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by billso on Sunday, 20 June 2004

USA: The New York Times > Movies > Will Michael Moore’s Facts Check Out?: “MICHAEL MOORE is not coy about his hopes for ‘Fahren­heit 9/11,’ his blis­ter­ing doc­u­men­tary attack on Pres­i­dent Bush and the war in Iraq. He wants it to be remem­bered as the first big-audience, election-year film that helped unseat a pres­i­dent. ‘And it’s not just a hope,’ the Oscar-winning film­maker said in a phone inter­view last week, describ­ing focus groups in Michi­gan in April at which, after see­ing the movie, pre­vi­ously unde­cided vot­ers expressed eager­ness to defeat Mr. Bush. ‘We found that if you entered the the­ater on the fence, you fell off it some­where dur­ing those two hours,’ he said. ‘It ignites a fire in peo­ple who had given up.’”

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