Posted on 06/28/2004 6:29:48 AM PDT by kattracks
You won't believe what Michael Moore does to the American soldier in his propaganda-filled "Fahrenheit 9/11."
I was ready for ugliness. I prepared myself for mean-spirited attacks. I guess I was just totally unprepared for what he does to our troops.
It's grotesque.
He basically takes a handful of soldiers who said and did some bad things and tries to portray them as what the American soldiers are all about in the war on terror.
And then, at the end of the film, after he rapes our soldiers' honor, integrity, and courage, he slaps up a written message on the screen that lasts for a few seconds and claims that he dedicates this vicious movie to those who died on 9/11 and the soldiers who have lost their lives in the war. As if that would nullify what he and his movie had just done to them.
Like many Americans, I had mixed emotions about seeing it. The idea of putting ten dollars into this deception master's pocket repulsed me. But after I was given an opportunity to see the movie for free, I decided that in this case, it was better to keep one's enemy closer than one's friend.
And make no mistake about it, Michael Moore is our enemy. If you need proof, go see the film.
The distortions are downright silly, almost juvenile. Let me poke at one that hasn't yet been written about very extensively. Moore portrays President Bush's 2000 inauguration as one that featured angry Americans lining the streets of Washington and pelting his motorcade with foreign objects, forcing the President to forego the customary walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.
I was at Bush's Inauguration in 2000. The President was in the car because it was raining. The streets were lined with cheering, happy Americans who were delighted that Al Gore and the Democrats didn't manage to steal the election.
But Moore shows footage of a handful of protesters and skillfully edits that shot into images of the motorcade driving down the street.
And wait until you see how he portrays Iraq prior to the invasion. Does he show any of Iraq's torture chambers? Any of the devastation and destruction that Saddam and his regime continually heaped upon his people? No, Michael Moore shows Iraqi children blissfully flying kites in the park. Heck, he even repeats the same footage of Saddam over and over again: chomping on a cigar, he's shown dancing with some clerics and Muslims. Sort of like Santa Claus with a beret, right, Michael?
This is a movie you should go see for yourself. Trying to wish it away won't make it so. The mainstream press is salivating over it ("Two thumbs up!" scream Ebert and what's-his-name). It's setting movie-attendance records, evidently. So you might as well suck it up and see firsthand how an America-hating, money-grubbing, real-life propagandist can influence the unknowing and unwitting masses.
Just like "Bowling for Columbine", Michael Moore exploits tragedy and heartache for his own profit in "Fahrenheit 9/11." Last time, he manipulated a Columbine victim for his anti-gun message (wheeling a shooting victim into a store that sold bullets to see if the store would refund the victim the cost of the bullets still lodged in the victim's body).
This time, it's an angry, grieving mother of a soldier who was killed in the war that Moore shamelessly exploits. Wiring her up with a microphone, his cameras capture her every sob and moan as she stands outside the White House railing against George W. Bush and the world for her loss.
Michael Moore is a terrorist's best friend. They don't need Al Jazeera to broadcast anti-American hatred. They've got the man who's winning awards and accolades for this movie. "Fahrenheit 9/11" can be shown at every terrorist training camp in the world. They can point to a Hollywood blockbuster as proof that our President is a buffoon and American soldiers are just a bunch of ignorant, vicious killers who love playing rock music as they mow down the poor kite-flying Iraqi children.
Go see the movie. Keep it in your heart and mind as you consider who to vote for in November.
And just wait until you see what he does to the American soldier.
Mike Gallagher's talk radio show has just recently been picked up in Houston and San Francisco. Besides his radio show and appearances on Fox News Channel, Gallagher is working on his first book, "Surrounded by Idiots: Fighting Liberal Lunacy in America", to be released in early 2005 by William Morrow, a Harper Collins imprint.
This article seems to have a sinister plea for people to go see the movie...makes me skeptical.
"But after I was given an opportunity to see the movie for free, I decided that in this case, it was better to keep one's enemy closer than one's friend.
One has to see the movie to be able to point out Moore's inaccuracies and downright lies such as this author did.
"Is that too tough?"
nothing less than he deserves.
Reference your post # 3.
Me too.
according to box office mojo the film grossed 21 mill this weekend at 800+ theatres. I keep hearing about 82 mill gross. What planet did that figure originate from??
according to box office mojo the film grossed 21 mill this weekend at 800+ theatres. I keep hearing about 82 mill gross. What planet did that figure originate from??
He wants us all to go see it? In a pigseye!! I don't need to stick my fingers in the fire to know it burns; I don't need to shoot my foot to know misusing guns can result in injury; I sure don't need to go to this stinkin' movie to know it's vile enough to make me nauseous. I refuse to give one cent of my money to this fat, traitorous jerk.
Who said that, a spokesman for the Academy? Who?
Ditto.
WHO??????........JOHN KERRY??????????......OHHHH, sorry, it's MICHAEL MOORE....coulda fooled me, for a minute there I thought it was 1970!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Really, it's the Hollywoodian "PG" version of Babes of Bagdad. It's pornography portrayed as "art". Geez, and Maplethorpe got about as much kudos from the left as Moore is for this film. Moore says Americans are dumb. He may not be too far off. He does an "Emperor's Clothing" flick and rakes in the dough from mostly, his political followers. Whoa.
I don't know for certain. It was a radio news blurb. I haven't seen anything else about it.
Didn't Drudge a story "9 of 10 ["professional"] reviewers...both thumbs up.
"This article seems to have a sinister plea for people to go see the movie...makes me skeptical."
Heck no! This article is from Michael Gallagher, the totally conservative,love America, pro-
military/police, Christian talk show host!. He's absolutely amazing - he's absolutely, totally against the left/liberals. He's on Fox News a lot. No, he's shooting straight from the hip - he's for real. Nothing sinister from him, no way, no how! He's definitely on OUR side.
That was Hezzbollah, and they will distribute it.
But then he says the above. I have no intention of seeing this movie. A few may see it to review it, but I won't give him my money: I already know how he operates.
I wouldn't give Moore the sweat off my back let alone $10.00 for a ticket. Moore is human trash with a lost soul.
I plan no such viewing, however. I do not even watch CNN.
This is going to work against the LLL. It is based mostly on Moore's well-known contempt for the American people. Lumpy Riefenstahl's arrogance is breathtaking. He and his media followers have pulled out all the stops to make this film the anthem and symbol of LLL activism in the 21st Century, and it will backfire disastrously. He and the media are guilty of monumental hubris in believing that this crude work of propaganda will enhance their cause. It will destroy them.
I have not seen Triumph of the Will or The Eternal Jew. I would have to watch both of those films on video before I approach propaganda of this sort. Make no bones about it, this is propaganda. I just want to draw allusions to 2 notorious examples from another war.
Michael Moore has made his film a comparable work by ignoring the evil in Saddam's Iraq and in demonizing the Bush family.
P.S., I will not be paying to watch Mr. Moore's film ever. If a situation presents itself, then I may view it, but my general take is "why bother"?
It sounds as if his conspiracy theories are conflicting. Does this turkey have more plot holes than a Hollywood summer action film?
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