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Less is Moore
3.23.03 | Mia T

Posted on 03/25/2003 9:31:16 AM PST by Mia T

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1 posted on 03/25/2003 9:31:17 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T
This is perhaps the weirdest, most confusing post I've ever seen at the Free Republic. What is it??!
2 posted on 03/25/2003 9:35:02 AM PST by wizzler
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To: wizzler
Mia T is reknowned for her graphic-intensive, two-weeks to download, colorful and confusing posts. 'Course, she's a regular here, so we let it go...
3 posted on 03/25/2003 9:36:57 AM PST by Junior (Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.)
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To: wizzler
It is art and the legacy for a grifting, perjuring, predating ex-president and his minions and supporters. Do a search by poster under Mia T to see some more. Don't miss clicking on the "Q ERTY" links. Enjoy.....
4 posted on 03/25/2003 9:37:58 AM PST by eureka! (Bless our Troops and Allies.........)
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To: BARBRA
If Stupidity got us into this mess,
then why can't it get us out?

Will Rogers

 

 
Nine-tenths of wisdom
consists in being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

 

 
But even as the clintons fails to grasp the scandal's metabolism
they understand all too well its most significant byproduct.
You can see it in their eyes. 
Once reflecting a Machiavellian confidence,
they now dart back and forth reflexively,
searching futilely for approval,
attempting desperately to dispel their own certain knowledge
that their moral authority is gone. . .
forever
Mia T
 
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth,
and listen to the song of that siren
till she transforms us into beasts.
Is this the part of wise men,
engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Are we disposed to be the number of those
who, having eyes, see not,
and having ears, hear not,
the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost,
I am willing to know the whole truth;
to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Patrick Henry
 
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Theodore Roethke

 

By editing out clinton's culpability for 9/11, Hollywood edits out its own culpability for 9/11
 

Columbia Pictures' "Black Hawk Down," the holiday action adventure movie about the 1993 Somalia debacle that cost 18 U.S. soldiers their lives, was set to explicity blame ex-President Clinton for the 9/11 terrorist attacks before the film's director and producers decided to soft-peddle the connection.

In mid-November, before the decision to tone down the Clinton angle, the film was previewed for a handful journalists.

Before its final edit "Black Hawk's" closing crawl highlighted a series of events following the Somalia mission, including Clinton's humiliating troop withdrawal from the country, the humanitarian disasters in Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo and, finally, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.

"With what happened in Mogadishu, with the way that all came down, you end up with the terrorism we see today," the film's producer Joe Roth told the New York Times on Wednesday. "It's so obvious now, eight years later."

Roth said his partner Jerry Bruckheimer and "Black Hawk's" director Ridley Scott agreed with him that "we would be remiss in not making this connection to the general audience."

But ultimately the filmakers, along with Mark Bowden, author of the best-selling book upon which the movie is based, decided that blaming Clinton explicitly would be "unnecessary and too distracting."'

Black Hawk Down' Was Set to Blame Clinton for 9/11

Q ERTY6 REALITY CHECK!

 

As Riefenstahl told it, editing-to-perfection was crucial....By editing out a shot of Hitler wiping his nose and including instead "more interesting expressions," by eliminating the human, Riefenstahl eliminated the inhuman.

Film Noir in the White House

Film Noir in the White House
by Mia T
 
"Read my future." - "You haven't got any."
--Exchange in Touch of Evil between Orson Welles and Marlene Dietrich (as a gypsy fortune teller)
 
 
 
Leni Riefenstahl, the film genius who outmaneuvered propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels to chronicle Hitler's 1934 Nuremberg rallies in perhaps the most notorious documentary ever filmed, Triumph of the Will, symbolizes the naïve actress and director who is induced to deal with devils -- NAZI-pantalooned then, NAZI-pantless/ and pantsuited now . . .
 
After the war, Riefenstahl excused her effort as pure documentary -- watch for Streisand, Spielberg, Geffen et al. to do the same one day -- yet she compiled one section, Hitler's motorcade to Munich, from several different events and shot the closeups of Nazi leaders at the podium in a staged studio sequence.
 
As Riefenstahl told it, editing-to-perfection was crucial. She insisted that the finished quality of Triumph of Will came from her editing, not from any imposition of "posed shots" or choreography on her part. With her innovative editing techniques, Riefenstahl deliberately and selectively aestheticized Hitler and the Congress' proceedings. By editing out a shot of Hitler wiping his nose and including instead "more interesting expressions," by eliminating the human, Riefenstahl eliminated the inhuman.
 
