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Moore claims victory over 'Passion of Christ'
Worldnetdaily ^ | July 1, 04 | Worldnetdaily

Posted on 07/02/2004 10:03:19 AM PDT by churchillbuff

ASHLAND, Ore. – Whooping and hollering greeted Michael Moore's statement that his virulently anti-Bush film "Fahrenheit 9/11" beat out Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ."

"I think Jesus had something to do with that," said Moore during Monday's meeting at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Ore., part of a national event sponsored by MoveOn.org. Comparing the initial attendance stats for the two films – and accentuating the one or two measures by which, says Moore, "Fahrenheit" edged out "Passion" – Moore boasted: "I've been feeling for a month He's been very upset at the [selling of] that movie. So I think it was His own little payback this weekend."

A self-described "practicing Catholic," Moore said his film barely nosed out "The Passion," but what surprised WND columnist and talk show host Bob Just, who attended Monday's meeting and recorded it, was the wild cheering at the news.

"You definitely felt the hostility in the room toward traditional Christians," said Just, a former liberal, now-conservative Democrat – and also a Christian. "At one point, Moore boasted that his film so infuriated one man that he threw his shoe at the image of George W. Bush on the screen."

"Hot Enough For You?" screamed the headline of one campus flyer. "Then Organize." Moveon.org's flyer was even more blunt: "Michael Moore wants to know: Are you ready to turn up the heat on George W. Bush?"

The Oregon campus meeting Just attended was billed as a "House Party." Local attendance was estimated at several hundred people, but according to Moveon.org, nationwide there were enough people connected online that night to fill a football stadium.

"In living rooms and meeting halls across America," proclaimed the flyer, "we'll be joining Michael for a live, interactive, on-line discussion of his film. You'll also be give an opportunity to make a real difference in this election, by joining in an intensive voter registration and education drive."

Most of Moore's conversation was geared toward taking not only the presidency this fall, but perhaps even Congress as well.

A large screen displayed the computer hook-up as the audience looked on. At several points the transmission went down or became garbled.

Students and others who came for the promised "open discussion in film rhetoric" were first heavily pressured to join the Moveon effort. Each audience participating was asked to collect its group leader statistics and upload them in the computer, which flashed the results by locality. Likewise, each group was called on to recruit more people and expand its numbers.

"Take that day off on November second," Moore exhorted. "And take, you know, take five non-voters to the polls. You know who they are. They're your friends, your family members, people you go to school with. Just commit now to convincing them. Tell them, you're at work or whatever, it's at noontime, tell them, 'Hey, let's all, come on with me. I'll buy everybody lunch,' you know, or if it's at night, you know – "free beer for everybody that comes vote with me right now!" You know, just get creative. Do whatever it is you gotta do!"

Republicans, says Just, have been trying recently to write off the "Gore-Moore left" as a "coalition of the wild-eyed." But, "it is more serious than that. All you have to do is see Moore's movie and you'll know you've entered into an alternate reality," adds Just, who has a masters degree in film from NYU Institute of Film and Television.

In fact, even reputable liberal pundits are stepping forward to denounce "Fahrenheit's" inaccuracy, from Christopher Hitchen to Ellen Goodman to The Washington Post's Richard Cohen.

"Moore's depiction of why Bush went to war is so silly and so incomprehensible that it is easily dismissed," Cohen wrote in yesterday's Post. "As far as I can tell, it is a farrago of conspiracy theories. But nothing is said about multiple U.N. resolutions violated by Iraq or the depredations of Saddam Hussein. In fact, prewar Iraq is depicted as some sort of Arab folk festival – lots of happy, smiling indigenous people. Was there no footage of a Kurdish village that had been gassed? This is obscenity by omission."

Hitchens called the film a "sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness," while Newsweek joined in this week with a headline, "More Distortions from Michael Moore."

"But remember this," Moore told the youthful audience, which filled the Brit Ballroom on the Southern Oregon campus. "The other side, they are organized! And they're really, I mean, they are historically, uh, much better at this than we are. They are up at the crack of dawn, uh, trying to figure out what group of Americans they're going to hurt today."


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To: churchillbuff
"A self-described "practicing Catholic"

Speaks volumes.

141 posted on 07/02/2004 3:09:38 PM PDT by VaBthang4 (He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep)
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To: churchillbuff

I am in a quandry......I think I like Osama Bin Laden better than Michael Moore!


142 posted on 07/02/2004 3:14:53 PM PDT by Doctor Don
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To: churchillbuff

I am in a quandry......I think I like Osama Bin Laden better than Michael Moore!


143 posted on 07/02/2004 3:15:17 PM PDT by Doctor Don
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To: Liz
Reading your post, this image came to mind:



144 posted on 07/02/2004 3:20:43 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Become a monthly donor on FR. No amount is too small and monthly giving is the way to go !)
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To: churchillbuff

Moore thinks he is doing better than Jesus? And thinks Jesus helped him with his lies? I find it hard to fathom how even liberals can claim this needs-a-ss&s creature as their spokesperson.


