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Update: Apparently, there was advanced advertising for this movie on Thursday, July 14th, in the LA TIMES- an obscure listing- one line- and- perhaps someone looking for The Undefeated in Orange County may have allegedly found a listing for 12:45 am. In the article- Conor says he was going to a 12:45 am showing, but the ad lists the time as 12:01 am. Perhaps Conor may not be in collusion with a movie theater manager, but why, if he wanted to interview Palin Supporters, would he go a midnight showing that was barely advertised? We stick by our story that this was a rigged MSM event perpetrated by Conor Friedersdorf for the sole purpose of discrediting the movie’s weekend release and even Sarah Palin herself. Here is the story as we originally published it, along with a screenshot of the obscure listing for the movie:
Secret Showing of The Undefeated For Lone Reporter?
William Collier
Palin Movie- The Undefeated- meets MSM ploy to report an ’empty theater’ at midnight, the night before the opening?
Did Conor Friedersdorf from The Atlantic arrange to have a secret showing of “The Palin Movie, The Undefeated” just so he could say “the theater was empty”?
Orange California seems to have jumped the gun on The Undefeated movie, which debuts today in 10 cities in the US, with a special midnight showing for a a reporter from The Atlantic.
Conor Friedersdorf wrote breathlessly about an “empty theater” for a “debut.” The progressive journolist may have been told about such a showing but we know that nobody knew anything about it.
How did we know?
Our company, Kross Publishing, has been engaged in online marketing support and mobilizing a group of on the ground Hosts and virtual Ambassadors, and there has never been any mention of or advertising for any midnight showing.
The open question is: how did this reporter, Conor Friedersdorf, KNOW about this totally un-advertised showing that our company, which is working on marketing for the film, did not know about?
Movie theaters CAN show a movie like this, without notice, and if advanced ticket sales are high or decent, they might use an extra screen for a showing that is not scheduled. In this case the theater chose to do that, but on the same night of the big debut of Harry Potter: hardly an auspicious time for a movie that has a niche audience as opposed to a large general audience.
How then was everyone surprised about this showing save a lefty reporter?
It is possible, as one of our staff suggested, that the theater manager and the reporter are buddies, or someone inside the theater knew the reporter. It is also possible that Conor Friedersdorf, lefty that he is, knows that theaters can sometimes do a midnight showing and that he watched online until he saw this suddenly open up and decided, instead of covering the official debut, that he would call an unscheduled, un-advertised midnight showing the “debut” and use that to smear the movie.
Perhaps he thought he would win a Pulitzer for his little stunt, but anyone with any kind of horse sense knows that you don’t choose an unscheduled, un-advertised showing of a movie not scheduled to debut until later in the day (the official evening showing today, Friday July 15, 2011) to, as he claimed, “interview” attendees.
Conor did not want to interview attendees, otherwise he would have chosen a time that was advertised, not an unscheduled, un-advertised midnight showing.
This reporter’s cute little stunt goes right to the heart of what the movie is about- the blatant attempts by the journolist media elites to impugn, smear, and destroy anyone who does not go along with their Progressive ideology.
You may not want to vote for Sarah Palin, but this little episode reveals why Palin supporters and conservatives in general want to see this movie- for here is laid bare the media’s ongoing war against the freedom of conservatives, Christians, and non-Progressives through the very same types of stunts pulled by this Conor character.
Tickets for the movie are available here- http://theundefeated.cinedigm.com/tickets.html
The purpose of Conor’s report is clear- he was fishing for the headline he wanted to write, i.e. “Sarah Palin Movie Debuts to Empty Theater in Orange County.”
Perhaps the real headline should read, “The Atlantic Covers Unadvertised, Unscheduled Movie Showing As Debut.”
This just in- on the day before The Atlantic hit the stands there were no sales for that issue!
Kevin Williamson, National Review, NRO, National Review Online
Part two- Kevin Williamson, Is He For Government Or The People?
William R Collier Jr
Williamson’s thesis is that the Federal Government is “too big to fail” so he wants “austerity” coupled with tax increases to bail out DC!
What if the Federal Government fails? It would be bad, it would be horrible, but people would find ways to keep living, they always do. What is worse is if we keep focusing so much of our energy and wealth on bailing out the profligate spenders in DC at the expense of our economic future and, increasingly, our very freedom!
It seems that the profligate elites think they have America over a barrel- they have made a massive machine that is feeding on our children’s future and they have convinced many, like Williamson, that that machine must be kept going or it’s the end of the world!
I am not buying it any longer, it’s the old welfare-warfare state trying to justify its existence at any cost, as if we cannot live without such a Behemoth strolling about in DC.
The Progressives on both sides of the aisle, including Mr. Williamson, have failed utterly. The intervention of the state into private affairs in order to “manage for results” is leading to a massive loss of personal freedom and personal opportunity, and it is a contributing factor in our economic malaise and the corruption we keep finding in our elected officials who are assuming a messiah-complex.
Rather than admit their failure, people like Williamson try to use their “media pulpit” to convince people that this malaise is the “new normal” and, with shocking disregard for the common man, that working stiffs like us need to just “live with” high taxes, stagnate wages, and decreased economic opportunities.
Williamson does have his defenders.
As far back as last year Williamson was trying to carry water for the Progressive agenda, attacking “Supply Side Economics” itself. In his May 2010 piece he said, incredulously, “Properly understood, there were no Reagan tax cuts.”
His Progressive logic is that because spending did not go down (it increased faster than the increased revenue which came from the growth spurred by the tax cuts), taxes weren’t cut, “they were deferred.” From his high, and evidently unassailable, position at the NRO, Williamson is taking the position that because the Progressives can’t or won’t stop their spending, we must raise taxes.
In the process, however, he assails the truth with his Progressive propaganda that somehow tax cuts weren’t cuts but deferrals and that the Supply Side approach, which says that you increase revenue by growth instead of taxes, did not work. Williamson’s Progressivism is stunning, considering that he represents what purports to be the conservative voice of record!
He attacks Supply Side because, despite lowering taxes and seeing growth that led to increased revenue, the Progressives out-spent that growth. He never even considers critiquing the fact that his Progressive friends, for surely they must be his friends since he carries their water so well, are to blame for their profligate spending!
Clearly, Kevin Williamson is for the government (his stagnation as “austerity” agenda based on saving the government, despite the cost to the People) and not for the People.
