Moveon.org had a fund raiser with "Uncovered"....look at what they did!

[in_cog_ni_to]

From an email:

The response to "Uncovered" has been absolutely amazing. When over 10,000 people donated $30 or more to the Voter Fund in under four hours, we contacted the film's distributor. They ordered 10,000 more copies, and before Tuesday night, we'd gone through those as well. By the end of the offer, over 23,000 MoveOn members donated over $850,000 for the movie.

The New York Times wrote about the New York screening of the movie in today's issue, mentioning the phenomenal grassroots support. You can check out the article at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/06/movies/06FILM.html

<snip>It sounds like the beginning of a political joke: What do you get when you put Moby, a former White House chief of staff and Katrina vanden Heuvel in the same room?

What you got on Tuesday night was an unorthodox attempt to combine brains, beauty and star power to focus criticism of the war in Iraq and the White House's foreign policy. The occasion was a screening of a documentary film called "Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War" by Robert Greenwald, a Hollywood producer and director who has spent the last several months interviewing former diplomats, weapons inspectors, scientists and career spies to try to show that the Bush administration misled the public and Congress in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq.

Part television exposé, part long-form political advertisement, the film, shown in a stylishly dim basement lounge at the TriBeCa Grand Hotel, drew a crowd of about 100 stylish people who ate St. André cheese, drank pinot grigio and looked like weathered veterans of such downtown screenings.

But the event was also a kind of New York coming-out party for the Center for American Progress, a new liberal Washington institute created by John Podesta, President Bill Clinton's last chief of staff. And as such, the opening made for some strange theater seatmates.<end snip> There's more to the great article at the above link.

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. Damn...this was a lead balloon!

:kick:

[realFedUp]

2. we'll give it a little air

Congrats to MoveOn.org, the film and we the people...yet
again.

[UTUSN]

3. Can Hardly Wait to See It

and it looks like PODESTA's doing good.

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. Podesta put his money

in the right place on this one! My hope is that it gets so big by this grassroots movement sales that they will televise it...that would make the republicans REALLY squirm. However, they shouldn't televise it until ooooooh, say....October 2004? :7 Hmmmm? I wonder if they have that on the burner?

[HootieMcBoob]

4. Excellent

I'm gonna order a copy or two myself, in fact now that I think of it I bet they would make great Christmas gifts!

:bounce:

[el_gato]

5. i would like to check it out

I can't seem to get some people to read because maybe
they are unaccustomed to reading.

I think they think "only commies read" LOL!

[DUreader]

7. kick