Posted on 06/26/2004 4:59:53 PM PDT by The Bandit
Poll: Harris Interactive
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FReeped!
Apparantly some folks have noticed this already. The hurts them instead of hurts Bush is already tied up.
And now he's ahead. Heh heh..
What kind of effect do you think the documentary film, Fahrenheit 9/11, will have on public opinion toward the Bush administration?
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This may help Nader at Kerry's expense.
Negative, this will focus even more attention on President Bush’s failed policies. 29% 133 of 448
*Positive, this film and its director, Michael Moore, will do more damage to their own side with their distorted propaganda. 33% 148 of 448
FReeped!
Positive is at 36% now
The POWER of Freepers at work!
P.S. - Just to make sure... I highly recommend the "Positive, this film and its director, Michael Moore, will do more damage to their own side with their distorted propaganda." option... ;)
Guilty of missing that! Wasn't paying attention when I made my selection.
Well, I actually broke down and went to go see what all the hype was about this afternoon, and here's my report:
I found the first half about the Bush/Saudi connections excruciatingly tedious. For one thing, I was already quite familiar with the items that were portrayed via half-truth misrepresentations. I tried to break out of my hypercritical mindset in order to get a sense of how people more or less clueless about the various topics would receive the film, but I just wasn't able to do it. I was constantly slicing and dicing the material in my mind and so I didn't 'get into' the first part at all.
However, the second half dealing with the War in Iraq was extremely gripping and powerful. For me, it wasn't so much the interspersed graphic, sensationalistic images - I've been in war zones - but rather the whole human/social element of it. I found the whole subthread of Orwellian doublespeak and manipulating the populace with fear and war quite unsettling even though I already knew what to expect. I can see why O'Reilly pretended not to have watched the second hour in his review because it's very difficult to confront.
So, here's my assessment: the film is negative for Bush to the extent that undecided voters and wavering supporters go to see it. There is nothing whatsoever about it that could possibly be a help to Bush with anyone not securely and unshakably in his core base. Otherwise, the film is positive for Bush to the extent that its rather tenuous and highly distorted first half gets parsed and critiqued by the media. The whole corruption and complicity subplot is severely contrived in my view and so the more play that gets the more it hurts Moore & the liberals.
Overall I give it a slight boost to Kerry - because those who see it will be shaken and those who don't by and large either will be indifferent to criticism of it or are already firmly hostile to its message. Michael Moore is very insidious and manipulative.
On a separate note, the line waiting to see it ended up being about twice the theatre's capacity, and thus many were turned away or just started waiting for the first evening show (I was outside when the last available tickets were sold). When I left, the mob waiting for the next show was probably twice again as large as the one that had been there for the last matinee which I saw. There were also people driving by honking horns and yelling anti-Bush slogans.
This was in Asheville North Carolina BTW.
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Oh, and I could tell from the various gasps in the audience and whatnot that a number of the things that were brought up were clearly unfamiliar to most of those in attendance. It definitely made an impact on them, although the great majority were to me clearly anti-Bush/liberal to begin with.
There were also a number of people afterward that I overheard asking about where and how they could register to vote..
Nope, he sure didn't. He quickly showed Daschle voicing support for the war and he also criticized the Democrats in the opening credits because no Senators signed the House objection to the certification of the 2000 election. Otherwise, the only slight criticism of a Dem was when John Tanner (D congressman from Tennessee) was accosted outside the Capital and asked if he wanted to enlist his kids to go over to Iraq.
If there was anything else I missed it. I stepped out briefly during the Patriot Act part so I dunno if he criticized anyone in particular then, but mostly it just seemed he was condemning the Congress as a whole for not having read the bill before it was passed.
Kerry didn't show up in the film at all in any context, BTW.
And to be sure the Daschle part was just a split-second soundbyte. Anyone who didn't recognize Daschle - which I would bet is a whole lot of people - probably wouldn't even realize it was a Democrat speaking..
For that matter, John Tanner's party was not specified either.
What kind of effect do you think the documentary film, Fahrenheit 9/11, will have on public opinion toward the Bush administration?
Negative, this will focus even more attention on President Bush’s failed policies.
24%
150 of 606
*Positive, this film and its director, Michael Moore, will do more damage to their own side with their distorted propaganda.
43%
262 of 606
Positive, liberals should not stoop to the level of conservative talk radio.
1%
8 of 606
Negative, it is good that liberals finally have an answer to the Rush Limbaugh types.
2%
16 of 606
This film will have little or no impact on the President’s popularity.
16%
103 of 606
I’m not sure.
11%
67 of 606
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