Michael Moore needs to MoveOn into hell where Fahrenheit 911-degree
flames will welcome him..


June 29, 2004, 9:02 a.m.
Michael Moore, MoveOn, and Fahrenheit 9/11
A political campaign disguised as a movie.

The left-wing anti-American terrorist 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.

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