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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."
It's not like Bush hasn't done worse in this campaign. Anything that prevents him from waging war on freedom and democracy for another four years is a Good Thing in my book!
Want to energize the Republican base and get them to the polls en-masse? Screen this movie on TV. I think that the Republicans have done a fair job discrediting the movie so far.
Stupid, stupid, Democrats. How can they be fumbling so badly at mounting an effective campaign against Bush? Making Moore a lighting-rod will only guarantee a Bush victory.
I heard an Edwards clip last night. He's still got a good message going. Kerry puts me to sleep. Is it too late to reverse the ticket?
And they don't have half the war room competence Clinton had to respond effectively to Republican half-truths. Of course, when you have so many half-truths of your own...
sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
You forgot that Michael Moore is FAT!!!!!
You can't think of anything intelligent to say yourself so you have to repeat exact comments in the same thread?
Your link to the religion and IQ post was a blogger talking about two other bloggers' post about this topic. Sorry, back it up with facts and not with some blogger bullshit. The downfall of our society will be research papers based on "material" cited from blogs.
Here's the thing: No matter how you feel about Moore's filmmaking, or Moore himself, the fact remains that, in the middle of that movie, there's footage of George W. Bush sitting around with a bunch of little kids, reading a children's book for *seven minutes* AFTER he was informed of the WTC tragedy.
His facial expression didn't even change! An airplane filled with Americans crashes into a de-facto national landmark, and he can't excuse himself to maybe, I dunno, get a briefing or turn on CNN.
That is real. That is a moment that stands by itself. He couldn't step away from a feel-good PR session in light of something that was at the very least (at that moment) a horrible accident.
The sickening thing is that the same group of people now raise the "terror alert level" every time their oppononents do anything that might attract media attention. Yesterday Dick Cheney came out and said that the consequence of a Kerry win in November would be another terrorist attack (so, that won't happen if George stay in office? Does he know something we don't?). These unctious fuckers, who were so unconcerned in the very first moments of a national tragedy, have gotten untold traction in the mind of the American public by exploiting the fear and the grief stemming from 9/11. I for one hope that people realize what's going on before it's too late.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
Seriously - is getting the date and font of a newspaper wrong the worst you can do? There are *thousands* of facts presented, and the best thing you can focus on is an erroneous font/date?
I'm you from the future! We have to finish our time machine before the Angels of Destruction find the portal!
Wait... is the best thing that you can come up with the fact that they got the date on an article wrong and changed the font? Seriously?
Um, no.
Remember, 'campaign finance reform' prohibits this sort of thing.
If the NRA tried this, they would be in jail, why is this idiot allowed to push is crap when its illegal 60 days before an election?
Not that I agree with the law one bit as it squelches our first amendment rights, but if one is going to apply it, at least apply it evenly..
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Really makes you wonder how much money the Lawyers (that would be Kerry+Edwards) paid him to do all this.
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Damn good thing Northface University is offering a college education without all the liberal bullshit!
No it's not tantamount to lying in your biography, it's a harmless error that doesn't change the meaning.
I don't know if you saw the movie but it was much tighter than his other films. He was very careful with his facts and it shows.
More importantly, whatever you think of his editorializing (and there's not really that much of it in this film), there's no disputing the footage of Bush, Cheney, and all the others- most of his material is straight from the horse's mouth.
The difference between Moore and most of the left is that he's not polite; the difference between Moore and the Rush Limbaughs of the world is that Moore is neither a bigot nor a liar. Conservatives can whine all day about the fact that Moore has a point of view, but when you actually see the films for yourself, you see that they're just desperately trying to distract your attention from the damning evidence that Moore presents.
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
Uh, if it's a dream sequence, maybe it doesn't belong in a FUCKING DOCUMENTARY.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
The fact is if you support W then you:
1. Agree in free markets and religion rule over human rights, separation of church and state; your ideals put you above the law; secrecy over openness; Reagan's blind idiology over reality; and worst of all, the ends justify the means, the the U.S. has a moral responsibility (read: religious, i.e. Christian responsibility) to change the world (see the Project for the New American Century <shudders>).
2. And/Or, you don't delve too much into the issues, which usually debunks point 1.
The RNC espoused how free Iraqi's are now vs. under Hussein. Hmm, 20k+ CIVILIAN casualties in one year doesn't appear any freer to me. Civilians still afraid to leave there homes doesn't seem any freer to me. And the fact that the Iraqi Olympic soccer team is sympathetic to the insurgents says something, especially since some of those guys in the past would be tortured under that worthless Qusay!
It also espoused how great our economy is, how well our schools are doing, how much safer we are (even tho we continue to have bogus Orange alerts and are constantly reminded of threats everywhere at every step) - all things that are easily refuted time and time again by the CBO, the press or some non-partisan group. Jesus, I can say I'll live if I jump off a skyscraper all I want. The the reality, however, and matter of factly, is I won't.
And since when did record deficits become an good thing???!! We came from a record surplus to a record deficit?! Don't tell me it's all about 9/11 cuz we've had worse wars and lost about the same in the Pearl Harbor attack. And remember, at least 1/3 of those lost in the towers were foreign workers.
As for taxes IT IS A FACT (FACT) that anyone making under $200k isn't going to see any significant relief. If you look into tax law (by all means, plase do!), you'd learn how stacked the Bush tax cut is to the wealthy. But then again, what did u expect?
The death tax? A joke. Only applies to estates $1m and over. Hmm, my mom's not gonna leave me a $1m+ estate, but she says that sounds like an unnecessary tax. Yah, if you're rich maybe. But if you're an average Joe, then you just got suckered by some political marketing, which the Republicans excel at.
Grants to faith based (i.e. religious) groups violates the separation of church and state pretty blatantly. Religion is fine, JUST KEEP IT OUT OF GOVT!
Assault on the environment. Yah, that's a pretty easy one.
'Frivilous Trial lawyers'. Hmmm, yah, why don't you read up on Scalia's son Eugene to #3 spot at the labor dept. And guess what he did in Texas - represented big biz in workmans comp claims. Hmm and now he's there to help the labor dept. Yah, it's obvious where this goes. Bush is the master, unfortunately, of acting on opposite of what he says. His trial lawyer stance is basically aimed at wiping out ALL claims, frivilous or not, against big biz.
God told him so. This is so whacked out that it's not even funny. Didn't God also tell Osama to do the things he's done? And also, didn't God tell Boykin that we will win against all enemies? Hmmm, an awful lot of God tellin everyone they're gonna win and usually, um, only one guy wins. Right? So who's gonna win then? I mean, God said all three of those guys are gonna win. A win, win, win situation?
Tom DeLay, Hastert, Frist, Santorum, Lott, Gingrich, Hannity, Coulter, Norquist, Limbaugh etc. These guys are your leaders and idealists ?! Their records speak for themselves and frankly, these guys should ALL be behind bars or at least reduced to actually doing a honest days work. A very hateful bunch.
Cheney. Halliburton. Bush Sr. Carlyle Group. Profiteering on death. Gee, what a great bunch of 'visionaries' and couragous human beings. Changing the world, no doubt. But for the better? Hardly.
Religious fundamentalism. The right wing's insistence on dragging rel
The world has it coming. Assholes.
This guy is obviously being moded down by whacked out liberals who don't want people to know that Michael Moore is the biggest deceiver of them all.
W is for Wrong.
What is the F in John Kerry for? "Flip-flop"? Come on, what are these guys doing, running for president of the 8th grade? I hate election years.
I still don't know.