Teachers union to screen Moore film: Convention showing of 'Fahrenheit 9/11' angers GOP members

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, July 6, 2004

[JohnHuang2]

Michael Moore's strongly anti-Bush film "Fahrenheit 9/11" will be shown at the National Education Association convention today in Washington, D.C., angering Republican members.

On Sunday, union officials distributed 10,000 fliers to individual state caucuses informing them the film would be screened in the main convention hall immediately after a speech by presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, the Washington Times reported.

Republican members, who comprise more than one-fourth of the union, reacted angrily to the announcement and the sharp anti-Bush tone of the convention.

Sissy Jochmann from the Pennsylvania delegation, called the Moore film "vicious," the Times reported, and said she would publicly call for "a timeout" if union leaders and members continued "bullying us with all their anti-Bush and anti-Republican rhetoric."

Defending the showing of the film, NEA President Reg Weaver said Moore donated it to help the union raise more political funds.

The union is asking delegates to contribute $20 to the NEA PAC to see the film.

"Some delegates from Wisconsin were sitting around at dinner the other night and said, 'Wouldn't it be great to have [the film] at the NEA Representative Assembly,' Weaver said, according to the Times.

"People contacted members of the California delegation. The next thing I knew, we got it. It's voluntary. If people don't want to watch it, they don't have to," the union president said.

Weaver led off the convention July 4 with a speech blasting the Bush administration for refusing to accept NEA positions and "the expertise that this organization brings to the table."

As WorldNetDaily reported, Moore's film got a rave review last week in the Communist Party USA's newspaper People's Weekly World. The paper noted the controversial film was packing theaters across the country. The Communist Party USA is fielding no candidate for president, as it usually does, in favor of forming a "united front" for unseating President Bush.

"The movie is a documentary that the American people themselves are a part of," explained the paper. "It follows the dark history of the Bush administration, hatched from the rotten egg of a stolen election. It shines a light on the dark corners of the Bush family's brazen disenfranchisement of tens of thousands of African American voters in Florida, the Bushes’ early – and oily – alliance with the ruling Saudi families, including the Bin Ladens, and the unspeakable toll on America' working-class families."

[skr]

The atmosphere at the convention could get very interesting.

[taxesareforever]

angering Republican members.


Well Republicans, how about cutting back on the education funding? It's a waste of taxpayer money anyway.

[JLS]

Here is the part I think is news:

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"On Sunday, union officials distributed 10,000 fliers to individual state caucuses informing them the film would be screened in the main convention hall immediately after a speech by presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, the Washington Times reported."
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And good news it is. Let al Querry tie himself closer and closer to Moore and his lying film.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Well Republicans, how about cutting back on the education funding? It's a waste of taxpayer money anyway.

I couldn't agree more, but this President rewards them in each and every budget.

[vetvetdoug]

The NEA is just an arm of the Democratic party. Note how much money the NEA has given to the Republican party over the past years.....nein, nich, zero, nada......