Krauthammer on ‘The Interview’: ‘Sony Made Exactly the Wrong Decision’

Krauthammer’s Take: Sony Made the Wrong Decision to Pull “The Interview” (National Review Online)

On Thursday’s Special Report, Charles Krauthammer said Sony Pictures made a bad choice to scrap the release of The Interview, a comedy film in which a journalist set to interview Kim Jong-un is asked by the CIA to assassinate the North Korean dictator. “I think this is not sort of rocket science, Sony made exactly the wrong decision,” Krauthammer said. “What you do is…you put it out on the Internet for free. So it’s a gesture, but also it doubly screws over Pyongyang.” Krauthammer explained that he thought more people would view it online than would have ever done so in theaters, if Sony decides to upload the film online. He continued to explain that if hacks similar to the one that forced Sony’s hand were carried out against other facets of society, then America could experience “a catastrophe on a Pearl-Harbor-scale.”