On 6/8/06, Pim van Meurs <pimvanmeurs@yahoo.com> wrote:
> That's too bad since the message of the movie is an important one. The
> fact of global warming and the impact on our culture and world is one
> that needs to be told. If the movie also discussed how the 2000 election
> was stolen in Florida then it may indeed turn off some people who are
> offended by the fact that Gore did win the election. To many Gore's
> movie may indeed be an Inconvenient Truth (http://www.climatecrisis.net/)
>
You have a political tin ear. The interminable re-raising of the 2000
election puts climate change in the context of mere sour grapes. By
doing this climate change is made just as ficticious as the alleged
Gore "win". If you want outreach to moderate Republicans this is not
how to do it.
> And perhaps the audience did not respond as we may expect
>
> <quote>But to *Rob Schultz*, Paramount Classics' executive vice
> president of specialty film distribution, one of the most interesting
> statistics came out of the Dallas film-distribution region. There, the
> film opened at three theaters - *Landmark*'s Magnolia in Dallas, the
> *Angelika Film Cente*r in Plano and the *Arbor* in Austin (part of the
> Paramount Classics' Dallas market). Exit polling showed that 80+% of
> viewers who consider themselves Republican said they'd recommend the
> film. (The first weekend, in New York and L.A., 90+% of viewers said
> they'd recommend it.)
>
> "We went into Texas because it's not homogenous politically," Schultz
> said. "The Republicans had a high recommend rate. It's low-80s instead
> of the 95% range, but that's still huge. So everyone finds it
> rewarding."</quote>
You left out a key part of the quote.
Schultz acknowledges that so far the majority of "Inconvenient
Truth's" customers have been politically liberal.
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