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Michael Moore: Right Wingers Stealing My Oscar
NewsMax ^ | 12/23/04 | Carl Limbacher et al

Posted on 12/23/2004 8:06:42 AM PST by pookie18

Democratic Party filmmaker Michael Moore is warning that the vast right wing conspiracy is trying to deny him an Oscar for his celebrated schlockumentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11," complaining that "top Republicans" are trying to intimidate the Academy Awards with threats of a Hollywood boycott.

"A group of top Republicans took out a full page ad in USA Today (and placed a similar one in the Hollywood trade magazine, Variety)," Moore noted last week in a message posted to his web site. "The point of the ad was to say that while they, as right wing conservatives, were proud of getting rid of Kerry, there was still one more nuisance running around loose they had to deal with -- me!"

Moore said that this evil GOP cabal has "issued a not-so-subtle threat to the Academy Awards voters that, in essence, said don't even THINK about nominating 'Fahrenheit 9/11' for Best Picture. And Bill O'Reilly recently bellowed that if the Oscars recognize my work this year, Middle America will boycott Hollywood."

Of course, some may recall that Moore promised to withdraw his film from Oscar contention when he thought he had a chance to air "Fahrenheit" on the pay-per-view cable net iNDEMAND before the election.

"I told my crew who worked on the film, let's let someone else have that Oscar," he told the BBC in September. "I don't want to take away from the other nominees and the attention that they richly deserve."

What Moore meant, it turns out, is that he was yanking "Fahrenheit" out of contention for the Best Documentary honors, which didn't preclude him from chasing the Oscar for Best Film.

And if Moore doesn't win his Oscar, it won't be because his rancid little flick was chock full of inaccuracies and propaganda, but because the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy strong-armed Hollywood into picking a less deserving production.


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1 posted on 12/23/2004 8:06:42 AM PST by pookie18
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To: pookie18

Michael Moore -- What a whale would look like if it walked on land.

Go away nimrod, no one cares.


2 posted on 12/23/2004 8:08:57 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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Please Michael, get your Oscar, get them all! Many of us don't care about your films or the Oscars!!
3 posted on 12/23/2004 8:11:17 AM PST by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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To: pookie18
Two whacks on the candy cane and a swift kick to the holly for not posting this as a

PROJECTILE VOMITUS MAXIMUS

alert

4 posted on 12/23/2004 8:11:57 AM PST by xcamel (Deep Red, stuck in a "bleu" state.)
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To: pookie18

The "Best Documentary" oscar has been rendered into the same class of fraudulence as the Nobel "Peace Prize". This happened when Moore won one for "Bowling For Columbine" which had all the accuracy and objectivity of "Farenheit 911".

I hope he DOES win. Then he can make another hysterical leftist diatribe at the telecast and ensure another few hundred-thousand more votes for Republicans in 2006.


5 posted on 12/23/2004 8:14:10 AM PST by scory
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Uh, Mikey...it's like this...you don't have to worry about "top Republicans;" real America will make Hollyweird dry right up by not going to movies for a while.

Personally, it wouldn't surprise me if his little film wins Best Picture, because Hollywood lost its magic, for the most part, a long, long, time ago. It would be like Arafat or Annan or Jimmy Carter winning the Nobel Prize.

But millions of people who still care will be sorely offended, and they just won't go to movies for a while.
6 posted on 12/23/2004 8:14:27 AM PST by Uncle Vlad
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To: pookie18

Maybe the Academy could make everyone happy by creating a new category: "Most odious leftwing propoganda piece". Surely he'd win THAT and conservatives would be thrilled if he did.


7 posted on 12/23/2004 8:14:45 AM PST by Still Thinking (Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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What a whining crybaby!
Give him a damn 'Oscar' made out of chocolate and send him on his way.


8 posted on 12/23/2004 8:14:50 AM PST by jla
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To: pookie18
Moore said that this evil GOP cabal has "issued a not-so-subtle threat to the Academy Awards voters that, in essence, said don't even THINK about nominating 'Fahrenheit 9/11' for Best Picture. And Bill O'Reilly recently bellowed that if the Oscars recognize my work this year, Middle America will boycott Hollywood."

I don't think Fahrenheit 9/11 will even get nominated for Best Picture anyway... but if his stupid movie gets a nomination and "The Passion of the Christ" doesn't, I bet there will be a red state backlash against Hollywood.

9 posted on 12/23/2004 8:14:55 AM PST by mysto
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If the Republicans control the Oscars, then how come Passion of the Christ can't get a nomination anywhere?


10 posted on 12/23/2004 8:15:27 AM PST by Nataku X (There are no converts in Islam... only hostages.)
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To: pookie18
Who cares about Michael Moore's whining.

Given your performance at the Oscars after winning for Bowling for Columbine, I don't think AMPAS voters want another repeat at the Oscar ceremonies. Besides, there are too many good filmes this year that deserve Oscar contention anyway.

11 posted on 12/23/2004 8:16:46 AM PST by RayChuang88
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Yeah fat boy...the same 'cabal' that took over the popular vote and sent you and your commie sodomite boyfriends packing..


12 posted on 12/23/2004 8:23:01 AM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: pookie18

Let him have the Oscar. It is just another nail that hollyweird celebrities will be nailing into the DemonRatic Party's coffin come next election.


13 posted on 12/23/2004 8:25:32 AM PST by GunnyHartman (Allah is allah outta virgins.)
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To: pookie18

He has excaped from pigpen again.


14 posted on 12/23/2004 8:26:09 AM PST by chiefqc
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Moore is a disgrace to Americans!!! (And the rats now say he doesn't represent them either.) So where oh where should he be.


15 posted on 12/23/2004 8:26:57 AM PST by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: pookie18

Well, I heard that the Oscar committee decided not to have a "best musical" category this year, to ensure that "Team America" wouldn't be nominated!

Mark


16 posted on 12/23/2004 8:28:26 AM PST by MarkL (Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too!)
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To: pookie18

The real reason that Moore shouldn't even get a nomination, much less an Oscar, is that he did not make a movie. He made an expensive bumper sticker as ephemeral and meaningless as an "I'm With Stupid" T-shirt.

Mel Gibson's movie, on the other hand, will be seen and seen again by future generations regardless of whether it is awarded anything by the folks in Hollywood


17 posted on 12/23/2004 8:30:16 AM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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You should've already hurled when you read the title!


18 posted on 12/23/2004 8:34:25 AM PST by pookie18 (Clinton Happens!)
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To: Emmett McCarthy
Mel Gibson's movie, on the other hand, will be seen and seen again by future generations regardless of whether it is awarded anything by the folks in Hollywood

Incidentally, Hollywood came up with a great bit of logic to keep Gibson's film out of contention. It can't be nominated for Best Picture because it is not in English and it can't be nominated for Best Foreign Film because it was an American production.

19 posted on 12/23/2004 8:38:41 AM PST by Drew68
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To: pookie18

Let me get this straight. This is the Michael Moore who has consistently taken full advantage of the right of free speech in this country to speak his mind--even when it is against our leaders and fighting men and women. Yet, he is complaining that "top Republicans" (whoever they may be) are likewise exercising their free speech about an award. An issue, I might add, that is nowhere close to the importance of our elections, our military role elsewhere in the world and our overwhelming responsiblity to defend ourselves against further attack.


20 posted on 12/23/2004 8:41:00 AM PST by twigs
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