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Moore Vilifies American Soldiers
NewsMax.com ^ | 6/28/04 | Mike Gallagher

Posted on 06/28/2004 6:29:48 AM PDT by kattracks

You won't believe what Michael Moore does to the American soldier in his propaganda-filled "Fahrenheit 9/11."

I was ready for ugliness. I prepared myself for mean-spirited attacks. I guess I was just totally unprepared for what he does to our troops.

It's grotesque.

He basically takes a handful of soldiers who said and did some bad things and tries to portray them as what the American soldiers are all about in the war on terror.

And then, at the end of the film, after he rapes our soldiers' honor, integrity, and courage, he slaps up a written message on the screen that lasts for a few seconds and claims that he dedicates this vicious movie to those who died on 9/11 and the soldiers who have lost their lives in the war. As if that would nullify what he and his movie had just done to them.

Like many Americans, I had mixed emotions about seeing it. The idea of putting ten dollars into this deception master's pocket repulsed me. But after I was given an opportunity to see the movie for free, I decided that in this case, it was better to keep one's enemy closer than one's friend.

And make no mistake about it, Michael Moore is our enemy. If you need proof, go see the film.

The distortions are downright silly, almost juvenile. Let me poke at one that hasn't yet been written about very extensively. Moore portrays President Bush's 2000 inauguration as one that featured angry Americans lining the streets of Washington and pelting his motorcade with foreign objects, forcing the President to forego the customary walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.

I was at Bush's Inauguration in 2000. The President was in the car because it was raining. The streets were lined with cheering, happy Americans who were delighted that Al Gore and the Democrats didn't manage to steal the election.

But Moore shows footage of a handful of protesters and skillfully edits that shot into images of the motorcade driving down the street.

And wait until you see how he portrays Iraq prior to the invasion. Does he show any of Iraq's torture chambers? Any of the devastation and destruction that Saddam and his regime continually heaped upon his people? No, Michael Moore shows Iraqi children blissfully flying kites in the park. Heck, he even repeats the same footage of Saddam over and over again: chomping on a cigar, he's shown dancing with some clerics and Muslims. Sort of like Santa Claus with a beret, right, Michael?

This is a movie you should go see for yourself. Trying to wish it away won't make it so. The mainstream press is salivating over it ("Two thumbs up!" scream Ebert and what's-his-name). It's setting movie-attendance records, evidently. So you might as well suck it up and see firsthand how an America-hating, money-grubbing, real-life propagandist can influence the unknowing and unwitting masses.

Just like "Bowling for Columbine", Michael Moore exploits tragedy and heartache for his own profit in "Fahrenheit 9/11." Last time, he manipulated a Columbine victim for his anti-gun message (wheeling a shooting victim into a store that sold bullets to see if the store would refund the victim the cost of the bullets still lodged in the victim's body).

This time, it's an angry, grieving mother of a soldier who was killed in the war that Moore shamelessly exploits. Wiring her up with a microphone, his cameras capture her every sob and moan as she stands outside the White House railing against George W. Bush and the world for her loss.

Michael Moore is a terrorist's best friend. They don't need Al Jazeera to broadcast anti-American hatred. They've got the man who's winning awards and accolades for this movie. "Fahrenheit 9/11" can be shown at every terrorist training camp in the world. They can point to a Hollywood blockbuster as proof that our President is a buffoon and American soldiers are just a bunch of ignorant, vicious killers who love playing rock music as they mow down the poor kite-flying Iraqi children.

Go see the movie. Keep it in your heart and mind as you consider who to vote for in November.

And just wait until you see what he does to the American soldier.

Mike Gallagher's talk radio show has just recently been picked up in Houston and San Francisco. Besides his radio show and appearances on Fox News Channel, Gallagher is working on his first book, "Surrounded by Idiots: Fighting Liberal Lunacy in America", to be released in early 2005 by William Morrow, a Harper Collins imprint.



TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: fahrenheit911
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1 posted on 06/28/2004 6:29:49 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
I heard on the radio that Jabba's film will not be considered for an Oscar because according to the spokesman, "70% of it is false." Probably not the response jabba was expecting but the academy probably didn't want a repeat of Bowling for Lies.
2 posted on 06/28/2004 6:33:57 AM PDT by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: kattracks

I am glad that I have no desire to see this piece of trash. I might be something illegal if I saw this trashing of our soldiers.


