Salon: "Michael Moore Terrorizes the Bushies!"

[NYCGirl]

Worth a day pass to read this article (better yet, subscribe to Salon, and help keep a great news source from the left going).

Link:
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/06/23/fahrenhype/index.html

Excerpt:

They're back! OK, the "vast right-wing conspiracy" Hillary Clinton warned about never really went away. But they've found new purpose in the campaign to stop the distribution of "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's latest documentary. And just as the energetic conservative elves succeeded in making Bill Clinton ever more popular with the American public, so do they seem to be driving up public interest in Moore's film, which is expected to have the biggest opening for a documentary film ever, in a scheduled 888 theaters.

The convergence between the anti-Clinton and anti-Moore movements is personified by the tireless David Bossie, whose Citizens United made headlines savaging the president in the late 1990s. It's been a big week for Bossie and Citizens United. First they were busy producing anti-Clinton ads to run during the former president's star turn Sunday night on "60 Minutes," while Bossie was scurrying to cable studios to denounce the memoir "My Life" and promote his new book, "Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11." Then Bossie scheduled a Wednesday press event in front of the Federal Election Commission, where he will demand that the commission take some sort of unspecified action to regulate the screening of "Fahrenheit 9/11" -- presumably because of the anti-Bush documentary's power to influence the coming presidential election. "Documents will be hand delivered to several government agencies immediately following the media briefing," the group's press release soberly states.

Anyone still wondering whether "Fahrenheit 9/11" has the far right squirming about the documentary's possible effect on the November presidential election?

[LittleApple81]

1. Wow... I am so glad the liberals are finally responding. Repugs are

an amazing bunch...

[Cha]

2. Thank you, NYCGirl...that was great!

"Such aggravation is hard to measure. No theaters have canceled showings of "Fahrenheit" at this point. And the MAF group doesn't seem to have had the most useful intelligence in its campaign. A lowly theater payroll employee inexplicably listed on MAF's e-mail list of "leading movie executives" is confused about how he became a central front in the War on Moore (he did not wish to be identified). As he sat in his office Friday, messages pinged into his in box. Dryly, he read aloud his favorites: "'I will never see a movie again' ... 'I will not support a business that aids a piece of crap sub-human like Moore in spreading his anti-american bullshit ...'"

I believe it was reported by joe scarborough that "hundreds of theaters cancelled F9/11"...so much for ol' joe's veracity.

"More important, though, after the grass-roots political group MoveOn launched a counteroffensive, letters of support for the film's release began outpacing negative letters (according to an unscientific survey of five theater owners) at roughly 3-to-1. Jennifer Caleshu of the Little Theatre, in Rochester, N.Y., says she's received on the order of 3,000 e-mails. For every letter accusing her of soothing terrorists by showing the film, she says, seven are encouraging. Caleshu says that to every negative e-mail she's received she replies by quoting the First Amendment. "I've gotten some real personal hate mail back about that," she says."

This is Awesome! I'm going to see it Friday in Albany New York at the Spectrum.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Hate mail about citing the First Amendment? WTF?

These cranks are not conservatives, and they disgrace the term Republican and American at the same time. They are unpatriotic in the extreme.

What Rude Beast (slouching toward Armageddon) hath BushCo created?

[KoKo]

4. Great Article! Lists all the Meanies of the RW and how they are

scrambling. I'm worried about them going after the FEC (Fed Election Commission) tomorrow, though. What if they decide to pull the movie. In this fascist state we live in, anything's possible.

But, maybe they would be more afraid of the outrage it would cause, and if so then we've made a little dent in their armor.

[iconoclastic cat]

7. Could that actually happen?

[Zinfandel]

5. I'm going to see it Friday, I hope the DVD comes out before the election..

So I can show it to all the fence sitters.

[joanne]

6. The DVD is supposed to be available before the election

Michael Moore is to be commended for telling the truth and for his courage too.

[JBoris]

8. We can only hope

that despite the right wing efforts the message will get out there, and change a few million voter's minds.

[Kool Kitty]

10. The right wing is doing the publicity

for this film, free of charge. I think it's a hoot, because they don't realize that the more they scream about this film, the more interest they generate for it, good or bad. I can't wait to see it, and not because the fanatic right-wing nutjobs are shitting their pants over it. It's going to be great.

[ShaneGR]

9. OMG, read this part!!

More important, though, after the grass-roots political group MoveOn launched a counteroffensive, letters of support for the film's release began outpacing negative letters (according to an unscientific survey of five theater owners) at roughly 3-to-1. Jennifer Caleshu of the Little Theatre, in Rochester, N.Y., says she's received on the order of 3,000 e-mails. For every letter accusing her of soothing terrorists by showing the film, she says, seven are encouraging. Caleshu says that to every negative e-mail she's received she replies by quoting the First Amendment. "I've gotten some real personal hate mail back about that," she says.