Red State Sell-Out or Caught Red Handed?
Drudge quoting Michael Moore:
‘We sold out in Fayetteville, home of Fort Bragg, We sold out in Army-base towns. We set house records in some of these places. We set single-day records in a number of theaters. We got standing ovations in Greensboro, N.C… The biggest news to me this morning is this is a red-state movie. Republican states are embracing the movie, and it’s sold out in Republican strongholds all over the country.
A FReeper looked into Moore’s claim, discovering something interesting.
Apparently the Moore flick is not playing in any major theatre in Fayetteville, according you Yahoo Movies.
FReepers disovered that Fahrenheit 911 is only showing in one small theater in Fayetteville.
Or Goldsboro, NC, home of Seymour Johnson AFB.
Quite interesting isn’t it? While obviously F911 is going to do well – -certainly Moore has accumulated an audience… but is he really a army-base/red state phenom? Highly questionable…
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here’s my question: why isn’t it being played in major theaters in red states?
I find it hilarious that most of Moore’s publicity came from people who hated it so much, they wouldn’t stop talking about it.
I like the White House label for these wackos – John Kerry’s coalition of the wild-eyed.
Even though, you know, it’s not funded by him.
But why let facts get in the way of a good insult?
So much for “sold out.” What a lout.
well, did it sell out in the theaters it was playing in?
‘Cause if so, then…well, you know, it’s not a lie :p
pretty lame if he’s saying they’re playing in places they’re not.
Number 1 movie in America.
Scoreboard doesn’t lie.
Ludis missed the point I think.
Kyle -
co·a·li·tion – Pronunciation (k-lshn) n.
An alliance, especially a temporary one, of people, factions, parties, or nations.
A combination into one body; a union.
It does not need to be funded by Kerry.
And, Moore himself has admited that this movie was made to remove Bush from office – which means that he made it with the conclusion already decided. He edited out any inconvenient facts and added highlights to facts that may have actually been irrelevent. Just as he did in Bowling for Columbine. He studied Goebbles well.
To Todd: They’re in these places, just not in big theaters.
To Kahn: pro-Kerry and anti-Bush are two different things. Sorry to break your generalizations again, but…well, they’re just not true.
And of course he doesn’t add facts that are inconvinient and highlights “irrelevent” facts. Everyone does that, every day, and their life. It’s called “having an opinion”
Ludis is not very bright, obviously he missed the point. Atleast he admitted it is a “movie” not a “documentary.”
If he isn’t a red state phenomenon, then what makes his comments relevant in the first place? Just call him a lier.
Ludis seems to also ignore the competition that F9/11 faced this weekend (in terms of new movies)–not the most competative field.
Hey now Jaws, Mikey beat that blockbuster movie White Chicks! He also finish just a head of Tomb Raider 2 as far as all time opening weekend takes. Granted he didn’t have quite as large a take as Resse Witherspoons Legally Blonde 2. Mikey’s opus surely is a movie for the ages!
/snerk
Jaws, you mean White Chicks wasn’t a huge hit??
besides, you can now download moore’s movie for free.
It doesn’t really matter how much money it makes, he is just going to eat it all in Ho-Ho’s and Twinkies anyway.
Don’t forget ding-dongs and yodels.
Oh great fat jokes.
Actually I don’t believe anyone mentioned he was fat, rather we just mentioned his choice of pastries.
Because that’s oh so relevant
Kyle, you are correct, it is just about as relevant as all the points that Moore makes in his movie.
Oh great gluttonous eating jokes whose gimmick is
the mentioning of unhealthy store bought pastries.
Stark Truth, I’d pay a tad more attention to your comments if you’d back them up. What points are irrelevent? How and why are they irrelevent?
Or is that too much of an inconvinience?
Moore is a piece of work. The movie is touted as a “documentary” – but is obviously nothing of the sort. I take particular exception to the military “interiews”.
I get regular e-mails from a nephew in Iraq – which I forward to conservative friends. They send me similar messages. The military is almost all conservative Republican. They feel total betrayal by the liberal media and the democrats. But, the e-mails have created an underground reality check news service. We get daily news from Iraq outside the media – and unfiltered.
There will be a real backlash against the liberals when these men and women get out and enter business and politics. The blind hatred of Bush will cost the Democrats. Shouild make for an interesting decade…
Interesting. My friend’s dad is a medic in Afganistan right now and, while he’s usually conservitive, is staunchly against Bush. And he says most the troops are against Bush.
Which goes to show that you never can tell :p
Kyle, well I believe Moore’s physique is self-evident as to his eating habits. Not sure why I would need to back that up with anything.
As to Mr. Moore’s movie let’s just start with one very simple point that he made. We went to war in Afghanistan so that we could build a pipeline for oil.
Stark – what? What oil pipeline? And are you saying that there was no Al Quaeda there? Sorry – I hate to insult. But you are an idiot.
Kyle – also sorry – but I think you are either wrong or lieing.
Kahn, you should read the thread before making such disparaging remarks. Michael Moore made that claim not me.
OK – point taken. Sorry
No worries.
Well lets see. I don’t lie-if you read other posts of mine, I will admit to being wrong at times. Which leaves that I’m wrong. Only, in this case, it wouldn’t be that I’m wrong, but that my friend’s dad is wrong. Which of course might be true. Then again, your nephew might be wrong.
What I was trying to show was that you can’t make generalizations. There are always going to be people on both sides of the spectrum everywhere, and there is no way to know for certain that “most” or “almost all” of one brand of people thinks one way.
Kyle – but you can. The e-mails I get are not my evidence – thats only how I get news. The military vote had been decidely Republican for years. Don’t you remember that Gore tried to get military absentee votes disqualified in Florida – think he’d have done that if he thought they’d be Dem. ?
You missed what I said earlier. I didn’t say that the troops were democratic-my friends dad is in fact a republican. What I said was, most of them were not proud of Bush and his decision to split off into Iraq. At least, according to him.
Some in the military are pro-Bush, and some are anti-Bush. Just like in the general population.
Jay, Thanks for locking that down for us. MOST of the military is Republican. That is why Gore tried to have their absentee ballots disqualified in Florida.
Republican and pro-Bush are different things though. That’s what I was trying to say :p. Over in Afghanistan, where my friend’s dad is, quite a few people a pretty pissed that we’re in Iraq right now.