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Democrats were abuzz and Republicans aghast yesterday as Bush-hating filmmaker Michael Moore unveiled plans to descend upon, and steal some thunder from, John F. Kerry's hometown nominating party. Moore will team up with the Democratic presidential primary's chief Bush critic, Howard Dean [related, bio], for one of his three Hub appearances in the first two days of the convention. Republicans said the "Fahrenheit 9/11" creator will reflect poorly as a surrogate for Kerry. "It's just another example of the pessimism and the conspiracy theories coming from John Kerry and John Kerry surrogates," said Kevin Madden, spokesman for the Bush-Cheney campaign....

Australian government minister brands US moviemaker an ugly American Wed Jul 21, 4:24 PM ET Add Offbeat - AFP to My Yahoo! CANBERRA (AFP) - US filmmaker Michael Moore, whose anti-war documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, has been praised and savaged by critics around the world, was described by an Australian government minister Wednesday as "the quintessential ugly American." Moore's film, which won the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival (news - web sites), has attracted sell-out audiences in Australia where it has been viewed by some critics as a justified critique of US President George W. Bush (news -...

As I understand it, broadcasts advocating the election or defeat of a candidate for federal office cannot be aired X days before a general election. If that is the case then isn't it the case that: 1. Michael Moore is prohibited from running commercials for the DVD/Video release of F911 within that period of time before the general election; and 2. Cable companies are prohibited from broadcasting F911 (either programmed broadcasting or "on demand" pay-per-view) within that period before the general election? Has there been anything written on this? Is there any litigation or FEC complaints pending?

(This is translated from Spajish using a little Babelfish and a little of me) The Prague, Czech Republic (16 July 2004). - The Czech President, Vaclav Klaus, compared documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 with the communist propaganda and blamed the jury of the Festival of Cannes of "anti-americanism". The film of Moore "is not worthy of recognition," “offers nothing original to cinematography" and "trivializes by being over-dramatic" the events surrounding Iraq, wrote the agent chief executive of 63 years in an article that publishes the preservative newspaper Lidove today noviny. The Czech President emphasizes that he finds it "incomprehensible" that the film...

Michael Moore might be in trouble in America for violating the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance rules. Fahrenheit 9/11, a movie lambasting President George W. Bush for the decision to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, comes awfully close to being a political advertisement. The message? Don't vote for Bush. That's what David T. Hardy, coauthor of Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man, thinks. He says McCain-Feingold is a "weird law" that would apply to the advertising for Moore's recent flick. And now, a new website is claiming Moore is also in breach of an election law north of the border. When...

Hopefully, chubby tubby Mooreon will get a little jail time.

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania-AP -- A theater operator is offering Republicans the chance to see the movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11" for free. Eric Faden (FAY'den) of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, says he found that few of his conservative friends were watching the movie because they didn't want to support the film's director financially. So on Saturday he's offering to buy tickets for any card-carrying Republicans who want to see it at a special showing. Faden says he's not trying to convince anyone that director Michael Moore is right. He says the film is "fantastic" but also "fantastically flawed." A local Republican leader is praising Faden...

Elections Canada will lay charges against shockumentary filmmaker Michael Moore. Officially, Elections Canada will neither confirm nor deny plans to lay formal charges against Moore. However, Canadafreepress.com has learned through sources that charges are imminent and expected by the end of next week. The anti-Bush Moore, who often lets his mouth get ahead of him, may think he got away with the boner of the Canadian release of Fahrenheit 9/11 just days ahead of the June 28 federal election, but there is the little matter of election law infringement. Moore’s pre-election advice lecturing Canadian voters not to vote Conservative quickly...

Here's further proof that Mickey-Mouth, Jabba The Haw-Haw, The Round Mound of Nothing Profound, The Dumberest Stupid White Guy Alive, Michael Moore will have minimal impact on this Fall's Election. If Opinionworks is accurate in it's polling, he's the only major Democrat who's been less effective than John Deadwards ( http://orsa.blogspot.com/2004/07/liberal-liberal-almost-no-bounce.html) in helping Senator Kerry change job descriptions and qualify for that promotion he's after. Here are some poll questions asked of those leaving the theatre after F9/11. How would you grade the movie for its accuracy and truthfulness? A...................................................................................61% B...................................................................................31% C.....................................................................................6% D.....................................................................................2% F.....................................................................................0% Did the movie exaggerate some things...