3 posted on 06/28/2004 6:34:19 AM PDT by Piquaboy
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To: kattracks
Wrap him in pig skin...
oops..I forgot...he's already a pig.

Well, do something else that would be equivalent to him.

4 posted on 06/28/2004 6:34:54 AM PDT by evad (What's BAD for democRATs is GOOD for America)
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To: kattracks

It's not worthy of the word "film". It's a crockumentary.


5 posted on 06/28/2004 6:36:15 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: kattracks

The fifth columnist movie reviewer,Jeff Simon, was positively aglow with praise for Moore's movie. Simon especially appreciated Moore's "sensitivity" in only showing a black screen when the movie showed scenes from
9/11.
Simon obviously misses the irony(intentionally??)in his praise of Moore's "sensitivity."


6 posted on 06/28/2004 6:37:40 AM PDT by macrahanish #1
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To: evad

Wrap him in a lo-cal veggie-wrap.


7 posted on 06/28/2004 6:38:01 AM PDT by Gunrunner2
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To: kattracks
The idea of putting ten dollars into this deception master's pocket repulsed me.

When then, did the author of this piece do so? Why are we helping to make Mooran a bigger name than he deserves to be? Why are people so "taken" by him? He's a loser, and the country is making him a winner by going to his crapomentries.
8 posted on 06/28/2004 6:38:50 AM PDT by Rick.Donaldson (There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: kattracks

BTTT to illustrate that Moore is a total A-hole.


9 posted on 06/28/2004 6:40:00 AM PDT by b4its2late (John Kerry changes positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
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To: kattracks; sarasota; CzarNicky
I wouldn't mind seeing M.M. visit Fort Marcy Park. If he doesn't have his own car, it doesn't matter, Vince didn't need his.

Is that too tough?

10 posted on 06/28/2004 6:43:10 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("a "blow by blow" account of Clinton's entire miserable existence")
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To: kattracks
Moore is gambling this crude propaganda won't backfire, because, as he has stated numerous times, "the American public is stupid."

We'll see about that.

11 posted on 06/28/2004 6:43:13 AM PDT by rageaholic
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To: kattracks
It's setting movie-attendance records, evidently.

Boy, that's as big a distortion as anything IN the film...

12 posted on 06/28/2004 6:43:55 AM PDT by atomicpossum (I give up! Entropy, you win!)
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To: beyond the sea

Nah. Moore draws negativity and ill intentions based on his own actions. His film will fade from memory given today's events and Spiderman's opening this weekend. I hope he enjoyed his 15 minutes.


13 posted on 06/28/2004 6:45:51 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: macrahanish #1
Simon especially appreciated Moore's "sensitivity" in only showing a black screen when the movie showed scenes from 9/11.

Mike wouldn't want to graphically remind his audience what we are up against in the War on Terror. Why, his whole rickety house of cards might tumble!

14 posted on 06/28/2004 6:46:14 AM PDT by JennysCool ("I'm not worried about the deficit. It's big enough to take care of itself." - RWR)
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To: kattracks

Whatever happened to Hamas' offer to distribute the film throughout "Palestine"?


15 posted on 06/28/2004 6:46:16 AM PDT by Gefreiter
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To: kattracks

Be careful mr. moore, you can't fit in a spiderhole!


16 posted on 06/28/2004 6:50:13 AM PDT by longfellow
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To: b4its2late

spent about two hours yesterday putting out vids on kazza from the protestwarrior.com vids and reposting as MMs movie. :o)

more than likely the libdorks will actually think its from the movie


17 posted on 06/28/2004 6:54:51 AM PDT by ezo4
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To: Gunrunner2
Wrap him in a lo-cal veggie-wrap

Poor thing..
he wouldn't even be able to eat his way out. Probably never even seen a veggie.

Good one.

18 posted on 06/28/2004 6:55:02 AM PDT by evad (What's BAD for democRATs is GOOD for America)
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To: longfellow
Be careful mr. moore, you can't fit in a spiderhole!--

LOL!

19 posted on 06/28/2004 6:56:00 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("a "blow by blow" account of Clinton's entire miserable existence")
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To: ezoeni

LOL!


20 posted on 06/28/2004 6:59:05 AM PDT by b4its2late (John Kerry changes positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
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