Screw up.. an understatement.
Posted on 08/07/2004 11:33:23 AM PDT by freedom44
Tehran, Aug 7, IRNA -- American filmmaker Michael Moore's widely popular documentary 'Fahrenheit 9/11` will soon be screened on Iranian movie theaters, a head of the institute which runs the country's cinemas said in Tehran on Saturday. According to the broadcasting manager of the Farabi Cinematheque Foundation, Manuchehr Shahsavari, 'the (screen) rights of the movie has been bought' and work has started to prepare it for release.
The documentary, which has already made history by earning more than 100 million box office dollars in Canada and the United States, takes US President George W. Bush to task for the invasion of Iraq and his handling of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
It also bashes Bush for an erosion of US civil rights in the wake of the US-led war against terror and an alleged link between the Bush family and Al Qaeda terror network leader Osama bin Laden.
'Fahrenheit 9/11` begins by recounting the events of the last presidential election, which was decided in Florida. Many Americans believe that the Bush campaign stole the election from Al Gore by disenfranchizing black voters in the Sunshine State.
Bush won the election in Florida by 537 votes after a lengthy recount that eventually wound up in the US Supreme Court.
The movie that cost six million dollars to make and could not initially find a distributor after Walt Disney Corp refused to release it, is the first documentary ever in top spot at the US box office.
In just three days, 'Fahrenheit` smashed the $21.6-million-record for ticket sales for a documentary set over a nine-month run by Moore's Oscar-winning `Bowling for Columbine`.
The documentary which won the prestigious 'Palme d`Ore` at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, has evoked global welcome across the world people because of its plucky exposure of American politics and Bush's antics.
Moore seeks to provide the American electorate and the rest of the world with facts regarding US decision to invade Iraq, while vowing to 'liberate` it, and presents a harrowing future, if Bush is allowed to stay in office for a second time.
This man has done more damage to this country than bendict Arnold ever could have hoped to. He is a national disgrace.
You'd think Iran would get their propaganda films to their public sooner than this.
Otherwise known as: "STOP SHOVING THINGS INTO YOUR MOUTH, FAT-ASS!!!"
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
He is a traitor. He should be arrested for all the damage has done the US. Now he wants to destroy Iran's chances for democracy.
At the very least, how about telling him he can't come back into the country? He hates it so much, obviously.
My gawd. This Payvand guy/female that wrote this about Moore must be in love with the fat man Mikey!My email to him:
Dear Payvand:
So how long have you been sleeping with Michael Moore the liar !?
hehe! I didn't really send that. :^)
Warning: not very nice …..
Marines Express THEIR opinion of Michael Moore!
(Averts gaze.)
I saw an Arab commentator (on Fox)who saw Fareignheit9/11 He said MM was a narrow minded racist bigot,and that he didnt interview any Arabs although there are lots in Flint Michigan
Bump!
And yet the left says we're playing dirty by supporting the Swift Boat Vets. The destruction this man has done to our country is beyond measure.
This propaganda is bad.
The youth of Iran want to be more like us, then Moore fabricates this to the benefit of the current leaders.
Moore is doing more to hurt the American reputation in the world than Bin Laden could ever have dreamed of.
This is going to cause more Americans to die. The hatred of the left in this nation is intolerable. We are in a civil war.
BUMP!
There'a another article that updates this story about Iran showing the Fahrenheit movie and pulling everything else out of theaters, but I can't find the link now. Please post if you have it.
"...The anti-Bush sentiment of the ruling elites in the Middle East is reflected in efforts to screen "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's celluloid attack on the U.S. president. Last week, the mullahs running the Farabi Cinema complex in Tehran scrapped the season's program to screen Moore's "documentary."
"This film unmasks the Great Satan America," a spokesman said. "It tells Muslim people why they are right in hating America. It is the duty of every believer to see [this film] and learn the truth."
With the exception of Kuwait, which has banned it, Moore's film is shown or sold in pirated cassette form throughout the Arab world. Anti-American Arab television stations, including one owned by the Lebanese branch of the Hezbollah, have broadcast chunks of Moore's attack on Bush with commentaries more virulent than the original."
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