Posted on 06/27/2011 10:34:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The director admits he didn't invite his "right-wing" friends such as Jon Voight and Dennis Miller, while the media scrambles for seats.
PELLA, IOWA -- Reporters from around the country that have descended upon tiny Pella, Iowa for the premiere of the Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated on Tuesday night were in for a rude awakening: So scarce are the tickets that there’s no room in the theater for journalists.
The town, in fact, has been filling up rapidly since Palin confirmed she’d attend the premiere with her husband, Todd. Police notified residents that the streets around the venue, the 111-year-old Pella Opera House, would be shut down beginning 13 hours prior to show time.
On Monday, organizers were still divvying up tickets to the massively oversubscribed event, and reporters – some who travelled more than 1,000 miles -- were given the word that they didn’t make the cut.
Organizers were scrambling Monday, though, trying to arrange a separate screening for journalists, but there were no guarantees given.
The Undefeated, from writer-director Steve Bannon, is one of two documentaries about the controversial former vice presidential candidate. The other – a less flattering look at Palin -- is an untitled film from Nick Broomfield that is seeking a distributor.
Bannon has opted for a low-key premiere – “the hard, worn bricks of the Pella Opera House is all the red carpet I need,” he said Monday – though road closures and media trucks have dictated otherwise. Bannon, a U.S. Navy veteran, also enlisted some retired Navy SEALs for security detail.
Most of the 340 tickets went to Iowans and some of the commentators featured in the film, like Tammy Bruce and Sonnie Johnson. The most controversial cast member – not including Palin herself – is Andrew Breitbart, who is expected to be a last-minute arrival on Tuesday.
“I didn’t invite all my right-wing Hollywood friends,” Bannon said. “Jon Voight, Dennis Miller, I’ll have a screening for those guys later. I’d actually like them to buy a ticket, but they’re so tight… And you can quote me on that,” he joked.”
Pella is a religiously and politically conservative town of 10,000 people that boasts three dozen churches. With those sensibilities in mind, and because the Palins will be in the audience, Bannon and company will screen the version of the film with the less offensive opening.
The Undefeated begins with celebrities – David Letterman, Matt Damon, Howard Stern, Madonna, Louis C.K. and others – thoroughly trashing Palin, though Tuesday’s audience will be treated to bleeps instead of the more hardcore profanity used by some of the entertainers. Either way, it’s an intense opening made all the more menacing by the choice of music and the inclusion of a Bible verse.
The premiere includes a barbecue for 1,000 guests – no media – where Palin intends on mingling, though it wasn’t determined yet whether she’d make any public remarks.
Palin/Cain for 8, Cain or Bachmann or West/TBD for 8 more. We need about 24 years solid to really clean up this mess at its core.
Why do you hate her? I can understand that you do not support her for president - but hate?
BTTT!
I think freedumb2003 and freedomwarrior998 are the same they argue the same.
I’m not so sure...
The last President we elected used all the media hype and still is the media ‘darling,’ even though a majority of mainstream voters have already decided they made a mistake.
I think it is an interesting tact, if she is planning to run for President, that she is employing the act of the constituent palm press. Doing so without the media.
Can someone win the Presidency without the media?
In the age of the internet...I suspect they can. All my life the media has tortured and slander republican candidates...and yet, we still had Reagan, we still elected Bush...twice. All the while the MSM hyping every fault and flaw along the way.
Obama used the ‘new media’ to generate the hype-vote and the old media to control his mass message.
Palin has been through the MSM fires of hell, misquoted, taken out of context, and ridiculed. Some would say any press is good press, but is it? Is she playing a childish game of revenge or is she setting a new standard in presidential campaigns by meeting, We the People, and not “we the press?”
Picture me,rolling my eyes at you!
Maybe we just need a hero who's willing to slap these b@tches in the face now and then.
If she runs, she runs. I will support her. If she wants to piss in the media's coffee, I can enjoy that, too.
Petty and childish? Consider what we really need to do to purge this nation of the disease of socialism.
These are "the happy times".
Right, 2DV?
You had an argument? You could have fooled me.........more like a snark, and a bad one too.......
Not previewing a film for critics is always a bad idea. That means it will open with no reviews in the papers that day and that’s an industry sign that the filmmakers don’t think much of their work.
It is obvious you have never been to a Palin event. Unless it is handled like this, there is no way she can have an opportunity to mingle with the people who have come to see her.
>>If she *does* run in the current Presidential cycle, will you then promise to favor us with your real-life name and then drop off of FR into well-deserved obloquy?<<
If she doesn’t, will you do the same?
In the meantime, I see the usual gang has shown up so go ahead and strut, crow and give each other the usual self-congratulatory back-slaps.
I should have known better, but for some reason I continue to have (ever dashed) hope.
Thank you
I don’t hate Palin. Why should I? I do hate the stupidity of some of her supporters, though.
Kneel before Saint Sarah, you swine! ;)
LOLOLOLOL....
Good job Norm!
But you see that is the problem...its not "reasoned arguments", especially with the facts and realities which even the media, who consistently condemns Palin, attests to...those facts and realities which you cannot seem to grasp.
Anyone reading this thread, and the dialogue among, can determine there is indeed dialogue and comments presented to you and with you. That too is an established fact which appears to simply go over your head...even with the evidence of this thread and others like it.
Therefore, why would you expect further "reasoned" dialogue, which doesn't take into account your avoiding, dodging and ommittimg the facts and realities that you're presented with??.... Furthermore that some might might easily see you as an embittered "troll" isn't difficult to understand.
Why? She's irrelevant.
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