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Berg talks of Iraq's business potential on Michael Moore footage
AP, Centre Daily.com ^ | 5/29/04 | JASON STRAZIUSO

Posted on 05/29/2004 9:13:24 AM PDT by Dane

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To: Dane
There are simply too many coincidental connections in this whole Berg thing.

Unfortunately, the left is like the Moose Limbs in the way they circle the wagons and protect their own, no matter how wrong. (Hence the phrase, "thick as thieves.")

It may be years before someone finally speaks the truth about this whole sordid mess.

61 posted on 05/29/2004 10:50:57 AM PDT by PLK
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To: Ann Archy

Yeah, number one fimmaker in France can't measure play times. Sounds like 4 minutes are in Rosemary's recycle file.


62 posted on 05/29/2004 10:52:37 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: jocon307

Well-said in a nutshell.


64 posted on 05/29/2004 11:06:44 AM PDT by Mr Ducklips
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To: Cicero
Moore cut the footage not from respect but because he didn't get what he was after,

Months later, he still had said footage that was not used and that supposedly was not in step with his leftist anti-American, anti-Bush views??

65 posted on 05/29/2004 11:12:44 AM PDT by daybreakcoming
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To: daybreakcoming

Well, I'm not a movie director, but I don't believe you throw away the takes until the film is done. And fairly often you keep many of them long afterward, just in case. Many films have been re-released as "director's cuts" or in revised versions, sometimes half a century and more after they were first made.

The takes are expensive, and storage is relatively cheap. So why would Moore throw anything out before the film was released?


66 posted on 05/29/2004 11:32:08 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Howlin

Thanks for the heads up. ;)


67 posted on 05/29/2004 11:34:39 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (Must get moose and squirrel ... B. Badanov)
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To: MHGinTN

Class Act? Moore like an ASS Crack!


68 posted on 05/29/2004 12:32:46 PM PDT by ohiobushman
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To: alnick
According to this article, the interview took place at a conference about Iraq, which should clear up any suspicion, but won't, for many.

Why do you think Moore did not inform the family of this footage before it was revealed from other sources that it existed?

Evidently Moore told them his crew did remember the event and Nick in particular and cried upon the news of his death. But nary a word was said...not even privately to the family.

Note: I am just asking. I am not making a conclusion. But I do think it is very very odd.

69 posted on 05/29/2004 1:00:15 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: Cicero
Theory: Moore's people were at the conference to browbeat people into admitting they're just in it for the money. Moore's people tried to make Nick look like a money-grubbing jerk and if the footage got out, we'd think the Bergs are even more ghoulish than we already think they are. As it is, the Bergs can praise Moore hoping that we won't see the footage.

We will. Someday.

70 posted on 05/29/2004 1:20:12 PM PDT by AmishDude
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To: alnick
It was rounded up, as in "about 20 minutes" or "15 or 20 minutes." People do it all the time.

  1. Not filmmakers. 16 minutes and 20 minutes are vastly different.
  2. Nothing wrong with berating Moore for having a Nixonesque gap in the tape. I'm sure he'd appreciate the irony.

71 posted on 05/29/2004 1:28:32 PM PDT by AmishDude
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To: AmishDude; Miss Marple; MizSterious; Howlin

I just thought of a question:

Out of all the attendees at this conference, how many did the Moore crew interview?


72 posted on 05/29/2004 1:31:07 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: cyncooper

If they interviewed Berg at the conference, probably a lot. If Nick or Michael Berg were in cahoots with Moore, he could have interviewed Nick anywhere.


73 posted on 05/29/2004 1:34:01 PM PDT by AmishDude
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To: AmishDude
If they interviewed Berg at the conference, probably a lot.

That's why I'm asking. You'd think so.

If they did not interview a "lot", then I have more questions. If they did, you can guess it was mere coincidence that Berg was interviewed--even though he was a one man band and not a big evil corporation, so how he managed to garner the attention of the crew is another guess.

I just thought of another question:

Was this conference referenced at all in Moore's final cut of the movie? (I know nobody here has seen it. I'm just proposing the question)

If so, what was the angle and tone of the presentation Moore gave it?

Just asking.

74 posted on 05/29/2004 1:38:44 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: reagandemocrat
16 minute interview? I thought it was 20 minutes...What happened to the other 4 minutes?

Time for another Senate Panel. What did Bush know and when did he know it?

75 posted on 05/29/2004 1:40:44 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: Dane

"Michael Moore has really been a total class act with this whole thing,"...

Yep. Nothing says "class" like that blubbering, blithering, foaming, sweaty, foul, hideous insane hairy pig, Michael Moore.


76 posted on 05/29/2004 1:50:06 PM PDT by SerpentDove (<- This way to the Egress.)
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To: cyncooper

>>It does appear to be a coincidence. <<

Yeah, like the coincidence of his email address being on Massoui's hard drive, etc. etc. Just one of those weird things.


77 posted on 05/29/2004 1:54:47 PM PDT by SerpentDove (<- This way to the Egress.)
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To: SerpentDove

Just trying to see it from all angles.

This is just not sounding right.


78 posted on 05/29/2004 1:59:29 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: Republic_of_Secession.

" I am skeptical about the authenticity of the tape. "

I don't know about the tape, but the I heard the headless corpse they found was the real McCoy.


79 posted on 05/29/2004 2:03:29 PM PDT by SerpentDove (<- This way to the Egress.)
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To: eloopd1959

Nick Berg does not strike me as Forest Gump in the intelligence department, but in the getting around the world area Nick is just like Forest, ending up in the oddest places at the strangest times.

I don't get why Michael Berg would say Nick was a Bush supporter, when that was not the case. What political advantage would there be?...unless good ole' Mike thought Nick had been up to something rotten & wanted the "right" to take the blame & not the "left."


80 posted on 05/29/2004 2:12:20 PM PDT by madison10
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