Posted on 07/13/2004 1:03:58 PM PDT by A_Niceguy_in_CA
Filmmaker Taken to Task for Arrogance, Ignoring Israel
By Jefferson Morley
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Michael Moore can handle verbal abuse from the conservative pundits in America, but harsh words from Pete Townshend, lead guitarist for The Who, may hit closer to his liberal heart.
"I greatly resent being bullied and slurred by him just because he didn't get what we wanted from me," Townshend told Ireland Online.
Moore wanted Townshend's rock anthem "Won't Get Fooled Again" for use on the soundtrack of his anti-Bush documentary film, "Fahrenheit 9/11." Townshend refused, saying he thought Moore's previous movies amounted to "bullying." In response, Townshend said that Moore accused him of being a war supporter. Townshend says Moore's attitude was evocative of President Bush's war on terrorism credo: if you're not with me, you're against me.
"It seems to me that this aspect of his nature is not unlike that of the powerful and willful man at the centre of his documentary," Townshend observed.
Ouch. As "Fahrenheit 9/11" is released into theaters around the world, Moore is beginning to face a new kind of criticism. On American talk radio, Moore may be denounced as practically anti-American. In the international online media, the pudgy filmmaker from Flint, Michigan, is often seen as all too American. He is more than occasionally described as a stereotypical "ugly American" -- overbearing to people of different cultures, oblivious to nuance, unsophisticated in politics and arrogant in temperament.
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Extremely!
"ugly American" -- overbearing to people of different cultures, oblivious to nuance, unsophisticated in politics and arrogant in temperament.
Somewhere in Detroit a bowling alley is missing its drunken idiot.
He's the "Ugly Anti-American".
Michael Moore, Fat Ugly Lyin' Liberal American
"practically anti-American" "pudgy"
Geeze i thought there were rules for understaments in todays Journalism !
Michael Moore, Fat Ugly Lyin' Liberal America-hating American
American?
Moore may or may not affect the election, but he has certainly succeeding [sic] in bringing to a great many Americans the most powerful critique of US foreign policy they have ever heard, albeit one that rests on a bizarre and incoherent conspiracy theory and which confuses at least as much as it enlightens. -Hussein Ibish, a Washington-based commentator writing for the Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon
Equivocate much, Ibish?
MM is a remarkable example of self hatred.
Moore has let his success in making anti-American films go to his head, Now he thinks he has Power.
BTTT
Michael who?
Actually the term UGLY AMERICAN was misappropriated
It was the title in one of a group of stories in a book which took its title from that story
All the stories were about fighting communism and helping the people of SE ASIA
The UGLY AMERICAN was really a term of endearment that the people of the country used to descibe a BIG RED HEADED FRECKLED IRISH AMERICAN who was beloved for aiding the people
Another story in the group of stories was made into the Movie THE UGLY AMERICAN
It was from this movie that the term became misused
I am waiting for the day that I hear that he is dead!!
Choked on his own vomit!
Michael Moore: Fat Ugly Conspiracy Kook
(any interpretation of these words other than what they actually SAY is not the fault of the author)
For example, you could type, "Fat Ugly Conspiracy Kook Michael Moore.... etc, etc....
probably the folds around the naval need increasing too.
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