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(Chron)   Release of "W": Before the election. Release of a pro-McCain movie: Mothballed until after the election. Hollywood still pretending both flicks are pure art with no political intent: Priceless   (chron.com) divider line
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tchamber
2008-10-14 2:20:59 PM  
Aww, is Hollywood picking on you, subby?

Poor baby.
 
skabbo
2008-10-14 2:25:33 PM  
Not too bright subby? The movie is from 1987, and it's not "pro-McCain". The article is talking about an interview with McCain, talking about the prison that the movie is about.
 
GWShenlong05
2008-10-14 2:26:32 PM  
So Bush is running against McCain now?
 
ToxicMunkee
2008-10-14 2:30:45 PM  
It doesn't matter when these movies are released as I'm not interested in seeing either.
 
I Said
2008-10-14 2:33:28 PM  
Whoa whoa whoa republicans. What do you care? You've made it very, very clear, every time he is brought up, that W. isn't running this year. So what's all the fuss about?
 
jeblis
2008-10-14 2:33:28 PM  
Like the Boy Scouts, Warner Brothers is a private institution, and doesn't have to be fair. (Assuming of course that they don't take public resources)
 
SouthernManDunWrong
2008-10-14 2:34:58 PM  
And this is shocking news why? Next thing you will know, the lsm will be reporting that the sun sets in the west.
 
Whamdangler
2008-10-14 2:38:37 PM  
Since when did anyone in Hollywood pretend to be unbiased?
 
MisterTweak
2008-10-14 2:40:55 PM  

tchamber: Aww, is Hollywood picking on you, subby?

Poor baby.


I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with turning a profit?

"in the tank" for Obama:
The voters
The press
Hollywood
Bollywood
Rich people
Poor people
The middle class
Parents
Homeowners
retirees
workers
reality
self-employed people
unemployed people
business owners

"In the tank" for McCain:
Belt Onion growers association
 
Bukharin
2008-10-14 2:46:04 PM  

GWShenlong05: So Bush is running against McCain now?


No, but McCain is running from Bush.
Or trying to look like he is.
 
what_now
2008-10-14 2:46:45 PM  
After the smash hit "A Conservative Carol" (or whatever the hell it was) it's strange that movie producers aren't greenlighting any more movies that only 23% of the country would even consider going to.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2008-10-14 2:55:16 PM  

I Said: Whoa whoa whoa republicans. What do you care? You've made it very, very clear, every time he is brought up, that W. isn't running this year. So what's all the fuss about?


He's not?!?? Why do Obama's ads all tell us to say no to another four years of Bush?
 
aden_nak
2008-10-14 3:02:04 PM  
Hmmmm. I wonder how many social conservatives I could trick into renting "The Story Of O" if I told them it was an Obama hit piece.
 
dodecahedron [OhFark]
2008-10-14 3:02:37 PM  
After reading the Rolling Stone article about him, I can't wait to see the McCain movie.
 
savage henry
2008-10-14 3:19:59 PM  

SouthernManDunWrong: the lsm


Can anyone translate idiot-speak for me?
 
FriarReb98 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-10-14 3:35:57 PM  
If paranoid stoned-out tripe by Oliver Stone is "art," then he's gotta be freakin' Picasso by now.

\I don't care if he made a hardcore porn with Angelina Jolie playing Monica Lewinski, I still wouldn't watch a movie made by that schifferbrainz!
 
Eddie_Dean_NY
2008-10-14 3:49:32 PM  
Re-releasing "Hanoi Hilton" on DVD with an interview with John McCain added in is not really "pro-McCain", tard-bomb.
 
Tacoby Bellisbury
2008-10-14 4:27:08 PM  
Like this is a suprise for anyone? I wouldn't expect the secularist Hollywood to do any less.
 
ninjakirby
2008-10-14 4:31:14 PM  

Tacoby Bellisbury: I wouldn't expect the secularist Hollywood to do any less.


So many words you could have chosen that would have at least attempted to make sense, but you had to go with secularist...
 
Cagey B
2008-10-14 4:32:49 PM  

aden_nak: Hmmmm. I wonder how many social conservatives I could trick into renting "The Story Of O" if I told them it was an Obama hit piece.


I wholeheartedly support this idea.
 
sigdiamond2000
2008-10-14 4:40:52 PM  

savage henry: SouthernManDunWrong: the lsm

Can anyone translate idiot-speak for me?


I believe "LSM" stands for "lamestream drive-by mainstream liberal MSM dead tree media".
 
dillenger69
2008-10-14 4:58:43 PM  
This is bad news ...
... for Obama.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-10-14 5:08:51 PM  

ninjakirby: Tacoby Bellisbury: I wouldn't expect the secularist Hollywood to do any less.

So many words you could have chosen that would have at least attempted to make sense, but you had to go with secularist...


