Anti-Obama Movie Mailed To 1 Million Ohioians

[trailmonkee]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/anti-obama-movie-mailed-to-1-million-ohioians

An anti-Obama movie claiming — without evidence — that President Barack Obama's real father is an obscure African-American communist has been mailed to 1.5 million voters across the country, its creator told BuzzFeed Friday.

A reader in Ohio emailed this photo of his free copy of the film Dreams From My Real Father, which claims that the Chicago activist Frank Marshall Davis is actually President Obama's father. He received it in the mail this week.

The film's director and producer, Joel Gilbert, said that the film was sent out to more one million voters in Ohio; 200,000 after a mid-summer conference, and a million after that. He said that 50,000 copies had been sent to voters in Nevada and 100,000 to voters in New Hampshire.

"We're sending out bulk mailings to many states," Gilbert said. "Probably Illinois, New York, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, we'll hit every state if we can to stimulate and force the national media to cover the story."

Gilbert declined to say how much his company, Highway 61 Entertainment, is spending to distribute the film for free, but said that the film was making a profit through online orders. He also wouldn't say how the company is funded and how they come up with the money to distribute so many free disks.

"We’re a private media company, a journalistic company that’s privately held and we don’t disclose the nature or makeup of our finances," he said.

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Uh, so, if Frank Marshall Davis is Obama's REAL father, that means...he's not...KENYAN!

[smorkingapple]

2. Even the birthers dont like this move

The film has been favorably reviewed by WND’s Jerome R. Corsi, who wrote an entire book arguing that Obama’s birth certificate is a fake and that he was really born in Kenya and ineligible to be president of the United States.

But the suggestion that Obama really was born in Hawaii and that his father was an American citizen has some conspiracy theorists upset. Birther queen Orly Taitz is troubled by the film because it undermines the theory that Obama’s father had to be a U.S. citizen for him to be a “natural born citizen” (a qualification which would have eliminated several other presidents). WND and Corsi, wrote Taitz, are “trying to kill the case by making up an American citizen father for Obama.”

“Who are they working for? What incentive did they get to do so? Please, tell Corsi and Farah to stop this. Enough and enough,” she wrote.

[Drunken Irishman]

4. Oh that's hilarious...

Whack job versus whack job.

[progressivebydesign]

3. OMFG. Who paid for that? I'm dumfounded. "journalistic" company? Give me a fucking break. nt

[Princess Turandot]

5. I hope this cost someone a great deal of money...

the only people who would take this seriously are those who already believed this or one of the other moronic claims made about the President.

[marasinghe]

6. yep; hope the producers bleed themselves financially, into irrelevance - with this trash.

unfortunately, it's probably an idiot ranting mindlessly into his pc cam.
well, at least the DVDs & mailings will hurt some a*s' wallets.

[Tx4obama]

7. I hope President Obama sues their ass for slander or libel or whatever! n/t

[Tx4obama]

8. Here's a short video from the film. It is ALL lies and it is VERY DISGUSTING !!!

[left on green only]

9. Do you mean that's the best they can come up with?

It looks to me like an interested person has to mail them a request to receive the free DVD, before they will spend the money to mail it. It will be interesting to see how many people will be interested enough to shive a git.

Oh, I'm sure that Faux News will bring the producers of the DVD into their studio for an up and close personal interview conducted by Para Salin, or something, but how many people who have yet to make up their minds on how they are going to vote are going to be stupid enough to bite on this?

Even a person of casual intelligence will be asking themselves, "If the information presented in this DVD is true, then how come it has taken this long for it to have come out?"

[gkhouston]

10. I heard it's a two-disk set: one contains the film, the other's a set-up disk for AOL. n/t

[left on green only]

11. I love it!!!! Except the way I heard it is the second disk is a set up to make....

Faux News your browser.

[gkhouston]

16. ...

aka The Blue Screen of Brain-Death.

[2pooped2pop]

12. their address looks like a mail box rental place

365 e avenida de los arboles thousand oaks ca

[whistler162]

13. I will wait for the Directors Enhanced Blu-Ray cut

[Sunlei]

14. this is how people get campaign millions in their private profit pockets, buy their own junk

give it away free like Mitt did with his book and so many others like Palin did with their film.

Must be why they suspend their campaigns rather than close outright..they can grab those 'donations' using the loop-hole. Buy their own books as 'give aways' and party favors.

Even worse the state probably doesn't get sales tax on the sales to political charities...could even be a loophole where the film maker gets an income tax deduction when he sells to a political 'charity'.

[DCBob]

15. "we don’t disclose the nature or makeup of our finances"

not doubt its a Rethug SuperPac or Adelson.

[divineorder]

17. Another bit of Rethug Incompetence or Grifting

Tell the donors that each DVD cost $10 each, expenses only $1.50 (no real actors or camera, just put together stills, a couple of voiceovers), wait for people to make a request, few people care who aren't already voting for Romney, pocket the remainder. Watch Obama's Second Inauguration from a Virgin Islands resort.

I mean, how many people these days will pop a DVD in that they didn't buy and have no clue where it came from these days? Most of those will end up in the landfill or as coasters.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

18. The producers of "John Carter" are kicking themselves right now

If they'd just put a bunch of anti-Obama shit in there, they'd have a hit!

[BlueInPhilly]

20. Maybe an a pessimist

but I'm worried about this kind of campaign strategy. If 1% took the time to watch the DVD, that's 10,000 folks that could be swayed. In an election where the last vote is as important as the first, this practice sure is a scary one. Why can't the presiden'ts lawyer sue for libel if the film was really dishonest and was made with malicious intent? This isn't covered by free speech anymore!

And I am more disconcerted by the dismissive attitude of the folks around here. You gotta keep your enemy close.

Flame away!

[Maraya1969]

24. Was that person whose post was hidden right above you tombstoned? I see no posts

from him at all in the last year. I missed what video he posted too.

[a la izquierda]

21. I just checked my mailbox and...

Ta-Da! I got a copy. It was addressed to: So and so (not me or my husband) OR Current Resident. I'm debating whether to send it back or to consign it to my firepit. I am afraid that the smoke from this burning pile of shit might poison us.

[eyewall]

22. Please, fill us in on the discs content. Is the second disc an AOL setup?

[a la izquierda]

23. I'm sorry to report that my mailer did not include an AOL setup.

When I opened the package, however, a strong odor of cow manure emerged.

[ailsagirl]

25. The stench of desperation permeates the GOP...

No-- they're steeped in it!!

[MADem]

26. Someone needs to do an "Innocence of Republicans" on that thing and dub it like mad

Make the people in the film say all kinds of rude things about RMoney! Serve 'em right!