The only difference today, in this era of ubiquitous cameras, continuous news and the shameless auteur-tyrant, is that the useful-idiot Washington Press Corps, spun by and on the Hollywood-Arkansas Axis, edits out the clintons' inhumanity -- and ineptitude -- in real time. . .
 
 
 
Dead Hero's Father Tears into Clinton
 

To his astonishment the handshake was declined. "You are not fit to be president of the United States," said Shughart Senior. "The blame for my son' s death rests with the White House and with you. You are not fit to command."


London Sunday Times
Copyright 1994 Times Newspapers Limited
 
May 29, 1994, Sunday
SECTION: Overseas news
LENGTH: 486 words
HEADLINE: Dead hero's father tears into Clinton
BYLINE: James Adams

 
 
It was the moment President Bill Clinton wanted to restore his tattered
reputation with the military before his departure for the D-Day celebrations
in Europe this week, James Adams reports.
 
He had just presented posthumous Congressional Medals of Honour, America's
highest military decoration, to the widows of two soldiers for valour in
Somalia. After inviting the families for a moment of quiet reflection in the
Oval Office, the president approached Herbert Shughart, the father of one of
the two soldiers, and offered his hand.
 
To his astonishment the handshake was declined. ''You are not fit to be
president of the United States,'' said Shughart Senior. ''The blame for my
son' s death rests with the White House and with you. You are not fit to
command.''
 
The president reeled and the unprecedented onslaught continued for some
minutes. According to witnesses it was a ''highly charged emotional moment''
which resulted in Clinton trying to explain to Shughart,Sr. why the events
of that day last October were not his fault.
 
Shughart and his colleague, both sergeants, were killed trying to rescue
fellow rangers from a vicious fire-fight in which 18 died and 75 were
wounded. A later Pentagon investigation revealed that the troops had been
refused the ri ght equipment and there was no political or military plan to
justify the Americ an presence in Somalia.
 
Although the president has tried to escape the blame, he is largely credited
with the failure of the whole American effort to bring peace to Somalia.
According to witnesses to the Oval Office scene, the Shughart family
remained unconvinced by the president's arguments.
 
''The medal doesn't help anything, other than that we are grateful that
Randy will be remembered in such an honourable way,'' said Lois Shughart,
the soldier's mother.

 

 

 

 

by Mia T

 
Not Joe Klein's Primary Colors. And not Jack Stanton.
bill clinton is straight out of
Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.
 
clinton is Alex,
one of the few truly amoral characters in either film or literature;
not quite as Kubrick (or Burgess) had imagined him, however,
but rumpled, wrinkled, paunchy, edematous,
stripped of the youth-excuse
after 30 additional, pathetic, recidivistic years
of marauding, stomping, raping, gangbanging, deceiving and destroying.
 
Like A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, the story of bill clinton
is the story about a society that has lost its capacity for moral choice.
But unlike in the less fabulous and no more ironic fable,
clinton is not mere nascent symbol but nihilistic agent.
 
clinton, like Alex, is the leader of the gang, the "droogies."
Eerily prefigured by the rocking, crooked phallus,
clinton's a conscienceless sadist
who thrills at risk and gratuitous destruction,
whose sexual and non-sexual impotence
is at the root of his obsession with "the old inout."
 
When Alex kills a woman during a rape, Alex is sent to prison.
When clinton rapes women, girls, his country and God knows what else. . .
and kills? --- check out those fourscore-plus deaths, please!
And don't forget the wag-the-dog, desperately-seeking-a-legacy bombings,
or the cold-blooded Ricky Ray Rector execution---
not clinton but society is imprisoned,
imprisoned in clinton's
besmirched, semen-stained, feckless presidency.
 
A risible and repulsive result;
yet not even the punch line.
 
While Alex is conditioned in prison with aversion therapy,
transmuted into a moral robot who becomes nauseated
by the mere thought of sex and violence,
bill clinton and his Thought Police,
in a perverse reverse aversion,
have conditioned society's collective brain
into not mere acquiescence but twisted admiration.
 
In the end,
if clinton's arrogant, ruthless, reckless nature is restored to him,
it seems the joke will be on all of us,
for it will be a victory for infinite victimhood and irresponsibility,
for seduction, for violence, for nihilism, for anarchy.
 
We will have set apart clinton as the hero
by making his victims less human than he;
we will have allowed clinton to carefully estrange us from his victims
so that we can enjoy the rapes and the beatings
as much as clinton himself does.
 

