saturday meeting.
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While the commission will meet again Monday evening to discuss the pulled permit, things aren’t looking good for ol’ Ben Shapiro.
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For one thing, no one from the film showed up at the Saturday hearing to defend the production.
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For another, commissioners vowed at the weekend meeting not just to put an end to the production but to reform the town’s lax film-permitting rules, which appear to have allowed the Daily Wire’s film crew to essentially take over several streets with little oversight, in exchange for a mere $5,000 fee—a pittance compared to what Livingston city manager Grant Gager described as a $1.5 million budget for the movie.
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Shapiro will no doubt cite this town in deep-red Montana as an example of wokeness run amok.
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But having watched four hours of the Saturday hearing, I can firmly say it paints a different picture.
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Because even though Pawn Shop’s controversial subject matter has attracted protesters, few people at the hearing brought up the film’s content as a reason to pull the permit.
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Instead, commissioners, business owners, and members of the public all complained that Shapiro’s Hollywood dreams have brought mayhem to the town’s population of roughly 9,000 people, with a list of misdeeds that includes
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