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Moore on Bush (Lumpy Riefenstahl says Bush blocking film that will blow apart his reelection bid)
Sydney Morning Herald ^ | May 17, 2004 - 4:58PM

Posted on 05/17/2004 6:52:48 AM PDT by dead

US President George W Bush's election hopes could be blown apart by a film to be shown at the Cannes film festival, which is why the White House is trying to keep it out of US theatres, claims its director, Michael Moore.

Fahrenheit 911, which gets its premiere today, is a powerful documentary exploring Bush's actions after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Bush's family's long commercial relationship with Osama bin Laden and the Iraq war, he said.

But it is also, Moore said, a tool which would inspire US voters to remove "the dumbest man who ever ran for the presidency" and overturn foreign policies which have created "a lot of havoc in the world".

The maverick director -- whose appearance at a conference hosted by the US movie industry magazine Variety was one of the hottest tickets at the festival -- alleged that the White House was behind a campaign to stop the film from being distributed in the United States before the November presidential election.

An unnamed senior Republican politician, "someone connected to the White House", telephoned companies that bankrolled the film to get them to drop their commitments to it, he said.

Even though production company Miramax is now seeking a deal to buy out the US rights to the film after parent group Disney reneged on a distribution deal, Moore said, nothing has yet resulted that would allow the film to come out in the United States.

"That's the intent in trying to stop this film -- so people don't see it before the election," he said.

The fiercely left-wing director, who won an Oscar for his last documentary, Bowling for Columbine, which also won a prize at Cannes two years ago, said the new documentary included much footage from Iraq -- some of it by crews who managed to spend much time with US military units.

"You will see things not seen before, you will learn things not known before," he said.

He vowed that Americans would see the documentary soon, even if it took illegal means, and that once it was widely seen, Bush and his government would realise their political future is "totally fucked", Moore said.

"I want this film out and I want it out this summer. After, I'll have things to say," he said after explaining his uncharacteristic muting of criticism of Disney.

The hulking, bearded filmmaker, wearing his usual baseball cap, said he was prepared for a backlash by many compatriots, but stated that "I'm the most patriotic American" because he believes in the United States' founding principles.

"One of those principles is that you do not invade another country that is not invading you," he said, hinting at the tone his documentary takes.

"Only people who are un-American would cover up the torture and abuse in Iraq," he added, making reference to recently published photographs showing US soldiers humiliating and terrorising Iraqi prisoners.

Moore's film is not the only one delving into the topicality of the Iraq war and Bush at the Cannes festival, though it is the only one that has a shot at Cannes's Palme d'Or prize.

Uncovered: The War on Iraq, a documentary to be shown in the presence of former US ambassador and Bush critic Joseph Wilson, is to be shown out of competition, as is Bush's Brain, a documentary about the president's political adviser, Karl Rove.

On a commercial level, all these productions are looking to reproduce the success of Moore's Bowling for Columbine, which cost about $US4 million ($A6 million) to make but reaped 30 times that much, about $US120 million around the world.

These are also movies which have something to say: something Moore and the other directors believe can change the country they live in -- and something Bush would prefer not to see on the big screen.

AFP


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Boy oh boy, is he desperate to fire up a controversy for this dopey film, or what?

Nobody is "blocking" his film, and he knows it.

1 posted on 05/17/2004 6:52:49 AM PDT by dead
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Michael Moore:

You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in South Carolina, I'll bet you couldn't pour p!ss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world.

An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?

Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly. You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.

You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake? You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile, one-handed, slack-jawed, drooling, meatslapper.

On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill. You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist.

I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid.

Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while.

I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you. You are a disgusting piece of filth, incapable of honor. You are so vile that not even a lawyer would consent to sexual congress with you under any circumstances. Nay, even your right hand shuns such congress with you.


3 posted on 05/17/2004 6:55:39 AM PDT by Peach
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The more people who see this film and associate it with Democrats, the better Bush’s reelection chances.


4 posted on 05/17/2004 6:56:32 AM PDT by elfman2
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Even though production company Miramax is now seeking a deal to buy out the US rights to the film after parent group Disney reneged on a distribution deal...