145 posted on 07/02/2004 3:50:17 PM PDT by abclily
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To: churchillbuff
michael morre court  michael moore fat   
146 posted on 07/02/2004 3:53:03 PM PDT by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: cnkie

Moore claims victory over 'Passion of Christ'


lmao! Um Huckster Moore would claim victory over
THE BIRTH OF CHRIST.

MAY A LIGHTENING BOLT ZAP HIS LARD A$$!


147 posted on 07/02/2004 3:56:26 PM PDT by SunnySide
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To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...
A self-described "practicing Catholic," Moore said his film barely nosed out "The Passion," but what surprised WND columnist and talk show host Bob Just, who attended Monday's meeting and recorded it, was the wild cheering at the news.
148 posted on 07/02/2004 4:01:30 PM PDT by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: Jaded

The only thing that exceeded Mel Gibson and the Passion of Christ at the box office is Michael Moore's ego.




Along with his wide girth, porker appetite ie., he's a PIG.


149 posted on 07/02/2004 4:01:50 PM PDT by SunnySide
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To: churchillbuff

the RNC needs to get tape of all this idiot's ranting and ravings and put the best-worst (same thing) of it in a TV commerical, and link Moore to Kerry


150 posted on 07/02/2004 4:10:27 PM PDT by Lockbar
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To: MCH

A friend of mine says she believes Moore is an anti-Christ.


151 posted on 07/02/2004 4:16:56 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: onyx

His type usually self-destructs.


152 posted on 07/02/2004 4:31:56 PM PDT by Liz
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To: SierraWasp
.....that sounded like me!!! (grin) Especially the opinion part......

Yes, but your motives ----that's key here----are impeccable "conservative" motives.

153 posted on 07/02/2004 4:40:24 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER
"Yes, but your motives ----that's key here----are impeccable "conservative" motives."

Why... Thank you very much!!! Sometimes, some think me a bit too adamant with my excessive exclamatory punctuation!!!

I humbly accept your considerable compliment. I like to consider myself a "Considerate Conservative." (I have "compassion fatigue!")

154 posted on 07/02/2004 4:50:23 PM PDT by SierraWasp (STOP SCHWARZENEGGER'S SOCIALISTIC SIERRA-NEVADA CONSERVACANCY... NOW!!!)
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To: Quix; Liz; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER
"Father God, please let Moore fall into his own cesspool at the earliest fitting moment and preferably on prime time!"

Plop, plop, fizz, fizz... Oh what a relief it is!!!

155 posted on 07/02/2004 4:56:34 PM PDT by SierraWasp (STOP SCHWARZENEGGER'S SOCIALISTIC SIERRA-NEVADA CONSERVACANCY... NOW!!!)
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To: mewzilla
And BTW, anyone ever find out who was buying up all those blocks of tickets...?

Well it sho wasn't Jesus. It was more than likely Satan's little helpers. ;-)

156 posted on 07/02/2004 5:05:58 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1 (Lock-n-load!)
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To: SierraWasp
"Father God, please let Moore fall into his own cesspool at the earliest fitting moment and preferably on prime time!"

Plop, plop, fizz, fizz... Oh what a relief it is!!!

157 posted on 07/02/2004 5:09:52 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Negate Michael Moore! Become a monthly donor to Free Republic!)
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To: MeekOneGOP; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; onyx; Fracas
LIBSPEAK DICTIONARY: Michael Moore's Ministry of Truth

Moore is the new Big (and I mean Really Big) Brother. In Orwell's Oceania, Big Brother is worshiped almost as if he were a god. Since Follywood despises religion in any form, so Moore is a handy stand-in for a Hollywarped-type liberal left-leaning god.


The Orwellian phrase, Big Brother, has found its way into everyday speech, and has come to mean someone or something ominous.

Big Brother defined: personification of the self-imposed power of the film industry to distort and delude the public: the leader of such a movement: an all-powerful organization monitoring and directing people's actions through manipulative films,characterized by subjective truth, hatred of conservatives, and hyped-up deceptive PR tactics. Copyright AM 2004. Use with permission.
158 posted on 07/02/2004 5:12:47 PM PDT by Liz
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To: churchillbuff

EVERY knee shall bow,
EVERY tongue confess...
that Jesus Christ is LORD!


159 posted on 07/02/2004 5:13:15 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Make Hillary happy.... IGNORE the Freepathon!!!!)
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To: churchillbuff
at noontime, tell them, 'Hey, let's all, come on with me. I'll buy everybody lunch,' you know

Offering money/gifts to vote is illegal... but what does Moore care?

160 posted on 07/02/2004 5:15:51 PM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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