It's Moore vs. Hannity in new documentary

[donsu]

http://www.indystar.com/articles/6/232741-8996-047.html


Together at last: Muckraking liberal filmmaker Michael Moore and arch-conservative Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity have at least one thing in common: As campus speakers, neither is cheap.

The battling blowhards are the focus of a new documentary, "This Divided State," which chronicles the bitter controversy that erupted when a college in Orem, Utah, invited the "Fahrenheit 9/11" director to speak there last fall.

Students and residents went ballistic over Moore's $40,000 speaking fee and brought in Hannity to present a counter viewpoint.

Although Hannity waived his customary $100,000 fee, the tab for his travel by private jet came to $50,000. The story captivated 25-year-old Steven Greenstreet, who dropped out of Brigham Young University and maxed out his credit cards to make his movie.

Though he has yet to secure a national distributor, Greenstreet has launched a 23-college tour underwritten by Campus Progress, a division of the left-leaning Center for American Progress here. Although it's true that Utah is a deeply conservative state, "a lot of people supporting Michael Moore were Republican, Bush-supporting Mormons who also supported free speech," Greenstreet said.

The film's lesson: "There was a lot of labeling and a lot of judging people without getting to know them or their sides."
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has anyone seen it?

[izzybeans]

1. found this review amongst others googling it

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444698/

[housewolf]

2. Here's the website

where you can see the schedule of where this documentary is being presented

http://www.thisdividedstate.com/

[bryant69]

3. Utah tends to be more Libertarian than other Conservative Bastions

In part because Mormons have a history of persecution for their religions beliefs, they tend to be less trusting of the Religious Right. This isn't true across the board, of course.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Hamlette]

4. the mormons' history of persecution taught them to persecute in kind

years ago some on the religious right argued that mormons were not really christian which pissed mormons off. They were, during those wars, less likely to go where the kooky fundamentalists went.

Several years ago the fundies stopped saying mormons were not christian and ever since, mormons have either followed lock step with the fundies or kept quiet about them.

Remember, Utah had the highest percentage vote for Bush in 2004 than any other state.

[AlCzervik]

5. asshat Hannity makes $100k a speech?

:spray: :wtf: :wow: