Pre-Emptive Hackery
By To no non-wingnut’s surprise, Yoosta-Bee has-been David Zucker’s latest film Michael Moore is teh Fat Heh Indeed! has been a commercial and critical fiasco. So if you’re the kind of person for whom the failure of a liberal movie represents not a lack of interest in a particular film but massive public support for the Bush administration combined with a pent-up demand on the part of the public for Mallard Fillmore: The Movie!, what are you to do?
Well, if you’re Glenn Reynolds, you can start by exhorting your audience to shell out money to watch this crap. But then — perhaps realizing the magnitude of the dud you’ve been shilling for — you can then start making excuses, talking about how nobody goes to movies anymore and how it’s all about DVD sales. How the fact that some people prefer watching movies at home can explain the movie’s dismal performance relative to other movies is, needless to say, not explained. (We can also safely assume that as soon as Reynolds needs to for the umpteenth time claim that Hollywood is in deep trouble because of its alleged excess of liberal movies, box office figures will suddenly become relevant again.)
I’m looking forward to Reynolds’s upcoming post explaining how if you look at it properly The Right Brothers are more popular than Kanye West…
…also note the comparison with Religulous.