Posted on 07/05/2004 6:25:32 AM PDT by jmstein7
Unless you've been hiding in a closet, you've probably heard about Michael Moore's record-breaking new movie "Fahrenheit 9/11," in which the gadfly producer-author says the war in Iraq is really just President Bush's war for oil and big business.
Moore, the Davison native who's become a kind of Rush Limbaugh of the Left in recent years, insists in interviews that everything in his movie is true. His critics charge the movie is propaganda.
Now, on the heels of the opening of "Fahrenheit," comes "Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man," a book by two of his biggest detractors, Jason Clarke and David T. Hardy. The title of this book, of course, plays off Moore's own "Stupid White Men," plus Al Franken's earlier "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Liar."
The authors are the creators of a couple of the bigger anti-Moore Internet sites -- mooreexposed.com and moorelies.com. Moore, for the record, calls them his "wacko attackos."
"We collected more than enough evidence," Clarke and Hardy write in an open letter to Moore that serves as a kind of introduction to the book, "to prove that you are the most fictitious character of our times." (That line, of course, is a reference to Moore's statement at the March 2003 Academy Awards ceremony when he won the best documentary feature Oscar for "Bowling for Columbine." Moore, it will be recalled, called Bush "a fictitious president" who took the United States "to war for fictitious reasons.")
Hardy and Clarke call Moore's movies "crockumentaries" and characterize themselves as pointmen of a national truth squad blowing the whistle on what they say are Moore's habit of playing fast and loose with the truth in his films and books.
The co-authors and the writers of various newspaper and magazine articles that are reprinted here tick their way through "Roger & Me," "Bowling for Columbine," "Stupid White Men" and other Moore commentaries, examining his statements and show them to be oversimplifications, exaggerations or outright falsehoods. They even work in criticism of "Farhrenheit" even though the movie went into general release only on June 25.
What's their criticism of Moore's work like? Take for example "Bowling for Columbine." Clarke and Hardy charge the movie "was deliberately, seriously, and consistently deceptive." By editing the words and rearranging parts of Charleton Heston's speeches to the National Rifle Association, they say, Moore converted a "conciliatory, uniting speech" after the high school massacre into one that made the actor sound defiant and uncaring.
They point out that Moore also portrayed Heston's appearances in Denver and Flint as cold-hearted and insensitive pro-gun rallies held in the wake of the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado and the Kayla Rolland shooting by a 6-year-old classmate in February 2000.
In reality, the authors say, nothing of the kind happened. The NRA's annual meeting in Denver had been scheduled years before the Columbine shooting, and Heston's Flint visit came months after Kayla's slaying as part of that year's presidential campaign. In no way was Heston's appearance connected to the Beecher killing.
Moore chose to blame the fact that a 6-year-old boy could bring a gun to school on the welfare reform rules that forced his mother to go to work. He said nothing about the fact that boy had been raised in a family of drug dealers, the authors write.
Moore's editing and narration, they say, paints false pictures of these events and of Heston. Ultimately, they write, the movie "has less documentary value than the average Bugs Bunny cartoon."
These are tough, interesting analyses of Moore's work, executed with lots of humor of the sarcastic and ironic sort - the very weapons Moore has often employed with success. Not only his books and movies but also his political views, conspiracy theories, pronouncements and attacks on his critics are all on trial here.
Clarke and Hardy also do a bit of armchair psychoanalysis in which they frame the symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder with fitting Moore quotes. It's over the top, a kind of "revenge of the wacko attackos."
There are some Flint references here in terms of the question of Moore's hometown (Flint or Davison?) and arguments over the "facts" as presented in his first film, "Roger & Me."
This book is very much a product of the Internet, a quick read that will delight those driven to distraction by Moore. Of course, it's not likely that Moore's fans would share their enthusiasm.
no fair there, old boy (re: the comparison ad)!
Ain't you heard?
John F Kerry is against abortion (personally, at least; for today, anyway).
< / sarcasm >
<< Moore ....[Has] become a kind of [Mr] Limbaugh of the [Ludicrous] left in recent years >>
In his wildest and most profoundly delusional fantasies, he has.
The evil, lying, lunatic-left-wing-moron-exploiting, thieving sack of sh*t.
ES&D, 'Fat Bastard.'
BUMPping
No, Moore is the Dale Gribble of the left.
so far it's a great read...amazing how his liberal choir of social malcontents refuse to accept that he is a liar who misrepresents the truth...
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Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Where was the barf alert?
#9 fyi
thx for the heads up :)
This guy has burned so many bridges I don't know how he is still standing.
Oh well, it takes time to get rid of scum.
You have quite a talent there, Linda!! ;-)
BRILLIANT!
Happy Birthday America Shalom!
Blessings -- Brian
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Signed and -- So mote it be -- Blessings -- B A
<< Moore, the .... kind of [Mr] Limbaugh of the [Ludicrous] left...
