Salon: Michael Moore terrorizes the Bushies!

[kskiska]

The right wing is going all out to stop "Fahrenheit 9/11" -- but it's not working.

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?

Over the past week, attacks on the film reached fever pitch. They involved right-wing-conspiracy veterans like Bossie, but also some relative newcomers. So far the campaign doesn't seem to have hurt Moore. The real question is whether "Fahrenheit 911" can be anywhere as entertaining as the sometimes surreal campaign to derail it.

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[onehandle]

1. LOVE the illustration....

Ha ha!



This is good too:

the biggest opening for a documentary film ever, in a scheduled 888 theaters.

[silverweb]

2. Truth.

The RW is so very afraid of people knowing the truth! Just look at the lengths they go to in their efforts to suppress investigations, hide or destroy evidence, threaten and intimidate whistleblowers, and worse.

RW people are scum.

[Raster]

3. the so-called "right-wing" depends on ignorance and stupidity....

...it's a tad difficult to subjugate a knowing, sentient human being.

Yessireee, those fundie fanatics need 'em stupid!

[silverweb]

6. I absolutely agree with you.

Knowledge is power. The RW wants a monopoly on power, so the easiest way to do that is to suppress knowledge.

I'll fight them with everything I've got as long as I live!

:bounce:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. Salon: Michael Moore terrorizes the Bushies!

Knowledge is power. The RW wants a monopoly on power, so the easiest way to do that is to suppress knowledge.<<

I am rather apt to imagine that many of them have a perty strong attraction to the physical world... the here and now... and will do anything to prevail in it.... just what the master taught them... not.

While they burn your money in heaps... your schools, healthcare and veterans go fish.

www.halliburtonwatch.org

[silverweb]

8. Indeed.

For all their talk, their only true master is power, fed by money.

on edit: correct format.

[Andromeda]

4. Don't those idiots know that the more they protest...

the more people will want to see the film. They are driving the public to check this movie out.

Probably not what they intended. Oh well, nobody said the wingnuts were smart.

[Skittles]

5. no, they DON'T know it

they put the interests of their party above the interests of their country and I tell you it is a great PLEASURE watching these assholes drawing more and more attention to this film. THEY ARE THE GREATEST MARKETING FORCE EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!