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Posted on 07/04/2004 6:20:01 AM PDT by Brian Mosely
MOORE: 'I DON'T LIKE THIS FILM BEING REDUCED TO BUSH VS. KERRY'
Sun Jul 04 2004 08:59:00 ET
New York – “I don’t like this film being reduced to Bush vs. Kerry,” Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore tells TIME’s Richard Corliss in this week’s cover story. Moore tells TIME, “When Clinton was president I went after him. And if Kerry’s president, on Day Two I’ll be on him.”
This election year, with stakes and tempers high, a potent non-fiction genre is emerging: the agit-doc, dealing with high-octane political issues, often in a confrontational tone, Corliss writes. Trailing on Moore’s box office clout, they are surging into the mainstream. One agit-doc, The Hunting of the President, co-directed by Clinton pal Harry Thomason, was originally to go to 30 theaters; now its distributor has revved the number to 125, and has put the film’s trailer on many screens showing Fahrenheit 9/11. The Army and Air Force Exchange Service, which books films to be shown on military bases around the world, has contacted Fahrenheit’s distributor to book the film, TIME reports.
“We’ve underestimated the audience’s desire to see [political] material,” says Robert Greenwald, director of Uncovered: The War on Iraq, a sober and devastating critique of Bush foreign policy. “I don’t think it’s about hating the President. It’s that politics has been brought home to the deepest part of ourselves. People now feel ‘Politics is Me’.”
Today people get their news and, just as important, their attitudes from more rambunctious sources: from the polarized polemicists on talk radio and cable news channels, from comedians and webmasters. That’s poli-tainment, and as practiced by Rush Limbaugh and a host of right-wing radio hosts, and by Matt Drudge on the internet, it hounded Bill Clinton’s presidency while spicing and coarsening the standards of political discourse, Corliss writes.
Fahrenheit 9/11 may be the watershed event that demonstrates whether the empire of poli-tainment can have decisive influence on a presidential campaign, Corliss writes. If it does, we may come to look back on its hugely successful first week the way we now think of the televised presidential debate between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon, as a moment when we grasped for the first time the potential of a mass medium to affect American politics in new ways. In which case, expect the next generation of campaign strategists to precede every major election not only with the traditional TV ad buys but also with a scheme for the rollout of some thermonuclear book or movie or CD or even video game, all designed to tilt the political balance just in time, Corliss writes.
Andrew Sullivan asks: Is Michael Moore Actually Mel Gibson’s Alter Ego? In a related essay, Sullivan writes, “There are times when the far right and the far left are so close in methodology as to be indistinguishable. And both movies are not just terrible as movies—crude, boring, gratuitous; they are also deeply corrosive of the possibility of real debate and reason in our culture. They replace argument with feeling, reasoned persuasion with the rawest of group loyalties.”
Moore is a Freaking Liar!
con man
Get a grip. It isn't Bush v. Kerry.
It's just a festival of leftist Bush bashing.
How can he think he made a film that promotes Kerry over Bush when Kerry is some non-entity that appeals only because Moore creates the ultimate in Stalinesque propaganda.
The DNC should be proud. They should also be quaking in their boots should the democrats take control because all gloves are off and they provided the template.
Paybacks are nasty...
What a low life, scum sucking, bottom dwelling creep
Riiiiight. Anyone who believes that, I have a nice bridge to sell ya!
So, you're saying that you simply hate America since it wouldn't matter who's in charge?
Is this an assassination threat?
"WASHINGTON, January 21, 2005 (UPI) - Newly sworn in President John Kerry was crushed to death today...."
Moore's so full of $hit, the whites of his eyes are turning brown.
Then let's reduce it to MOORE VS. AMERICA.
Oh, yeah what you said. And the name of that movie was......?
During WWII, this traitor would have been jailed. And he should be now. Aid and comfort to the enemy.
Couldn't have said it better!
shove your lying film up you butt
M&M is a fat little boy, malcontent, probably picked on in school. I believe he needs to look up the the meaning of, "projection." If so, he would see all these silly butt movies he supposedly directs, are about him and his warped little mind.
This is the best that Time magazine could do for a 4th of July issue?
Will this nut ever learn to speak the truth?
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