No, Moore is the Dale Gribble of the left. >>
Nope.
Gribble's a cartoon character -- and a joke.
'Fat Bastard,' on the other hand, is real enough -- in trumps -- is the "DemocRATS" Samuel Taylor Colleridge moment.
And is their David Duke.
And is effectively the Republican's firm [Though Jello-ish] ally.
To which happy fact such organised crime figures as Yasser Daschle and Terry McCauliffe and other criminals posing-as-congress-critters, Jim McDermott and Nancy Pelosi et al will eventually awaken.
Around -- say -- the second week in November.
ES&D, 'Fat Bastard.'
"Stupid" search results on FR:
Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man
by David T. Hardy
and Jason Clarke
Moore: Americans are 'The Dumbest People on the Planet' Posted by kattracks
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| Posted by Vision Thing On News/Activism ^ 07/06/2004 5:39:38 PM PDT with 29 comments Men's News Daily ^ | July 6, 2004 | Joe Mariani According to some Democratic lawmakers, you aren't capable of voting this year without a United Nations monitor making sure you get it right. Nine prominent Democrats, elected members of the House of Representatives, have sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, begging him to send UN monitors to oversee the 2004 election. Florida representative Eddie Bernice Johnson led the latest effort to subvert the sovereignty of the United States and place us under the control of the increasingly-corrupt United Nations. Let me get this straight. A group of Democrats want to bring some people from countries like North Korea,... |
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| Democrats are Evil, Republicans are stupid ^ |
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| Posted by ZULU On News/Activism ^ 07/06/2004 8:01:13 AM PDT with 30 comments ZULU | July 6 | ZULU After viewing the increasingly depressing political scene in America I am forced to conclude that the Democrats are evil and the Republicans are stupid. As Ann Coulter pointed out so well in her book "Treason", and as has been so well demonstrated by the Dems and their hand-picked appointees on the Federal Courts, their fellow-travellers in the major media and their propagandists in Hollywood, Democrats have become the party of Anti-Americanism. Even worse, they have become the party of anti-westernism. They hate the west and everything it stands for. They hate America as the end product of centuries of western... |
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| Moore gets taste of own medicine; Review of "Michal Moore is a Big, Fat Stupid White Man" ^ |
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| Posted by jmstein7 On News/Activism ^ 07/05/2004 6:25:32 AM PDT with 16 comments Flint Journal ^ | 7-04-04 | Kim Crawford Unless you've been hiding in a closet, you've probably heard about Michael Moore's record-breaking new movie "Fahrenheit 9/11," in which the gadfly producer-author says the war in Iraq is really just President Bush's war for oil and big business. Moore, the Davison native who's become a kind of Rush Limbaugh of the Left in recent years, insists in interviews that everything in his movie is true. His critics charge the movie is propaganda. Now, on the heels of the opening of "Fahrenheit," comes "Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man," a book by two of his biggest detractors,... |
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| CA Education Secretary apologizes for comment to girl -(my add) calls her "Stupid, dirty girl." ^ |
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| Posted by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL On News/Activism ^ 07/04/2004 1:46:39 PM PDT with 58 comments The Tribune San Luis Obispo Online ^ | Posted on Sun, Jul. 04, 2004 | Associated Press SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - State Education Secretary Richard Riordan has apologized for joking that a child's name meant "stupid dirty girl." In a videotaped exchange at the city's central library on Thursday, a girl asked Riordan if he knew that her name meant "Egyptian goddess." Riordan, who apparently believed he'd been asked what her name meant, replied, "It means stupid dirty girl." Some in the room laughed nervously, and the girl again told Riordan the meaning of her name. "Hey, that's nifty," he said. |
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| Michael Mooreís Fahrenheit 9/11 -- ìSomething Stupid This Way Comesî ^ |
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| Posted by Congressman Billybob On News/Activism ^ 07/03/2004 1:24:59 PM PDT with 29 comments Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 3 July, 2004 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob) The lies from Michael Mooreís latest schlock-umentary begin before you enter the theater. On the posters out front, the movie is identified as ìFahrenheit 9/11.î Half the title and most of the concept were stolen without so much as a by-your-leave from the classic novel Fahrenheit 451, by the great Ray Bradbury. A few million Americans of a certain age (and I am one) got their introductions to excellence in science fiction, and also excellence in writing English regardless of subject, from Ray Bradbury. A dark vision of the future, in which the government suppresses and destroys knowledge, appears in... |
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| Win a Free Copy of "Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man" ^ |
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| Posted by Mark Noonan On News/Activism ^ 07/02/2004 12:13:23 AM PDT with 7 comments Blogs for Bush ^ | July 1, 2004 | Matt Margolis If the truth hurts, this book is bound to give Michael Moore a lot of pain. "Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man" written by David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke, reveals the truth about how Michael Moore manipulates facts and spins statistics. The truth is shocking, yet equally important to get out there, because Michael Moore thinks he can influence the voters to kick George W. Bush out of the White House. The truth is so important, we want to offer Blogs For Bush readers a chance to win a free copy of "Michael Moore Is A... |
