Michael Moore booed as he slams Iraq war at Oscars

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HOLLYWOOD (AFP) - Famed US documentary maker Michael Moore (news) used his win of an Oscar to launch a violent attack on US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and war in Iraq (news - web sites) amid loud boos from the audience.

"We live in fictitious times," he said when picking up the award for best documentary for his anti-gun film "Bowling for Columbine."

"We live in a time with fictitious election results that elect fictitious presidents. We live in a time when we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

"We are against this war Mr Bush. Shame on you. Shame on you!," he said to loud boos from an of 3,500 including most of Hollywood's top stars.

When he went backstage at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre to face reporters, Moore was unapologetic for his outburst.

"I'm an American, and you don't leave your citizenship when you enter the doors of the Kodak Theater. What's great about this country is that you can speak your mind," he said.

He said that, far from being appalled, many people in the audience stood up to applaud him.

"I say tonight I put America in a good light," he said praising the decision to push ahead with the Oscars (news - web sites) despite the war raging in the Middle East.

"I showed how vital it is to have free speech in our country and all Americans have the right to stand up for what they believe in," he said.

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Moore is a blathering idiot.

[lethbridge_east]

He is a Stupid White Man. Without a doubt!

[annyokie]

Ficticious author of ficticious nonsense. TG someone had the sense to boo him.

[b4its2late]

What a clymer!

[PianoMan]

Glad to see AFP telling it like it happened. Why do I have the feeling the only American press who will mention this are Rush, O'Reilly and Hannity?

[The Real Eddie01]

"I showed how vital it is to have free speech in our country and all Americans have the right to stand up for what they believe in," he said.

Mr. Moore, your free speech was never in jeopardy.

In fact, I would encourage you to continue to exercise your free speech rights as it is making my job a lot easier.

Eddie01

[Kaslin]

[Richard Axtell]

Moore is self marginalizing, like the entire anti American, pro Saddam, Appeasment Movement. Soon to be discredited, but not soon enough.

[demnomo]

By tomorrow, all of the major news outlets and TV journalists like Katie Couric & Matt Lauer will record or relay the fictitious response to Moore's comments. Just you wait.

Oh, and the network will drown out the recorded boos with canned applause...just like they did with Hillary when the NYC firemen and police jeered her onstage after 9/11.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I showed how vital it is to have free speech in our country and all Americans have the right to stand up for what they believe in," he said."

All of it bought and paid for with the blood of far better men than Mr. Moore.

[noutopia]

This man is an idiot.He likes boys,so he really is too confussed to understand the real world.

[Liberal Classic]

More than a clyner, but a quisling.

[martin_fierro]

That idiot won an Oscar?

That clinches it for me. That award is worthless.

[montrose]

CNN (William Schneider) just reported that Moore was "booed off the stage."

[shellylet]

Apparently the booing took place after they had given him a standing ovation. (this from my daughter, I wouldn't waste the electricity to watch that garbage)

That man is nothing but pure white trash! And Hollywood awards him for being stupid! Isn't that just about right!

[garjog]

Here is this puke's email. Time to Freep everyone.

From his web page:

Contacting Michael
If you have something you want to tell Michael directly, contact him at: mike@michaelmoore.com. Michael gets thousands of emails and does his best to personally answer as many of them as possible. Occasionally his email box "overflows" and you may get an error when trying to contact him. Please be patient and try sending your message to Michael again at a later date.

* Emails to the above addresses that do not pertain to the specific topic of the email address(es) specified will most likely be deleted due to sheer volume of messages received. For instance, if you cannot get through to mike@michaelmoore.com, please do not send the message to news@michaelmoore.com. Or, if you would like to suggest a Homeland Security mission, please only send to homeland@michaelmoore.com. Thanks!

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

All of it bought and paid for with the blood of far better men than Mr. Moore.

Can you imagine how desperate you'd feel if you knew your son was having to depend on some simp like Moore to cover his back during combat?

[John Valentine]

It's very very apt that the face portrayed on the cover of his book "Stupid White Men" is his own.

[Political Junkie Too]

Maybe we can add the Academy Awards to the list of institutions that the French have ruined in their desperate grasp for relevancy.

-PJ

[HennepinPrisoner]

From the Sydney Morning Herald

Bowling for peace: Moore slams war

March 24 2003, 2:36 PM

Michale Moore and Susan Sarandon with her husband Tim Robbins. Photos: Reuters and AFP

Famed US documentary maker Michael Moore used his win of an Oscar today to launch a violent attack on US President George W Bush and war in Iraq amid loud boos from the audience.

Some stars, like husband and wife Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, gave the victory salute as they entered the Academy Awards show.

"We live in fictitious times," he said when picking up the award for best documentary for his anti-gun film Bowling for Columbine.

"We live in a time with fictitious election results that elect fictitious presidents. We live in a time when we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

"We are against this war Mr Bush. Shame on you. Shame on you!," he said in front of a loudly booing audience of 3,500 people including most of Hollywood's top stars.