Wishful Thinking
Reported by Marie Therese - July 1, 2004 -
The O'Reilly Factor. Wednesday, June 30, 2004. 8:38 PM - 8:40 PM EDT.
Guest: Tony Snow, Fox News Correspondent
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Guess what? Tony Snow and Bill O'Reilly don't like Michael Moore, think his movie will not play well in the red states and think Kerry should hire a bouncer to keep Michael Moore off the stage.
So, what else is new?
In the course of yet again denigrating Fahrenheit 9/11, Snow makes the comment that "explosive new evidence" of an Iraq-Al-Qaeda link has just been published in the Financial Times (I couldn't find it) and the National Review Online (which I did find - here's the link The Iraqi Nexus). As the year wears on, he claims, and the ironclad links are established, the premise of the movie will fade and it will drop off into oblivion.
(FYI: The National Review Article is chock full of the usual qualifiers: Maybe, possibly, could be, might be, alleged, presumed, and so on. There's nothing new here.)
O'Reilly makes one of his "little" slips and gets the name of the distributing company wrong. He says "Yeah. Make a lot of money and Miramax Films will do well." Guess he forgot that Lion's Gate is distributing Moore's film.
The most telling comment came from Snow early on. He said: "I went to a screening today in Georgetown. Couldn't get in. It was sold out at two in the afternoon." He proceeds to spin it this way: It's only going to do well in New York, Washington and a few other bastions of foaming-at-the-mouth liberalism.
He continues "This is a movie that's gonna have legs, but in the red states, I don't think so."
I wouldn't make book on it, Tony!