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| I'm having my healthy breasts removed at 22 [not stupid or sick article] ^ |
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| Posted by Slings and Arrows On News/Activism ^ 07/01/2004 6:28:06 PM PDT with 283 comments Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1/7/04 | Jon Crowley A young woman whose mother had her healthy breasts removed after it was found that she carried hereditary cancer genes is to undergo the same operation. Becky Measures, 22, said she will have a double mastectomy after tests showed that she had a 90 per cent chance of contracting the disease in later life. Her mother, Wendy Watson, became one of the first women in Britain to have a double mastectomy on healthy breasts. The decision by Miss Measures, who works as a DJ on Peak 107 FM in Chesterfield, Derbys, is thought to be the first case of a... |
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| Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man - Amazon.Com Review ^ |
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| Posted by jmstein7 On News/Activism ^ 07/01/2004 3:14:21 PM PDT with 10 comments MooreLies.Com ^ | 7-1-04 From Amazon: Watching Michael Moore in action -- passing off manipulating facts in Bowling for Columbine, spinning statistics in Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country?, shamelessly grandstanding at the Academy Awards, and epitomizing the hypocrisy he's made a king's fortune railing against -- has spurred authors David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke to take action into their own hands. In Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man, Hardy and Clarke dish it back hard to the fervent prophet of the far left, turning a careful eye on Moore's use of camera tricks and publicity ploys to... |
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| Book: 'Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man' (NewsMax Review) ^ |
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| Posted by jmstein7 On News/Activism ^ 07/01/2004 9:56:55 AM PDT with 15 comments NewsMax ^ | 7-1-04 A just released book takes on Michael Moore as never before. Its title screams: ìMichael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man.î And surprisingly, this book has been published by the same publisher who gave us Michael Mooreís own runaway bestseller ìStupid White Men.î Apparently, more than a few people want to take revenge on Michael Moore and the timing couldnít be better ñ with the release this week of his ìdocumentaryî attack piece on George Bush - Fahrenheit 9/11. Moore is so terrified by his detractors he claims that he has already hired a cabal of lawyers. He... |
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| Michael Moore: Immoral, Lazy, Fat, Stupid ^ |
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| Posted by Theodore R. On News/Activism ^ 07/01/2004 9:13:30 AM PDT with 21 comments WND.com ^ | 07-01-04 | Farah, Joseph Michael Moore: Immoral, fat, lazy, stupid ---------------------------------------- Posted: July 1, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com In my most recent book, "Taking America Back," I raised some eyebrows by explaining that the American people were increasingly becoming immoral, fat, lazy and stupid. I explained that there appeared to be a government conspiracy to promote this trend. How? The government is quickly adding sexual deviancy to the list of protected classes of people. In other words, it will soon be a crime across the board to draw conclusions about people based on their behavior. What on earth are we supposed... |
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| NewsMax Catapults 'Big Fat Stupid White Man' to Amazon's Top ^ |
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| Posted by The Bandit On News/Activism ^ 06/30/2004 3:48:36 PM PDT with 44 comments NewsMax ^ | 6/30/04 | Newsmax Though it's been ignored by the big media and was only released yesterday, the new book "Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man" by David Hardy and Jason Clarke has already skyrocketed to the top of the Amazon.com best sellers list. Before NewsMax began featuring the blockbuster Moore expose' last weekend, sales were slow, with the Amazon ranking hovering around the 2 million mark. But by Wednesday, "MMIABFSWM" had jumped to number eight on the Amazon list. Story Continues Below The explosion in sales comes despite an array of anecdotal reports suggesting that employees at the big bookstore... |
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| Please review "Michael Moore is a stupid white guy..." at Amazon.com ^ |
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| Posted by Sybeck1 On General Interest (Chat) ^ 06/30/2004 1:39:47 PM PDT with 17 comments amazon.com ^ | 06/30/04 | self Liberals seem to be commenting on this book without reading it! |
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| Book: 'Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man' ^ |
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| Posted by ambrose On News/Activism ^ 06/29/2004 7:20:47 PM PDT with 14 comments NewsMax ^ | 6.24.04 Book: 'Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man' NewsMax.com Thursday, June 24, 2004 A just released book takes on Michael Moore as never before. Its title screams: ìMichael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man.î And surprisingly, this book has been published by the same publisher who gave us Michael Mooreís own runaway bestseller ìStupid White Men.î |
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| Are rich Democrats stupid? ^ |