 

 

5 posted on 03/25/2003 9:38:25 AM PST by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: Mia T
Mia, Your posts are just another reason why I can't wait for my DSL line to come in!
Kudos!
6 posted on 03/25/2003 9:39:29 AM PST by netmilsmom (Bush/Rice 2004- pray & fast for our troops this lent-Peace through strength)
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To: wizzler
Genius at work, wizzler ...
7 posted on 03/25/2003 9:42:23 AM PST by Pegita
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To: Junior; Mia T; wizzler
She does great work.

It's not confusing to those that take the trouble to read.

Mia, ty for focussing on Moore today. What a pantload.

8 posted on 03/25/2003 9:43:47 AM PST by sauropod (If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy...)
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To: Mia T
Michael Moore is a gift to the conservative cause. We couldn't ask for a better example of dipshit Wholeyweird as we wage battle against the leftist liberalpukes.
9 posted on 03/25/2003 9:50:18 AM PST by Ciexyz
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To: Gail Wynand; looscannon; Lonesome in Massachussets; Freedom'sWorthIt; IVote2; Slyfox; Registered; ..
Hollywood anticipated a more nuanced acceptance speech from Moore; indeed, Hollywood expected Moore's win to speak for itself… and for them (the hypocritical cowards)!

Hollywood didn' t roll up the red carpet for nothing.


10 posted on 03/25/2003 9:54:49 AM PST by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: Mia T
There you are.....

Great post.

Suz
11 posted on 03/25/2003 10:00:55 AM PST by SuzanneWeeks (Go GW Go)
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To: Mia T
Mia, I am a little disappointed you mis-quoted Mr. Moore's speech... He plainly said "fictitions" of duct tape, though I'm sure he meant to say "fictions" of duct tape since fictitions is not a real word... You really should quote him accurately (and he calls GWB a "moron").
12 posted on 03/25/2003 10:38:58 AM PST by vrwinger
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To: Mia T

13 posted on 03/25/2003 10:48:23 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
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Note: Because of volume, I had to relocate stupidwhiteman.jpg to another server

 

"We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons whether it's the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts. We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush. Shame on you."

Michael Moore, accepting Oscar for best documentary feature

 

Less is Moore…

Corollary: The utility of useful-idiot Hollywood varies directly with the box office.

Not only did Hollywood give Moore a standing O (before the "boos," i.e., before Moore opened his mouth), they voted for Moore to get the Oscar in the first place.

But Hollywood didn't roll up the red carpet for nothing. Hollywood expected a more nuanced acceptance speech from Moore. Indeed, Hollywood expected Moore's win to speak for itself… and for them (the hypocritical cowards)!

Clearly, Moore is too dim-witted to have understood that calculus…

 


14 posted on 03/25/2003 10:51:16 AM PST by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: vrwinger
I should have known better than to rely on the Washington Post for an accurate quote. ;)
15 posted on 03/25/2003 10:55:01 AM PST by Mia T (SCUM (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations))
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To: Mia T
Great to see you posting on current events, Mia T!
16 posted on 03/25/2003 10:59:35 AM PST by MamaLucci ((Not that I don't thoroughly enjoy your clinton-skewering golden oldies!))
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To: wizzler
Simply put, Mia is FR's resident genius.
17 posted on 03/25/2003 11:01:19 AM PST by MamaLucci
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To: Mia T
Washington Post? Who are they?
18 posted on 03/25/2003 11:03:53 AM PST by bmwcyle (Semper Gumby - Always Flexable)
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To: Mia T
Hollywood anticipated a more nuanced acceptance speech from Moore; indeed, Hollywood expected Moore's win to speak for itself… and for them (the hypocritical cowards)!

So right, IMHO, and recall Richard Gere around 9-11 and who is in Chicago. This is yet another see through yet subtle for the sheeple Hollywood attempt to associate certain cultivated useful idiots with their message. Moore is a skunk and his movie was a simplistic attempt to mask the cultural decay of the Clinton years as symbolised by his movie.

Columbine was trivialised by a Hollywood intent on marketing to the lowest common denominator.

19 posted on 03/25/2003 11:25:37 AM PST by Helms (Pacifism in Defence of Freedom is Indeed a Vice)
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To: Mia T
Last night on Jay Lenno, Roger Ebert said that Moore was flat out lying about being booed by only 5 people. He said there were definitely a lot of people booing.
20 posted on 03/25/2003 12:12:43 PM PST by Britton J Wingfield
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