PARIS -- When "Fahrenheit 9/11" was selected for the Cannes film festival, another documentary about George W. Bush was waiting in the wings in case Michael Moore's film wasn't ready in time. "The organizers were keen to include our film in the Official Selection but felt it was politically incorrect to have two anti-Bush documentaries at Cannes," says Jean-Francois Lepetit, whose Flach Film produced "Le Monde Selon Bush" (The World According to Bush). Directed by seasoned documentary maker William Karel, the 90-minute film could scarcely be more different to Moore's pamphlet that went on to win the Palme d'Or. Karel's...

• At least one Northern Virginia moviegoer walked out in a huff after watching just a half-hour of "Fahrenheit," and she wants our readers to know about it. Loyal Republican Lenora Tomalin, 81, called us to report that she left her relatives in their seats at the Regal theater in Sterling and headed for the lobby during the scene when Moore, in a voiceover, suggests thoughts President Bush might have had in a Florida classroom the morning of Sept. 11. "I was enraged . . . I thought it was very sophomoric," she says. "There was laughter and I would...

July 13, 2004Edwards, Kerry Smile While Moore and Gore Stoke 'Bush Hatred'By Mort KondrackeSen. John Kerry's (D-Mass.) selection of Sen. John Edwards (N.C.) as his running mate represents the sunny side of the Democratic presidential campaign. Unfortunately, there's also a dark side, represented by former Vice President Al Gore and filmmaker Michael Moore, whose falsehood-laced film, "Fahrenheit 9/11," has been praised by the chairman of the Democratic National Committee and publicly repudiated by no top party official. President Bush's campaign manager, Ken Mehlman, told me that he thinks that "hate-filled" diatribes from what he calls "the coalition of the...

ON WISCONSIN : LIVE : MOVIES : E-MAIL | PRINT THIS Thanks to anonymous donors, the Rosebud Cinema Drafthouse will have two free showings this Friday of "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's controversial, documentary-like film about President Bush and the war in Iraq. According to theater manager Peter Mueller, the screenings are being sponsored by "a couple that wishes to remain anonymous." The couple asked that their identity be withheld, Mueller said in an e-mail, because "they feel the emphasis of this should be on the viewing and discussion" of the film and "they don't want to take anything away from...

In August of 1864, when the Democratic National Convention met in Chicago, the following plank was added to the platform which was passed by the majority of delegates: This convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war ... justice, humanity, liberty and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an immediate convention of the states, or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be...

MICHAEL Moore messed with the wrong rocker when he charged that The Who's Pete Townshend refused to allow his classic hit "Won't Get Fooled Again" to be used in "Fahrenheit 9/11." Biting back on his Web site, Townshend said the reason the song wasn't used was not because he was for the war in Iraq (which he admits he was), but because he doesn't trust Moore's accuracy in reporting and regards Moore as a bully. "When first approached, I knew nothing about the content of his film 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' " Townshend writes. "I had not really been convinced by 'Bowling...

Fahrenheit Lie #1 National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice is depicted in the movie telling a reporter, “Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11.” The scene deceptively shows the Administration directly blaming Saddam and his regime for the attacks on 9/11 by taking her comments out of context. Now read the entire statement made by Ms. Rice to the reporter: “Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It’s not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11. But if you think about what caused 9/11,...

Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary has wowed liberals the world over - but how do Republicans feel about it? Suzanne Goldenberg takes a few to see Fahrenheit 9/11 in Texas and Washington -------------- It's a rare and brave Republican who ventures across the garishly lit lobby of a 16-screen multiplex and plonks his money down for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 - and nowhere more so than in Texas. This stretch of west Houston suburb, a land of strip malls and unspooling freeways, is rock solid conservative terrain, the adopted home of the Bush family dynasty. The radio in the rental car,...

Townshend fuming over Fahrenheit row Rock legend Pete Townshend has launched a scathing attack at film-maker Michael Moore, saying he has been "bullied and slurred" by the director. Last year, the Stupid White Men author Moore approached the The Who guitarist to ask the star permission to use his song Won't Get Fooed Again in his controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which criticises George Bush's administration. Townshend refused to let the Oscar-winning director use the song, because the rocker didn't enjoy Moore's previous films Bowling for Columbine and Roger and Me. Townshend fumes: "Michael Moore has been making some claims, using...

Havana, Jul 9 (EFE).- Cubans will no longer have to find pirated copies of the controversial film "Fahrenheit 9/11" in the island's illegal "private video libraries" because the government has decided to debut Michael Moore's documentary across the country this month.