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| Posted by Sola Veritas On News/Activism ^ 06/29/2004 11:57:42 AM PDT with 92 comments I just read where Hillary made the following comments in a speech: "Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." So, I was just wondering if rich democrats are stupid? Someone tells them they are going to rob them, and they pay to get to hear this? What is wrong with this... |
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| A Stupid Spelling Question ^ |
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| Posted by foolscap On Bloggers & Personal ^ 06/29/2004 5:59:06 AM PDT with 6 comments myself | 6/29/04 | myself I was talking to a friend the other day who is very much brainwashed with the belief that all Islam is a religion of peace. I was trying to tell her about Whabbism(sp) which she had never heard of. I want to send her some articles on the topic but for the life of me I can not remember how to spell the word properly. Can someone help? |
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| IF THERE WAS ANY DOUBT THAT CANADIANS ARE STUPID (VANITY) ^ |
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| Posted by jcb8199 On News/Activism ^ 06/26/2004 11:50:44 PM PDT with 10 comments Ed Broadbent ^ Just thought that you Freepers might enjoy this--shows how irrelevant Canada is. |
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| Me and Michael, the stupid fat man ^ |
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| Posted by MadIvan On News/Activism ^ 06/26/2004 4:10:31 PM PDT with 24 comments The Sunday Times ^ | June 27, 2004 | Richard Brooks Michael and Me. Well, we didnít get off to the best of starts. I had been tipped off at the Cannes film festival that if I went to a certain beach restaurant at a certain time I might grab an interview with Michael Moore. I made a beeline for him. ìHi, Michael. Richard Brooks from The Sunday Times in London.î Fatter than even his pictures suggest, he looked quizzically at me from beneath his ìMade in Canadaî baseball cap. ìIím not talking to you,î he responded half in jest, half in anger. ìYouíre News International. Murdoch.î I knew he regarded... |
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| Formation Photo Shoot Panics Bostonians (stupid MA Liberals see stunt planes, wet themselves) ^ |
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| Posted by pabianice On News/Activism ^ 06/26/2004 2:39:21 PM PDT with 8 comments Avweb ^ | 6/26/04 In another time, Boston residents might have thrilled to the sight of Sean D. Tucker leading a formation of four aerobatic aircraft on a photo shoot overhead. But in the post-9/11 world, office workers stream outside not for a better view but because they think they might be under attack. Such was the case last Friday when the flight, all properly approved by the FAA, was launched to provide publicity photos for a local air show. At least 50 people fled the Prudential building's 23rd floor and about 100 gathered on the ground after the planes flew by. "Give me... |
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| Amazon Best Seller? : Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man ^ |
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| Posted by Puntagorda On News/Activism ^ 06/26/2004 10:49:02 AM PDT with 25 comments Amazon ^ The new book, "Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man", is number 3 on Amazon's Movers & Shakers book list Be interesting to see how sales stack up when the book is released. Wonder if the New York Times will review it . . . |
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| Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man ^ |
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| Posted by truthfinder9 On News/Activism ^ 06/26/2004 6:52:05 AM PDT with 15 comments amazon.com ^ EXPOSED: The Left's biggest (and we do mean biggest) liar and hypocrite, Michael Moore Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man by David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke Oscar-winning filmmaker and bestselling author Michael Moore has made a king's fortune railing against the hypocrisy he epitomizes. In "documentaries" like Bowling for Columbine and the soon-to-be-released Fahrenheit 9/11, and in "nonfiction" books like Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country?, Moore has proved himself over and over to be the most shamelessly dishonest -- if crudely effective -- propagandist since Joseph Goebbels and Nazi documentarian Leni Riefenstahl. Now,... |
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| Airports Can Go Back to Private Screeners (with stupid Democrat quote) ^ |
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| Posted by July 4th On News/Activism ^ 06/24/2004 11:42:39 AM PDT with 9 comments Associated Press ^ | 25 June 2004 | Leslie Miller WASHINGTON - Airports that want to replace government security screeners with privately employed workers can do so by early next summer, the Bush administration told Congress on Thursday. Thomas Blank, assistant administrator at the Transportation Security Administration, told the Senate aviation subcommittee that airports will have three options: remain in the federal system, use a private contractor to hire and train screeners, or run the screening themselves. They can apply for a change in November. Airport groups estimate between 20 and 100 of the 445 commercial airports under TSA supervision will choose to opt out of the current system. Those... |
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| BOOK: 'MICHAEL MOORE IS A BIG FAT STUPID WHITE MAN' --That's For Sure! ^ |
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| Posted by Apolitical On News/Activism ^ 06/24/2004 5:27:05 AM PDT with 20 comments iconoclast.ca ^ A just released book takes on Michael Moore as never before. Its title screams: "Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man." And surprisingly, this book has been published by the same publisher who gave us Michael Moore's own runaway bestseller "Stupid White Men." Apparently, more than a few people want to take revenge on Michael Moore and the timing couldn't be better -- with the release this week of his "documentary" attack piece on George Bush -- "Fahrenheit 9/11." Moore is so terrified by his detractors he claims that he has already hired a cabal of lawyers. He... |
