Posted on 07/05/2004 2:15:30 PM PDT by jmstein7
If you have read "Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man," then you too are probably hopping mad to learn that Moore should not have been eligible for an Oscar (in the Documentary category) for Bowling for Columbine.
Rule 12 of the AMPAS Academy Award Rules read, in relevant part:
1. An eligible documentary film is defined as a theatrically released non-fiction motion picture dealing creatively with cultural, artistic, historical, social, scientific, economic or other subjects. It may be photographed in actual occurrence, or may employ partial re-enactment, stock footage, stills, animation, stop-motion or other techniques, as long as the emphasis is on fact and not on fiction.
As many of you have, no doubt, learned by now, Bowling for Columbine is almost purely a work of fiction and does not fit within Rule 12.
Just a few examples of how Michael Moore created an almost pure work of fiction:
He lies about the timeline of Heston's visits to to Columbine and to Mt. Morris
He claims that Heston's "cold, dead hands" speech occurred in Columbine, whereas it was actually given a year later in North Carolina
He edits Heston's words together to make him appear to say things that he never said
He edited his interview with Heston to include things that were not part of the interview -- e.g., it shows Moore calling after Heston as Heston leaves the interview, while a close study of the footage reveals that Moore's comments, allegedly to Heston, were filmed at another time (Heston never heard them)
He lies about the connection between the Klan and the NRA -- there is none
He lies in the beginning of the film about walking out of the bank with a gun, which is not possible, at the time, because Moore is a resident of NY and could not possibly have gotten a gun from the bank -- that is, unless he somehow, and convincingly, LIED about his state of residence
He edited a Bush/Quayle '88 campaign ad and then passes-off the edited version as the original
He lies about the Lockheed Martin plant near Columbine -- it produced rockets for launching satellites, not missiles
Etc.
In sum, Moore's work was a work of fiction, not eligible for an award as a Documentary. Moore's Oscar was issued in violation of Rule 12, and for these reasons, Moore's Oscar must be revoked.
Please write the Academy at this address:
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Phone: 310-247-3000
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Demand that they revoke Moore's Oscar for Bowling. Sure, nothing may come of it, but, at the very least, they need to know that America knows that Moore's award was ill-gotten!
As happened in Whitewater/Lewinsky, the New York Senate race, and MoveOn.org, conservatives in general and Freepers in particular underestimate their enemy.
Once the Clintonoids got shot down in the Supreme Court, and Paula Jones was promised her day in court against the President, they went into full attack mode against Jones, Linda Tripp, Ken Starr and his deputies, Newt Gingrich, Bob Barr, Henry Hyde, Kathleen Willey, and made false insinuations that Monica Lewinsky was a stalker in the vein of the mentally-deficient woman who broke into David Letterman's home. Did it work? Well, that depends on what the definition of the word "work" is. Clinton was impeached by the house, but won a decisive victory in the Senate trial.
In the case of MoveOn.org (formally "Censure and Move On"), created in order to promote a meaningless, instantly forgotten "censure" of Bill Clinton for his crimes of perjury and suborning perjury, at least a handful of half-bright Freepers had the stupid idea of answering the group's requests for pledged donations with phony names and phony figures. This stunt, by the way, is popular among jerks who like to scam the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Marathon.
If this was widespread as some claimed, the amount of money that MoveOn.org actually received fell far short of that which was pledged. That must have been a source of frustration for the quasi-non-partisans involved in the effort to save Slick Willie's bacon. But MoveOn used the inflated pledge amounts to their advantage by reporting in their press releases the number of pledges and the inflated dollar amount of the pledges, NOT the actual number of donors or the amount they actually received. This made it seem like there was more grass-roots support for the effort than there was. That's NOT bad publicity.
This led not to the dismissal of MoveOn as a just another website crawling across the Information Superhighway, but its promotion as a major player in the national debate about what would happen to Clinton, who was still riding high in opinion polls despite the tawdry nature of the Lewinsky revelations.
Only the people behind MoveOn (founders Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, who are from wacko-left Mecca BERKELEY, CA despite their self-description as from "Silicon Valley") know for a certainty how much the high pledge totals elevated their profile on the national scene. An argument cannot be made that it diminished their self-promotion; it was just a website, and six years later, it is a household word, a multi-million dollar concern funded by multi-millionaires and billionaires, like Bush-despiser George $oro$.
Pabianice, I don't know how you ascertain that "Every time Moore opens his mouth, he turns 15,000 independents into Conservatives while gaining the Liberals exactly zero." It doesn't make a lick of sense to say that the success of Fahrenheit 9/11 (and make no mistake, it IS a financial success) has occurred in a vacuum, and that if conservatives simply ignore MOOre, he will fade from the scene and not be a constant distraction to the Bush re-election effort. Besides, the Clintonoids are coming to a cinema near you with Harry Thomason's The Hunting of The President, based on the book by Gene Lyons and Joe Conason. Sincere, confused people are going to have questions raised by the untruths, and pretending that a terse "no comment" or a laugh-off from the Rove mouthpieces will end the inquiries is not only an exercise in wishful thinking, it's inconsistent with recent history.
MOOre is a liar. The more he defends his lies, the closer he comes to hanging himself with his own words. ('It's a not a political movie'...wait, 'Yes it is.' 'It's investigative reporting,' but it's not 'journalism,' it's an 'op-ed piece,' thus relieving it of obligation to be fair or balanced, etc.) But he won't hang himself until someone starts demanding an explanation of his deceptions. And if nobody demands answers, that leaves the likes of the Clintonoids, MoveOn and MOOre to control the terms of debate.
Sorry, can't help. I'm too busy tilting at windmills.
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Michael Moore is nothing more than a Leni Riefenstahl wannabe with a lust for money.
He is also registered to vote in two states, according to thesmoking.com.
He may not have had to, since he is also a resident of Michigan. He is registered to vote in both states, according to thesmokinggun.com and he has his car registered in one state while he holds a driver's license from the other.
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