Posted on 12/06/2004 5:36:36 PM PST by bill1952
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) - "Fahrenheit 9/11" director Michael Moore on Monday rejected the idea that Hollywood had hurt John Kerry (news - web sites)'s chances of winning the White House, insisting that he and other entertainers helped spare Democrats an even bigger defeat.
"For the last month, we've had to listen to a lot of conservative pundits talk about how Democrats need to run away from Hollywood," Moore said. "It's actually the opposite. Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story."
In the final analysis, Moore said, Democratic presidential nominee Kerry was "not the best candidate." President Bush (news - web sites) "had a more compelling story to tell and the Democrats didn't, and that has to change."
Moore, making a string of public appearances in the weeks leading up to the Oscar nominations, for which "Fahrenheit 9/11" is seen as a potential contender, spoke to reporters before addressing the Los Angeles World Affairs Council on the impact of filmmaking on politics.
Before the election, many Democrats and liberal activists in groups like MoveOn.org hailed "Fahrenheit 9/11" for its scathing critique of Bush and the U.S.-led war in Iraq and saw the film as a tool for rallying opposition.
After Bush's re-election last month, some analysts suggested that Moore and other outspoken celebrities on the left had had become polarizing figures who alienated Middle America as much as they galvanized the Democratic faithful.
But Moore said he and liberal activists, including show business figures, had helped turn out millions of new voters who backed the Democrats on Election Day.
"What 'Fahrenheit 9/11' and Bruce Springsteen (news) and MoveOn and all the other people that were working during this election, what we did was we prevented a Bush landslide," Moore said. "We're all going to continue to do this in the near future. No one's giving up."
Citing California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former President Ronald Reagan, Moore said, "America loves Hollywood. America loves the people in the movies and on TV. And the thing that the Republicans have already figured out is that America likes to vote for Hollywood...
"And I think we need to turn to Hollywood, because who wouldn't vote for Tom Hanks or Paul Newman or Robert Redford or Oprah?"
"Free Republic Urges Democrats to Embrace Hollywood."
A story as riveting as Canadian Bacon, Michael?
I like Paul Newman, but I wouldn't vote for him, even if he is Reggie Dunlop. I damn well wouldn't vote for Oprah.
That is a very thinly veiled way of saying that they need to work better on their propoganda campaign.
very funny....very, very true!!
Yep, 'stories' are pretty much all they had.
Oh, please allow this to come true.
LOL.
what a great phrase!!!
If Hollywood and the dems are going to embrace, the Christian thing to do would be to warn them both to be wearing rubber gloves.
The Dems are like a losing football team that keeps changing their players but keeps the same coach.
Would a Prayer Wheel for more Hollywood involvement in the Democratic Party be innapropriate?
Keep doing what you're doing, keep getting what you're getting.....go ahead embrace Hollywood.....in 2006 more Congressional seats go Republican
Isn't a definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result each time?
"Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story."
My mother called liers "storytellers"!
He's said this phrase "tell a story" twice now, as if the Dems' biggest problem was communications. It wasn't, nor has it been for quite some time. The medium here is not the message, and unless there's a bit more substance in the form of programs and ideas and a whole lot less mindless hatred the Dems will be trapped forever in a fantasy-land, a "story." Their problem isn't fiction, it's fact.
Republicans Urge Democrats to Embrace Hollywood
I'd love to see the Dems---and Hollyweird--embrace a lit stick of dynamite
Bwahahahahahaha
He is overblown with self-importance.
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