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To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment
The only reason Moore didn't use the footage is that he can't figure out a way to spin it against the Bush Administration. If Berg had said something like "I have to fix these telephone wires because of the idiotic lack of planning from the Chimp in the White house", it would have been front page news on the NYT from day 1.

Stamn draight. And on top of that, if Berg had made such noises and it made Moore's final cut, there would be black helicopter implications that Berg -- an American Jew in Iraq giving aid and comfort to Michael Moore -- was steered toward Al-Qaeda by American forces for probable kidnap and murder.

As it is, "these people need help and I'm glad to do my part" doesn't sell leftist agitprop. Which is strange, when you consider how many decades / centuries they've been yammering on about helping the little guy.

That is, until what's good for the little guy is good for a conservative. Then, suddenly, "the little guy" is just part of the imperial machine that is causing all the problems.

A quick (but not quite parallel) example: pale white Bill Clinton was hailed by no less an icon of black culture than bestselling author Toni Morrison as 'the first black president.' But how often did you hear Condoleezza Rice being referred to as "the first black female National Security Advisor"?

96 posted on 05/29/2004 10:43:19 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
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To: L.N. Smithee

Condoleeza Rice is black? That's weird. I've never seen this reported in the Establishment media.

Are you sure you're not thinking of John Kerry or something?


98 posted on 05/29/2004 11:28:07 PM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: L.N. Smithee

bttt


99 posted on 05/29/2004 11:37:12 PM PDT by nopardons
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