Fahrenheit 9/11 filmmaker burns (Canadian Conservative leader Stephen) Harper

CBC News ^ | June 24, 2004 | CBC

[El Conservador]

WASHINGTON - U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore sounded off Wednesday on Canada's election, warning voters not to elect a Conservative government.

Moore, in Washington for the official American premiere of his movie Fahrenheit 9/11, said he hopes his film will convince Canadians to bypass Stephen Harper.

"You've got four days after it opens, to get people out to the polls to make sure that Mr. Harper doesn't become your next prime minister," he said.

"We're trying to get rid of our conservative, you know. We're going one way, you guys shouldn't be going the opposite direction," said Moore, whose new documentary takes a critical look at U.S. President George W. Bush's response to the Sept. 11 attacks and the Iraq war.

"You should be saying, 'You know what? We don't want this country, Canada, to become like Bush's America,'" he said.

When asked why he's concerned with Canadian politics, Moore responded: "Well first of all, I live on the Canadian border. I don't want to have to look across the border and see you guys going our way."

Moore said he's trying to convince Americans to be more like Canadians, and praised the country's "ethic."

"And that ethic says: 'We're all Canadians, we're all in the same boat. If one of us gets sick, that person should get health care 'cause we're all affected.'

"The American way is pull yourself up by your bootstraps: 'Me, me, me, me, me. It's mine. It's mine.' You know? Don't go that way. Your Conservatives are trying to take you that way."

Written by CBC News Online staff

[mabelkitty]

Wanna help health care?
Give everyone tax breaks for their premium payouts.
That'll help it - alot.
And find a network of doctors who deal in cash only so I only have to purchase catastrophic insurance.
That'll work.
I'll also sign an agreement that I won't sue.
There.

[goldstategop]

If the Liberals are swept out of power Monday, that will be a political earthquake that will knock the Left down into an even deeper state of depression. I really can't wait to see the look on their faces after the weekend!

[cricket]

"The American way is pull yourself up by your bootstraps: 'Me, me, me, me, me. It's mine. It's mine.' You know? Don't go that way. Your Conservatives are trying to take you that way."

Don't think this 'gasseous bloviating' will impress the Canadians. I hope Moore keeps it up.

The only downside; is thanks to Moore; our neighbors will come to the conclusion that the 'worst they could think of us'; is really true.

[cricket]

"If the Liberals are swept out of power Monday, that will be a political earthquake that will knock the Left down into an even deeper state of depression"

I hope the Candadians are ready to take back their country.

[TeleStraightShooter]

What a hate-filled anti-American jerk!

Best descriptive i've seen of this illness is
Hatriotism

[Bullish]

Could this guy be any more of an idiot?

[TeleStraightShooter]

This propaganda film reminds of Joseph Goebbels' Der ewige Jude {The Eternal Jew}.
The parallels are unmistakable.
Crude and full of half truths, some segemts are absurdly laughable.
They both play fast and loose with the truth to create support for a lie.

For example, notice the footage of a kosher slaughter where a jewish rabbi is falsely shown to be gleeful because a cow is bleeding to death.

They both rely on a heap of innuendo and conspiracy theories,
-whereas bold faced lies are presented as fact.

Whilst Joseph Goebbels' Der ewige Jude brews hatred towards Jews in the middle of a war,
Micheal Moore's F/9/11 brews up hatred towards Bush in the middle of the war we find ourselfs in.

[NovemberCharlie]

Here's an earlier one on Moore, regarding a visit of his to Canada.

[RansomOttawa]

"And that ethic says: 'We're all Canadians, we're all in the same boat.

Who's this "we," fatboy?

Apparently Mikey hasn't figured out that the God-ordained purpose of his mouth is to stuff Double Whoppers into, not meddle in politics outside of his own country.

[plushaye]

Canadians don't take kindly to being told how to vote by non-Canadians, especially an eccentric and dubious personage like Michael Moore.