WP: A Different Kind of Heat Wave (Fahrenheit 9/11)

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The Debate Over 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Has Temperatures Soaring

Thursday, June 24, 2004; Page A01

The White House preemptively gave the movie two thumbs down: "Outrageously false," said communications director Dan Bartlett, when he was asked about some of its allegations.

Sizzling! countered Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), who plans a teach-in at a Seattle theater to tap into the "anger brewing against this administration."

The director, Michael Moore, predicted half his audience for his new documentary will be nonvoters and 20 percent Republican, and that those on the fence will be off it and on his side when the last credits roll. A group called Move America Forward has begun a letter-writing campaign asking theaters not to show "Michael Moore's horrible anti-American movie."

All this before "Fahrenheit 9/11" has even officially opened.

"I can't think of any precedent for it in a presidential campaign," says Frances Lee, a political science professor at Case Western Reserve University. "As a marketing phenomenon it seems to echo 'The Passion ': intense enthusiasm, organized groups buying tickets with proselytizing zeal, the sense that one is getting something that corporate America wanted to stifle."

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"It's so easy to say that Bush is an idiot," Moore said in an interview yesterday. "But I don't say it. You just let his own words and his own pictures do it."

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[saigon68]

1. Go Michael Go

I'm going to see it this week end

[stevedeshazer]

2. Move America Forward: Bwahahahahaha!!

This group is mentioned in the WP article. Check it out...I can barely tell it's not a parody!

The banner for their article on Moore:



Their site: http://www.moveamericaforward.org/

You'd almost swear it was Betty Bowers.

[wtmusic]

3. "If a reporter asks President Bush about the movie,

he plans to respond jokingly, one of his strategists said."

Yeah, that Georgie "Where da WMD?" Bush is a real laff riot. I can't wait! "Ya see, this insurgent walks into a bar..."

[mom cat]

4. Are the Repulses going to find another ticket? The dynamic duo

is doomed.