How Oliver Stone won the right....

[snowbear]

World Trade Center, the movie.. comes to theaters August 09.


Oliver Stone

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The New York Times revealed last week that Paramount had hired an outside firm called Creative Response Concepts to reach out the conservative right and to romance it in advance of the film’s release. This is an outfit that has a long history of working for clients of the far right, including Bozell’s Media Research Center as well as the Christian Coalition. Creative Response Concepts was also the group which helped to craft the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth campaign which so successfully attacked the Democratic candidate John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race, depicting him as a traitor to the country because of his anti-Vietnam War positions, a conflict in which he fought.

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The reaction to the film among the Christian right has been one of astonished admiration. With one or two exceptions, the conservative commentators who have for so long loathed Stone have suddenly found it in themselves to embrace and celebrate him. First, this will help to put otherwise skeptical, Middle-American, Republican-voting bums in cinema seats. But also, the suddenness of the right’s shift of opinion has itself generated an avalanche of commentary in newspapers, on blogs and on news channels across the land that is free publicity the likes of which Paramount could hardly have dreamt.

Apparently, the story of two men under the concrete and cement as told by Stone contains all the mantras of the Christian right – endurance, trust in God, commitment to family and patriotism.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/film_tv/story.jsp?story=700723

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I heard Andy Serwer (CNN Money) say that if Oliver Stone really didn't know at first that he hired the swiftboaters, that he would have immediately canned them when he found out.

Andy said he thinks Stone hired them because they could sell ice to people in Antarctica..

[Totally Committed]

1. F*ck his cynical a**!

I am boycotting this movie to make sure now that he's "won the Right" he's lost the Left, but good.

What an A**hole.

TC

[YOY]

2. I knew it looked like a RW piece of tripe

Hammering 9/11 out for all they can...

assholes.