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| Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man (Anti-Moore Book coming out on June 29) ^ |
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| Posted by jmstein7 On News/Activism ^ 06/21/2004 11:09:20 AM PDT with 34 comments MooreLies ^ | 6-21-04 | Jason Clarke Have you ever laughed at the thought of the mainstream media printing the words "Michael Moore is a big fat stupid white man!" all across their pages and their screens? Well now you've got your wish. Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man is a new book I've co-written with legendary Moore skeptic David T. Hardy. And while the title is a parody of Moore's own works, the content of the book is a thorough examination of a career spent in hypocrisy, pseudo-intellectualism, deception, and deceit. Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man features expanded, in-depth... |
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| Stupid Castro Campaigns for Bush ^ |
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| Posted by kattracks On News/Activism ^ 06/21/2004 10:41:54 AM PDT with 9 comments NewsMax.com ^ | 6/21/04 | Carl Limbacher and the NewsMax.com staff Has Cuba's septuagenarian dictator finally gone senile? Fidel Castro is doing everything possible to secure the re-election of his archenemy, President Bush. The crucial Cuban-American voting bloc in crucial Florida has lost some of its enthusiasm for Bush, but Castro seems determined to repair the damage by directing one rant after another at the president. Today the dictator accused Bush yet again of planning to invade his tropical gulag. 'Crazy' "Do not try crazy adventures such as surgical strikes or wars of attrition using sophisticated techniques because you could lose control of the situation," Castro said this morning in a... |
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| Edwards Says Bush to Blame for Iraq Aftermath (Edwards A.K.A WonderWoman is acting stupid again!) ^ |
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| Posted by areafiftyone On News/Activism ^ 06/19/2004 5:59:19 AM PDT with 28 comments Yahoo via Reuters ^ | 6/19/04 HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator and possible Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards (news - web sites) blasted the Bush administration on Friday for the chaotic aftermath of the Iraq (news - web sites) war and said President Bush (news - web sites), not his underlings, is to blame. "If you look at what's happening, there's a lot of discussion and debate around the country about Don Rumsfeld and whether the secretary of defense should be fired and whether he should resign," Edwards said in a fiery speech to the Texas Democratic Party annual convention. "Let me say this very... |
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| Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man ^ |
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| Posted by visagoth On News/Activism ^ 06/16/2004 7:03:27 AM PDT with 37 comments Amazon.com ^ | June 29, 2004 | David T. Hardy, Jason Clarke Upcoming title at Amazon.com. Here is the editorial comment Watching Michael Moore in action -- passing off manipulating facts in Bowling for Columbine, spinning statistics in Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country?, shamelessly grandstanding at the Academy Awards, and epitomizing the hypocrisy he's made a king's fortune railing against -- has spurred authors David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke to take action into their own hands. In Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man, Hardy and Clarke dish it back hard to the fervent prophet of the far left, turning a careful eye on Moore's use... |
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| Idiots (ZOT!!! Stupid idjit troll.) ^ |
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| Posted by andrewhenderson On News/Activism ^ 06/16/2004 6:17:06 AM PDT with 147 comments This site makes reasonable conservatives look like Nazis. You people have no logic... "Goyette is anti-war, anti-Bush!" Nice leap there. |
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| Stupid Password Tricks ^ |
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| Posted by Eagle9 On News/Activism ^ 06/15/2004 2:24:02 PM PDT with 88 comments TechWeb - Security Pipeline ^ | June 14, 2004 | Mitch Wagner We use passwords stupidly. I was reading an article by one of my counterparts in the computer press, describing the security measures that users should take to protect their passwords. You know the drill: use different passwords for different sites. Change them regularly. Use a letter-and-number combination, not just letters. Don't use a common word, or your own name, or any common name, because all of these things are easily guessed by hackers using automated password-guessing software. Don't write your passwords down. And I said: Who has time for all of that nonsense? I mean, I had painful and difficult... |
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| It's a Funeral, Stupid ^ |
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| Posted by Nasty McPhilthy On News/Activism ^ 06/11/2004 12:55:49 PM PDT with 55 comments The Optimate ^ | 06/09/2004 | Jay Bryant It's a Funeral, Stupid 06/09/2004 Okay, I'm officially steamed. I can deal with all the liberals who never had a good thing to say about Ronald Reagan in his lifetime suddenly pretending to think he was an "effective leader" or whatever. Hey, maybe they're sincere, or politically calculating (certainly John Kerry's pilgrimage to Simi Valley falls under that category), or maybe they're just showing an appropriate civil grace. It doesn't matter; they're doing the right thing. I can deal with Fidel Castro's state owned radio saying, "He, who never should have been born, has died." After all, who has more... |
