Posted on 05/27/2004 12:53:36 PM PDT by Tamzee
Filmmaker Moore Says He Has Berg Footage
Associated Press
NEW YORK - Filmmaker Michael Moore, whose incendiary new documentary lambastes President Bush's handling of the war, said Thursday that he has footage unused in the film of Nicholas Berg, the American civilian later beheaded in Iraq.
The footage, of an interview with Berg, "is approximately 20 minutes long. We are not releasing it to the media," Moore said in a statement. "It is not in the film. We are dealing privately with the family."
Neither Moore nor his representatives would describe the nature or contents of the interview with Berg, who held staunch pro-war views.
No one answered the phone Thursday at the home of Berg's parents in West Chester, Pa.
"Fahrenheit 9/11," which recently won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, accuses the Bush camp of stealing the 2000 election, overlooking terrorism warnings before Sept. 11, 2001, and fanning fears of more attacks to secure American support for the Iraq war.
Moore's assault on U.S. policy got him into trouble with Disney, which refused to let subsidiary Miramax release "Fahrenheit 9/11." He is still trying to work out a deal for U.S. distribution.
They said no.
WRONG!
The ONLY reason that ANY of this would make ANY sense is that Nick Berg, like his father, was a member of the International A.N.S.W.E.R / Bush-Is-Hitler set. I do not believe a single word of the propaganda that Berg was a Bush / war supporter, for these reasons:
I now believe, and will until proven wrong, that Nick Berg - whose murder must be avenged with the full might and force of the United States of America, let there be NO doubt - went, in folly, to Iraq as a self-styled "supporter of the Iraqi resistence." Perhaps to film for Michael Moore. Perhaps to make his own documentary, with Moore's backing. But always, ALWAYS, with the intention of meeting, likely interviewing, "the resistence."
I believe that any public statements he made before his trip, in supposed "support" of it, were to smokescreen his actual intentions when, as he expected, Iraqi informants told coalition officials there was an American nosing around asking questions. NO American is getting into Iraq without the FBI doing a thorough background check, let alone showing up with the CIA unawares.
I believe he intended to document the "abuses" of the "occupation," for eventual publication either by himself or by Moore. And this very naievete, so obvious to all of us at FR, is what got him slowly decapitated while he screamed. This, International A.N.S.W.E.R., THIS is the response to your offered olive branch. Take a GOOD look at it.
THERE IS NO OTHER VIABLE EXPLANATION. And I firmly believe that, had not government spies and informants SEEN Berg in the early cuts of Moore's mockumentary, this would NEVER have been made public by Moore's production company, and that the ONLY reason it has been confirmed, is that Moore knows he is about to be subpoenaed. There may be no crime here, but there is certainly the abject dissolution of every shred of Moore's credibility - and that of International A.N.S.W.E.R.'s entire worldview, as well.
And, here you are now: Nick Berg, obviously, was Moore's cameraman. Interviewing the "minutemen" and the "REVOLUTION" of Iraq.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2004-04-14
To quote: "I currently have two cameramen/reporters doing work for me in Iraq for my movie (unbeknownst to the Army). They are talking to soldiers and gathering the true sentiment about what is really going on."
Whoolllly sh!!!!!t
ROTFL!
I need a new keeyboard.
So, what is the real story, why no release? I hope it never sees the light of day out of the can-can festival.
The lie is that he just found out that Disney was blocking the release, and that it was because Jeb Bush was pressuring Disney with promises to revoke their tax breaks. The truth is that Disney told him a year ago that they wouldn't allow Miramax to release the movie. He knew this before even an frame of film was shot
Thanks for the info, makes sense, the bafoon is at it again.
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