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In his Farenheit 9/11, filmmaker Michael Moore juxtaposes images and words of a terrorist attack in Israel with President Bush's first words about the incident, spoken to a press pool on a golf course, with him leaning casually against a tree. Today, as the nation's law enforcement agencies respond to an attempted terrorist attack on U.S. soil, as the cable news channels and news websites pull in reinforcements to cover the incident from all angles, President Obama has been silent. In fact, he's been golfing. He received a counterterrorism briefing early this morning, Hawaii time, and moments later, left for...

Michael Moore is making a sequel to "Fahrenheit 9/11" for Paramount Vantage and Overture Films, who will shop the project to international buyers when the Cannes Film Festival and market get under way today. The two companies are co-financing and co-producing the untitled documentary, which will be released in 2009. Overture will distribute the film domestically, while Vantage will handle international. Moore may be leaving the Weinstein Co. -- where he made his last two films, including "Fahrenheit" -- but Overture and Vantage are no strangers to the filmmaker. Overture CEO Chris McGurk and COO Danny Rosett were both at...

...about intelligent design and evolutionIn the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, narrator Ben Stein poses as a "rebel" willing to stand up to the scientific establishment in defense of freedom and honest, open discussion of controversial ideas like intelligent design (ID). But Expelled has some problems of its own with honest, open presentations of the facts about evolution, ID—and with its own agenda. Here are a few examples—add your own with a comment, and we may add it to another draft of this story. For our complete coverage, see "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed—Scientific American's Take. 1) Expelled quotes Charles Darwin...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group has produced an elaborate video of what it said were attacks on U.S. troops, in the latest example of the increasingly sophisticated propaganda war being waged by Iraqi insurgents. "The Code of Silence" was posted on the Internet by the Rashedeen Army, thought to be a relatively small Sunni group which has produced videos in the past of attacks it claims to have carried out. At almost an hour in length, it is the longest and most professionally made of recent postings by mainly Sunni militant and insurgent groups fighting the U.S.-backed government....

Plot Summary for Fahrenheit 9/11½ (2007):"In the wake of the 2004 United States Presidential election, Michael Moore continues to examine what happened to the United States after September 11, and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq." Directed by: Michael Moore Writing credits (in alphabetical order): Michael Moore Cast (in alphabetical order): George W. Bush .... HimselfMichael Moore .... Himself Produced by: Jim Czarnecki .... producerKathleen Glynn .... producerMichael Moore .... producerHarvey Weinstein .... executive producer Other crew: Chad Ball .... production assistant

In an interview posted today on the Web, documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles claims that his appearance in Mike Wilson's documentary Michael Moore Hates America is cobbled together from "stolen" footage obtained without his consent and he has contacted his lawyer about the matter because the filmmakers "misrepresented themselves." Unedited video footage released by the documentary filmmakers soon after this story broke prove that Albert Mayles is lying. Click on this link to read analysis and watch the unedited video for yourself (clip requires Apple Quicktime).

CANNES, FRANCE – Twelve months after Michael Moore scooped Cannes' top award with "Fahrenheit 9/11," - a scathing indictment of the Bush adminstration's handling of the war in Iraq - a very different movie director screened a very different view of the war at the world's premier cinematic gathering. Director Hiner Saleem did not win the Golden Palm this year. But his film "Kilometre Zero" created a good deal of buzz at the competition, which closed on Saturday, not least because of its final scene. "We're free! We're free!" two Iraqi Kurdish exiles shout exultantly as they hear the news...

In early August 2004, Karl Rove, President Bush’s top political advisor, was having lunch with a small group of journalists at the Oval Room, a restaurant across Lafayette Square from the White House. The talk — off the record, unless Rove agreed to be quoted — was about strategy in the presidential race. Was Kerry’s emphasis on his Vietnam record a mistake? Was Bush going to offer a full-scale defense of the war in Iraq? Would he push issues like Social Security reform? After the discussion touched on a number of heavy topics, I asked Rove what he thought of...