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| The Berkeley Intifada? ("It's the Jews, stupid.") ^ |
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| Posted by quidnunc On News/Activism ^ 06/10/2004 7:41:23 PM PDT with 21 comments Tech Central Station ^ | June 10, 2004 | Michael J. Totten Over the past two and a half years Berkeley, California has added radical Middle Eastern politics to its chic campus culture. The result isn't pretty. A city that prides itself on tolerance and diversity is fast-becoming an epicenter of hate. A recent article called The Berkeley Intifada in the East Bay Express is an eye-opener for those who think Berkeley is still what it was. Violently anti-Semitic vandalism and graffiti is making a comeback. "It's the Jews, stupid," was scratched into a 9/11 memorial. The glass door to Berkeley's Hillel building was shattered by a hurled cinderblock. Just in case... |
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| Madrid suspect gave game away with stupid blunder ^ |
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| Posted by Nasty McPhilthy On News/Activism ^ 06/09/2004 11:27:43 AM PDT with 6 comments The Australian ^ | 6/10/04 Madrid suspect gave game away with stupid blunder June 10, 2004 MILAN: Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, the Islamic militant known to Spanish authorities as "Mohamed the Egyptian", tripped himself up with one of the oldest mistakes in the book - bragging over the telephone. Italian authorities had tapped his home phone in Milan after Ahmed - who was arrested as part of multi-city European raids on Tuesday - fled Madrid in the months before the March 11 train bombings there that killed 191 people. The 33-year-old former Taliban explosives expert is suspected of supplying the bomb-making expertise for the Madrid... |
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| WHY ALL THIS CELEBRATION OVER A PRESIDENT SO UTTERLY STUPID? ^ |
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| Posted by Hemingway's Ghost On News/Activism ^ 06/09/2004 6:18:49 AM PDT with 144 comments Overheard ^ | 09 June 2004 | Hemingway's Ghost I felt like I had to share this with all of you . . . I'm sitting here in the offices of a major investment company in Boston, and here's a sampling of some of the comments flying over the cubicle walls: "I'm sure if you're really broken up over this, on Friday you can go into one of the quiet rooms and snivel." "I don't see why everyone's celebrating the life of this utterly stupid, incompetent man." "It's obvious he had Alzheimer's long before he left office." "The man was stupid, lazy, and a complete disaster for this country."... |
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| FBI seeks source of leak on Iran code Chalabi denies role; calls reports `false,' `stupid' ^ |
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| Posted by ckilmer On News/Activism ^ 06/03/2004 6:42:51 AM PDT with 2 comments Chicago Tribune ^ | June 3, 2004 | Knut Royce WASHINGTON -- The FBI has launched an investigation into who disclosed that the United States had broken an Iranian communications code--information Ahmad Chalabi then reportedly passed on to the Iranian intelligence service. Federal law enforcement officials confirmed Wednesday that the FBI's counterintelligence division was investigating the reported leak to Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress and until recently the Pentagon's favorite to rule Iraq. |
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| VANGUARD: It's the Economy, Stupid ^ |
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| Posted by AFPhys On News/Activism ^ 06/02/2004 6:25:32 AM PDT with 10 comments Vanguard of the Revolution ^ | 1 June 2004 | Rod D. Martin As the media continues its ìif it bleeds it leadsî bias on Iraq ñ despite tremendous positive news from that front ñ and the Presidentís poll numbers reflect that, itís hard for many conservatives to remember that iron law of politics given us twelve years ago by James Carville: Itís the economy, stupid. One reason itís easy to forget this wise counsel right now is that the publicís perception of the economy is much worse than the reality. Indeed, that was the case in 1992 as well, when Bill Clinton got away with the most ludicrous of lies, that we... |
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| It's the expansion, stupid ^ |
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| Posted by craig_eddy On News/Activism ^ 06/01/2004 6:08:50 AM PDT with 2 comments CBS MarketWatch ^ | 6/1/2004 | Chris Pummer SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, major TV networks and financial magazines keep repeating a serious error I've meant to call them on, but haven't, because my own Web site makes the same grave mistake. To hear Big Media tell it, the U.S. economy is in a fragile state of "recovery" that threatens to be undermined at any moment, by rising interest rates, by soaring gas prices, by another terrorist attack. In fact, the economy has been in a state of rip-roaring "expansion" -- the strongest in 20 years -- yet the media persists... |
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| HELP ;) Enybody who has the english edicion of M. Moore's "Stupid White Men" ^ |
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| Posted by kaiser80 On News/Activism ^ 05/31/2004 3:27:13 PM PDT with 20 comments kaiser80 I've read the polish edition and one thing surprised me; how a guy who makes fun out of the mistakes made by G.W. Bush and calling Americans a nation of idiots can make mistakes himself ;) I was amazed discovering that Jose Maria Aznar was....PRESIDENT of Spain...So please let me know if it's only a mistake made by a translator or....you know what ;p |
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| Prison Abusers Were 'Stupid' Says Retired Afganistan Intelligence Officer ^ |
