Michael Moore Urges Democrats to Embrace Hollywood

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"What 'Fahrenheit 9/11' and Bruce Springsteen (news) and MoveOn and all the other people that were working during this election, what we did was we prevented a Bush landslide," Moore said. "We're all going to continue to do this in the near future. No one's giving up." ......


Michael Moore Urges Democrats to Embrace Hollywood

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By Steve Gorman

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (Reuters) - "Fahrenheit 9/11" director Michael Moore on Monday rejected the idea that Hollywood had hurt John Kerry (news - web sites)'s chances of winning the White House, insisting that he and other entertainers helped spare Democrats an even bigger defeat.



"For the last month, we've had to listen to a lot of conservative pundits talk about how Democrats need to run away from Hollywood," Moore said. "It's actually the opposite. Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story."


In the final analysis, Moore said, Democratic presidential nominee Kerry was "not the best candidate." President Bush (news - web sites) "had a more compelling story to tell and the Democrats didn't, and that has to change." .....