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Moore Urges Democrats to Embrace Hollywood
Reuters ^ | 12/06/04 | Steve Gorman

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?"


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigfatslob; hollywoodleft; kerrydefeat; moore; mooron; pantload
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Dare I hope that this will come to pass?
1 posted on 12/06/2004 5:36:37 PM PST by bill1952
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To: bill1952

"Free Republic Urges Democrats to Embrace Hollywood."


2 posted on 12/06/2004 5:38:25 PM PST by Yo-Yo
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To: bill1952

What a load of bovine digestive byproduct...


3 posted on 12/06/2004 5:38:55 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (Democrats: Tolerant of all people and opinions. Except me & mine - Conservative, Christian.)
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To: bill1952
Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story."

A story as riveting as Canadian Bacon, Michael?

4 posted on 12/06/2004 5:39:24 PM PST by JennysCool (A plan is not a litany of complaints)
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To: bill1952

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.


5 posted on 12/06/2004 5:40:37 PM PST by Dan from Michigan ("BZZZZZT You are fined one credit for violation of the Verbal Morality Statute")
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To: bill1952
""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."

That is a very thinly veiled way of saying that they need to work better on their propoganda campaign.

6 posted on 12/06/2004 5:41:30 PM PST by Americanwolf (Chili..... Ah behold the power of Methane!)
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To: Yo-Yo

very funny....very, very true!!


7 posted on 12/06/2004 5:41:58 PM PST by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: bill1952

Yep, 'stories' are pretty much all they had.


8 posted on 12/06/2004 5:42:39 PM PST by TFine80
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To: bill1952

Oh, please allow this to come true.


9 posted on 12/06/2004 5:42:52 PM PST by Tarpaulin (Look it up.)
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To: Keith in Iowa; Chieftain

LOL.

what a great phrase!!!


10 posted on 12/06/2004 5:43:01 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Move the UN to Paris...NOW!!!)
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To: bill1952

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.


11 posted on 12/06/2004 5:43:21 PM PST by Tacis (Kerry - You Can't Make A Silk Purse Out Of A Lazy, Lying, Elitist Scumbag!)
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To: bill1952

The Dems are like a losing football team that keeps changing their players but keeps the same coach.


12 posted on 12/06/2004 5:45:08 PM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: bill1952; Chieftain

Would a Prayer Wheel for more Hollywood involvement in the Democratic Party be innapropriate?


13 posted on 12/06/2004 5:45:10 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Move the UN to Paris...NOW!!!)
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To: bill1952

Keep doing what you're doing, keep getting what you're getting.....go ahead embrace Hollywood.....in 2006 more Congressional seats go Republican


14 posted on 12/06/2004 5:45:20 PM PST by NRA1995 (Yew jes' go and lay yore hand on a Pittsburgh Steeler fan and I think yer gonna fin'lly understand)
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To: NRA1995

Isn't a definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result each time?


15 posted on 12/06/2004 5:46:26 PM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: bill1952

"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"!


16 posted on 12/06/2004 5:46:44 PM PST by SwinneySwitch (You can also drive from Canada to Mexico and never pass through a single county won by Kerry.)
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To: bill1952

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.


17 posted on 12/06/2004 5:46:52 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: bill1952

Republicans Urge Democrats to Embrace Hollywood


18 posted on 12/06/2004 5:47:12 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: bill1952

I'd love to see the Dems---and Hollyweird--embrace a lit stick of dynamite


19 posted on 12/06/2004 5:47:39 PM PST by fastattacksailor (Free KoolAid for all DUmmies!)
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To: bill1952



Bwahahahahahaha


He is overblown with self-importance.


20 posted on 12/06/2004 5:47:41 PM PST by SouthernFreebird
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