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| Posted by RUexperienced On News/Activism ^ 05/25/2004 10:28:31 AM PDT with 12 comments Grand Rapids Press ^ | 5/25/04 Prison abusers were 'stupid,' retired Afganistan intelligence officer says Monday, May 24, 2004 By Ted Roelofs The Grand Rapids Press The detainees in Afghanistan were like those in Iraq. The goal was the same -- break them as quickly as possible. But according to the West Michigan native who supervised interrogation at Bagram Air Base, the methods were vastly different from the alleged abuse at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. "Everything done under duress is suspect," said retired Army Maj. Steve Hillebrand, 42, a former Benzie County deputy sheriff who oversaw interrogation for much of 2003 at Bagram. From Our... |
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| Dave the Brave: Stupid President Tricks can only be seen on Letterman ^ |
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| Posted by RatherBiased.com On News/Activism ^ 05/11/2004 7:39:22 PM PDT with 32 comments L.A. Weekly ^ | APRIL 30 - MAY 6, 2004 | Nikki Finke Leno may be the ratings winner. Stewart is the critics' darling. But, day in and day out, Letterman is the hands-down leader when it comes to unabashed Bush bashing. One reason is that his Late Show has the brass balls to go where the cowardly White House news corps and corporate suck-up Leno fear to tread: presenting Dubya in all his dumb-ass glory. During their workweek, executive producer Rob Burnett and his octet of writers often begin their morning by wondering, What's George W. doing today? So they glance through his schedule and look for an interesting presidential public appearance.... |
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| Prisoner abuse: Itís the war, stupid! ^ |
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| Posted by rface On News/Activism ^ 05/11/2004 4:10:49 PM PDT with 3 comments Columbia, MIssouri Daily Tribune ^ | Tuesday, May 11, 2004 | FORREST ROSE Many Arabs and other Muslims must have heard President George W. Bushís not-quite-contrite apology for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, coupled with his confusing assurance that Americans really donít do that sort of thing. It must have been confusing because there are literally thousands of images demonstrating conclusively that Americans have been doing exactly that sort of thing. It was like listening to "Baghdad Bob," the former Saddam spokesperson who loudly would state as fact what everyone knew to be fiction. Perhaps some Arabs also heard the televised testimony of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who purported to accept "full responsibility"... |
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| It's dilution, stupid ^ |
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| Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism ^ 05/09/2004 1:44:48 PM PDT with 17 comments WorldNetDaily ^ | 5/8/04 | Dr. Kelly Hollowell That's the answer. So what's the question? The question is "If gays can get married, how does that destroy my marriage or yours? How does giving rights to one group take away rights from another group?" The answer originates in the world of intellectual property, specifically trademark law. Dilution is the unauthorized use of a well-known mark that protects the distinctive quality of any word or symbol used for identification. Dilution takes two forms: blurring and tarnishment. Blurring causes the diluted mark to no longer uniquely identify its owner's goods or services. Tarnishment diminishes the quality associated with the mark.... |
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| Stupid white men... and others in the film industry ^ |
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| Posted by Destro On News/Activism ^ 05/08/2004 7:52:41 PM PDT with 36 comments scotsman.com ^ | Sun 9 May 2004 | BRIAN MCNAIR Sun 9 May 2004 Stupid white men... and others in the film industry BRIAN MCNAIR FOR all of Michael Mooreís right-on rhetoric about the American ruling elite, youíve got to admit that if he didnít exist a genuinely democratic society would have to invent him. Moore is the court jester of contemporary America, mocking the powerful, supplying the proof that freedom of speech is alive and kicking, and democracy safe. Heís a symbol of something bigger than the rights and wrongs of anything he has to say, and he should be cherished for that. In America and the world over,... |
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| America's Fundamental Sin of Abuse (A Canadian says 'It's the Christianity, stupid!') ^ |
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| Posted by quidnunc On News/Activism ^ 05/07/2004 10:47:41 AM PDT with 14 comments The Globe and Mail ^ | May 7, 2004 | Rick Salutin I thought of the Fox network's Bill O'Reilly when I heard about the recent prisoner abuses in Iraq. Not because of the normal abuse you get on his show. But I was on The Radio Factor With Bill O'Reilly last week and in the intro to our discussion he referred often to The Globe and Mail as left-wing. I said I had to defend it against that charge, since The Globe has always been a conservative, business paper here. Oh, come on, he scoffed, noting that the Globe is "secular." We sparred and it was only when he repeated the... |
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| Time to Require Posters to Give State Info When Stupid Newspapers Don't ^ |
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| Posted by ml/nj On News/Activism ^ 05/06/2004 5:55:57 PM PDT with 24 comments ML/NJ This current thread (BREAKING NEWS: Air Force jet crashes near Callaway) is just typical of so many. Lots of us don't know where Callaway is; have never heard of Callaway; or mistakenly think it is a Golf Club. (Yes, I know this thread says the pilots are from some AFB in North Carolina, but WTF is Callaway?) Please! If the article being posted does not contain a dateline with State information, please add it (or other location info - e.g. 40 mi. SW of Philadephia) in brakets or something. Not all of us know where Springfield is. ML/NJ |
