If the public is anything like me they are so sick of the Rights propaganda they wouldn’t cross the street to read the advertisement.

the poorly-timed David Zucker conservative tirade An American Carol…

Whuh?

October/November aren’t Christmas for republicans in an election year?

I am surprised that Mahr isn’t doing even better. Thanks for letting me know that this American Carol movie is rightwing swill.

Enjoy

It would appear that taste, like the facts, have a well known liberal bias.

Good Morning Jane – just who was the target audience here – the vaunted 18-24 yo males ?!?!? just from the links here it looks like Leslie Nielsen 20 years ago and audiences have moved on.

Harold & Kumar II only took in $43M worldwide – I understand Zucker’s monumental ego and vanity comes in to play, but dear god, who greenlighted this turkey in this environment ???

Gross per theater:

Religulous: $11,853

An American Carol: $3,684

Morning Jane,

How does the rest of the box office tally look? Has the financial crisis impacted on this report, compared to the ones from a month ago???

I am surprised that Mahr isn’t doing even better.

Cumulative gross doesn’t really tell the story. If you work out the “per screen” cumulative gross, you get:

R $11,853
AC 3,683

hee hee hee

Larry Charles & Maher were on Charlie Rose last night, interview to go up here when it’s posted. (Does Larry Charles always look like that?)

OT, but important.

Some of the Alaskans for Truth people, who pushed hard to keep the Branchflower Investigation on track, will be meeting later today, to discuss the mechanics of our filing the necessaries for a Recall Petition for Sarah Palin. more later, but you can read about the beginnings:

Here
Here
and Shannyn Moore writes a compelling open letter.

hey Jane, is there any chance Zucker put up his own money ???

Bill is a realist and does not buy “faith based” facts. The movie’s popularity reflects how tired people are of paying heavy prices in lives and wealth for religious based wars. Bill has courage. Have not seen this but hope to. It will be the only movie I will see in a long time> I see how sad lifew is in heavily religious communities and how oppressive it is. More and more people are getting it.

That is great! Hope it get lots of publicity before the election.
Thanks for all you do, ET.

Jim – you and I are indeed joined at the brain (and the calculator) – I immediately did the same thing on a per theatre basis.

So, on a per-theater basis, Religilous is bringing in 3.2 times as much as American Carol, specifically $11,853 ($6,732,631/568) vs. $3684 ($5971000/3683).

This will be called a dem political stunt and the MSM will portray it as such

Plus popcorn ripoffs

Wow!! Great work.

For whatever reason, reasons I think that political movies have very little effect on todays potential viewers..the movies don’t seem to reach the potential voters. Movies seem to be a deminished media.

Wow, that’s twice today already! Great minds, you know.

OT: Nate Silver (fivethirtyeight.com) now projects a 94.9% probability of Obama winning in November. Among other things, he projects that if he loses Ohio, McCain stands less than a one-percent chance of winning the election. By contrast, if Obama loses Ohio, he still has a 75% chance of winning the election.

WoooHooo. Go for it.

Please explain why you think it “will be called a dem political stunt and the MSM will portray it as such”

Although, at this point in time, it may seem unlikely that it will succeed, another Palin investigation is gaining momentum, and her popularity has gone down in-state over 20% in 45 days.

The application petition has to be filed before Nov 4th, to qualify to be placed on a later ballot. But by getting it in before Nov 4th, the number needed to place the initiative on a special or general election ballot would be 10% of the number of Alaskans voting in 2006, rather than 10% of Alaskans voting in 2008.

I was not addressing the validity of placing it on a ballot but rather what the rethugs will charge and given the tendency of the MSM how they will play it.

o/t

can you say pre emptive strike ….
McCain to unveil latest economic plan today (no really)

“A Day Late & 101 Million Middle Class Families Short !”

turn off the lights on your way out Tucker ‘kay ?

Kick her tush good ET!!!!!

whaddup Prof !

the igloo is melting

His plan is simple:

He you kids, get off my lawns. [All of them.]

Oh wow. That would be fantastic if y’all get that done before Nov. 4. Anything we can do to help?

from this morning’s senate ag hearing. did i hear this right? not sure seems over the top.

10% of mortgages in default
fitch did a review of some of the books and found 40% on contracts included fraud
80% of mortgage fraud induced by lender

He is just taking care of “his” base, not the middle class.

