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feelinahole
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Posted 7/17/2004 6:23 AM (GMT -6)

http://www.newsmax.com/adv/moore/?af_id=829

Tom
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Posted 7/17/2004 12:45 PM (GMT -6)

Duuuuude!

Red Airplane
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Posted 7/17/2004 4:36 PM (GMT -6)

Christopher Hitchens wrote an expose of Moore's lies in the 911 film.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723

sometimesisquint
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Posted 7/17/2004 4:38 PM (GMT -6)

I really used to like Michael Moore-as I was blinded by the need for a humorous, intelligent voice of dissension. The truth is he seems much more interested in entertainment than truthful speculation. He'd connect Mother Theresa with Watergate if he thought it might get someone to spend $7.50 on a drawn-out, unscrupulous investigation to that effect.

His agenda is obvious...what is not, however, is why he thinks a fifty (yes, FIFTY!) year-old man dressing like a post-grunge twenty-something hipster is cool. Take note, there are only two people in the history of fashion awareness who could pull off wearing the zip-up hoodie without a brassy sort of awkwardness: Tony Hawk and Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu (a certain Balkan nun who devoted herself in Calcutta).

"What's partner yoga?"

"It's when you're two with the universe."

-My Friend Keith

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When life gives you dish rags, you make...a kite that won't fly in the rain.

feelinahole
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Posted 7/17/2004 4:40 PM (GMT -6)

The sad thing is we need people to keep our government honest, but Moore seems to be promoting one thing: himself.
It should be noted that Hitchens is not a conservative. He is not a friend of Bushs, but a liberal.

sometimesisquint
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Posted 7/17/2004 4:45 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by feelinahole

The sad thing is we need people to keep our government honest, but Moore seems to be promoting one thing: himself.

Oh, so true.

"What's partner yoga?"

"It's when you're two with the universe."

-My Friend Keith

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When life gives you dish rags, you make...a kite that won't fly in the rain.

GregBoyd
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Posted 7/19/2004 3:17 PM (GMT -6)

Sans the conspiracy stuff and showboating, I thought the the second half of 911 was worth seeing. The video clips redeemed it. I give an admittedly biased thumbs UP> Bandit

"The responsibility is with the chooser -- God is blameless." Plato, Republic, 10.

BBBCanada
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Posted 7/20/2004 6:58 AM (GMT -6)

Jeffrey Overstreet's (who writes for CT Mag) review. Pretty good if I do say so myself.

promontoryartists.org/lookingcloser/movie%20reviews/A-G/fahrenheit911.htm

Brandon

"Corporations are simply the kind of structure that rises when hordes of people need to be managed, and after spending some time in a large church, I've found that our spirituality does not exempt us from these inefficient and dehumanizing practices."--Steve Lansingh's review of "The Office" at The Film Form

funkytown
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Posted 7/20/2004 8:28 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by GregBoyd

Sans the conspiracy stuff and showboating, I thought the the second half of 911 was worth seeing. The video clips redeemed it. I give an admittedly biased thumbs UP>

Me too. God told me not to vote for George Bush. Wink

feelinahole
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Posted 7/20/2004 9:13 AM (GMT -6)

http://www.moorelies.com/

The fact that Moore has alienated at least as many liberal as conservatives should tell you something about his character. When you are a liberal and alienate the staff of "Mother Jones" magazinr you definitely have issues.

911 could have been a great film IF Moore had stuck to the facts. Instead, he maniqulated them.

A good take on is in the book "Michael Moore Is a Stupid White Man."

feelinahole
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Posted 7/20/2004 9:16 AM (GMT -6)

Another good site...

http://www.mooreexposed.com/

Doctor Boyd: conspirary and showboating was the WHOLE movie.

sometimesisquint
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Posted 7/20/2004 1:11 PM (GMT -6)

I want to see the film, I've just been a bit dismayed by the whole Moore spectacle. His rhetoric has become so agenda-rich. It seems less about truth lately and more (pun Bandit2

) about the political machine. His trend of manipulating the facts to sway an audience instead of letting the truth do the job seems as pathetic as the partisan-level smoke-and-mirrors game we're forced to witness every day on FNC and CNN.

I'm sick of disingenuous people trying to influence the system by disingenuous means. That’s the entire reason most people hate the Political arena…he isn’t helping the problem. Initially his voice was one of the reasons disenfranchised Americans (usually younger disenfranchised Americans) gained interest. Now he is as soaked in the arrogant hypocritical exploitation as the rest of the politicians he snubs and demeans. Michael Moore is the Left-version of Rush Limbaugh.

To quote Michael Keaton in The Paper, he has “become everything [he] used to hate.”

"What's partner yoga?"

"It's when you're two with the universe."

-My Friend Keith

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When life gives you dish rags, you make...a kite that won't fly in the rain.

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