I thought the going line was that Hollywood was run by Jews, but with the assistance of the gays.

I just can't keep up with today's intolerance.
 
Bloody William
2008-10-14 5:09:50 PM  

ninjakirby: Tacoby Bellisbury: I wouldn't expect the secularist Hollywood to do any less.

So many words you could have chosen that would have at least attempted to make sense, but you had to go with secularist...


Hey, his vocabulary is perfectly cromulent. If more people talked like him, we could double the GDP in our ROI economies!
 
Bloody William
2008-10-14 5:10:29 PM  

Diogenes: ninjakirby: Tacoby Bellisbury: I wouldn't expect the secularist Hollywood to do any less.

So many words you could have chosen that would have at least attempted to make sense, but you had to go with secularist...

I thought the going line was that Hollywood was run by Jews, but with the assistance of the gays.

I just can't keep up with today's intolerance.


Well, someone needs to choreograph. Have you ever been to a Bar Mitzvah? Our people can't dance.
 
t3knomanser
2008-10-14 5:11:19 PM  
Well, I guess that's in then. The media is making sure Bush loses this election.
 
Lando Lincoln
2008-10-14 5:11:45 PM  

ToxicMunkee: It doesn't matter when these movies are released as I'm not interested in seeing either.


Yeah, no shiat. Like I want to sit through two hours of watching George Bush fark us over. I lived through it - I don't need to watch a movie about it.
 
Kome
2008-10-14 5:12:07 PM  

jeblis: Like the Boy Scouts, Warner Brothers is a private institution, and doesn't have to be fair. (Assuming of course that they don't take public resources)


Which would make them unlike the Boy Scouts.
 
Bob Balaban
2008-10-14 5:12:52 PM  
Wasn't An American Carol supposed to rally everyone to the Republican ticket?
 
Lionel Mandrake
2008-10-14 5:18:33 PM  

Bob Balaban: Wasn't An American Carol supposed to rally everyone to the Republican ticket?


It would have to, if it weren't for the vast left-wing conspiracy hadn't worked behind the scenes to make it flop.

How else can you explain a David Zucker film with Paris Hilton, Trace Atkins, Bill O'Reilly and Gary Coleman flopping?

You CAN'T!!1!
 
Cog
2008-10-14 5:22:10 PM  

tchamber: Aww, is Hollywood picking on you, subby?

Poor baby.


Interesting. If the same situation involved Obama you'd be frothing at the mouth and posting kos links every 10 minutes.
 
Tacoby Bellisbury
2008-10-14 5:25:12 PM  

Cog: Interesting. If the same situation involved Obama you'd be frothing at the mouth and posting kos links every 10 minutes.


This
 
FuturePastNow
2008-10-14 5:26:53 PM  
Poor widdle baby thinks Howwywood should be fair and impartial. Last I checked, the motion picture industry is a private business. You're not suggesting that the government step in and tell them what movies to make, are you?
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-10-14 5:28:28 PM  

Bloody William: Well, someone needs to choreograph. Have you ever been to a Bar Mitzvah? Our people can't dance.


Hey, I didn't know you were in the tribe!

But yeah, I agree with you. I've seen glasses get smashed at Jewish gatherings.
 
Tacoby Bellisbury
2008-10-14 5:34:41 PM  

FuturePastNow: Poor widdle baby thinks Howwywood should be fair and impartial. Last I checked, the motion picture industry is a private business. You're not suggesting that the government step in and tell them what movies to make, are you?


No one's saying that at all, merely pointing out the MSM's throbbing schlong for Obama.
 
Bloody William
2008-10-14 5:39:29 PM  

Diogenes: Bloody William: Well, someone needs to choreograph. Have you ever been to a Bar Mitzvah? Our people can't dance.

Hey, I didn't know you were in the tribe!

But yeah, I agree with you. I've seen glasses get smashed at Jewish gatherings.


Yep. I'm a Jewish Furry Liberal Nerd. Oh, and I have asthma.

Incidentally, if you every go to NYC, go to Ben's Delicatessen on 38th between 7th and 8th. Great Jewish cuisine with slightly lower prices and much less crowding than Carnegie, Katz's or the 2nd Avenue Deli. Their corned beef and pastrami are both quite good but not as good as Katz's or 2nd Avenue, but their dinners? I took my parents there a few weeks ago, my mother ordered the flanken and she said it was like her bubbie used to make. What does THAT tell you?
 
Bloody William
2008-10-14 5:42:13 PM  

Tacoby Bellisbury: FuturePastNow: Poor widdle baby thinks Howwywood should be fair and impartial. Last I checked, the motion picture industry is a private business. You're not suggesting that the government step in and tell them what movies to make, are you?

No one's saying that at all, merely pointing out the MSM's throbbing schlong for Obama.


