Posted on 07/13/2004 9:06:21 AM PDT by neutrality
Movies and Politics
Fahrenheit 9-11 Audience Conservative 25% Moderate 26% Liberal 47%
Passion of Christ Audience Conservative 51% Moderate 30% Liberal 21%
July 13, 2004--Two surprising movies this year have drawn entirely different audiences to the theatre.
Fahrenheit 9-11, Michael Moore's entry into the election debate, has an audience that is 47% liberal, 26% moderate, and 25% conservative. The audience for Mel Gibson's Passion of Christ is 51% conservative, 30% moderate, and 21% liberal.
Other demographic differences abound:
Women make up 42% of the audience for Fahrenheit 9-11 and 53% for Passion.
The President's Job Approval among Fahrenheit viewers is 26%. Among Passion fans, it's 58%.
The partisan make-up for Moore's movie is 47% Democrat, 19% Republican, and 34% unaffiliated. For Gibson's, the audience is 41% Republican, 36% Democrat, and 23% unaffiliated.
Fahrenheit fans will vote for Democrats in Congress by a 66% to 20% margin. The Passion crowd will vote for Republicans by a 48% to 39% margin.
There is a bit of common ground between the movies. Fans of both named Rock'n'Roll as their favorite music. However, Classical music was the second choice of the Fahrenheit 9-11 audience while country music ranked second among the Passion audience.
There's no real way to know that that 25% is telling the truth. Anyone who could believe those lies is likely prone to lying himself.
If I were a liberal and was asked this question following the movie, and I had my wits about me, I would respond that I was conservative in order to make the movie look as if it's not rabidly partisan.
it's like dennis miller said...both movies are about crucifixions.
The fact that the Passion is being characterized as a "conservative" film is a demonstration of how mixed up the church has gotten in politics. It's a shame, really.
Many of them are using some bizarro commielib definition of "Conservative" which is completely incomprehensible and incoherent. If you ask them what they mean by "conservative" they'll say there should be no war, no corporations and that we should all smoke pot.
There might be some actual conservatives in there doing opposition research, but your average F911 screening ain't Reagan Country.
What's more amazing is the number of gutless wonders who can't bring themselves to calling themselves liberal. If I had a nickel for every time I've heard a wild-eyed Michael Moore Kool-Aid drinker call themselves an "open minded moderate" I could buy Michael Moore's considerable weight in gold-pressed Latinum.
Why? Should not the Church be at the vanguard of the effort to prevent the left's undying effort to legislate God out of our society. I think so.
I would bet that 80% of these "conservatives" would describe Ralph Nader or John Kerry as fellow conservatives.
In "Stupid White Men", Michael Moore describes Bill Clinton as "the best Republican president we've ever had".
You have to understand- they all consider themselves to be mainstream. In their world view, there's "mainstream" and "radical right wing extremist".
So if Michael Moore is "middle of the road", then Kerry and Nader are "conservative". It's all part of their grand scheme to redefine words so that they can feel good about themselves.
They’re probably the type of troll that always posts here starting with:
"I've voted Republican all my life, I'm to the right of Genghis Kahn, I eat "Cheney O's" for breakfast and go to bed every night with a signed portrait of William F. Buckley clasped in my arms ..., etc. but,"and then they go on to say that after just one viewing of Lumpy Riefenstahl's movie they know that Bush is Evil, Amerikkka is evil, and that they've invested in a box full of Monica approved knee pads to aid in their sycophantic conforming to all liberal causes.
LOL...
Just shows to go you, Conservatives are more open-minded than those tolerant Liberals
You're missing the point: God cannot be legislated out of society. Wherever His people are, He has a church, and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.
What is happening in America today is that we are presuming that God needs a lobbying group to protect His status in society, but laws don't change God's status. He is changing China, India, Vietnam, and many other countries around the world simply by Christians obeying the Great Commission. He doesn't need our laws to magnify Him. What we need to conserve and protect is the freedom to assemble and worship, not a Christian perogative in the public square.
All this conservative activism dressed up in evangelical clothing just serves, in my opinion, to draw fire on the church that really is meant for conservatives.
The fact that the Passion is being characterized as a "conservative" film is a demonstration of how mixed up the church has gotten in politics. It's a shame, really. No, it is an example of how the reporter (Liberal?) made a distinction that a movie depicting the last 12 hours of Christ is not a "Liberal" movie. The reporter is inadvertantly telling us that Libs are not into religion, especially Christianity. Real Libs detest the Christian God.
No, it's an indication that those who want to kill babies (i.e., Liberals) hate God.
You miss my point. What I'm trying to avoid is Him putting His magnifying glass between the sun and the US of A and smoking it like an ant hill. I'm well aware that the lefties have no power in the face of God, but I also fail to see how bending over so that the Left's agenda becomes the law of MY society without my resistance is good in any way.
You miss my point. What I'm trying to avoid is Him putting His magnifying glass between the sun and the US of A and smoking it like an ant hill. I'm well aware that the lefties have no power in the face of God, but I also fail to see how bending over so that the Left's agenda becomes the law of MY society without my resistance is good in any way.
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