F9/11 Viewers try to kill Limbaugh fans with popcorn???!!!

[LynneSin]

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/#film3

Exhibitors Debate Enforcement of R Rating for 'Fahrenheit'


A theater owner in Oakland, CA has posted a sign on the theater's marquee saying, "We will not enforce the R rating for Fahrenheit 9/11." Allen Michaan, owner of the Grand Lake Theater, who may be the first theater owner to publicly defy the MPAA's rating code, told today's (Wednesday) Los Angeles Daily News: "We felt very strongly that the film did not warrant an R rating and that the audience that is being excluded, the young people 14-16 years old, it's their future that is at the most stake of anyone's." Michaan's decision was announced even as other theater chains were reportedly stepping up plans to enforce the rating. The Daily News quoted a manager at a multiplex in Long Beach, CA as saying that he's instituted "a little more of heightened security." However, he added, "I don't think there's that many younger kids who want to see a documentary. We've actually had more kids trying to sneak into Troy." However, a young caller on the Rush Limbaugh radio show Tuesday described how he and his brother sneaked into a theater showing the movie and began denouncing what they saw on the screen. Limbaugh then asked what the other patrons did? Caller: "Well, they start telling us to shut up and start cursing at us, and then a mean-looking woman ran out and called the cops on us right away." Limbaugh: "For how long were you debating while the movie was playing?" Caller: "I'd say it must have been like five minutes until the cops came. ..." Limbaugh: "I'm sure they were furious. You probably ruined their night." Caller: "They wanted to kill us. They were throwing popcorn at us and everything." Limbaugh: "They wanted to kill you by throwing popcorn at you? I would love to have seen this."

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Seriously, this is the mentality of a typical Rush Limbaugh listener. I don't begrudge the kids sneaking into the movie and doing their stunt but I highly doubt that the views did anything more violent than toss popcorn at them :eyes: But they are Limbaugh listeners and Rush can take the simpliest of things and blow it up to extreme proportions. These kids are our future and it's :scared:

[arcane1]

1. so to Rush, shouting during a movie is "debating"?

LMAO

[LynneSin]

2. We'll do the same thing if that MM Hates America movie makes the theaters

NOT!!!!!

I wouldn't even waste my time trying to argue with anyone who would go see a movie like that!

[piece sine]

5. and I want PROOF

that film-goers actually called the police. Surely in this fevered climate, if this actually happened in Oakland, there would be a police report on the incident. Without proof, I sense a bit a teenager swagger that Rush fell for, head first!

As for throwing popcorn... sooooooooo?!

[theivoryqueen]

15. I don't care WHAT movie I am paying to attend - interruption is BS

These interruptors may have thought they were exercising their right to free speech, but there are pretty standard policies in theaters regarding talking and other interruptions. People pay money to watch in peace, no matter what flick. Even porno patrons know better than to act like that.

[arcane1]

17. exactly, but it's typical of mannerless, rude, oafish repubes...

and sadly, they probably think they are being convincing with that juvenile b.s.

[LTR]

ROTF!!!

"Well, they start telling us to shut up and start cursing at us, and then a mean-looking woman ran out and called the cops on us right away."

Oh, those evil liberals! They're hurting us! How dare they tell us to be quiet when a movie is playing! Next thing you know, they'll tell us to shut off our cell phones! The nerve!

"I'd say it must have been like five minutes until the cops came. ..."

Well, no shit, sherlock!

Caller: "They wanted to kill us. They were throwing popcorn at us and everything." Limbaugh: "They wanted to kill you by throwing popcorn at you? I would love to have seen this."

Assault with popcorn??? :wtf: Come on!

It's the new weapon of mass destruction!

Watch out for those unpopped kernels!

[bluestateguy]

3. I would have done the same thing

Somebody disrupts the movie with dittohead, Freeperish bullshit and I'll throw more at them than just popcorn.

[LiberalVoice]

4. I spent a weekend at a combat retreat once and...

oddly enough they showed you exactly how to "kill" someone with a handful of popcorn.(sarcasm/off)

Are htese people stupid? Debate? What you were doing is ruining a film people payed upwards of 8 bucks to watch. WTF did you think they were going to do? Ask the theatre manager to shut off the film so you could ebe heard better? Fuckin asshats!

[LynneSin]

8. Well, Bush almost did do himself in with a Pretzel

so Popcorn probably could have done major harm!!!

[Loonman]

6. Ever notice how Limbaugh never appears in a public forum?

Like a press conference, or........anything at all.

I remember when he was on Letterman once, and Letterman got in a good crack about how Rush is a gasbag and Rush sputtered and stammered through the rest of his segment.

Rush disintegrates when he has no "dump" button to cut off callers.

What a panty-waist.

[mac56]

11. I remember that Letterman appearance.

Limbaugh was going off on Hillary, I believe, and implying she wasn't very attractive. (A bare-faced lie, by the way. Sen. Clinton is a lovely woman.) Dave's response was: "And of course you can say that... because you're such a fine-looking specimen yourself!"

Classic. The crowd went crazy.

[jobycom]

7. Yeah, I remember all those announcements at the beginning of films

that viewers should shout, make noise, talk back to the screen, and otherwise debate elements of films so that other viewers can enjoy the film more.

[camero]

9. So throwing popcorn is trying to kill someone

while broomsticks up the ass, being forced to have sex with someone, and being put on a leash like a dog are "frat pranks".

Limbaugh logic just kills me. What are they smoking I wonder?

[fob]

14. Logic is kryptonite to limpballs and his "supporters"

However, a young caller on the Rush Limbaugh radio show Tuesday described how he and his brother sneaked into a theater showing the movie and began denouncing what they saw on the screen.

Good old responsibility party of the rule of law moral mouthpiece limpdick must have forgotten to ask them how they "snuck" into the theater. I'm sure he instructed them to go back and fess up for their crimes.

[camero]

16. touche

Sneaking into a theater without paying. Good point. To Limbaugh, pubs are allowed to steal.

[tridim]

10. Disruptions during a movie are against theater rules

Regardless if it's F911 or White Chicks. Where were the ushers? I call BS.

[ewagner]

12. where do you start?

A movie is no place to "debate".

No mention of what THEY did to prompt the response of the audience.

"Kill us" is an emotionally loaded term designed to instill fear and hatred (nothing new for Rush).

Notice Mr. Family Values doesn't chastise the underage kids for sneaking into an "R" Rated movie.

Notice the hypothetical "they", another one of Rush's favorite straw men.

I'm sure that experienced DUers can find more than I did.

The problem with refuting Limbaugh is that he throws more S**t at the wall in one sentence than anybody can clean up in a three-page essay.

[NightTrain]

13. If you want to shout during a movie...

...go to THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

[opihimoimoi]

18. Those kids woulda got more than popcorn from my section

Diet coke would be sailing thru the air like the motars used in war.

[TheMightyFavog]

19. F! You see, K! SPELLS FUCK!

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