That’s appoximately what I heard, but wouldn’t testify to the details. Loved Black’s testimony, including his prop tie.

thanks will have to check the buffer or archive later today. helps to keep a time stamp.

Wow, if that’s the case you can throw out the attacks on Acorn, Fannie and Freddie. It’s the mortagage brokers.

but wait! there’s more . . .

The state Personnel Board investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin’s firing of Walt Monegan has broadened to include other ethics complaints against the governor and examination of actions by other state employees, according to the independent counsel handling the case.

Petumenos has requested a copy of Friday’s legislative report, including confidential backup material,

holy sockeye batman !

Sounds as if even though Todd-o is a card-carrying member of an Alaskan Native Corporation(with all the rights and benefits thereof), he’s not exactly tightly cued into the fact that it might be a good idea to have a Native as the person in that position.

From IMDB

An anti-American filmmaker (who looks a lot like Michael Moore) who’s out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.

Subtle. And David Zucker is . . .

Converted to the Republican Party in 2004, and made several anti-Democrat political ads.

Oh hey, that’s entertainment. Rethug ads all wrapped in one heartfelt feelgood movie. /s

The theaters, by squeezing so many people into the seatings of Religulous (fewer screens yet more $$$) are creating a more powerful audience experience for the viewers (assuming they are self selected Mahr fas or reality-based people in general).

Almost makes you feel sorry for the lonely asshat sitting in the near-empty showings of American Carol.

Enjoy.

Speaking of “box office,” HUGE gains in today’s polls by Obama in many tough states:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talk…..nd_183.php

SurveyUSA has Barack up 50% to 45% in Ohio. Obama’s numbers have shot up after all the debates so far, including Paylin’s, so a good Obama performance on Wed could really help solidify the deal. It’s getting close to the point where any October surprise won’t even matter.

Obamatrons are gonna keep up through election day anyway, so hopefully more of the switched on folks around the Liberal blogs can really narrow their focus onto downticket races. 60 Senate seats sure sounds good!

You poor Alaskans. I know how you feel. A national embarrassment. It’s sort of like being from CT and watching Lieberman the attack chihuahua yuk it up with Sean Hannity and worse.

black is great-

instruments designed this way to be opaque.

it’s like looking in the rearview mirror. it looks clear, but the danger is closer than it looks.

insolvency arrived 6 mos ago

It’s called state pride.

yep, we Texans are breathin’ a little easier these days :D

dinallo is v good too –

80-90% of swaps are naked.

in this case, it’s not an instrument to control risk – it amplifies it. like going to the races, no risk unless you bet.

Yes, very nice analogy. Instead of diversifying the risk, the financial instrument created the risk.

Not sure if you had seen this article may help with gaining allies
http://www.indiancountrytoday……16289.html

Almost makes you feel sorry for the lonely asshat sitting in the near-empty showings of American Carol.

Just looking at the weekend receipts, if you assume an average of 3 showings per day and and average price of $8 per ticket, each showing would have had a smidge under 18, on average, in attendance.

Ian up
Schumer: Banks Won’t Take Help if CEOs Don’t Get to Keep Huge Salaries

(spare me, Chuck)

O/t -

Jim Bamford, author of The Shadow Factory, on Democracy Now (for most of the hour, iiheardc).

Thanks Jane.

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OMG in just three weeks nobody will give a damn about Sarah Palin investigations anymore…

A CHIHUAHUA movie beat them both!
Now that says more about America than two political screeds, doesn’t it?

Also, these numbers translate into a $3928 per screen average for “Religulous” vs $861 for “An American Carol”.

That means a lotttt of empty seats in those “American Carol” screenings!

Oh, and Jane? “From Hell” friggin’ RULES!!!

(Long time lurker – first time poster. Please be gentle!)

Welcome cmcolin. Of course, you do realize that once you’ve de-lurked, you can’t go back.

So enjoy the comments ride!

Glad to have you here. We’re listening – talk a lot. :)

One of Hollywood’s few Republicans has switched his vote. Dennis Hopper, 72, told reporters in France that he’s praying for an Obama victory, despite decades as a Bush supporter.

Hopper starred in An American Carol. Saw this on Huffpo.

Thank you for my smile for the day. :)