The same schlongbearers who have repeated the same rumors, accusations, and outright lies about Obama? The same sch-...

You know what? You're not just a troll, you're a surreal troll who doesn't make any attempt to back up his argument and instead pinballs from one ridiculous statement to the next, ignoring the vast majority of posts that completely debunk what you say and instead moving on to toss yet another lie onto the table.

Meh. I'm off work in 20 and I have Yuengling in the fridge. I think I'll just watch, for now.
 
PC LOAD LETTER [TotalFark]
2008-10-14 5:55:44 PM  

Tacoby Bellisbury: No one's saying that at all, merely pointing out the MSM's throbbing schlong for Obama.


They had a throbbing schlong for Bush for most of the past 8 years, fair is fair, HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
 
Kome
2008-10-14 5:58:25 PM  

Tacoby Bellisbury: No one's saying that at all, merely pointing out the MSM's throbbing schlong for Obama.


So? Even if we all assume for the sake of argument that the MSM does favor Obama, what difference does it make? No one is forcing anyone to go see any movie, or tune in to a particular news station, or read any particular newspaper.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2008-10-14 5:59:47 PM  
The pretense that the Fark admins aren't politically -NO CARRIER-
 
Tacoby Bellisbury
2008-10-14 6:01:04 PM  

Kome: So? Even if we all assume for the sake of argument that the MSM does favor Obama, what difference does it make? No one is forcing anyone to go see any movie, or tune in to a particular news station, or read any particular newspaper.


The election is decided on what the media choses or does not chose to show. Claiming the media has no influence is like claiming its the clouds, not the rain, that gets you wet.
 
seventypercent [TotalFark]
2008-10-14 6:04:37 PM  
Quite honestly, if I were running the Obama campaign, I would much prefer to see "W" released after the election. From a historical perspective, things like this can (and often do) backfire in completely unintended ways. I haven't seen the movie, but there is always the possibility that it is so completely over-the-top that it ends up alienating some of the more middle-of-the-road segments of the population.

It's still quite a stretch to suggest that anybody's vote would be changed by it, but all things being equal, I'm sure the Obama people would like as few potential complications as possible at this point. Even most Republicans would agree that the race is his to lose.
 
steveo
2008-10-14 6:07:12 PM  
So an interview for a DVD extra for a 1987 movie counts as a "Pro-McCain movie" now?


Well, I can see that. It's the first time he's used the term "POW" when it was actually relevant to an interviewer's question.
 
Tacoby Bellisbury
2008-10-14 6:08:14 PM  
I am excited to see RocknRolla though!
 
dletter
2008-10-14 6:09:24 PM  
Really, McCains constant "POW"ing on the campaign trail has become somewhat of a joke. So, this movie was going to help?
 
Kome
2008-10-14 6:10:39 PM  

Tacoby Bellisbury: The election is decided on what the media choses or does not chose to show.


Funny, I thought the election was decided based on who the voters vote for.

Claiming the media has no influence is like claiming its the clouds, not the rain, that gets you wet.

I didn't claim the media had no influence. I just said that it doesn't matter because there are hundreds of different places to go to get your fill of news. If option A doesn't pander to your prejudices and preconceived notions of the world so you don't have to be faced with the ghastly possibility that there are people out there that don't share your views, there's always options B, C, D, E, F...
 
Tacoby Bellisbury
2008-10-14 6:12:27 PM  

Kome: I didn't claim the media had no influence. I just said that it doesn't matter because there are hundreds of different places to go to get your fill of news. If option A doesn't pander to your prejudices and preconceived notions of the world so you don't have to be faced with the ghastly possibility that there are people out there that don't share your views, there's always options B, C, D, E, F...


I guess, I guess. The majority ofpeople, though, are a lot more nieve about media influence than some of the cats around here.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2008-10-14 6:27:02 PM  

Bloody William: The same schlongbearers who have repeated the same rumors, accusations, and outright lies about Obama? The same sch-...

You know what? You're not just a troll, you're a surreal troll who doesn't make any attempt to back up his argument


I'm sorry; I must have missed the numerous cites, quotes, footnotes and references in your post to back up your claim about Hollywood repeating certain lies about Obama.

Lemme check again....

...nope. Still not seein' 'em.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2008-10-14 6:28:10 PM  

Cog: Interesting. If the same situation involved Obama you'd be frothing at the mouth and posting kos links every 10 minutes.


Now let's be fair -- I think it's safe to say he'd actually be posting DKos links every 30 seconds.
 
Don't Tase Me Bro
2008-10-14 6:50:56 PM  

t3knomanser: Well, I guess that's in then. The media is making sure Bush loses this election.


You mean, like he lost the last two? Or will they count all the votes this time?

/probably not...
//Obama needs to win by more votes than the GOP can steal
///good thing he's up 52% - 39%
 
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