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October 9, 2004

Another Anti-Moore Film

There's another anti-Michael Moore film out there, which is a good thing, I guess. Unfortunately, the money raising tactics of this new film are grossly offensive to me.

I had never heard of Celsius 41.11 until yesterday when the phone rang. A lady said she was conducting an "opinion poll in support of the Bush agenda." Now, I've already decided to vote for President Bush, but this type of opening sentence annoyed me. What's the point of conducting a poll when you say right up front it's biased? Margin of error on a question like that . . . 100%.

Before asking the opinion question though, they played me a clip of a guy talking about the Michael Moore film and how they needed MY help to fight it. This didn't sound like an opinion poll. I'm thinking they'll probably ask me for a donation before the call is over.

So then, another lady comes on the phone and asks the opinion question, "With the revelations about Dan Rather using documents that weren't real, do I feel there's a liberal bias in the media?" I refused to say yes or no, because Michael Moore and Dan Rather are on two totally different levels, in my opinion. Sure, Dan leans liberal, but we've only caught him distorting the facts once as opposed to Moore who does it routinely. Besides, why frame a question about Dan Rather with commentary about Michael Moore?

Then she went into a pitch for this new film Celsius 41.11 and asked me to donate $100 to $150 so that it could be put into theaters before the election. She went so far as to say it would "guarantee a Bush victory" if they got it into enough theaters.

She even said she'd send me a free DVD. Yippee! (For $150, I could buy all three seasons of Alias! Later, I looked at their website and found I could get the free DVD for a $25 dollar donation, plus additional copies for $12.50 each, so she was gypping me on the DVD offer.)

Anyway, back to the phone call . . . at that point, I said she was a hypocrite for soliciting funds on the pretense of conducting an opinion poll. Also, it's just a blatant lie to say putting this film in theaters would guarantee Bush a victory. The phone call was just wrong on so many levels.

She said she "understood" where I was coming from and I said, "You say that, but you're about to hang up the phone with me and you'll do the same thing to someone else." I told her she wasn't helping the conservative cause and she should be ashamed of herself for being involved in something so deceptive.

Now in fairness, I know liberals conduct scare tactic phone calls that are just as reprehensible around election time. Unfortunately, these people on BOTH sides think they are helping their respective causes by being misleading, but they aren't.

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