In our first episode, our plucky hero (bear with me — Ed) has rattled the Empire by destroying its power base, using leaks to blow up its corporate HQ’s legal department. (Reportedly, anyway.) In the sequel, we find out that the Empire has a lot more leaky firepower than the plucky hero, who might be fortunate if all that happens is that he ends up on an ice planet in the Protection Racket Media galaxy far, far too near.
If George Stephanopoulos wants to play Jedi leak tricks, looks like Disney isn’t afraid to unleash the Power of the Mouse Side. The New York Post — which serves as Tatooine, apparently — offered up leaks that exposed the “actual malice” in play over the defamation suit settled by Disney with Donald Trump. And I’m not even talking about the lawsuit:
George Stephanopoulos was repeatedly told by his executive producer not to “use the word…