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Nick Berg: Michael Moore's secret cameraman?
Michael Moore, Salon.com

Posted on 05/28/2004 8:42:49 PM PDT by Objective Reality

Please pardon the vanity, but I've not seen this theory posited elsewhere in any searches I've performed.

First the admission from Michael Moore that he interviewed Nick Berg prior to his trip to Iraq. Why, in God's name, if Berg was just some foolhardy "mercenary" (as Moore calls Americans in Iraq in general)?

Then, with the slightest amount of further investigation, this post from Moore himself, on his own website. Note, very well, the date.

Quoting:

"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."

Rather explains why Berg would have refused safe passage home from the military, doesn't it?

I therefore theorize that Michael Moore commissioned Nick Berg to act as his proxy / cameraman in Iraq with the stated goal of meeting and interviewing the "minutemen" of the "revolution," thereby directly leading Berg to his own murder, and making Moore himself more culpable than any member of the Bush administration in that murder.

If Moore has an interview with "pro-war-Bush-supporter" Berg, as is claimed, this should be very easy for him to deny.

Let him do so.


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To: Howlin

Would the "Berg offered a ride home to the states courtesy of the U.S. government" be something to mention in the timeline?


81 posted on 05/28/2004 11:07:08 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: arasina

Yes, it would; I'm still working on compiling ALL that information!


82 posted on 05/28/2004 11:08:17 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin

So you don't think he was being offered a job as a documentary photographer by MM? Is your tinfoil coming off just when it was starting to get interesting? :o)


83 posted on 05/28/2004 11:09:19 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: Registered

George $oreA$$? The same creep who paid Michael Moore to do his hit piece on GW?


84 posted on 05/28/2004 11:10:54 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( WHAT DID MICHAEL MOORE KNOW ABOUT NICK BERG? WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?)
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To: xm177e2
Can you show me a single source claiming Berg was anti-war?

Only my lying mind, I suppose, which is screaming that a pro-war / pro-Bush Nick Berg would have been as likely to have been interviewed by Michael Moore as, say, myself.

These are not difficult questions to raise. Why did Moore interview Nick Berg? When? What topics did they discuss? How did Moore come to know Nick Berg? Does Moore know Berg's father? Has he interviewed him? Did Berg state on the record that he supported the Iraq war? Is that taped? Why has Moore not come forward with this information until now? Has Moore notified the FBI that he has this interview? If not, why not?

85 posted on 05/28/2004 11:12:09 PM PDT by Objective Reality
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To: Objective Reality

Questions we've all been asking since last night.


86 posted on 05/28/2004 11:15:12 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: arasina

No, it's not. I'm just saying that his emails seem very straight forward. Go read them yourself.


87 posted on 05/28/2004 11:16:09 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin

With no answers for any...yet.


88 posted on 05/28/2004 11:17:39 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

So far, in the media, I've only seen notice of Moore's acknowledgement that he has this interview. There has been no question as far as why he chose Berg for an interview subject, or what contact (if any) he had with Berg following that interview.

Imagine the situation reversed, and that during Clinton's war on Serbia, it turned out Rush Limbaugh, a strident opponent of that war, had just happened to have held private meetings with an American who, shortly thereafter, somehow wound up in the hands of the Serbs, who tortured and murdered him on-camera? The media would still be eating him alive, to this day. "What was Joe Citizen doing in Serbia, Rush? Did you know he was going there? Did you SEND him there? Was he there to do your DIRTY work? Was he there to KILL BOSNIANS for you, Rush?"


89 posted on 05/28/2004 11:36:18 PM PDT by Objective Reality
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To: Objective Reality

PHILADELPHIA - (KRT) - The sister of Nick Berg, the contractor from the Philadelphia suburbs who was beheaded earlier this month in Iraq, says she's dumbfounded by reports that liberal icon Michael Moore had filmed an interview with her late brother for his new anti-war film.

"I'm very skeptical of this," said Sara Berg, a Virginia attorney whose brother's beheading sparked a global uproar.

But she said there was no way to confirm that Moore had sent a tape of the reported 20-minute interview to their parents' home in West Chester, as the filmmaker suggested in a statement Thursday, because the couple has been away.


http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/nation/8788000.htm


90 posted on 05/28/2004 11:38:12 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Objective Reality

BTW,

Michael Moore (news)'s controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" moved a step closer to U.S. theaters on Friday as Miramax film studio founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein personally bought rights to the picture from Walt Disney Co. .


After more than three weeks of talks, the Weinsteins bought rights to the film for costs to date, estimated at about $6 million, and will arrange for theatrical and home video distribution, both sides said in a statement issued on Friday.


91 posted on 05/28/2004 11:42:34 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Objective Reality

Exactly! The media double standard is alive,well,and thriving.


92 posted on 05/28/2004 11:46:14 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Objective Reality; All
-The Berg Beheading- some links--
93 posted on 05/29/2004 12:11:27 AM PDT by backhoe (--30--)
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To: Objective Reality

My GOD, Registered - is that an actual photograph, or a photoshop?

You're asking Registered this question? I'm sorry, but I'm still laughing.

The question is just too darn funny.

"My GOD, Michael Moore - is that an actual pizza in your hand?" ;^)

94 posted on 05/29/2004 12:20:44 AM PDT by Imal (Enough of this! Let's hear more about Abu Ghraib.)
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To: RaceBannon
I would hope I went down either screaming the Marine Corps hymn as they fought to kill me, or, go down singing hymns to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen to that. I might have gone for "Waltzing Matilda" myself, but that's just a slight regional difference...
95 posted on 05/29/2004 1:41:37 AM PDT by KangarooJacqui (Australian by birth, American by marriage, and conservative by God.)
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To: spyone
Always disliked Moore, but to see him happily go up in his tux to accept the Palme D'or, with the possibility of Berg's life on hiss hands...

Moore has always, in his personal life and personal business dealings with employees, had contempt for the "little people" -- it's been well documented for years.

96 posted on 05/29/2004 4:40:25 AM PDT by WL-law
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To: Objective Reality
Subpoena FedEx receipts from Iraq to Moore because he said the film was delivered by FedEx!!!

Berg was at Abu Graib Prison on a tower.....hmmmmmm PLUS Moussoui has Berg's password...hmmmmm.

97 posted on 05/29/2004 4:55:30 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: xm177e2

We've only been told by his father that Nick was Pro-War....you really have NO idea unless you knew him.


98 posted on 05/29/2004 5:01:21 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Objective Reality


Makes sense...the "insurgents" caught him poking around with his camera and thought no one would be that stupid so he must be a spy, so they killed him. The government should immediately get that film from the pig, Moore, and arrest him if he was engaged in subversive activity that led to the weirdo Berg's murder.


99 posted on 05/29/2004 5:05:36 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: ladyinred

I don't believe, nor have I from the first, that Michael Berg was a pro Bush conservative. So this idea that he was working for Moore is very believable to me. Wouldn't it be great if it turns out that Moore was the one responsable for putting Berg in the position where he was caught & killed? That would shut his flaming liberal father up, maybe.


100 posted on 05/29/2004 5:06:00 AM PDT by Ditter
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