It was sarcastic.  I didn't have access to watch the presser live, so I was following updates.  it seemed that "blame Sony" was the initial response until it was later followed with they would "respond proportionately".

Aren't we all blaming sony for caving?

Sure.  We should not allow a foreign country to dictate what movies we can watch in the U.S.  Once we start doing that, what comes next?  Do they get to tell us what books we can read, or what websites we can access?

As an aside, a friend of mine just posted a tongue-in-cheek solution to solve the "North Korea" problem:

How much to buy North Korea?

What is it worth to the US and the free world to rid ourselves of this half-pint half-assed dictator? It is not worth one American casualty, but it is worth something. I'm thinking $1,000,000,000,000. Yes, One Trillion Dollars. We should be able to buy off every DPRK ***** of any significance for that amount. Every military officer. Every Communist party official. Every "Businessman". All of them.

We can split it between the US, Japan, S. Korea, and the EU. $250B each, payable in equal installments over 20 years. That is $12.5B each per year. Done.

Posted by tecwrg on 12/19/2014 3:30:00 PM (view original):
Sure.  We should not allow a foreign country to dictate what movies we can watch in the U.S.  Once we start doing that, what comes next?  Do they get to tell us what books we can read, or what websites we can access?

Right. Sony shouldn't have caved.

It's blackmail!

E-mail from NK to Sony:

"It's very wise that you have made the decision to cancel the release of The Interview. It will be very useful for you.  We will ensure the security of your data unless you make additional trouble."

The e-mail then demands that Sony continue to cooperate with further demands from the hackers or else they will release more data.  Specifically, the hackers demand that all traces of the movie be wiped from the face of the Internet.  They say, "Now we want you never let the movie released, distributed or leaked in any form of, for instance, DVD or piracy.  And we want everything related to the movie, including its trailers, as well as its full version down from any website hosting them immediately."

So, see, you cower and you cave to terrorists, cyber or otherwise, and they just keep coming at you with more demands.  And now that Sony's done the right thing, now that Sony's caved, now that Sony's not gonna play the movie, now that Sony's not gonna put it in theaters, the theaters aren't gonna run it, the hackers are back with more threats.  "We will release even more of your secure data if you do not do what we ask."  There's no limits on what they can demand now, since Sony has caved. 

It's all about Amy protecting her *** and not letting other e-mails out.  It's CYA on an international level.  It's blackmail.

And this Hollywood ***** is willing to take EVERYBODY down with her.

Al Sharpton just jumped in for his cut of the pie.  Follow the money.  This sucks!

A criminal hack exposed a racist email exchange between Sony co-Chair Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin, and now humiliation tour has begun. Thursday Pascal met with MSNBC’s Al Sharpton. If she was looking for absolution, she didn’t get it. After the 90 minute meeting in Manhattan, Sharpton went before the media and announced that “the jury is still out on where we go.”

The Los Angeles Times suggests there is a silver lining, “Sharpton did not call for Pascal to step down,” but that’s not how Sharpton operates. Now that he has his hooks in a major movie studio, he can abuse that power. The New York Post explains how:

Pascal agreed to let Sharpton have a say in how Sony makes motion pictures, in an effort to combat what he called “inflexible and immovable racial exclusion in Hollywood.”

“We have agreed to having a working group deal with the racial bias and lack of diversity in Hollywood,” said Sharpton.

He said Sony would work closely with his National Action Network, ?the ?National Urban League, ?the ?NAACP and the Black Women’s Round Table to “see if we can come up with an immediate plan to deal with it.”

The meeting, held behind closed doors at the Greenwich Hotel, also included National Urban League president Marc Morial.

“Our interest is seeing to it that Sony is on the right side of changing Hollywood,” Morial said.

Amy Pascal met with Rev. Al Sharpton Thursday, a week after apologizing for leaked e-mails in which she and producer Scott Rudin exchanged racially-charged jokes about President Barack Obama.

“Very pointed and blunt exchange w/Amy Pascal in our 90 min meeting,” Sharpton tweeted after the meeting. “Hollywood needs to change. Her leaked e mails show a cultural blindness.”

Sharpton also held a news conference in Manhattan announcing Sony had agreed to form a “working group” to address the racial diversity issue in Hollywood along with members of activist groups including Sharpton’s own National Action Network, the National Urban League, the NAACP and the Black Women’s Roundtable.

Let's review:

Sony ***** gets hacked by NK.
NK blackmails Sony *****.
911 threats are fake.  
Sony ***** caves to save her ***.
The Rev Al smells money and dives in the pool.

  Maybe now the REV can finally pay off all his back taxes.  Don't hold your breath.

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I'm assuming this is a litany of stupidity.

Do we have a problem?

Yes we do.  

Individuals in a corporate have been blackmailed.  They constitute the head of a snake.  A poisonous snake with little venom.  

The blackmailers would have been far better off going for a more viable target instead of another third rate movie directed by a classless elite.

Two birds with one stone.  The PC Hollywoods have exposed themselves for the liberal racists and backbiting gossips they are.

The blackmailers showed their hand too early on a worthless endeavor.  Had they held back they might have been able to do much more damage.

So it's a win win.  We know what we are up against in a cyber attack.  And we don't go to dumbass movies.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!