Alternate Reality: Fox & Friends Declares Atlas Shrugged Movie A "Victory For Capitalism" [View All]

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from Media Matters for America:




Alternate Reality: Fox & Friends Declares Atlas Shrugged Movie A "Victory For Capitalism"
April 26, 2011 8:47 am ET by Ben Dimiero


Despite the hype it's getting from conservative writers, the Atlas Shrugged movie is far from a ringing box office success. But since the movie's commercial failure does not fit with the Fox narrative -- "scrappy Tea Party film shocks stupid commie Hollywood liberals with its capitalist victories" -- Fox News has decided to just completely ignore reality and continue to declare the movie a success.

Have a look at the Fox & Friends segment this morning hyping what Doocy called "a great movie" and the chyron declared a "Victory For Capitalism."

Watch: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201104260014


Doocy frames his spin using familiar lines: while the "Hollywood community had very low expectations for this particular film," it has supposedly "really taken off" with "people who were aligned with the Tea Party." Guest host Juliet Huddy also played up the Tea Party connection, saying that the film "sort of goes along with the Tea Party movement, it sort of just came out of nowhere and it really blossomed - kind of understandable." Doocy added that the message of the film is "about capitalism," prompting Kilmeade to interject that people "don't need your entitlements!"

In an impressive display of lying by omission, Kilmeade laid out the hard numbers on the film: "You got 299 theaters last weekend - it averaged they say, and this is a lot of money for people in the business, they say this is staggering, $5,640 per screen - so now, Juliet, they are going to roll it out in 425" screens. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201104260014