The American media is not handling the success of “The Sound of Freedom” well.
The anti-child-trafficking film has been such a box office hit that it beat out the dismally Woke “Indiana Jones” sequel in their opening weekend showings. But its deep dive into the disturbing world of child trafficking has brought out numerous accusations in the corporate media that it is fueled by “Q Anon” conspiracy theories.
On Saturday, CNN had on Mike Rothschild to slam “The Sound of Freedom” as a fantastical conjuration of Q Anon fearmongering and little more.
“And you seem pretty familiar with him [Jim Caviezel] because he doesn’t really hide his association with this real wild plot that that involves, you know, drinking the blood of children and things like that,” the CNN host Abby Phillip said, referring to a version of the Q Anon conspiracy theory that maintains elites drink the blood of children to imbibe the alleged chemical “adrenochrome.”
“No, he doesn’t hide it at all,” Rothschild remarked. “And you have a lot of people who are in this world of Q Anon who say, oh, they don’t know what that is. They’ve never heard of it. They’re just asking questions. With somebody like Jim Caviezel, he is openly embracing it. He’s openly using its catchphrases and its concepts. He’s speaking at Q Anon conventions. And this film is being marketed to either specific Q Anon believers or to people who believe all of the same tenets as Q Anon, but claim they don’t know what it is.”
Mike Rothschild is thus conflating the vast majority of Americans who oppose child trafficking with the tiny fringe of people who are Q Anon conspiracy theorists.
“And ‘The Sound of Freedom’ does focus on a real issue of sex trafficking,” Phillip remarked. “But that theme, it’s sort of like that kernel of truth that feeds the Q Anon conspiracy theory .Tell us how those two things work together.”
“Sure,” he replied. “And the most durable and the most believable conspiracy theories are not entirely false. There’s something in them that is true, and the rest of it is false.”
“But the believers point to the one true thing and they say, ‘oh, you don’t believe that this particular thing is true in terms of child trafficking’,” he continued. “We know trafficking is real. We know it has real victims. No one is denying that.”
“But these films are created out of moral panics,” he added. “They’re created out of bogus statistics. They’re created out of fear. And with something like Sound of Freedom, it specifically is looking at Q Anon on concepts of these child trafficking rings that are run by the high level elites. And only people like Tim Ballard and only people like Jim Caviezel, and by extension only people like the ticket buyer can help bring these trafficking rings down.”
“So there’s a very participatory element,” he claimed. “You’re not just going to see a movie, you’re just killing two hours on a hot day. You are helping bring down these, these pedophile rings and save children. Now it’s not true, but it’s a very comforting and it’s very warm feeling to have.”
There are certainly valid points in Rothschild’s criticism of the film, even if one sought to dispute them with various cases involving America’s elites and child sex scandals. There are cases implicating Hollywood and even some involving journalists, particularly at CNN and ABC News. (Both journalists were terminated from their jobs.)
But looming in the background of this conversation is Jeffrey Epstein, who ran in the circles of the world’s most powerful and famous people. The court case of his infamous madame Ghislaine Maxwell ensured that Epstein’s client list also known as his “little black book” would be sealed and not officially released to the public.
If the mainstream media really wants to fight “conspiracy theories,” they would unearth the conspiracy facts about Epstein’s clientele and if they had indeed been entangled in his pedophile web.