Despite his best efforts, left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore did nothing to hurt the business of an American investment firm with past links to Saudi Arabia and the family of Osama bin Laden. London’s Guardian newspaper reported The Carlyle Group says 2004 was its "best ever" year, despite Moore's attempt to tarnish the firm's reputation in his schlockumentary "Fahrenheit 9/11." According to the paper, Carlyle reported a return of $5.3 billion to its investors last year, shedding all or part of 71 investments while acquiring 107 new ones and raising $7.8 billion for investment. The amount the firm paid out to...

Michael Moore and his agitprop film "Fahrenheit 9/11" were nowhere to be found on the lists of Academy Awards nominees released last week. And despite his commercial success, the Writers Guild omitted Moore from consideration for its first list of documentary writing award nominees. The only award Moore received was from a gun rights group highlighting his hypocrisy after a bodyguard for this maker of the 2003 Academy Award-winning anti-gun "Bowling for Columbine" got arrested in New York City for carrying a handgun not licensed there. Hypocrisy is nothing new for Michael Moore, nor the Hollywood Left. But Hollywood makes...

The Academy Award nominations came out today. Nothing. Well, three minor nominations for The Passion of the Christ, and, let's see, there was nothing for Fahrenheit 9/11. And that's because that idiot, Michael Moore, decided to keep the movie out of the documentary category and instead hold out for the best picture category. It's a cut and paste job. What is he thinking? I mean, I wouldn't even call that a documentary. It's a basement cut and paste job. To call that thing a movie is an absolute disgrace to people who take movie making seriously. So we're not surprised...

"In mocking anti-gun film-maker Michael Moore, we're conferring upon him a Hollywood Hypocrite Award," John Snyder, Public Affairs Director of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), announced today. Moore, said Snyder, "certainly deserves the hypocrisy designation. He promotes an anti-gun owner philosophy for the general public at the same time that he employs gunmen for his own precious personal protection." Two years ago, Snyder recalled, "Moore received an Oscar for his anti-gun pseudo-documentary, 'Bowling for Columbine,' in which he conveyed the idea that gun owners generally are paranoid. Yet he has not responded to...

Moore is in the line of Clint's ire Clint Eastwood squinted like Dirty Harry Tuesday night as he took aim at Michael Moore. "Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common - we both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression," Eastwood told the star-dotted crowd attending the National Board of Review awards dinner at Tavern on the Green, where Eastwood picked up a Special Filmmaking Achievement prize for "Million Dollar Baby." Then, the Republican-leaning actor/director advised the lefty filmmaker: "But, Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera - I'll...

I love surfing wacko liberal websites. From them, I get a daily dose of good humor and ideas for future columns. The most fun I get is surfing Michael Moore's website. I love reading the warped political commentary Mr. Moore posts on his site. I am sure in his mind, his ideas make perfect sense, but to me his ideas are just liberal propaganda coming from another Loony Left Coast Liberal. In fact, since his ideas are so far to the left, I have theorized that someday Hollywood liberals and other wackos around the world will crown Michael Moore "King...

When you think of controversial filmmaker Michael Moore, you think of a man who is strongly associated with left-wing politics. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that Moore, even when giving speeches to a college-level stage class, will most likely mix in his political point of view. That, according to theater professor Susan Speers, who is defending her use of a University of Akron (Ohio) facility for a speech Moore gave to her class Oct. 30, just days before the Nov. 2 presidential election. University officials have pledged to investigate Speers' use of the campus's Knight Auditorium as the...

Colorado peace-niks have found a new hero. The featured speaker this weekend will be Abdul Henderson, the Marine who appeared in Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11, saying that he would not return to Iraq if ordered to do so.

This is a shocker. Michael Moore has a teachers guide available on his site for teachers who intend to show his film in their classes. He mades suggestions as to what sort of classes might be good for viewing of his Farenheit 911.

I want to expand a little bit with the aid of Jim Geraghty at National Review Online. A lot of reaction over the weekend out there. When the bin Laden tape came out, you know, I was glued to it on Friday afternoon and all day on Saturday. I was watching to see what people thought of it, and I was stunned as the weekend went on. I was literally stunned at how desensitized - this is a guy that murdered 3,000 Americans, and we hear, "Oh, he wants a truce." That may be, but what does that mean, for...

