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Originally posted by spacedoubt
Moore,
Love him or hate him, you have to respect him for knowing how
to manipulate both sides of world opinion into promoting his SUPER-BIASED
piece of work. If you pay money to see this, you are the USEFUL IDIOT
he's counting on, and I really mean COUNTING, as in large piles of cash.
What happens when you mix Hollywood and France?
An award for Micheal Moore, and a lot of Jerry Lewis on Video.
Speaking of Jerry Lewis, he is popular in France, because his characters
represent pefectly, the French opinion of Americans...Goofy Buffoons with no class..
However we do bathe more often....Except for a few exceptions, like, hmm
Michael Moore... Thereby closing the mystery of the Cannes Award..
Originally posted by Alchy
There was no terrorism in Iraq before the war and
Originally posted by KrazyIvan
ha ha ha i love it!...
After several incarnations, Arbusto emerged in 1986 as Harken Energy Corporation. When Harken ran into trouble a year later, Saudi Sheik Abdullah Taha Bakhsh purchased a 17.6 percent stake in the company. Bakhsh was a business partner with Pharaon in Saudi Arabia; his banker there just happened to be bin Mahfouz
Though Bush told the Wall Street Journal he had �no idea� BCCI was involved in Harken�s financial dealings, the network of connections between Bush and BCCI is so extensive that the Journal concluded their investigation of the matter in 1991 by stating: �The number of BCCI-connected people who had dealings with Harken�all since George W. Bush came on board�raises the question of whether they mask an effort to cozy up to a presidential son.�
Worst of all, bin Mahfouz allegedly has been financing the bin Laden terrorist network�making Bush a U.S. citizen who has done business with those who finance and support terrorists. According to USA Today, bin Mahfouz and other Saudis attempted to transfer $3 million to various bin Laden front operations in Saudi Arabia in 1999. ABC News reported the same year that Saudi officials stopped bin Mahfouz from contributing money directly to bin Laden. (Bin Mahfouz�s sister is also a wife of Osama bin Laden, a fact that former CIA Director James Woolsey revealed in 1998 Senate testimony
Originally posted by Alchy
Who cares about the life of Moore?
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of "dissenting" bravery.
Perhaps vaguely aware that his movie so completely lacks gravitas, Moore concludes with a sonorous reading of some words from George Orwell. The words are taken from 1984 and consist of a third-person analysis of a hypothetical, endless, and contrived war between three superpowers. The clear intention, as clumsily excerpted like this (...) is to suggest that there is no moral distinction between the United States, the Taliban, and the Baath Party and that the war against jihad is about nothing. If Moore had studied a bit more, or at all, he could have read Orwell really saying, and in his own voice, the following:
" The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists, whose real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writing of the younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States �"
And that's just from Orwell's Notes on Nationalism in May 1945. A short word of advice: In general, it's highly unwise to quote Orwell if you are already way out of your depth on the question of moral equivalence. It's also incautious to remind people of Orwell if you are engaged in a sophomoric celluloid rewriting of recent history.
Originally posted by Muaddib
The Guardian of London is reporting that organizations related with terrorism are promoting Michael Moore's film Farenheit 9/11, in the United Arab Emirates.
HOLLYWOOD VS. AMERICA
Michael Moore film appeals to terrorists
'Fahrenheit 9/11' gets thumbs-up from Hezbollah
The terror-war supporting organization Move America Forward released a statement today saying the news about Hezbollah proves a contention it made about terrorist endorsement of Moore's award-winning documentary.
Earlier this week, Move America Forward Vice Chair Melanie Morgan declared: "It would be more appropriate to have this propaganda shown at al-Qaida training camps rather than American movie theaters."
Please visit the link provided for the complete story.
The organization later released an apology for Morgan's statement, saying she didn't go far enough in her criticism.
Related News
HOLLYWOOD VS. AMERICA
Theaters wary of Michael Moore film
Move America Forward
Hezbollah supports Michael Moore�s �Fahrenheit 9/11
Most people don�t realize that the organization called �Move America Forward� is actually behind this hoax, they are an organization manufactured by the Republican Party. The Firm Russo, Marsh & Rogers; who received $2,475,223 in payment from Republican politicians and nothing at all from Democrat politicians, was launched in June 2004 www.MoveAmericaForward.org claim, quote �to be a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization.� Unquote. They have been involved in over 350 campaigns at local, state and federal levels. quote �At RM&R we think outside the box and don�t stop until you win. There are no simplistic formulas, creativity is essential. With our strategy and skill at implementing the right tactics. RM&R is a proven organization with a solid track record of winning races unquote. The claim that has been used that Hezbollah supports this film was made by an anonymous phone call, gee I wonder who that was? This is the same group who organized the recent campaign to recall California Governor Grey Davis they have launched a campaign to harass the owners of movie theaters that are planning to show Michael Moore�s �Fahrenheit 9/11. Some have reportedly received death threats.
The pro war groups are aided by public relations companies with millions of dollars to work with, they are trying to trick people into not seeing the movie.
Mr. Moore�s movie is the real deal what he reports has been documented, it�s been in world newspapers and in the governments own records. The Administration does not want the American Joe and Joanne public to see or read about it.
There are a lot of companies and organizations out there that want an ongoing war and will stop at nothing to get it and, they don�t want us to have the freedom to see it, they don�t want us to have the freedom to make up our own minds, they don�t want us to have the freedom to choose what we will know, and most of all they don�t want us to know that it was all lies. You don�t have to agree with what is in Mr. Moore�s movie but you must have the right to have that choice.
The DNS registration debacle
The Move America Forward website is available at two internet addresses:
� www.moveamericaforward.org...
� www.moveamericaforward.com...
The .com address was first registered using this information [10]:
Registrant:
Russo Marsh & Rogers
770 L Street, #950
Sacramento, CA 95814
US
Domain name: MOVEAMERICAFORWARD.COM
Administrative Contact:
Lorenz, Douglas [email protected]
770 L Street, #950
Sacramento, CA 95814
US
916-441-3734 Fax: 916-441-6057
Technical Contact:
Lorenz, Douglas [email protected]
770 L Street, #950
Sacramento, CA 95814
US
916-441-3734 Fax: 916-441-6057
Registrar of Record: easyDNS Technologies, Inc.
Record last updated on 18-Nov-2003.
Record expires on 18-Nov-2004.
Record created on 18-Nov-2003.
After the above registration was exposed and discussed on the Internet, on 12 June 2004, the .com registration was changed to the following information, which makes no mention of RM+R and uses a mailbox address:
Registrant:
Move America Forward
P.O. Box 1863
Sacramento, CA 95812
US
Domain name: MOVEAMERICAFORWARD.COM
Administrative Contact:
Kaloogian, Howard [email protected]
P.O. Box 1863
Sacramento, CA 95812
US
916-441-6197 Fax: 916-441-6057
Technical Contact:
Kaloogian, Howard [email protected]
P.O. Box 1863
Sacramento, CA 95812
US
916-441-6197 Fax: 916-441-6057
Registrar of Record: easyDNS Technologies, Inc.
Record last updated on 13-Jun-2004.
Record expires on 18-Nov-2004.
Record created on 18-Nov-2003.
Originally posted by RANT
Off the top of my head, another fat baztid comes to mind now studied in every Film & Media Appreciation class from now until the end of time, Orsen Wells.