# The catch-all Fahrenheit 9/11 thread

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**Created:** [June 16, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-catch-all-fahrenheit-9-11-thread/250649 "2004-06-16T13:56:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-catch-all-fahrenheit-9-11-thread/250649/1 "2004-06-16T13:56:09Z")

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Here are some tidbits as I come across them.

The right-wing letter-writing campaign to get theaters to not show or book the movie is failing spectacularly. I opened a Pit thread about it and yet now I’m delighted at the free publicity these people are giving the movie.

The theaters that are showing F9/11 can be found here:  
[http://www.f911tix.com/](http://www.f911tix.com/) (it’s a stupid flash-only site thought, blah)

# There are far more this week than there were last week. Last week there were only 2 theaters in the Chicago area signed up. Now there are several. Ha!

The movie was given an R rating by the MPAA. Moore is fighting it with the help of a familiar face:

[http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&ncid=790&e=1&u=/ap/20040615/ap\_en\_mo/cuomo\_fahrenheit\_911](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&ncid=790&e=1&u=/ap/20040615/ap_en_mo/cuomo_fahrenheit_911)

> [@](#):
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> Cuomo Backs PG-13 Rating for Moore Film
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> By KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press Writer
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> NEW YORK - Mario Cuomo has been hired by the distributors of Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” in their effort to get a PG-13 rating instead of an R.
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> …