For a guy who loves to bash Republicans and conservatives as purveyors of selfishness and greed, filmmaker Michael Moore seems determined to emulate that kind of behavior. The vitriolic anti-Bush propagandist is making one last pre-election offer of his schlockumentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11," in which he blames the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on President Bush, for viewing online. Apparently Moore's left-wing activism against this president knows no bounds. He has made it clear he will stop at nothing to ensure his defeat. Election Day is mere hours away, and still Moore is working steadfastly to bring his defeatist message to as...

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Michael Moore blows the lid off Middle Earth's War on Terror! Check out FELLOWSHIP 9/11. Aragorn lied while good men died!

Walt Disney Co. has given maverick Hollywood movie moguls Harvey and Bob Weinstein notice that it intends to end their Oscar-winning partnership after 12 years. The US entertainment giant has let the founders of the once independent Miramax studios that has produced such Oscar winners as 2002's "The Hours" and "Chicago," know that it intends to cut them loose in September 2005, the industry bible Daily Variety said. The Weinstein brothers, who founded Miramax in 1979 and went on to change the ground rules for Hollywood movie-making, sold the studio to Disney in 1993 under a deal that allowed them...

Tonight, on the AL RANTEL SHOW, a caller - who is a manager at a local Blockbuster - said that they had TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-EIGHT copies of FARENHEIT 9-11 and only EIGHT copies of Dick Morris' FarenHYPE 9-11. Al's reply "Fair and Balanced at Blockbuster, eh?"

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The most valuable real estate in a retail store is right at the checkout counter where impulse purchases happen. Anything a store puts here has a huge advantage in sales. I just returned from the Walgreens store in Fountain Hills AZ, where they had a small display of Farenheit 9/11 DVDs right next to the cash register. This was the only movie I saw in that vicinity. Since Walgreens isn't a movie store, it's not like F9/11 was stacked in with other DVDs. It was the only DVD there. Vendors work overtime trying to get their product placed in such...

As a relatively new FReeper, this is my first attempt at a vanity post. I heard a news item (i think) that Michael Moore is in talks to put his Docu-Propaganda on Pay-Per-View the night before the election and I cannot help but look back on what may be the greatest legal fleecing in America's history. Micheal Moore has taken hundreds of millions of dollars from the left faithful by playing to their hatred. He put his DocuProp into the theatres, rallied the troops all over America - Go Left Young Man..and pay for your ticket (or two) on the...

War, Lies, and Videotape: A Viewer's Guide to Fahrenheit 9/11Section I: The Election and Bush in Office Before September 11 Posted: Tuesday, October 5, 2004 ARTICLE CONTENTSIntroductionI. The Election and Bush in Office Before September 11II. September 11th and the SaudisIII. Afghanistan and the PipelineIV. Terrorism and the Patriot ActV. The War in IraqVI. The MilitaryVII. ConclusionAppendix 1. Corrections and Updates to This DocumentAppendix 2. Other Resources- Click here for a single-page HTML format.- Click here to view the PDF.

"There is no terrorist threat." Those are the words of uber-liberal filmmaker and author Michael Moore, whose controversial film "Fahrenheit 9/11," which essentially blamed President Bush for the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, has sparked a number of counter-films. One of them, "Fahrenhype 9/11," by Alan Peterson, features interviews with a number of today's most influential decision-makers, analysts and pundits. Narrated by actor Ron Silver — an admitted two-time Bill Clinton supporter who is highly critical of Moore — the film dissects Moore's work point by point, even featuring a number of people who appeared in the liberal icon's original...

George Mason University in Fairfax is paying Michael Moore $35,000 to appear to discuss "Fahrenheit 9-11" on GMU's campus in Fairfax Oct. 28. University spokesman Daniel Walsch said Moore plans to screen clips from the film, and the event is open to the public.

I have been searching all morning trying to find out if Michael Moore was at the Houston rodeo and Livestock Show. specifically at the same time as Burkett. I have not seen MM's movie, so if someone has seen it:Is there a reference or scene at the rodeo. On Moore's website he goes into great detail concerning his beliefs of the the guard situation. While working on Wesley clarks Campaign he made numerous refernces to Docs. any help will be greatly appreciated.

