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Michael Moore Seeks TV Airing of Fahrenheit 9/11
telstar writes "According to Michael Moore's website, he plans to forgoe the nomination for Best Documentary in an effort to get his highly controversial movie Farenheit 9/11 on television. Despite having no assurances from the home video distributor, Moore hopes to air the film prior to the November elections ... suggesting the eve of the elections as a potential air date. Considering how many questions have been raised as to whether Moore's movie presents truth or propaganda, one has to wonder whether airing such a controvercial movie on the eve of an election helps or hurts the political process by influencing the vote with last-minute emotions rather than thoroughly contemplation."
The US gov already uses the world's most sophisticated propaganda, tho Bush's big lies have gotten so big a lot of people are beginning to notice.
Moore may as well be working for Republicans as a distractor. Certainly he makes their jobs easier.
Lew
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I used to think he was an evil genius but after seeing Mr. Moore's film, it's a sure thing Dubya is just stupid & evil. The man has the mental capacity of a teenager and has the power to launch nuclear weapons... there's something about this situation that irks me, anybody else with me on this ?
My question is, what sort of safeguards are in place that would prevent Mr. Chimp from giving the go-ahead to start a nuclear holocaust ? A doctor ? Congressional approval ? A yes vote from a majority of his cabinet ?!
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and then when you're done reading that, you can read all about the psychology Moore uses to dupe the viewer into agreeing with this deciets.
His movie is pure propoganda and will strive to do anything for the viewer to like him. I find it funny that Moore asks Congressman if they would send their Children into Iraq to fight a war, but Moore himself didn't even go to Iraq to get footage for HIS OWN MOVIE!.. Does anyone else see the irony?
Hmmm.
Screw that fat bastard Moore and F Lie/11. Why the hell is this political drool still showing up on my /. homepage after I selected EXCLUDE?
Oh, and all the flamers from both sides are double-dipped asshats.
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To a liberal the ends ALWAYS justify the means, therefore, MM and JFK will lie, cheat and prostitute themselves and us (through their lies) to attain their ends.
So you'd support Bush staying in for '4 more years'? You might not approve of Moore but really this has to come down to the lesser of two evils - let's say Moore's documentary would definately win Kerry the election if aired, which would you support - airing the documentary to remove an insane virtual dictator who has taken thousands of lives and inspired a lot of hatrid in the world, or keeping Bush in power because a documentary was slightly misleading?
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... that way we can have a mind-numbing propaganda trifecta. At least Moore tries to back his claims up with facts. He may read more into the facts than some consider reasonable but at least he just doesn't spout off the party line, right or wrong, proven or unproven, truth or lie, like those other do-do heads.
The way I see it, the Repubs rule the news channels with their pill-popping fat man (Rush) and ignorance-spouting loud mouth (O'Reilly). Not to mention the 'we can win every debate if we stage it' crap that is Hannity and Combs. The Dems rule the theaters with their whale-of-a-good-time Moore and the comedy-satire scene with folks like Jon Stewart and Al Franken.
Looks like an even playing field to me.
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>I can come up with better F-words than W-words.
go ahead, but the context is missing, as the entire Kerry campaign isnt based on branding of the letter "F".
did you see the bumper stickers that say "W '04" ? you dont see any "F '04" stickers, do you?
"W" is a branding campaign. Its a damn good branding campaign. Its the *only* thing that make George W. Bush electible. If you'd like I can go into it more...
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Unless you count the ones killed by american soldiers in iraq, i'd say about a thousand.
If he can't have an Oscar, why not give Moore the Leni Riefenstahl Memorial Award for Documentary Filmmaking. After all, his films have broken new ground in the art of persuasion.
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Wait ... poor ... low-pay ... [Micheal]Moore was behind the scenes ... reporting that Gore won the election ... but the mistake did not make a difference to ... and was in to way detrimental to ... the US Supreme Court.
Ridiculous? Yup. Out of context? You bet. Totally changed your meaning? Of course. Can you deny that you said those words? Not a chance. You did indeed write those words, but I used them to express a different (and opposite) meaning than what you intended. Just like Moore in Columbine and F9/11.
Now someone give me an Oscar!!
Problem is that people like you get hung up on the small points and on't address the broader issues that his films present.
So the advert that said free gun with a bank account was fiction ?. Fair enough I'll beleive you, but for many people giving out one free gun is one too many. The fact that the bank did it at all is the issue. Only in america could you get such a mix of capitalism and crypto facism.
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I'd like to call Kerry an idiot for campaigning on his flimsy war record, but since his Senate record is worthless (and detremental to his cause), his only other option would be to discuss nothing of the past and only talk about what he could conceivably do in the future if elected president. However, his record of switching sides on key issues keeps coming back to him leaving people to wonder if he's really going to go through with the ideas he's laying out on the table.