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Hacked, releasing embarrassing e-mails to the press which gleefully reported them. but now terrorism is involved. a group of hackers calling themselves guardians of peace have threatened to attack theaters that show the film and just today sony said it will not release the movie on christmas day as planned. the fbi is investigating, but some commentators see hypocrisy in what is going on. joining us from washington, radio talk show host richard fowler, and from los angeles. >> sony has changed by capitulation. i suppose what they're doing, bill, is listening to their attorneys in this litigiou...

The country delighting in all the lurid and prurient details. and hollywood reacting hypocritically because their objection was getting gored. when it was edward snowden or it was julian assange, they made movies about them. >> so you're saying that the outrage in hollywood because of the embarrassing conversations that a couple of executives at sony has had about president obama, about angelina jolie and others, they were very angry. but they weren't angry when snowden and assange and all those guys printed national security secrets, and you see hypocrisy there. do i have it right? >> yeah, e...

We don't really know if the sony executives or sony in general was against the edward snowden leak or the wikileaks. we don't know that at all because we don't have those e-mails. but what we do know is sony, just like any other artistic company has the right to put out movies, whether they be art or not, whether we like it or not, to be art. and if you don't like the movie by julian assange, you don't go. clearly, cinemas across the country capitulated to terrorists and said they didn't want this movie about kim jong un. >> there is a couple of things. capitulating to terrorists, you can say ...

It will be distributed on the internet and there will be a movement to spread the film far and wide. the intent of this from north korea, at least in part which was to keep it from getting seen, that's not going to work. >> we backed out. we pulled our movie out. you won. that's what it looks like. >> they won against sony. between this and cuba, it's a good day for charity and bad day for freedom. >> as buck mentioned, this move may cost sony millions and millions of dollars in what amounts to a form of ransom. joining me now is howard kurtz. obviously a big loss for sony. they backed down in...

Head blows up at the end of the movie. we're okay with it. >> it was a stupid and reckless idea by sony. how it's marketed as a comedy i have no idea. it's a blow against free speech as dumb as the movie might be. there's nothing to stop other attackers from targeting any movie or magazine or newspaper article if this pleases them and many, many american companies are vulnerable. >> they will. you can bet on it after this, howard. thank you very much. still ahead on "the kelly file," the biggest executive action story that our guest says nobody is talking about. a federal judge fired a warni...