Posted on 07/25/2004 12:43:56 PM PDT by wagglebee
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Disney chief executive Michael Eisner has seen "Fahrenheit 9/11," the film that The Walt Disney Co. refused to distribute - and he liked it.
"The reason it is a hit is it's entertaining," Eisner said last week. "I thought it was like going to a rock concert. I loved it, but not in a political (sense)."
Eisner spoke at Fortune magazine's fourth annual Brainstorm conference, co-hosted by The Aspen Institute.
"Fahrenheit 9/11" criticizes President Bush's response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the war in Iraq. The documentary has filled theaters since its release in June, drawing a record-breaking gross of $94 million.
Eisner has said Disney decided not to distribute the film because its shareholders and customers do not expect it to be a partisan company.
Eisner has said Disney decided not to distribute the film because its shareholders and customers do not expect it to be a partisan company.
And this idiot wonders why the stockholders basically took the company away from him?
Lion's Gate is a subsidairy of Disney, so Disney indirectly helped distribute Moore's porno.
I wish Disney would get rid of Eisner.
And Walt is turning over in his grave too.
I would like to see Eisner explain how he's going to downsize Disney when conservatives stop going to his theme parks and movie releases. This doesn't surprise me. Not much Eisner and company do these days does.
WWWT=What Would Walt Think? Not much I bet.
"And Walt is turning over in his grave too."
What were walt's politics?
"when conservatives stop going to his theme parks and movie releases."
The southern baptists already have because of their gay themed days at parks and Politically correct preaching in thier movies.
From what I've read and heard about Walt Disney over the years, he was a man who held traditional American values, aka.conservative and he was a loyal Republican.
I know that he held traditional american values. But what is your source that he was a republican?
I'm 46 and grew up on Walt Disney.....6:30 PM on Sunday Evenings after Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and before Bonanza.
Disney was very very wholesome almost to the point of going a bit overboard at times but now ...damn, it seems like that perspective is lost forever.
The tone of his work was very patriotic and family oriented.
Now, I know some contrarians are going to remind me that he experimented with LSD in the early 50s supposedly when it was legal and passed around between a few creative types, some of whom were quite conservative for their day before it became the elixer for the counterculture and all that's followed.
This is the same mike who let the queers in.
"The tone of his work was very patriotic and family oriented."
Yes... but back then there were plenty of liberals... or at least democrats, who were very patriotic and family oriented. I have never seen anything discussing his politics
"Disney was very very wholesome almost to the point of going a bit overboard at times but now ...damn, it seems like that perspective is lost forever."
This is very true. There are 2 main things that have changed. 1. America was more rural back then. Farm life gives you a much more wholesome and sunny picture of things. Not to mention more religous. 2. TV, and even movies to a lesser extent were much more new back then. It seems like the more exposed we are to more media, the more jaded and coarse society gets.
How can he overlook the fact that the movie is propaganda and not built upon facts?
This from a Eliot's sensational book Dark Prince in 1993:
"Disney, a staunch Republican, had no love for the president. He believed the protest problems on America's campuses . . . was [sic] a product of the very liberalism which Johnson and his "Great Society" championed. At the ceremony Disney wore a "Goldwater" button prominently displayed on his lapel."
Yes, there were very socially conservative Dems back then especially in the South.
Why the cultural decline since WWII?
(off the hip suggestions)
1) The population bulge of youth in the Boomers
2) Life is easier for more than ever in the history of man hence time for bullshite
3) More women outside the home...this is a root of unintended consequences.
4) Widespread use of new more powerful psychotropics
Oh well....I could go on and on. Who will be our Gibbons? some future Chinese sage I'd guess.
Yes they have. As I recall Disney was somewhat concerned about that even though they tried to laugh it off in public.
This from a Eliot's sensational book Dark Prince in 1993:
I can't find that book or even a reference to it. Who is Eliot and what is that book? Do you have any links?
Thanks
Adam
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