GKC & Fridley Theatres Are Not Moore's Messenger

[Sane]

From CNN.com article

LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- Michael Moore's controversial "Fahrenheit 9/11" will expand into 286 additional theaters Friday.

But if you're an interested moviegoer in Grand Island, Nebraska, or Marquette, Wisconsin, you'll have to drive to at least the next town to view Moore's critique of the Bush administration. Illinois-based GKC Theatres and Iowa-based Fridley Theatres have decided to not screen the film.

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"We do not infer that Michael Moore has no right to make his film and have it distributed," Fridley said. "In fact, if he or anyone in our nation were ever denied that right, we would be on the front line defending his or her right to make and distribute his or her film. Mr. Moore's and every filmmaker's right to make and distribute a film is no different than ours ... Mr. Moore has the right to have his message just as we have the right to choose not to be his messenger."

 

[Tmy]

Great, now we have more screens to show "White Chicks" and other thought provoking movies.

Dopey mid-american rubes.

 

[Mr Manifesto]

Although I'm plunging well and truly into the murky depths of what-if-scenarioes, I'm willing to bet that if an Australian made a movie like this about John Howard, it wouldn't create anything like the controversy that 911 has.

 

[crackmonkey]

That's because Australia just isn't very important, really. You guys are there to talk funny and wrestle alligators for our amusement, and I must say you do a damned fine job of it. No one cares about your politics, for God's sake...

 

[Mr Manifesto]

That's because Australia just isn't very important, really. You guys are there to talk funny and wrestle alligators for our amusement, and I must say you do a damned fine job of it. No one cares about your politics, for God's sake...

What alligators?

 

[aerocontrols]

What alligators?

You killed them all!?!

 

[Cleon]

You killed them all!?!

There aren't any alligators in Australia. I don't think there ever have been.

 

[aerocontrols]

There aren't any alligators in Australia. I don't think there ever have been.

Same thing with carrier pigeons and North America.


Also there were never any wild horse species here.

 

[Jocko]

There aren't any alligators in Australia. I don't think there ever have been.

I think he means they're crocodiles, not alligators. Crocs are better in salt/brackish water. Plus I saw Paul Hogan wrestling a stuffed one once.

 

[aerocontrols]

I think he means they're crocodiles, not alligators. Crocs are better in salt/brackish water. Plus I saw Paul Hogan wrestling a stuffed one once.

I'm just messing with them.

 

[Hutch]

I'm just messing with them.

And were you messing about the "no wild horse species here" (USA) too. After all, it is generally accepted that horses orginated on the American continent and migrated to the rest of the world, eventually dying off here sometime around the end of the last Ice Age.

 

[aerocontrols]

And were you messing about the "no wild horse species here" (USA) too. After all, some species of equines did live in the Pre-post Ice Age era in the Americas....until killed off by nature and/or predators.

Yes I was, in exactly the same way. I thought that the local horse species were killed off by folks like my Cherokee ancestors. The timeline seems to be right, though my belief may be wrong.

 

[UserGoogol]

I think there have been horses who have gone feral, which is close enough to being wild for my tastes.

 

[aerocontrols]

I think there have been horses who have gone feral, which is close enough to being wild for my tastes.

Invasive species.

Environmentalists generally don't like invasive species. Except for the wild horses of the American West.


For some reason.

 

[Jocko]

Invasive species.

Environmentalists generally don't like invasive species. Except for the wild horses of the American West.


For some reason.

As usual, it's the fuzziness and the dewy eyes.

F-Greenpeace.

 

[Skeptic]

Great, now we have more screens to show "White Chicks" and other thought provoking movies.

Dopey mid-american rubes.

As opposed to the smart, sophisticated non-at-all-middle-Americans, non-rubes who actually take Moore seriously. Hmmm. Apparently, "middle America" deserves more credit than it usually gets.

And what is this awful fear of being part of "middle America" so many American intellectuals cherish, anyway? What's so awful about "middle America" and so great about intellectual circles?

 

[c0rbin]

Great, now we have more screens to show "White Chicks" and other thought provoking movies.

Dopey mid-american rubes.

Who are you to judge?

Maybe these Americans like to seperate their entertainment from their politics.

 

[Art Vandelay]

Great, now we have more screens to show "White Chicks" and other thought provoking movies.

Dopey mid-american rubes.

Where "dopey" apparently means "not agreeing with me".

Although I'm plunging well and truly into the murky depths of what-if-scenarioes, I'm willing to bet that if an Australian made a movie like this about John Howard, it wouldn't create anything like the controversy that 911 has.

John who? Is he the guy who wrote "What Is Love"?

 

[Mr Manifesto]

That's because Australia just isn't very important, really. You guys are there to talk funny and wrestle alligators for our amusement, and I must say you do a damned fine job of it. No one cares about your politics, for God's sake...

Sorry, I was too fixated on your confusion about crocodilians to address your main point. I actually meant that it wouldn't create that much controvesy in Australia. There are other things in the world besides the US, you know.