Wasn't it already shown that the original deal was that Disney would not distribute? Amd Moore knew about a year ago?

5 posted on 05/17/2004 6:57:32 AM PDT by Rokurota
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"Only people who are un-American would cover up the torture and abuse in Iraq," he added, making reference to recently published photographs showing US soldiers humiliating and terrorising Iraqi prisoners".

An interesting comment from the fat one considring the military initiated the probe and the media has almost unlimited access to the pics. Who's he accusing here?

Actually, I know the answer. He's just making random provocative statements to generate interest in his propoganda film.


6 posted on 05/17/2004 6:58:45 AM PDT by Arkie2
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To: Peach; dead

Moore remains a legend in his own mind.

Prairie


7 posted on 05/17/2004 6:58:59 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (sKerry is a sKunk!!)
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To: Peach

Guess that about says it all!! I could probably add a few more items but they would only be redundent!


8 posted on 05/17/2004 6:59:24 AM PDT by cousair
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To: dead

Sorry Mikey! You are not Mel Gibson and your film? is not The Passion of the Christ.


9 posted on 05/17/2004 6:59:45 AM PDT by RdhseRat
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To: dead

This is so contrived it's pathetic. That miserable pantload wishes his film could do such damage. Dream on, Mikey.


10 posted on 05/17/2004 7:00:26 AM PDT by sarasota
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AOL Commie news in hyping the thing this morning. They search the globe every day to promote leftist bilge. (And don't nag me about keeping the lousy service because my wife wants it, and it ain't worth fighting about. )


11 posted on 05/17/2004 7:00:48 AM PDT by Luke21 (Christ is wonderful.)
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To: dead

"Lumpy" Riefenstahl. Love it!


12 posted on 05/17/2004 7:00:49 AM PDT by Old Sarge
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To: dead

Moore doesn't realize that he's not taken seriously and nobody watches his movies.


13 posted on 05/17/2004 7:01:15 AM PDT by Brett66
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To: dead
"One of those principles is that you do not invade another country that is not invading you"

If we followed that 'principle,' Moore would not be opening his film in Nazi-ruled France.

14 posted on 05/17/2004 7:02:47 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (John F-ing Kerry??? NO... F-ING... WAY!!!)
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Funny, I don`t recall Mr. Moore making a film about Clinton, you know, all that stuff about Wayne Dumond, Juanita Brodderick, the ten billion gates, Larry Lawrence being buried in Arlington cemetary for cash even though he never served a day in the military, the inaction for 8 years that led to the rise in terror, why Bubba went all the way to Marthas Vineyard to visit "his close personal friend Carly Simon" a day after Carlys "assistant" was busted after he tried to pick up 3 pounds of coke at an airport, the pardons, the FALN pardons for his wifes Senate campaign...Man, I can`t imagine why Mr. Moore would want to remain so quiet about such an interesting guy.


15 posted on 05/17/2004 7:03:37 AM PDT by stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims (I`m still waiting for the protests against terrorism.)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

And that's a fact.


16 posted on 05/17/2004 7:04:21 AM PDT by Atlantic Friend (Cursum Perficio)
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To: dead; StriperSniper; Mo1
Fahrenheit 911, which gets its premiere today, is a powerful documentary

Oh Plllllllllllease make it stop.....

17 posted on 05/17/2004 7:06:06 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: Peach

So, I'll put you down in the "leaning against" column....


18 posted on 05/17/2004 7:06:18 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: dead

Actually, Disney, who I believe owns the rights to the film, has refused to allow Mirimax to distribute it.


19 posted on 05/17/2004 7:07:55 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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"Nobody is "blocking" his film, and he knows it.

Moore is a slob.

He is trying to "merchandise" his film, so maybe the democRATic party will either back him on it, or buy it.

You can pretty well believe, as rabid a Bush hater as Moore is, if he REALLY had anything, he'd release it without all the fanfare.

Moore is another in a list of "one-hit wonders" desparately trying to stay in the limelight. When libs are out of the limelight [read: power] they go ballistic.

Bring it on, Fat Boy..
20 posted on 05/17/2004 7:09:54 AM PDT by FrankR
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