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle -- embroiled in a tough re-election campaign in South Dakota -- distanced himself this week from documentary film director Michael Moore, whose "Fahrenheit 9/11" D.C. premiere he attended last month.     Mr. Daschle disputes a claim by Mr. Moore that he -- as the highest elected Democratic official in the nation -- hugged the filmmaker after the screening and promised to fight more vigilantly against the policies of President Bush.     "I know we senators all tend to look alike," Mr. Daschle said, according to the Rapid City Journal in South Dakota. "But I arrived late and...

Seems being close to Moore isn't playing well in Rapid City...

Michael Moore has been making some claims – mentioning me by name - which I believe distort the truth. He says – among other things – that I refused to allow him to use my song WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN in his latest film, because I support the war, and that at the last minute I recanted, but he turned me down. I have never hidden the fact that at the beginning of the war in Iraq I was a supporter. But now, like millions of others, I am less sure we did the right thing. When first approached I...

Already praised by the Communist Party USA and the Revolutionary Communist Party, Michael Moore's hit film "Fahrenheit 9/11" has a new honor – great notices in the today's edition of the Socialist Worker, the newspaper of the International Socialist Organization. "Millions upon millions of people in the U.S. are terrified at what George W. Bush has in store for them if he wins another four years in the White House," the story reads. "This is the secret of the success of Michael Moore’s 'Fahrenheit 9/11' – a documentary film that exposes the crimes of the Bush presidency, from the war...

KURTZ: Christopher Hitchens, you write that the movie is "a piece of crap," "a sinister exercise" and "a big lie." I get the impression that you didn't like it. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, VANITY FAIR: Actually, I didn't say the first thing. It's not my style. But if pressed, I probably would have wanted to say that. KURTZ: Why do you dislike the movie so much? HITCHENS: I made also some of the points that Michael has just made about the -- Moore must have known that Richard Clarke could say this. Maybe he did say it, and Moore didn't think it...

"Fahrenheit 9/11" is making mega-bucks in American theaters and — with some help from terrorists who also are Michael Moore fans — it could prove a blockbuster in the Middle East too. The film industry publication Screendaily.com reports that the movie will soon debut in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain. “In terms of marketing,” Screendaily.com announces, Mr. Moore “is getting a boost from organizations related to Hezbollah.”  Yes, that Hezbollah: the Syrian- and Iranian-backed terrorist group that pioneered suicide bombings against Americans more than 20 years ago in Beirut, the terrorist group...

Michael Moore has been making some claims – mentioning me by name - which I believe distort the truth. He says – among other things – that I refused to allow him to use my song WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN in his latest film, because I support the war, and that at the last minute I recanted, but he turned me down. I have never hidden the fact that at the beginning of the war in Iraq I was a supporter. But now, like millions of others, I am less sure we did the right thing. When first approached I...

I just saw the cover of Entertainment Weekly in the grocery store and I can't believe it. That's right, Lumpy Riefenstahl wearing an American flag shirt. The man who has gone on about how stupid he thinks Americans are, and is openly rooting for Islamists to kill more of us. Unbelievable.

Has "Spider-Man 2" pushed "Fahrenheit 9/11" director Michael Moore out of the limelight? And is Moore having trouble coping with his predictable drop from the top spot? ---(snip)--- Kid Rock balked. "I don't want to see that, it's all propaganda," the rock star said - sparking a prolonged political debate right there on the sidewalk. "Russell, don't you understand, everything we got in this country, we got from fighting," Kid Rock argued, according to Simmons' account. "It's just a movie. ... I'd rather go to the bar across the street." Kid Rock refused to see the movie, and said goodbye....

Hey, Michael, Where Were Your Friends? Once upon a time, there was Michael Moore the First. He never forgot his friends. Come time for the Washington, DC premiere of Bowling for Columbine a while back, he invited his old buddies in Washington—gave them good seats and spent the rest of the evening with them. During his other movie's premiere, he affectionately recognized how much those old friends helped him and supported him after he was mistreated and let go by Mother Jones. He was generous with his words and time. Now there is Michael Moore the Second. Last night he...

Bush by 1%, and we know that doesn't matter. But what does matter, folks, is Rasmussen is the only viable measurement vehicle out right now that can show if F911 had any impact on opinion at all. Answer: NO.

June 29 (Bloomberg) -- A political activist rang me up and told me I had to see the new documentary about the president. ``It's chilling,'' he said. ``It shows what a slimeball this guy is.'' So I saw the movie, and it was -- how to put this? -- a crock. Watching it I thought: Whoever produced this slanderous mess deserves to be run out of polite society. That was 10 years ago, and the documentary was a slapdash confection of lies and innuendo called ``The Clinton Chronicles.'' It accused Bill Clinton -- slyly and indirectly -- of drug- running...

