Swift Boaters are marketing Oliver Stone's new movie!!!

[im10ashus]

LOS ANGELES, July 26 — Oliver Stone, that symbol of everything about Hollywood that conservatives love to hate, is getting help in marketing his newest movie from an unlikely ally: the publicity firm that helped devise the Swift boat campaign attacking John Kerry’s Vietnam record in the 2004 presidential race.

And so Mr. Stone, the director of the antiwar movies “Platoon” and “Born on the Fourth of July,” now finds himself sharing something in common with a group of Vietnam veterans who insisted that their comrades who demonstrated against the war were misguided, misled or traitorous.

Mr. Stone said that he knew nothing of the firm’s political work until he was contacted by a reporter on Wednesday. The director’s “World Trade Center,” a largely factual drama about the rescue of two police officers from ground zero after the 9/11 attacks, is to be released on Aug. 9 by Paramount Pictures. But it is already drawing rave reviews in some unlikely quarters.

L. Brent Bozell III, president of the conservative Media Research Center and founder of the Parents Television Council — best known for its campaigns against indecency on television and for stiffer penalties on broadcasters — called it “a masterpiece” and sent an e-mail message to 400,000 people saying, “Go see this film.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/27/movies/27stone.html

[frylock]

1. brent bozell called it a masterpiece..

that's all I need to know. Not that I was going to see it anyway, but still...

[peace frog]

2. Reason enough to boycott the movie

Not that I planned to see it anyway, but here's the perfect reason to sit this one out.

[Nikki Stone 1]

3. Maybe this endorsement is a way to destroy Stone's potential audience

It's a clever idea: align yourself with someone your enemy likes and make him suspect.

[librechik]

4. heh--whores

we knew what they are--now we know what their price is

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Sounds like Oliver Stone has identified his audience.

Right-wingers are easy to sell. Lefties actually want facts in their documentaries.

[zbdent]

6. In an unrelated news story, theatres will be reporting a Zombie invasion

which will later be found out just to be a bunch of people responding to a post-hypnotic suggestion in the form of an e-mail ...