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To: steve harris who wrote (586989)	7/1/2004 5:34:54 PM
From: DizzyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Michael Moore, MoveOn, and Fahrenheit 9/11 A political campaign disguised as a movie. by Byron York June 29, 2004, 9:02 a.m. The left-wing activist group MoveOn.org, which last week launched a campaign to encourage members to see Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 during its premiere weekend, is now taking partial credit for the early success of the anti-Bush documentary. "Due in part to your efforts, Fahrenheit 9/11 was the number one movie in the nation this weekend," Eli Pariser, head of the MoveOn Political Action Committee, told supporters during a nationwide conference call Monday night. "Now we're going to talk about how to turn that enormous momentum into action to beat Bush." Last week, MoveOn asked members to sign a pledge to see Fahrenheit 9/11 during its first showings Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. Announcing the plan, Pariser praised the movie, but said the real reason MoveOn wanted members to turn out during the film's first days in theaters was to create the impression that a wave of anti-Bush anger was sweeping the country. "We launched this campaign around Fahrenheit 9/11 because to the media, the pundits, and the politicians in power, the movie's success will be seen as a cultural referendum on the Bush administration and the Iraq war," Pariser told MoveOn members. "Together, we have an opportunity to knock this ball out of the park." Fahrenheit 9/11 took in $21.8 million at the box office during its first few days in theaters, making it the most popular movie of the weekend. Moore himself joined the MoveOn conference call Monday night, which organizers say included 55,000 listeners. The filmmaker thanked MoveOn members for helping make Fahrenheit 9/11 a quick success. But more than success, Moore told MoveOn, he wanted the movie to help defeat President George W. Bush in November. "None of us want this just to be a movie, where people just eat some popcorn and go home," Moore said. Instead, Moore explained, he wanted the movie to become the inspiration for thousands of new anti-Bush voters. "I've actually put up a little pledge sheet on my website," Moore said, referring to a list of get-out-the-vote strategies he is endorsing for the presidential election. The first thing Moore is asking people to do is to take off work on November 2, so they can spend part of the day helping others get to the polls. The second thing is "to take one weekend in October and drive to a swing state" to work for Democratic candidate John Kerry. Finally, Moore is "asking everyone to identify five non-voters that they know and adopt them," to convince them to vote. The MoveOn meetings underscored the overtly political nature of Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 promotional campaign. Last week, MoveOn set a goal of persuading 100,000 members to take the pledge to see Fahrenheit 9/11 as early as possible. In fact, according to MoveOn, 116,649 MoveOn members signed up. While that number seems like a relatively small part of the movie's total audience, Pariser says MoveOn's influence is far larger than the official number suggests. "When I went to Waterville, Maine and asked how many people from MoveOn were there, probably three-quarters of the people there said yes," Pariser told Variety on Monday. nationalreview.com

To: steve harris who wrote (586989)	7/1/2004 10:40:37 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

Word gets out with the Democrat domestic enemy. It's just that they are in so deep they can't back out anymore. In 2000 they ran away from Clinton (then when they lost they used "running away from Clinton" as one of their lame excuses.) There's FAR too much to run away from today: Treason. Moore. Soros. Their LATEST soul brother: OJ Hussein. "We will TAX you into prosperity." Chirac/Annan/91101. Teddy. "Secularism". The New LIBERATED Iraq. 40 million murdered pre-born Americans. Leahy and Chuckie Schmuck. The May 7 Senate Criminals. The dim-witted sewer rats of Hollywood. The Congressional "Black Caucus". I can only scratch the surface. The world doesn't have enough bandwidth yet...

To: steve harris who wrote (586989)	7/1/2004 10:49:46 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

So what can the Democrat domestic enemy do to rehabilitate Saddam before he goes on the ticket at the National Wellstone Funeral? CALL DAVID BOISE! GET LANNI DAVIS TO BRUSH UP ON HIS STATE-OF-THE-ART SNIVELING WHINE! MOBILIZE ACADEMIA! FIND CARVILLE (Yah'll sh/be ASHAMED ta be pikkin on a SWEET OL' MAN! Yah'll sh/bee ASHAMED!!) For Iraq and the world, Saddam is finally brought to account. For the Democrat domestic enemy, it's 1998 ALL OVER AGAIN. Call Larry King and schedule the apologists!!!...