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October 21, 2004 1:17 AM

Michael Moore giving Farenheit 9/11 out for free October 26th to any participating independant video store. In other non related news, National Geographic calculates that 85% of young Americans cannot point out Iraq on a map.
posted by Keyser Soze (18 comments total)

If you look at your states stores added to the list, keep in mind that list is not final.
posted by Keyser Soze at 1:18 AM on October 21, 2004

I guess that means he didn't succeed in getting it on TV? :(
posted by bwerdmuller at 3:07 AM on October 21, 2004

29% of young Americans can't locate the freaking Pacific Ocean? Just drop your finger on a blue part and you have a better than 50% chance.
posted by 4easypayments at 6:05 AM on October 21, 2004

85% of young Americans cannot point out Iraq on a map

85% of young Americans will have a better idea where it is after they are drafted.
posted by Pollomacho at 6:07 AM on October 21, 2004

I could have fucking sworn that hinduism had the most followers, but no, apparently its 4th. Interestingly enough, my own religion is second..sortof.
posted by bob sarabia at 6:13 AM on October 21, 2004

This post makes me say "eh?"

There's not even a supposed connection between the two links. It's not informational enough to be NewsFilter ("This just in, Yanks suck at geography! Film at 11!") nor is it interesting enough to be the best of the web.

Please please please everybody, heed the call for a day of rest! It's friday. So find something great to post.
posted by zpousman at 6:53 AM on October 21, 2004

Guess I'll have to go pick up Fahrenhype 9/11 or go see http://www.celsius4111.com/ (or here to balance things out.
posted by tomplus2 at 7:02 AM on October 21, 2004

Also, 100% of Americans cannot pronounce the word "Iraq".

(clue: it's not "eye-rack").
posted by reklaw at 7:06 AM on October 21, 2004

Weird. I swear I just saw a guy on the street in Manhattan, who looked just like Moore (shit-eating grin and all), only without a beard and in a suit. And then I thought, ooh, what if he went into disguise because he knows that Pfizer is looking out for him? What a gag that would be.

And then I realized how close the election is, and how unlikely it is, and now this says he's in Wisconsin. Oh well.
posted by fungible at 7:16 AM on October 21, 2004

No Warts on a Rock!
posted by shoepal at 7:20 AM on October 21, 2004

to any participating independant video store

So, the goal is to get as many people as possible to see the movie before the election, in order to try to influence the results. Yet (presumably because of other political beliefs Moore holds), this offer will only be limited to "independent" video stores, which serve only a tiny fraction of the population.?!?

And giving copies of the movie to patrons of independent video stores in Madison, Berkely, and Seattle isn't a real great way to get it in the hands of likely Bush voters or fence-sitters.

Good publicity stunt, though.
posted by pardonyou? at 10:42 AM on October 21, 2004

Not 100% recklaw, thank you. (But based on what I hear around me, you're pretty close.)

I'm loaning my copy of F911 to a classmate on Friday. She said she was "told" that she shouldn't see it (so she hasn't) and is going to vote for Bush. If every Kerry supporter can convince just one more person...
posted by AstroGuy at 11:00 AM on October 21, 2004

I find it to be disgusting that the country which led the invasion of Iraq cannot educate its people to even know where it is in the world. It's a disaster for even the people who supported the invasion, to have a country utterly ignorant about its nation's actions. America will never achieve its lofty goals around the world if its own citizens remain so incredibly stupid and ignorant as to the outside world.
posted by cell divide at 12:26 PM on October 21, 2004

I wonder where they found the people to take their survey. Would the 18-24 year olds polled generally be thought of as intelligent people?

I'm not saying the poll is wrong, but I find it hard to believe your average high school graduate or college student couldn't find the Pacific Ocean or point to Iraq on a map.
posted by b_thinky at 1:17 PM on October 21, 2004

also very good
and for the book club
for your headphones
posted by Peter H at 4:23 PM on October 21, 2004

America will never achieve its lofty goals around the world if its own citizens remain so incredibly stupid and ignorant as to the outside world.
You're assuming our goals are lofty--a big mistake, especially nowadays.
posted by amberglow at 4:31 PM on October 21, 2004

I find it hard to believe your average high school graduate or college student couldn't find the Pacific Ocean or point to Iraq on a map.

i think your concept of "average high school graduate or college student" is inflated. same story, two years ago.

aside from memorizing state capitals in elementary school, i never needed to know any geography to pass any classes all the way through high school and college.

i pretty much learned on my own, and i'm still much weaker at Geography in Trivial Pursuit/Jeopardy-type games than i am at science, history (when something happened, who did it, etc.), arts/literature, or the pop culture categories.

i don't know why kids don't learn geography in the US, but they sure as hell don't. my guess is that it has to do with what i would call educational fascism (slight exaggeration, perhaps).

if you drill it into kids' heads hard enough that "America is the greatest country in the world; if you work hard enough you will become wildly successful; no other country in the world offers the same freedom of opportunity, etc," why would they want to live (or learn about) anywhere else? my2c.
posted by mrgrimm at 5:29 PM on October 21, 2004

"who looked just like Moore (shit-eating grin and all)"
Freudian slip, eh?
posted by Keyser Soze at 5:43 PM on October 21, 2004