Moore's New Film Firing Up VotersSome say it breaks new campaign law By Robert J. McCarthyNews Political Reporter July 6, 2004 Samantha Erck and Samantha Yarema could hardly contain themselves as they left the Regal Cinema on Elmwood Avenue last week. The two Buffalo State College students had just viewed "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's film that's chock full of complaints about the war in Iraq and other issues involving President Bush - released just in time for election season. Their eyes flashing in the blackness of the darkened theater, the two Samanthas left no doubt that the movie had fired...

Filmmaker Michael Moore's latest effort, Fahrenheit 9/11, has set a higher goal for itself than most films: regime change.The title, which is a modern take on the classic science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 about a degenerate futuristic society, is fitting in more than one way. The Fahrenheit scale, representing a system of temperature measurement unique to the United States and a few other countries, is analogous to the film's distinctive undertaking: to unseat a president. In essence, the critical offensive to which Moore subjects President George W Bush is a phenomenon that no one in the rest of the world -...

The link above goes to the ABC website showing the tape obtained by Time magazine this week showing a terrorist bombing, killing three US soldiers, under the heading, "Terror Tape". As an aside, guess who is on the cover of Time this week. Yep the rotund America hater, michael moore, who said that he had cameramen in Iraq. Also of interest. Michael Moore’s Middle East Distributors: We Won’t Reject Help From Hezbollah

The head of the National Education Association opened the largest school union's annual convention yesterday with a call for public school teachers and employees to mobilize politically to help defeat President Bush this fall. "I know that if we put forth our best effort, we are going to win," Reg Weaver told a cheering audience in a 30-minute speech in which he criticized Mr. Bush and Education Secretary Rod Paige. "Our 2.7 million members can be the 'X-factor' in this election. We and our pro-public-education allies can and will make a decisive difference," he said. The convention votes tomorrow on...

Fifty-six Deceits in Fahrenheit 911   By Dave Kopel   [This is a preliminary version of an article that will be published on National Review Online.This report was first posted on the web on the morning of July 1. Since then, I've revisedseveral sections in response to reader requests for clarifications, and have added additionaldeceits which have been pointed out by readers or journalists. Astute readers will observethat the number of identified deceits now exceeds 56. I have not retitled the report or re-numbered the original 56 deceits. The final version will update the deceit count.] There are many articles which...

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" has been called many things: incendiary, thought-provoking, satirical, propaganda. But is it true? That's a question millions of viewers are asking as the film enters its second week of distribution. This weekend, the number of screens showing the film doubled, from 868 to 1,725. More than 6 million people had seen the film by Wednesday, and millions more will watch it in the next few days. Political commentators already have weighed in. Detractors of President Bush have praised the film for its scathing view of the way he's handled the war...

Poll on Michael Moore's latest movie F9/11. http://www.rawstory.com/

<p>I brought a notebook with me when I went to see Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" and in the dark made notes before I gave up, defeated by the utter stupidity of the movie. One of my notes says "John Ellis," who is a cousin of George W. Bush and the fellow who called the election for Fox News that dark and infamous night when the presidency -- or so the myth goes -- was stolen from Al Gore, delivering the nation to Halliburton, the Carlyle Group and Saudi Arabia, and plunging it into war. A better synopsis of the movie you're not likely to read.</p>

"It's a documentary like Deep Throat is a love story." Uncle Pundit, just back from Michael Moore's Fahrenheit movie, was mincing words again. "You mean, it doesn't explore its premises fairly and with equanimity?" (I always play the innocent.) "No, but then, none of them do. A documentary is just a long editorial, designed to reach a destination but with a lot of detours and roadblocks thrown in to confuse the viewer into thinking he wasn't really led to the conclusion." "But I thought good documentaries simply explore a subject and let the viewer reach his own conclusion, like, say...

NEW YORK - Former mayor of New York City, Democrat Ed Koch broke rank with John Kerry on the War On Terror, and says that Michael Moore must be "shamed" by responsible citizens for his outrageous and over the top assertions and unsubstantiated claims in his new film. Writing today the dem and former Mayor said, "Senator John Kerry in criticizing United States'; foreign policy and the incumbent president is acting responsibly, albeit I disagree with many of his views. On the other hand, Michael Moore, writer and director of the film "Fahrenheit 9/11"; crosses that line regularly. The line...

