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I am just so tired of hearing "michael moore gets under you skin, so he most be winning" or similar arguments.

 

He obviously is not winning, just look at the past election for proof.

 

What Michael Moore has found is a niche market for his pseudo documentaries, which makes him a lot of money.

 

There is small, but dedicate crowd of Bush haters who will lap up anything he sells. But the real sad part is, most of these folks who support his movies and pay $50 to hear him speak really don't know all of his views, partly because he only states them while he is out of the country.

 

Here is partial list of his quotes:

 

"The passengers on the hijacked planes were cowards and did not fight back, because the were mostly white"

(Wonder what Mrs, Todd Beamer would think if she heard that)

"F**k small business. They are the rednecks that keep the nooses around small towns"

"Let all the mexicans who want to move here come on over. There is plenty of room in Kansas"

(Uh, don't you think you would want to check with the farmers in that state before you bring them all over)

"The dumbest Canadian is smarter than the smartest America"

( I don't know were to start with that one).

So just keep in mind, when people get pissed of at Moore for getting $30,000 a night and a private jet ride to speak at a college (and giving no money to charity), or when he makes money off selling a CD called "Music from and inspired by Fahrenheit 9/11", there is more to the anger than just his dislike of Bush.

 

PS. Since Osma came out and admitted to doing the terrorist acts of 9/11, doesn't that shoot down his theory that is was planned by Bush?

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Moore's efforts were focused on the young. Take a look at how that demographic voted and tell me again how he failed. The overall results can't be blamed on Michael Moore who is, after all, just one man. Wars, economies, religious passions etc, etc, these were issues far more important to voters than Michael Moore. He did set out to get the youth vote for Kerry and he did just that. It wasn't enough to swing the election but that doesn't mean it was a failure. Most of those new democrats he created will stay democrats for a long time. Their impact is only going to get bigger. Time is on their side.

 

By the way, my Dad is a die hard republican and he watched Moore's movies and thought that there was enough truth in them to make them worthwhile though he wasn't particularly swayed by the bs and there was plenty of that.

 

Some of those remarks are being taken out of context. Like the one about Canadians. He was making a point that Canadians know more about what is going on in America than Americans know about what is going on in Canada. His point being that we are focused too much on ourselves and not enough on even our closest neighbors. He didn't really mean that Canadians are somehow inherently more intelligent than Americans. He emphasized the point by making the tongue in cheek, overstated comment you reference.

 

I wasn't aware that Moore seriously thinks that Bush planned 9/11. What he did say was that the Bushies had close relationships with the Saudis including the bin Ladin family. He also pointed out that Saudis, including bin ladins relatives were allowed to leave the US right after 9/11. These issues have been discussed a zillion times. Nothing new here.

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HERE YOU GO DEMOCRATS...here is your chance to seperate yourself from him! Don't let him further destroy your party!

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Hey, I am sure Democrats everywhere appreciate your concern for the well-being of their party. Tell your fellow Repubicans to seperate themselves from lunatics like Jerry Falwell, while your at it. I know, you have a "mandate" and all. Just because an election was lost, why is it that the Republican party thinks that the people on the losing end should abandon their principles, just so they can be invited to the evangelical revival meeting in the sky? :lol:

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Hey, I am sure Democrats everywhere appreciate your concern for the well-being of their party. Tell your fellow Repubicans to seperate themselves from lunatics like Jerry Falwell, while your at it. I know, you have a "mandate" and all. Just because an election was lost, why is it that the Republican party thinks that the people on the losing end should abandon their principles, just so they can be invited to the evangelical revival meeting in the sky?

 

Was Falwell guest of honor at the RNC Convention?

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Hey, I am sure Democrats everywhere appreciate your concern for the well-being of their party.  Tell your fellow Repubicans to seperate themselves from lunatics like Jerry Falwell, while your at it.  I know, you have a "mandate" and all.  Just because an election was lost, why is it that the Republican party thinks that the people on the losing end should abandon their principles, just so they can be invited to the evangelical revival meeting in the sky? :lol:

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Republicans don't seat Jerry Falwell next to previous presidents at the Rebublican Convention.

 

And Republicans don't put Jerry Falwell in the spotlight.

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Moore's efforts were focused on the young.  Take a look at how that demographic voted and tell me again how he failed.  The overall results can't be blamed on Michael Moore who is, after all, just one man.  Wars, economies, religious passions etc, etc, these were issues far more important to voters than Michael Moore.  He did set out to get the youth vote for Kerry and he did just that.  It wasn't enough to swing the election but that doesn't mean it was a failure.  Most of those new democrats he created will stay democrats for a long time.  Their impact is only going to get bigger.  Time is on their side.

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Get real. Young people almost always vote that way. What's the old saying - "If you aren't liberal when you're young, you don't have a heart. If you aren't conservative when you're older, you don't have a brain." So Moore focused his efforts on people who already agreed with his half-baked ideas? Nice work.

 

Michael Moore is a failure. He was a rising star on the left a couple years back when Bowling for Columbine came out. But now everything he makes will be closely scrutinized as it is released and thus discredited before it can have an affect on anyone but the most dense members of our society.

 

He's a discredited propagandist, and his 15 minutes are just about up. He's a running joke at this point - the film version of Kitty Kelly.

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No one stays young and most don't stay stupid.  At least not "Michael Moore" stupid.

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Michael Moore did.

 

Just saw F9/11 the other night. What a thoroughly awful piece of masturbatory trash. The film equivalent of reading one of T-Bone's "Look at me" posts.

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Michael Moore did.

 

Just saw F9/11 the other night.  What a thoroughly awful piece of masturbatory trash.  The film equivalent of reading one of T-Bone's "Look at me" posts.

