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Filmmaker Moore Says He Has Berg Footage
TwinCities.com ^ | May 27, 2004 | Associated Press

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: berg; iraq; lordhawhaw; lumpyriefenstahl; michaelberg; michaelmoore411; moore; nickberg; nickbergvideo
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To: Mo1
Then why announce it to the press???

I can't get into the entire article at salon.com, but the teaser paragraph states that someone else informed salon that Moore had this footage of Berg. It sounds almost like Moore would have sat on this quietly if someone else hadn't come out to say Moore had it.

201 posted on 05/27/2004 8:16:18 PM PDT by Tamzee (Kerry's just a gigolo, and everywhere he goes, people know the part he's playing...)
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To: 91B

Yes, unless the actual contents of the tape are never really revealed, and the only publicity winds up being the
"rumors" that the Administration or its envoys are hot on the trail of Moore in an attempt to get something we're supposed to think would be damaging to them. Much politics could be played with this tape, all of it Moore's and all of it to serve direct political purposes of the dump Bush crowd. In other words, I don't think the film will ever be seen. "The Medium is the MEssage".


202 posted on 05/27/2004 8:16:45 PM PDT by willyboyishere (ua)
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To: atomicpossum

Good graphic.... let's all donate and send Moore a mountain of Krispy Kremes :-)


203 posted on 05/27/2004 8:17:42 PM PDT by Tamzee (Kerry's just a gigolo, and everywhere he goes, people know the part he's playing...)
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To: Tamsey

OMG! Is our Gov. going to take this? This is an on going investigation for crying out loud!!.

Who does Moore think he is?!!!!


204 posted on 05/27/2004 8:20:00 PM PDT by GottaLuvAkitas1 (Bush plays CHESS not checkers)
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To: Cincinna
You are too smart not to know that there are no coincidences, certainly none that involve three people seemingly unrelated, coming together in Iraq.

Well, my guess is the kid was an anti war, pro ANSWER freak in Iraq, trying to talk to terrorists and be nice to them ....maybe after meeting the guy in Oklahoma. the pro war thing is bs ....and Michael Moore, or his people interviewed him before he went off to loose his life.

206 posted on 05/27/2004 8:41:25 PM PDT by woofie ( 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.)
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To: mylsfromhome
Moore has his priorities right this time - - he let the family, for better or for worse, have first shot at seeing the footage and thus knowing just a little bit more.

You've got to be kidding, applauding Moore for this. It's a significant investigation, one that Nick's closest kin may have personal or political reasons to interfere with or distort. If there is anything on that tape that puts the U.S. in a good light the father might destroy the tape and any evidence on it that leads to the man holding the knife.

You should know from the Schiavo case that sometimes the next of kin does NOT have the best interests of their relative at heart and the government is the only entity that can ensure justice.

207 posted on 05/27/2004 9:27:12 PM PDT by Tamzee (Kerry's just a gigolo, and everywhere he goes, people know the part he's playing...)
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To: Tamsey

thanks tamsey... will look now..


208 posted on 05/27/2004 10:06:40 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
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To: Tamsey

Ah..just read that on another thread. Good. The info is getting out and people are spreading the "news"..

There is more to this big time.


209 posted on 05/27/2004 10:07:42 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
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To: willyboyishere
the only publicity winds up being the "rumors" that the Administration or its envoys are hot on the trail of Moore in an attempt to get something we're supposed to think would be damaging to them. Much politics could be played with this tape, all of it Moore's and all of it to serve direct political purposes of the dump Bush crowd.

This is the most plausible explanation I can think of, except I'd disagree that this tape necessarily exists. The exact same thing could be accomplished without a tape merely by "leaks" to sympathetic media sources that such a tape exists. Nick Berg's father is a total whacko and could be counted on to participate in a fabrication if it could be used to hurt Bush or the war on terrorism.

210 posted on 05/27/2004 11:42:23 PM PDT by lonevoice (Some things have to be believed to be seen)
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To: beckett

>> It's an interesting question, but not interesting enough to interest the FBI. <<

What makes you so sure? Ashcroft's quick press conference WRT Berg and his computer password seemed awfully odd to me. Just the way Ashcroft picked and chose his words. I got the idea the government knows more about Berg, too, but doesn't want it coming out -- at least not right now.

Now I'll go adjust my hat...


211 posted on 05/27/2004 11:45:23 PM PDT by An American In Dairyland (Have you forgotten?)
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To: Tamsey

Uncanny!


212 posted on 05/28/2004 5:25:54 AM PDT by SquirrelKing ("I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion." - Maxine Waters (D - California)
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To: mylsfromhome

Your nuts!!


213 posted on 05/28/2004 5:25:55 AM PDT by fml ( You can twist perception, reality won't budge. -RUSH)
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To: Tamsey

Curiouser and curiouser. To me this suggests that (1) Moore has been woring with the commnunist front group A.N.S.W.E.R.; (2) that Mike Berg (the father) is involved; and, sadly, (3) that there may be a lot more about Nick Berg that we don't know.


214 posted on 05/28/2004 8:02:34 AM PDT by mondonico (Peace through Superior Firepower)
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To: mylsfromhome

You better get your post deleted. We are not allowed to quote fron The Onion.


215 posted on 05/28/2004 8:08:18 AM PDT by js1138 (In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. J Forbes Kerry)
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To: mylsfromhome

You are almost Too gullible to be a freeper! Micael Moore hasn't done a good thing for America...EVER....he detests America.


216 posted on 05/28/2004 8:14:33 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience. DCN)
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To: Fred Nerks

The reporter said Moore confirmed that the interview was doe BEFORE Berg went to Iraq. It does not say before WHICH trip...first orsecond.


217 posted on 05/28/2004 8:17:55 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience. DCN)
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To: Rastus

The article states the interview was BEFORE Berg went to Iraq.


218 posted on 05/28/2004 8:19:37 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience. DCN)
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To: Miss Marple
I think that was me noting all those coincidences....On the same bus as Moussoui and Atta....Moussoui havng Berg's password....being in Kenya also at the time of the bombings...being on a tower at GrabanArab prison....being interviewed by Moore BEFORE going to Iraq....the father saying that Nick was AlQueda's "best friend".....

Is Nick Berg an Evil Forrest Gump?

219 posted on 05/28/2004 8:23:26 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience. DCN)
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To: js1138

>We are not allowed to quote fron The Onion.

What's the deal with that, anyway?


220 posted on 05/28/2004 12:25:31 PM PDT by oblomov (reluctant libertarian for Bush)
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