1)Dick Wright, The Columbus Dispatch, OH 2) Brian Fairrington, caglecartoons.com 3)Mike Thompson, Detroit, Michigan, The Detroit Free Press 4) Doug Marlette, The Tallahassee Democrat, FL 5)Chip Bok, The Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal 6)Michael Ramirez, California -- The Los Angeles Times 7)Jeff Stahler, The Cincinnati Post, Ohio 8)Jeff Stahler, The Cincinnati Post, Ohio 9)Eric Allie, Illinois -- The Pioneer Press 10)John Cole, Durham, NC -- The Herald-Sun

FReep this poll!!! - obviously alot of red liberals in L A who can't stand Larry Elder have jammed his poll about "Fahrenheit 9/11"! A big majority "loves this movie" of Moore's! http://www.larryelder.com/

THANKS to the 9/11 commission, we now know that the movie got the story right. The administration was repeatedly warned in advance that disaster could strike America. The planning for that contingency was nonexistent. Once hell broke loose, there was only chaos at the top. As New York collapsed into terror, the amiable but overmatched president turned in desperation to his older, arrogant vice president and asked, "What do you think we should do?" The movie I describe is not "Fahrenheit 9/11" but a Hollywood special-effects extravaganza that beat it to the theaters by a month: Roland Emmerich's "The Day...

'Moore is shameless in feeding his own ego' Observer film writer Mark Kermode on the controversial filmmaker behind Fahrenheit 9/11 Sunday June 27, 2004 The Observer The most annoying sound at this year's Cannes Film Festival was the incessant drone of Michael Moore telling everyone in town that he had been silenced. If only. For almost two weeks you couldn't turn on a TV without hearing Moore spouting off about how Disney was censoring him by refusing to distribute Fahrenheit 9/11. Of course, it was all nonsense. Despite the fact that Moore had apparently long known about the 'Disney issue',...

Scenes in Fahrenheit 911 of U.S. soldiers taunting and sexually humiliating Iraqi civilians following the successful invasion were shot by Urban Hamid, an embedded Swedish-Iraqi journalist who is presently a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado, the university's student newspaper Camera disclosed today (Tuesday). Moore has declined to respond to questions from interviewers about whether he resorted to subterfuge in order to embed photographers among U.S. forces and has been criticized for not showing footage of the abuses to U.S. military authorities earlier. But Camera reported that the controversial footage by Hamid was actually shown at a theater in...

MOORE: 'We sold out in Fayetteville, home of Fort Bragg, We sold out in Army-base towns. We set house records in some of these places. We set single-day records in a number of theaters. We got standing ovations in Greensboro, N.C... The biggest news to me this morning is this is a red-state movie. Republican states are embracing the movie, and it's sold out in Republican strongholds all over the country... HARVEY WEINSTEIN: 'It's beyond anybody's expectations. I'd have to say the sky's the limit on this movie. Who knows what territory we're in'...

Movie Goer Assaulted at Fahrenheit 9/11 Showing (Jun. 25) -- The highly anticipated film, Fahrenheit 9/11, came with more than just controversy at one Las Vegas movie theatre. Moviegoer, Richard Streeter, was one of the many who made his way to a theatre to see what the hype was about. After viewing the film, he was greeted outside the theatre by members of the Las Vegas MoveOn.org. The group was handing out leaflets on the importance of the film. Streeter voiced his view on the movie, "I made the comment, apples and oranges -- Kerry, Bush -- one's no better...

So I'm sittin on #politics on EfNet on irc. A mmoore_ shows up and posts a url. This one.... http://lionsgatefilms.com/f911/ Guess what. It's legit, That's the movie. Unless it's 1 gig of junk. So I do a whois on this guy. mmoore_ is ~admin@66.186.20.2 * Web Admin mmoore_ on +#politics #gmail mmoore_ using irc.he.net Hurricane Electric IRC Server mmoore_ is away: is away: (Auto-Away after 10 mins) [BX-MsgLog Off] mmoore_ End of /WHOIS list. the ip address is to lionsgate.com it seems. Still not sure what to make of this. I sent him a private message askin him if he...

CONSIDERING THAT I'm writing this from inside the bunker of what many regard as the Alliance of Neocon Warmongers, it bears mentioning that Michael Moore and I have one surprising trait in common: We both believe that the war in Iraq was ill-advised, ill-planned, and ill-executed, an apparent failure bordering on unmitigated disaster, that was never in our best national interest. Around our office over the last two years, I've made these arguments to colleagues, open-minded types who, after they put me through my water-boarding/naked pyramid sessions, say they'll take it under advisement. And I make the disclosure now so...