{"id":28821,"date":"2016-12-27T12:31:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T20:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28821"},"modified":"2016-12-27T19:19:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T03:19:44","slug":"john-lott-reviews-the-box-office-flop-miss-sloan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/27\/john-lott-reviews-the-box-office-flop-miss-sloan\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lott “reviews” the box-office flop, Miss Sloane<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not really a review, since no self-respecting gunperson would contribute money to the makers of this movie, which depicts the poor, underfunded gun-control movement battling the huge, powerful, omnipresent NRA. But that’s precisely what makes Lott’s article<\/a> so interesting. The stats:<\/p>\n

\nPoorly funded gun-control advocates are shown doing battle with the big, bad National Rifle Association. Of course, Michael Bloomberg is never mentioned. He would spoil the story, since he gives $50 million a year to his regulation-pushing Everytown for Gun Safety. This is 2.5 times more than the NRA spends on political activities. From 2013 to 2016, Bloomberg donated a total of $48 million to candidates running for federal office. The NRA contributed just $2.1 million. And that\u2019s not even mentioning the hundreds of millions that Bloomberg, George Soros, and others funnel into producing gun-control research.<\/p>\n

Indeed, if it weren\u2019t for Bloomberg, there wouldn\u2019t be a gun-control movement today. The continually repeated claim that 80 to 90 percent of Americans favor background checks on private transfers of guns is an illusion of poorly done polling. Bloomberg\u2019s Nevada ballot initiative eked out a win this November by less than one percentage point, and only because of the almost $20 million spent on it, amounting to an incredible $35.30 per vote. In Maine, the same initiative failed by eight percentage points despite equally unlimited spending. Even in Washington state, which passed the initiative with 59 percent of the vote, Bloomberg and his supporters outspent those opposed to it 33-fold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lott gives some pretty good stats about the degree of box-office flopitude Miss Sloane<\/em> represents, also. Unlike many cataclysmic flops, this movie wasn’t poorly made, under-promoted, then buried in a slow movie month. On the contrary, it was among the most heavily promoted films of the year and released in one of the two prime moviegoing seasons. Its makers expected it to do very well. And down it went into instant obscurity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not really a review, since no self-respecting gunperson would contribute money to the makers of this movie, which depicts the poor, underfunded gun-control movement battling the huge, powerful, omnipresent NRA. But that’s precisely what makes Lott’s article so interesting. The stats: Poorly funded gun-control advocates are shown doing battle with the big, bad National Rifle Association. Of course, Michael Bloomberg is never mentioned. He would spoil the story, since he gives $50 million a year to his regulation-pushing Everytown for Gun Safety. This is 2.5 times more than the NRA spends on political activities. From 2013 to 2016, Bloomberg donated…<\/p>\n

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