Moore's five minutes in Utah
Utah gets five minutes and 25 seconds in "Slacker Uprising," Michael Moore's documentary (available on a free download on the movie's web site) about his 2004 college get-out-the-vote tour - and, all in all, the state comes out looking pretty good.
About an hour into the film - at the 57:04 mark, precisely - Moore chronicles when the tour came "to visit the liberals stranded in Utah" with his infamous appearance at Utah Valley State College (what's now Utah Valley University).
We then get a fast montage of TV news coverage (all four local TV news stations - 2, 4, 5 and 13 - are included) of the buildup to Moore's visit, including local businessman Kay Anderson's $25,000 offer the student-government officials to cancel the event. (Anderson was outbid by somebody in Reno, who offered $100,000 to cancel Moore's visit at the University of Nevada-Reno.)
Then the movie shows a bit of Moore onstage, praising the UVSC student leaders for their courage. "They wouldn't back down," Moore said, "because they have the radical belief that Utah is still in the United States of America."
Moore doesn't show Roseanne Barr's less-than-stellar performance on the UVSC stage (though she is shown, briefly, at another tour stop). And no mention is made of right-wing blowhard Sean Hannity's pre-emptive visit to UVSC a few days before.
The movie ends optimistically, in spite of the fact that Moore failed in his goal of unseating George W. Bush. Moore claims that voters in 54 of the 62 cities he visited went to John Kerry - and that the college-age vote was the only demographic group that Kerry won. "Unfortunately, their parents voted for Bush," the movie adds.
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