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| Polluted Air America - 'It's the content stupid!' ^ |
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| Posted by Straight Vermonter On News/Activism ^ 05/05/2004 7:06:56 AM PDT with 13 comments Men's News Daily ^ | 5/3/04 | Kevin McCullough The Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and The New York Times this week are all reporting the latest demise of Air America - the demise of its top executives at least. Much speculation has occurred as to why the fledgling "talk radio for liberals" network is having such problems. To me the single most overwhelming answer is obvious - it starts with a premise. The premise is this: "Conservatives believe there is A God. Liberals believe they ARE God." This premise infiltrates everything they do. If, as conservatives believe, there is A God and He is superior to us and exists... |
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| After coaster death, state halts rides with T bar restraints (stupid comment from a democRAT) ^ |
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| Posted by Redcoat LI On News/Activism ^ 05/03/2004 3:15:45 PM PDT with 21 comments The Boston Globe ^ | 5/3/2004 | Adam Gorlick After coaster death, state halts rides with T bar restraints By Adam Gorlick, Associated Press, 5/3/2004 17:35 ADVERTISEMENT SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) State officials on Monday halted a handful of amusement park rides outfitted with the type of restraints used on a roller coaster from which a man was flung to his death at Six Flags New England. |
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| Terrorist: Wish We Had That Bomb (Stupid AP writer IMplicates Jordanian Queen in Plot) ^ |
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| Posted by ElkGroveDan On News/Activism ^ 05/01/2004 9:21:51 AM PDT with 11 comments AP/CBS ^ | April 30, 2004 (AP) A purported message from the al Qaeda operative Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi said Friday his group did not plan a chemical weapons attack as the Jordanian authorities have alleged. "The (allegation) that there was a chemical bomb to kill thousands of people is a mere lie," the reported voice of al-Zarqawi says on a tape broadcast via an Islamic site on the Internet. "God knows, if we did possess (a chemical bomb), we wouldn't hesitate one second to use it to hit Israeli cities such as Eilat and Tel Aviv," the voice said. Jordanian state television has broadcast confessions of a... |
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| Polluted Air America: 'It's the content stupid! By Kevin McCullough ^ |
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| Posted by JohnHuang2 On News/Activism ^ 04/30/2004 10:03:11 AM PDT with 15 comments WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Friday, April 30, 2004 | Kevin McCullough The Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and the New York Times this week are all reporting the latest demise of Air America ? the demise of its top executives at least. Much speculation has occurred as to why the fledgling "talk radio for liberals" network is having such problems. To me the single most overwhelming answer is obvious ? they start with this premise: "Conservatives believe there is a God. Liberals believe they are God." This premise infiltrates everything they do. If, as conservatives believe, there is A God and He is superior to us and exists outside of us,... |
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| A More Humble Euro-Basher (Crapweasels ñ malign, just plain stupidÖ or both?) ^ |
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| Posted by quidnunc On News/Activism ^ 04/29/2004 9:43:23 PM PDT The American Spectator ^ | April 30, 2004 | Jacob Laksin Humility being all the rage on the Right these days, allow me to make my own contribution to the gallery of grovelers enlightened by recent turns in the War on Terror. Last month I contended in this space that even as the battle against terrorism roars on, European consensus about taking up the fight remains seriously confused. More heinously, I suggested, Europeans understate the dangers of a toxic ideology whose sweep across the globe will uproot ethnic cultures, destroy freedom and democracy, and shackle indigenous peoples in an oppressively one-sided worldview. But if an April BBC poll has it right,... |
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| Weblog: The Bible as Canadian Hate Literature (It's A Hate Crime, Stupid!) ^ |
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| Posted by Happy2BMe On News/Activism ^ 04/29/2004 12:17:54 PM PDT with 17 comments Christianity Today ^ Weblog: The Bible as Canadian Hate LiteraturePlus: Attacks on churches in Indonesia, Muslim violence in Thailand, more Sharia in Nigeria, PBS investigates Bush's faith, and more articles from online sources around the world.Compiled by Rob Moll | posted 04/29/2004 Christian groups in Canada are concerned over the passage of a bill that includes "sexual orientation" among groups specially protected from hate crimes. Christians have protested the bill for months saying that the Bible's condemnation of homosexual acts could be considered hate literature, but yesterday the Canadian Senate passed the bill 59-11 following a decade-long effort by a gay MP."While opposing... |
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| The Bush and Kerry military records: (Another STUPID poll question by MSNBC!!) ^ |
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| Posted by RogerWilko On News/Activism ^ 04/27/2004 6:41:55 AM PDT with 15 comments MSNBC ^ | 4/27/04 | MSNBC The Bush and Kerry military records: Important character issues or just a distraction? * 76 responses Yes 72% No 28% |
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