Are Wingnuts doing for Fahrenheit 911 what the left did for The Passion?

[Sandpiper]

It certainly seems that way. The best publicity The Passion ever got was from so many people making such a fuss over it, naturally arousing the curiosity of those who weren't on either side of the debate. If not for that, it probably wouldn't have been much more than a Christian fringe film.

Now that Michael Moore has found a distributor for Fahrenheit 911, the wingnuts are coming out in force, and trying to keep people from seeing it. And now, because of their efforts, people who probably didn't care much before will now be curious about what's so dangerous about this film that it shouldn't be seen.

[bhunt70]

1. You mean the wingnuts are gonna see Farenheit 911?

I saw the passion.

[WilliamPitt]

2. No such thing as bad publicity

Remember, Moore started the buzz with the 'leak' about Disney refusing to release the film.

[thebigidea]

3. seemed more like the Scarborough/O'Reilly crowd invented the contraversy

they were giving breathless coverage to the so-called "contraversy" well before any self-proclaimed lefties were bashing it in print.

Anyway, just like the fundie crusade against "Life of Brian" gave it tons of free publicity, the asanine anti-Moore types will do the same for F9/11...

Hmmm. I wonder if I should try to get the Hannity set to gnash their teeth at my stuff. Hmmm.

[denverbill]

4. What the left did for "The Passion"? What did the left do for it?

I had no problem with The Passion. AFAIK, the only people that did have an issue with it were some Jewish groups who thought it might spur anti-Semitism.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. Bingo. Where did that poster get "the left" from?

[Sandpiper]

10. Yeah, I guess I must have imagined all those threads on The Passion

A few months back.

[cheezus]

8. the ones who made the biggest deal were the ultra right

the fundie minsters were on tv deflecting the "critism" of the movie.

[Worst Username Ever]

5. I felt like

the people who had a problem with the passion were the same ones that had a problem with "the last temptation," the right wing zealots.

[tandot]

7. Did the left try to stage a national boycott of The Passion?

I don't care if people watch it or not. The Passion is not what Jesus is all about. If they want to expose themselves and their kids to extreme violence instead of explaining what Jesus stood for (love, compassion, forgiveness, etc.), it is their choice.

I just found it laughable that Mel Gibson thinks that if you don't belong to his particular sect (traditional catholic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Catholic ), you'll go to hell. I guess all those Baptists, Protestants, regular Roman Catholics, and others didn't get that part of the message.

[Jabbery]

9. I've seen a lenghty snippet (30 mins)

This film is the most devastating documentary I've ever seen. It is definitely one of the best films of any kind I've ever seen, and I've only seen 30 minutes of it.

The right wing cannot handle the truth - and this film - what I've seen - is nothing but truth delivered in a devastating way.

My God this film is going to shake this country up!

Praise God for Michael Moore!