Just damn.
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Posted on 02/01/2005 4:08:44 AM PST by kingsurfer
Julia Pearlman, Brand Republic 13:40 31-01-2005 LONDON - An exclusive Channel 4 webchat hosted by Michael Moore, the director, writer and producer of 'Fahrenheit 9/11', was almost sabotaged in a planned attack by an American right-wing organisation trying to prevent Moore speaking to fans about his film.
The webchat, the only one Moore has agreed to do in the last year, was launched to celebrate the UK TV premiere of the documentary film, a controversial expose of the Bush administration, on Channel 4 but was held up for an hour while IT technicians battled to get the chat back online.
Moore agreed to answer some of the thousands of pre-submitted questions that had been short-listed in preparation of an attack.
Between 12.30am, when internet links were restored, and 2am, when the chat ended, more than 1m hits to the website had been recorded, more than 17,000 fans had joined the chat and 4,163 questions had been posted.
According to Moore: "Channel 4 innocently thought 'Wouldn't it be nice if we had a film-maker do a webchat?' but unfortunately you don't live here. Certain Americans, when they learned of this webchat, did not see it as a webchat with a film-maker but as an interview with the devil himself. And they discussed throughout the week how and what they could do to stop it."
He added: "So my apologies to the British audience who logged on Thursday night to have this chat, only to be prohibited from having this discussion with me thanks to the lunatic Right Wing in the United States."
Moore, who revealed he spends thousands of dollars a week on security to keep his own website online, had been warned that a well-known group had been planning an attack since the film and webchat were first promoted.
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The VRWC at work, no doubt. Those Waskly Wepubwicans....
They prolly did it to themselves so they could blame it on the VWRC.
an Annorexic Hacker??? ;)
Nah. I understand it has been blamed privately on FreeRepublic. Apparently his lackeys keep a good eye on this site.
Not the devil himself, just Satan's #2 supporter (behind Hillary)
But the hack was a bad idea.
Hopefully no one on this site. Or perhaps it was done by lefties as an inoculation tactic, prepatory to staging some of their own hijackings. It is something that could hardly be construed as productive, much less, amusing.
The transcript is available at www.channel4.com/community.
I have read it and found that he is most scathing about the Democrats inability to do anything.
Yeah, having truthful questions posed to Moore instead of the usual fawning accolades will bring such an event to a screeching halt.
Then you'd think they'd learn something. Instead, they are drowning in their own idiocy.
One of the reasons their site down was due to having one million hits in about ten minutes.
But since everything else went down as well it seems to have been organised.
Or maybe it was just more grandstanding by Moore, who probably wasn't going to answer any of the submitted questions anyway and already has his list put together from reliable toadies.
BTW, This was posted yesterday, here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1332532/posts
WOOPS!
The search engine is my forgotten friend.
The scene where the airplane's just about to land and the runway lights go out? The camera pans over to one of the Air Traffic Controllers holding the unplugged cord and saying, "Just Kidding." LOL....
Just damn.
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Hold out your hands. "WHACK WHACK WHACK" with a wet noodle.
Now, go in peace.
Sounds more like incompetence or poor planning for the traffic. And when you screw up, blame nefarious hackers.
LOL
Good Morning MH --
didn't know the Just Damn list got going this early!!
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