F9/11 AstroTurf?

[StClone]

A July 16th LTTE in a local paper has more Moore bashing tangents than seven degrees of Kevin Bacon. Those facts being swallowed whole hog by the writer is not what bothers me most, it is the appearance that the letter is part of an Astroturf effort or at least Astroturf Rube Gouldberg piecemeal attack.

Any one else come across a Moore sniper that have similaries to this LTTE effort?

http://www.wisinfo.com/journal/spjopinion/286893567706911.shtml


Moore is nothing more than Kerry's 'pit bull'

"After reading the latest rant about Fahrenheit 9/11, I thought I'd add my two shekels. First of all, guess where the movie is really doing well? Beirut, Lebanon - that's where. Guess who endorses it? Hezbollah. Yes Hezbollah, the organization second only to Al-Qaida for killing Americans. Hezbollah actually endorses Michael Moore's movie. Guess what organization Michael Moore belongs to? He is aligned with Moveon.org. Moveon asked 55,000 of it's members in a conference call led by Moore to pledge to go see it Friday, Saturday and Sunday when it first opened..."

More at above link.

[rooboy]

1. 55,000 MoveOn members were asked?

Let's see... does it cost $10 to see the movie? If so, that makes $550,000 at the box office. Now all we have to figure out is where the other $70 or $80 million came from...

[RC]

2. Moveon asked 55,000 of it's members in a conference call...???

55,000? If you know how conference calls work, you would know that if something like that could be set up, it would be very unwieldy. Plus costly. Idiots with music on hold, not knowing how to kill the mike or not knowing that it is on and picking up every snide remark, cough, paper rustle and police siren... Not to mention the cheneyen participants with cell phones in traffic.

This paper publishes mediocre fiction.

[treepig]

3. yeah, that's freaking hilarious

my telephone provider is lucky to get 5 people connected for a conference call on a good day.

but those sneaky liberals - bet they have some special technology from the future. gotta keep an eye on them, or they'll be taking over everything . . .

[beyurslf]

5. Dean did conference calls with 1000's of people at once.

Not everyone could talk and be heard. Most of us had to listen to the calls while he or Joe Trippi spoke. Questions could be asked but I don't recall how that worked.
But conference calls with that many is possible.

[rman]

4. Hezbollah endorses breething to

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[Kazak]

6. I remember being asked by Moveon.org...

to see The Day After Tomorrow, but I haven't heard a peep out of them about F911. :shrug:

[Eric J in MN]

7. It's true that MoveOn had house-parties for F911 with a conf. call

It's true that MoveOn had a house-parties for F911 with a conf. call from Michael Moore.

But it was for people who wanted to see the movie.