How Did They Get Away With This?

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How Did They Get Away With This?

Morgan Freeman’s Speech in Deep Impact Would be Unthinkable Today

Spencer Pratt

Sep 06, 2026

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1998 - Deep Impact - This Presidential speech would be unthinkable in the modern Hollywood writers room. 30 years ago, long before diversity quotas, nobody blinked at casting a black President, but the idea of having a President talk about God in this way today would make the modern woke writer staff sizzle like the devil being sprayed with holy water. …

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