Posted on 07/04/2004 6:20:01 AM PDT by Brian Mosely
MOORE: 'I DON'T LIKE THIS FILM BEING REDUCED TO BUSH VS. KERRY'
Sun Jul 04 2004 08:59:00 ET
New York I dont like this film being reduced to Bush vs. Kerry, Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore tells TIMEs Richard Corliss in this weeks cover story. Moore tells TIME, When Clinton was president I went after him. And if Kerrys president, on Day Two Ill be on him.
This election year, with stakes and tempers high, a potent non-fiction genre is emerging: the agit-doc, dealing with high-octane political issues, often in a confrontational tone, Corliss writes. Trailing on Moores box office clout, they are surging into the mainstream. One agit-doc, The Hunting of the President, co-directed by Clinton pal Harry Thomason, was originally to go to 30 theaters; now its distributor has revved the number to 125, and has put the films trailer on many screens showing Fahrenheit 9/11. The Army and Air Force Exchange Service, which books films to be shown on military bases around the world, has contacted Fahrenheits distributor to book the film, TIME reports.
Weve underestimated the audiences desire to see [political] material, says Robert Greenwald, director of Uncovered: The War on Iraq, a sober and devastating critique of Bush foreign policy. I dont think its about hating the President. Its that politics has been brought home to the deepest part of ourselves. People now feel Politics is Me.
Today people get their news and, just as important, their attitudes from more rambunctious sources: from the polarized polemicists on talk radio and cable news channels, from comedians and webmasters. Thats poli-tainment, and as practiced by Rush Limbaugh and a host of right-wing radio hosts, and by Matt Drudge on the internet, it hounded Bill Clintons presidency while spicing and coarsening the standards of political discourse, Corliss writes.
Fahrenheit 9/11 may be the watershed event that demonstrates whether the empire of poli-tainment can have decisive influence on a presidential campaign, Corliss writes. If it does, we may come to look back on its hugely successful first week the way we now think of the televised presidential debate between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon, as a moment when we grasped for the first time the potential of a mass medium to affect American politics in new ways. In which case, expect the next generation of campaign strategists to precede every major election not only with the traditional TV ad buys but also with a scheme for the rollout of some thermonuclear book or movie or CD or even video game, all designed to tilt the political balance just in time, Corliss writes.
Andrew Sullivan asks: Is Michael Moore Actually Mel Gibsons Alter Ego? In a related essay, Sullivan writes, There are times when the far right and the far left are so close in methodology as to be indistinguishable. And both movies are not just terrible as moviescrude, boring, gratuitous; they are also deeply corrosive of the possibility of real debate and reason in our culture. They replace argument with feeling, reasoned persuasion with the rawest of group loyalties.
When Clinton was president I went after him. And if Kerrys president, on Day Two Ill be on him.
Funny, I don't remember the Clinton Death List documentary the Moore released. Maybe I overlooked it or something but he says he went after Clinton and Moore wouldn't lie or anything.
He needn't worry- Time, NYT, Newsweek, CNN, et al will do it for him.
Michael Moore's lies below are typical of a left wing lunatic mediot when they are challenged about being pro rat or in this situation Pro Kerry!
"New York I dont like this film being reduced to Bush vs. Kerry, Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore tells TIMEs Richard Corliss in this weeks cover story. Moore tells TIME, When Clinton was president I went after him. And if Kerrys president, on Day Two Ill be on him. "
Right before GW was sworn, our local canary cage editor really went overboard with his hatred of GW. He got challenged by conservatives, and his response was very similiar to MM's, and how he often criticized the Clintoons.
He was challenged to document those challenges and asked why the only political cartoons were those that were negative to GW. Some reader had a scrapbook of the printed political cartoons and there wasn't a single one that whacked Al Gore.
To make a long story short, he got transferred somewhere else. His replacement tried the same bs and claimed to be an independent (Moore's claim until his Rat Registration in NY was found.) He left to spend more time with his family and went to work for a left wing ngo.
Most of the lunatic Mediots are lunatic liberals. They hate republicans and GW is their full hate target.
Moore is no different than the slimey magazine that did this interview and has his fat ugly mug on its current Cover. Slime the DNC pr organ claims to be impartial like Moore does. Only the dumbed down lunatic left voters and 911 movie goers believe this lie.
Of course I could not stand to read this crap, so I will just state my view.
Who cares what M. Moo says or wants? I gather he envisions himself as the American traitor who has exhalted himself as critic of all American governments. I just call him a pure lying traitor.
He did say Americans were the stupidest people on earth. You can find proof of that by noticing those attending his propaganda.
The real Americans that build and protect this country will never fall for the propaganda of a M. Moo - their country is too valuable for them to fall for lies. We can also look at the man putting forth this movie and his character, his actions to realize what he is - an anti-American traitor using film to spread propaganda.
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I believe you are correct.
Nobody here is a fan of censorship. What the right DOES want is not to have facts so badly distorted that they bear no resemblance to the truth. Moore is a master at that.
Welcome to Free Republic, BTW.
"The DNC should be proud. They should also be quaking in their boots should the democrats take control because all gloves are off and they provided the template.
Paybacks are nasty...'
I hope you are right, but I am afraid after all of these year that the GOP has not learned to fight fire with fire. And even if they did, the media would label them as "Kerry haters". Have you heard anybody in the media call the Moores of this world "Bush haters"
Is he trying to say, that no matter who's in the government, he'll try his hardest to create a controversy to make as much money out of it possible?
Is it possible MM is finally (and publicly) coming clean? On the other hand, I rather think he isn't...
I'll see their celluloid and raise them brass & lead.
Wait a few more weeks and watch all this develop. Moore will end up regretting that he ever did this movie. It will become his undoing.
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