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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 01:48 PM
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Protesting Michael Moore's new movie
Michael Moore's new movie, Farenheit911, is already drawing the ire of the Conservative movement. Jon Alveraz, founder of "Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti American Hollywood," has made his intentions plain. "a campaign to inform the American public of the true nature of this film has begun. Michael Moore, the film's controversial director, is using the victims of 9/11 for what will surely amount to a political assassination piece. This should bring about a public outcry so loud, a backlash so severe; no theatre chain should be willing to carry it. That will be the ultimate goal of this campaign. If a sense of decency and respect for the subject matter cannot convince them, then a boycott of their establishment might convince them otherwise.

Some critics might attempt to label this campaign as some form of censorship. Nothing could be further from the truth. source --> http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/alvarez/031117

Obviously Alveraz's goal is to get Michael Moores money to dry up and to scare off any potential distributars. I am a bad speller.

Anyway what can one do now to show support for Michael Moores right to put out this movie, and our right as Americans to go see it?

For futher analysis of John Alveraz's article--> http://www.politicalcomment.blogspot.com/2003_11_16_politicalcomment_archive.html#106917694018474007

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 02:01 PM
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1. i'm sure the theatres that will be showing this are scared..
memo to FReepers: they don't show the films you like at the local Landmark or art house cinema. Your boycott is meaningless because you don't patronize these theatres anyways!! Effing morans!! Man, I can't wait for this to be released!
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 04:22 PM
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14.  Freepers don't go to movies. They pool funds for pay for view wrestling.
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SlavesandBulldozers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 02:05 PM
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2. let them boycott
it will be great advertisement. You know when the boycott's started before anybody has seen the movie its going to be a good one!
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 02:08 PM
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3. I hope they protest and boycott this movie
Edited on Tue Nov-18-03 02:09 PM by GloriaSmith
maybe if we're lucky, faux will sue too. The more controversy surrounding this movie, the more people will watch it. Michael Moore did so well with Bowling For Columbine that distributors would be stupid to be pressured into not distributing Farenheit911...it's all about making money for them and this one is going to sell very well both nationally and internationally.
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Ficus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 02:09 PM
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4. Like they would watch
I'm sure Michael Moore is shaking in his boots.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 02:11 PM
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5. Har de har har
Didn't O'Reilly's little temper tantrum anent Franken's book teach them anything? Whenever I'm inclined to give the Freeper element the benefit of the doubt, they reinforce in the worst possible way my low opinion of their collective intelligence. Never fails.

Yuk, yuk, yuk!
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 02:29 PM
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10. They won against CBS/The Reagans, so they think they are on a roll
These are the same people who pitched a collective fit when Mel Gibson had trouble finding a distributor for "The Passion", his upcoming Jesus movie. They defend this movie that none of them have yet seen, as they should, free speech applies to Mel as much as it does Michael Moore.
MM's movies only show at "art theaters" anyways, the same places most likely to play Mel's movie. So, are they going to boycott the theaters and try to put them out of business? Then who's going to show "The Passion"? Idiots.
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 03:15 PM
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11. Actually
They probably think/know they are going to fail. Unless they can get enough of a protest right now to stop funding, Moores film will be made and it will be distributed. But they haven't got a hope of doing that. Truthfully, Alveraz's over the top antics are likely to help Moore (as many have pointed out)
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 02:15 PM
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6. Let 'em boycott.
It did wonders for The Dixie Chicks. Liberals need to unite on this and make sure we all go see it and tell everyone we know to go see it. When it comes out on DVD...BUY IT! The freepers will never learn. It must hurt to have such a small, itsy-bitsy pea brain. Hey, FREEPERS! Get a clue, the boycott won't work! Bwaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha! :bounce:
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HootieMcBoob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 02:18 PM
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7. I'm sure the families of the victims of 9/11
who are pissed off at the bush admin for stonewalling the 9/11 commission and who are suing the Saudi Royal family over their involvement in 9/11 would disagree with this twerp. That's the same Saudi Royal Family that has James Baker's law firm Baker/Botts defending them. Defending the Saudi's against a suit brought by the family's of the victims of 9/11. Oh yeah, I'm sure those families who have been trying for years to get these questions answered and out in the light of day will be real upset that somebody is finally helping them out. They're probably lining up to defend Moore right now.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 04:26 PM
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15. Took the words right out of my mouth.
I wonder if the brave ladies from Jersey are aware of this... after what they've been through, I would expect that they'd be firmly in MM's corner.
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 02:21 PM
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8. I bet they will be as successful at this as they were with ...
his book, "Stupid White Men". It was #1 for a very long time!
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 02:23 PM
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9. Hopfully they will be to MM what Fox was to Franken. nt
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 04:11 PM
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13. Right on Blue Eyes!!
SPATEN:beer: will be drank in your honor.
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dofus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 04:01 PM
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12. They might actually
intimidate the theater chains into not showing it, or only in a few theaters. I know "Bowling For Columbine" was consistently shown in the smallest theater at one and only one multiplex in this area (of about 8 mulitplexes here in that chain) even though it was selling out regularly. Meanwhile, showings of other "mainstream" movies were in mostly empty venues -- much larger theaters -- but did management swap out the movie locations? No.
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John_Shadows_1 Donating Member (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 04:33 PM
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16. Well, I personally wouldn't want to walk into a theatre..
... and see some hatchet job on our president.

Yeah right! Let it rip, baby!
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