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Actually to be fair to t-bone he usually doesn't post look at me posts. That would be BF and stevestojan. T-bone usually talks about ng being his B word at work and how the dead sox and Patriots are better than the spankees and Bills.

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Republicans don't seat Jerry Falwell next to previous presidents at the Rebublican Convention.

 

And Republicans don't put Jerry Falwell in the spotlight.

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No, they are much more under the table than that. They say one thing on television, when all of America may be watching, and quite another on the campaign trail. Karl Rove, you know the "arhicitect" of the "mandate" admitted as much on "Meet the Press" last week. There was a time when campaigning in churches on Sundays was frowned upon (that ickey "seperation of church and state" that the Republican party cleverly works around), but was instrumental in securing president Bush a second term. I honestly don't know what Falwells' role was at the RNC (not even sure he had one), but he was a very vocal and visable supporter of Bush during the campaign. John Kerry never embraced Moore, or "Farhenheit 9/11" publicly, and in fact did not endorse the film, and claimed to never have seen it. As disingenuous as that might have been (and Bush was just as disingenous throughout the campaign), the Bush campaign made no attempt to distance themselves from the evangelicals, and in fact encouraged them, by appealing to their extremely conservative values. In 2000, these same people were concerned that Bush was not socially conservative enough.

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By the way, my Dad is a die hard republican and he watched Moore's movies and thought that there was enough truth in them to make them worthwhile though he wasn't particularly swayed by the bs and there was plenty of that. 

 

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While, my dad used to wanna buy some stuff that would come on Info-mercials on Sunday morning T.V., that doesn't mean they were good products.

 

Face it, Fatty Moore hurt the Dems more that he helped, as did the Hollywood Limo riding liberals.

Do we really care what George Clooney or "International Weapons Expert" Sean Penn think?

 

Nope. Polls show it was a turn off for most voters. And most people see thru Moore garbage as well. Nobody's thought proccess was changed by his "Mocumentary" or what ever you call it.

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No, they are much more under the table than that.  They say one thing on television, when all of America may be watching, and quite another on the campaign trail.  Karl Rove, you know the "arhicitect" of the "mandate" admitted as much on "Meet the Press" last week.  There was a time when campaigning in churches on Sundays was frowned upon (that ickey "seperation of church and state" that the Republican party cleverly works around), but was instrumental in securing president Bush a second term.  I honestly don't know what Falwells' role was at the RNC (not even sure he had one), but he was a very vocal and visable supporter of Bush during the campaign.  John Kerry never embraced Moore, or "Farhenheit 9/11" publicly, and in fact did not endorse the film, and claimed to never have seen it.  As disingenuous as that might have been (and Bush was just as disingenous throughout the campaign), the Bush campaign made no attempt to distance themselves from the evangelicals, and in fact encouraged them, by appealing to their extremely conservative values.  In 2000, these same people were concerned that Bush was not socially conservative enough.

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Ya, I can't figure that out.

 

The evangels hate war with a passion... The must hate gays at home even more...

 

:D:lol:

 

I still think they brokered a deal with the devil...

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I sent Michael Moore an email thanking him for making his propaganda films because they helped ensure President Bush got reelected and that the Republicans control the house and the senate. I hope Stupid Fat Man writes back. Before you liberal types complain about my Stupid Fat Man comment please complain about the title Stupid White Men. Whats good for the goose....

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I sent Michael Moore an email thanking him for making his propaganda films because they helped ensure President Bush got reelected and that the Republicans control the house and the senate.  I hope Stupid Fat Man writes back.  Before you liberal types complain about my Stupid Fat Man comment please complain about the title Stupid White Men.  Whats good for the goose....

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Good for you Pete! Maybe he will send you an autographed picture...

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No, they are much more under the table than that.  They say one thing on television, when all of America may be watching, and quite another on the campaign trail.  Karl Rove, you know the "arhicitect" of the "mandate" admitted as much on "Meet the Press" last week.  There was a time when campaigning in churches on Sundays was frowned upon (that ickey "seperation of church and state" that the Republican party cleverly works around), but was instrumental in securing president Bush a second term.  I honestly don't know what Falwells' role was at the RNC (not even sure he had one), but he was a very vocal and visable supporter of Bush during the campaign.  John Kerry never embraced Moore, or "Farhenheit 9/11" publicly, and in fact did not endorse the film, and claimed to never have seen it.  As disingenuous as that might have been (and Bush was just as disingenous throughout the campaign), the Bush campaign made no attempt to distance themselves from the evangelicals, and in fact encouraged them, by appealing to their extremely conservative values.  In 2000, these same people were concerned that Bush was not socially conservative enough.

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I'm not understanding your point..

 

Bush never publicly embraced Falwell and he is still the bad guy.

 

Kerry had Moore at the convention but since Kerry never publicly embraced Moore, Kerry is the good guy. :D

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I'm not understanding your point..

 

Bush never publicly embraced Falwell and he is still the bad guy.

 

Kerry had Moore at the convention but since Kerry never publicly embraced Moore, Kerry is the good guy. :D

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I wasn't saying that Bush or Kerry was a good or bad guy. I was making the point (not sucessfully I guess) that the Republican campaign was very covert in making their sales pitch to the evangelicals. Rove has been bragging about it, and has fully acknowledged that the evangelicals played a huge part in delivering their "mandate". Jerry Falwell was on every news network over the last 8 or 9 months drooling over Bush...and Bush, in turn, on the campaign trail, pandered to the religious sect. He did not do this when in the national spotlight. Bush was pandering big time. That is all politics. The fact is, Moore represents a a faction of the Democratic party. The DNC didn't try to hide that fact. Just like they couldn't bring Mary Cheney up on stage, for fear of alienating their evanglelical base, they couldn't bring Falwell up, for fear it would cause problems for the less socialy conservative faction of the Republican party.

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