Posted on 05/18/2004 6:45:20 AM PDT by KeyLargo
...who later became the Texas money manager for the bin Laden family (which has renounced its terrorist son).
Hey Rog, that renouncing is a lot more than most other muslims have done.
Near the beginning of the film, as Congress moves to ratify the election of Bush after the Florida and Supreme Court controversies, it is positively eerie to see 10 members of Congress -- eight black women, one Asian woman and one black man -- rise to protest the move and be gaveled into silence by the chairman of the session, Al Gore.
Eerie? What planet are you on Mr. Ebert? It is a matter of procedure. What is eerie is the third time selection of Sudan on the UN's Human Rights Commission. A (black) representative from the US walked out in protest.
Moaning about the Democrat's nearly successful attempt to steal the 2000 election is just sour grapes designed to swing the kids who were 14 in 2000.
On the night before his film premiered, Moore, in uncharacteristic formalwear, attended an official dinner given by Gilles Jacob, president of the festival. Conversation at his table centered on the just-published New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh alleging that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally authorized use of torture in Iraqi prisons.
Moore had his own insight into the issue: "Rumsfeld was under oath when he testified about the torture scandal. If he lied, that's perjury. And therefore I find it incredibly significant that when Bush and Cheney testified before the 9/11 commission, they refused to swear an oath. They claimed they'd sworn an oath of office, but that has no legal standing. Do you suppose they remembered how Clinton was trapped by perjury and were protecting themselves?"
Soooo now purjury is an impeachable offense?
John Kerry told the congress (under oath or not, it doesn't seem to matter to Lord Guffaw Guffaw) that he and others in the military committed war crimes. Genocide. In 2001 he denied these claims and said that they were the words of an angry "young" (nearly 30) man.
That's treason to lie to the media and government in a time of to reduce morale at home and abroad so as to provide aid and comfort to the enemy.
The totalitarian rulers (commies) Michael Moore serves DEMAND that he keep changing the truth as to fit the current climate. If one of his lies is exposed then he just retroactively denies he ever said it.
My contract says I can keep editing and adding stuff right up until the release date,"
Does the Cannes Film Festival permit "works in progress" to be screened? Do they consider them to be elligible for competition with completed works?
-- His likening of the Bill the Butcher character in “Gangs of New York” – a cleaver-waving, mass-murdering thug – to Katherine Harris. Ebert’s point, made on “Ebert & Roeper”: Both Bill the Butcher and Harris used whatever means possible to take and keep power. Even the Democratic National Committee comes up with more sophisticated insults disguised as insights.
FWIW: Bill The Butcher worked for Tammany Hall, THE Democrat crooked machine. Nice bit of projection from Mr. Ebert.
That's just what Michael Moore has been giving the US for over a decade.
The media's fawning over this obvious campaign ad posing as "a mockumentary" should be labelled collectively "Triumph of the Ill Will" (and no I did not originate that phrase, just borrowing it from another FReeper for this context).
2 other ways of saying this:
- Better dead than Red.
- Live free or die.
True, the original incident was described as "an accident". The second even made it clear it was no accident. What was the time between those two impacts and how long did it even take for news of the first impact to reach president Bush?
Michael Moore starts his clock when President Bush is first notified. Why not start the clock even earlier when the first plane hit but there was no call?
It again is like the JFK tinfoilers. They say that no one can shoot 3 shots in x number of seconds. You really only need to shoot 2 shots in that number. The first shot had unlimited time to set up. The clock starts with setting up the second shot.
Roger was introduced to her by Russ Meyer (who I believe located her through an escort service). Russ discusses this on the commentary track of the laser disc.
Roger didn't marry her for well over a decade.
Eerie? I don't know but definitely creepy.
"Ebert has allowed his pathological hatred of Bush to ruin the majority of his reviews over the past three years. At least one of his weekly movie reviews HAS to have some juvenile anti-Bush cheap shot. He's gone from being one of the best newspaper critics to a tiresome, petulant crank."
That trend is so depressing. I guess he gets lots of support for that in Chicago, but he's alienating at least half the rest of the country.
Entertainment people shouldn't abuse their power and spew political stuff, especially leftists.
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That is SOOOO Gross!
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That is SOOOO Gross!
I'll give Ebert this. He was one of the few major critics who didn't totally trash The Passion. His review was at least semi respectful. Other than that I haven't paid much attention to him in a very long time.
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