If It's Moore, It's Less Than Honest

LA Times (Izvestia West) ^ | May 11, 2004 | By Kay Hymowitz

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Last week, Michael Moore announced that Disney had refused to distribute his new film, "Fahrenheit 9/11." As with all of Moore's pronouncements, you might want to season this one liberally with salt.

Moore — who poses as a heroic truth-teller and who in a speech last year after winning an Oscar for his documentary "Bowling for Columbine" bemoaned these "fictitious times" — is a virtuoso of fictions himself.

As the filmmaker's fictions go, this one was fairly modest; Moore appears to have timed his announcement to stir up publicity for his movie's upcoming screening at the Cannes Film Festival, though he has known for a year that Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner was refusing to distribute "Fahrenheit 9/11." Still, the complaint was vintage Moore: People who disagree with you are part of a conspiracy led by corporate evildoers. When a film magazine panned his breakout film "Roger and Me," Moore dangled this explanation: "Film Comment is a publication of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Lincoln Center had received a $5-million gift from GM just prior to publishing the piece trashing 'Roger and Me.' Coincidence? Or just five big ones well spent?"

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Jabba The Hick is at it again. Michael Moore may truly rank as one of the most repulsive celebrities ever.

[Rockitz]

If It's Moore, It's Less Than Honest

That would be a good sign to have at next year's Oscar FReep!

[Adrastus]

You know, add his intellectual imorality and general repulsive appearance to his absence of anything resembling social grace, you may be insulting Jabba.

[SeaDragon]

Jabba The Hick is at it again. Michael Moore may truly rank as one of the most repulsive celebrities ever.

I can't agree with you more on that statement. The only thing I would change is Tick instead of Hick. He is obviously a blood sucking insect.

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And if I remember the movie right, that wasn't a smart thing to do...

[Paul Atreides]

That's saying something, when you consider Jane Fonda and some of the others.

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Moore justifies his fictions by pleading comic license: "How can there be inaccuracy in comedy?" he once asked Lou Dobbs.

This is a documentarian?

And this ran in the Times???

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Jabba The Tick - as they say in the beer commercial BRILLIANT!

[CrazyIvan]

Let's see, Cannes would be in what country?

[Paul Atreides]

Cannes is an appropriate name...

[Rocky]

"Let's see, Cannes would be in what country?"

Hint: It's a place where they don't pronounce the "s" at the end of a word, and where they are famous for their whine.

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The one the Mexicans humiliated on El Cinco De Mayo perhaps? I love just remembering that they did that to ...,what country was that again? Oh yeah, some sh--- little place in Europe.

[Will_Zurmacht]

The funniest thing to me is that these folks, Michael Moore, Al Franken, etc. are the "public voice" of the democratic party.
Not a governor, a senator, or even the "presumed, potential, cross our fingers" nominee of the democratic party for president.

Michael Moore gets more page than John Kerrey...hehe

How sad is that?

The two most well known (or at least loudest) public figures for a formerly great American political party .....are a has been comedian and a never was movie director.

Oh, dang I left out that Garafalo gal. My bad. She's very important too. Very very important person.
At least that's what Salon, The New York Times and Vanity Fair tell me.

[SeaDragon]

I do try............

[Cubs Fan]

Moore is the Joseph Goebels of the democratic party

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Moore is the Joseph Goebels of the democratic Baath party

He has given his support to the enemy (Al Qaida). Hang him like the British hanged Lord Haw Haw for treason after WWII.

Give him a speedy trial and find a strong piece of rope.

Wednesday, April 14th, 2004 Heads Up... from Michael Moore

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "The Enemy." They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush?

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I oppose the U.N. or anyone else risking the lives of their citizens to extract us from our debacle. I'm sorry, but the majority of Americans supported this war once it began and, sadly, that majority must now sacrifice their children until enough blood has been let that maybe -- just maybe -- God and the Iraqi people will forgive us in the end.

What a miserable failure this man is.