tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post5183449501867809538..comments2023-12-05T07:50:19.855-05:00Comments on No Oil for Pacifists: Possibly the Best WaPo Editorial Ever@nooil4pacifistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-84818849770711502102010-12-09T22:45:55.546-05:002010-12-09T22:45:55.546-05:00I hope they lost money on the Plame movie, and wil...I hope they lost money on the Plame movie, and will lose money if they make AVI's "ACORN" movie.@nooil4pacifistshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-5788148401354530542010-12-09T21:51:33.677-05:002010-12-09T21:51:33.677-05:00OBH, you know the answer. If those movies are mad...OBH, you know the answer. If those movies are made at all, it will be about the brave ACORN members trying to right injustice while being persecuted by evil conservatives.<br /><br />There will be a backstory of how the persecutors like to kick puppies and are trying to cheat an entire retirement village out of their life savings.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-6687423489246204042010-12-09T20:23:22.143-05:002010-12-09T20:23:22.143-05:00How many movies you think we'll see about the ...How many movies you think we'll see about the brave efforts of certain peoples to expose overt corruption in ACORN...?<br /><br />How many movies do you think will involve/depict events chastising the JD for refusing to investigate allegations of election fraud and voter intimidation under the express direction of a certain Man In Power?<br /><br />How many will expose all the... "convenient" connections between the current admin and the UAW, the NEA, and the AFL-CIO as well as public sector unions.... What? None? Nawwww! Those are "important" stories about the abuse of Presidential power, and we allllll know Hollywood won't tolerate anyone doing anything like that.<br /><br />==================================<br /><br />OTOH, as you might've guessed, this movie isn't going to do jack at the box office, and they know it, hence the fact that it's been in limited release for the last month:<br /><br />Weekend Gross<br />$1,560,189 (USA) (28 November 2010) (396 Screens)<br />$1,455,819 (USA) (21 November 2010) (386 Screens)<br />$1,020,654 (USA) (14 November 2010) (175 Screens)<br />$651,802 (USA) (7 November 2010) (46 Screens)<br /><br />By contrast, another recently released <i>insignificant</i> picture was released on 2,564 screens.<br /><br />In short, after several rounds of resounding Leftist Thud releases the distributors Get The Message even if Hollywood, and its financial backers, do not: <br /><br />"This abortion wasn't going anywhere at the box office."<br /><br />Which, if I may be allowed to translate:<br /><br />"America ain't buying".OBloodyHellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09992539380115488567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-56975171401292524592010-12-09T19:44:42.120-05:002010-12-09T19:44:42.120-05:00> But millions of people believe Oliver Stone, ...> <i>But millions of people believe Oliver Stone, and now this.</i><br /><br />Yes, well, millions of people believe Michael Moore, and he's got (hard to believe, I know, but you know it's true) far <i>LESS</i> veracity behind *him*.<br /><br />This is what happens to peoples' innate religious mechanisms when they turn from God.<br /><br />Even were there no God, faith in Him supplants putting faith in much of the folderol of the world, and leads to greater, not lesser, reason. <br /><br /><i>Strange</i>, innit?OBloodyHellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09992539380115488567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-87983481996503051362010-12-05T22:45:32.718-05:002010-12-05T22:45:32.718-05:00I know it's "just a movie." But mil...I know it's "just a movie." But millions of people believe Oliver Stone, and now this. <a href="http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2008/10/media-bias-part-xxvii.html" rel="nofollow">Drives me <i>nuts</i></a>.@nooil4pacifistshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688417615117569825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427940.post-39206379667190005832010-12-05T22:24:48.406-05:002010-12-05T22:24:48.406-05:00Wait. You mean the facts are correct and the narr...Wait. You mean the facts are correct and the narrative is wrong? This can't be.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.com