But I guess facts don't matter in the face of a good storyline...
However, he is getting free publicity on a conservative website...
I can’t stand the Phelps family so I will probably go and see this movie. The good thing about Smith is that he makes fun of everyone. I can just imagine the fool he will make Phelps look. I think everyone should see it.
Right... because people in “red states” vote Democrat and picket soldiers’ funerals, and don’t appear to have any jobs, leaving them free to roam around the country protesting at different places...
I used to buy all three Philadelphia newspapers and subscribed to Time, Newswek and US News. Avidly read them all. Then I found out what they were not reporting and that I was ill informed as a result. Now they don't get a dime of my money.
I see ads for movies and a number appeal to me at first, but I wait. "Flags of Our Fathers" turned out to be biased. That Leonardo DeCaprio CIA movie was another one I passed on. At one time I would have gone to both in a heartbeat.
If Hollywood wants to insult me and my values and praise communist front groups and talk trash about the US, screw them.
Let them get a real job.
“...over reacting?”
Yep, just what they are looking for...
“Dogma” was just about the most stupid movie I’ve ever seen. I’m not religious, so I wasn’t offended, but I certainly was bored.
...then what is? Lowering their self-esteem?
More moral relativism from the left
He should check out any given FR thread on Phred “The Latent Phag” Phelps and he’ll quickly see that 99% of conservatives consider him and his followers to be subhuman garbage.
Is the Clerks and Dogma creator next going to attack middle America, Conservatives, Republicans and Christians in an upcoming movie? It certainly seems so with a recent interview he gave that appears on the moviefan website called Rottentomatoes.com.Smith, known for his irreverent skewering of conventional mores, seems to be in the midst of production on a horror movie based on a "Fred Phelps" styled character.
For the record, Fred Phelps is a vile racist DEMOCRAT.
He had run for political office as a Democrat several times (without national media attention nor rebuke from the DNC).
He "was" friends with Sen. Al Gore Jr. until Phelps' comments and Gore's rising star as VP made such publicly acknowledged friendship "uncomfortable".
I suspect that Fred Phelps and his family (who are the primary group who make up his 'church') do so strictly out of smearing "conservative" Christians. Certainly in the press AND in politics Phelps is wrongly painted to be a Republican.
And this article does more to spread the Big Lie. Goebbels would be proud.
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But in the 1980s Phelps won several civil rights-related cases, earning him three awards from civil rights groups, including a local chapter of the NAACP. He also supported the 1988 presidential bid of Al Gore, whose campaign used Phelps family office space. Son Fred Phelps Jr., who had hosted a fundraiser for Gore, attended the 1993 Clinton-Gore inaugural. When invited to the 1997 inaugural, the Phelps clan came to Washington, but this time to demonstrate against the Clinton-Gore administration for betraying them. The Phelps family would also demonstrate at the funeral of Gores father in 1998. In 1990, 1994, and 1998 Phelps ran for the Democratic nomination for governor of Kansas, getting 15 percent of the primary vote in his last try. In 1992, he ran for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, getting nearly 31 percent of the primary vote. He also ran for mayor of Topeka in 1997.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21229