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Originally Posted by roachboy
there are folk with whom the global shorthand i use matters much less in conversation---irate, for example in this thread--but there are quite a few other folk whose positions i have come to see as nuanced within a general conservative frame of reference...
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nuanced... read: more like mine
ways to gauge mr.moore's genuine support:
1. box office figures. for example...
Fahrenheit 911 - $220 million
Control Room - $2.7 million (rounding up)
2. read the volume of posts on this board displaying unflagging support for moore without discount or equivocation.
3. read the news...
http://au.news.yahoo.com/040727/11/q30z.html
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) - They started lining up to hear Michael Moore at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, five hours before the movie director delivered a fiery speech to a packed hotel ballroom with hundreds of people locked outside.
Moore will not be addressing the Democratic National Convention this week but for thousands of liberal activists, the majority of them young people, the director of "Fahrenheit 9/11" is by far the biggest star in Boston.
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4. popular support for his work...
moore's most vulgar film was voted best picture of the year by 21 million voters in the
People's Choice Awards
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/me...dex.php?id=181
so... we know that moore enjoys tremendous popular and financial support. we know that competing films that (by your estimation) exhibit better arguments for the same type of cause earning %1.2 percent of moore's film. it's impossible to deny that moore garners an incredible amount of sincere support from millions of people in the world. you just cannot get this type of response from people who merely think you raise interesting questions but disapprove with your methods.