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LOS ANGELES — Michael Moore says he won't submit "Fahrenheit 9/11" for consideration as best documentary at this year's Academy Awards . Instead, he's going for the bigger prize of best picture. Moore's critically acclaimed film slams President Bush's War on Terror as ill-advised and corrupt. The movie has cheered Democrats but enraged the president's supporters, who booed Moore when he visited the Republican National Convention last week.

I'm a regular participant in Harris Polls on the internet, and just completed a poll in which they asked if my intended vote for President was in any way influenced by Michael Moore's Farenheit 911 movie! Anyone else take that poll? When I answered 'no', the poll pretty much ended. I wonder what would have happened had I said 'yes'?

There are a lot of things Sgt. Peter Damon doesn't like about ``Fahrenheit 9/11.'' But what he likes least about the controversial new film by left-wing provocateur Michael Moore is the fact that he's in it. ``What really makes me mad is that people get the impression that I agree with it,'' said Damon, 31, a helicopter mechanic who lost both arms in an accident in Iraq last year. He first learned of his cameo appearance in the movie from passersby at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, where he spends the majority of his time in rehabilitation therapy....

WASHINGTON - Sgt. Peter Damon, who lost his right arm and left hand in Iraq, never set out to be a bit player in presidential politics and is furious at Michael Moore for making him one in "Fahrenheit 9/11." "It ticked me off," Damon said of the 10-second clip in the Bush-bashing documentary that shows him being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. "I just feel it was wrong and I was violated in some way, seeing myself up there on the screen," said Damon, 31, of Brockton, Mass. "I think [Moore] should be ashamed of himself,"...

I went to see F 9-11 this past week. I had to do it. I wanted to understand. I had been participating in a political forum for mothers on a natural mothers web site. Many of the women who were posting were Michael Moore fans and I could not understand the drumbeat about NO WMD, Haliburton, Bush lied, Mockery of the terror alerts etc... I went to see the movie because I felt like I needed to get a clearer picture....I did. After about five minutes I felt like I was going to run screaming from the theatre, then, after...

Urgent Open Letter To My Fellow Americans Just in late last night from former SF'er, Don Bendell: As a former green beret, who is still involved in that tight-knit community, I was “shocked and awed” when I saw Michael Moore during an interview at the DNC actually say that “Bush did not have Special Forces on the ground in Afghanistan for more than two months after 9-11.” That was laughable; it was such a stupid, bold-faced lie. Many, many green berets and ex-green berets know that two A-detachments were on the ground in Afghanistan within forty-eight hours of the 9-11...

I live in Camden, Maine. On 8/12/04 the Dems. will attend a viewing of Farenheit 911 and foll up w/fundraiser. I want to protest and support Bush outside of the cinema. Any ideas or suggestions for signs will be GREATLY helpful! Best Always

About 8 percent of Americans have seen Michael Moore's anti-Bush blockbuster, "Fahrenheit 9/11" — but it hasn't changed many minds, because almost all of them couldn't stand President Bush in the first place, a new poll reports. A majority of those who went to see the Bush-bashing flick — 55 percent — are Democrats, according to the national survey by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Center. Another 24 percent describe themselves as "independents" — but they are much more liberal than independents generally and three times as likely to have voted for Al Gore over Bush in 2000, according to...

Michael Moore's record-breaking documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" may be drawing big crowds and big bucks, but it is unlikely to be changing many minds, according to polling released Tuesday. Most of those seeing the anti-Bush movie already disapprove of the president's job performance, the University of Pennsylvania's National Annenberg Election Survey found. Almost 9 in 10, or 86 percent, of those who've seen the film said they disapprove of the job Bush is doing. Thirteen percent approved. Only a small group of Republicans had seen the movie among the 5,051 adults polled from July 5 to July 25. The Republican group...

Editor, Times-Dispatch: [Snip] Michael Moore's selective use of half-truths and outright lies is a crockumentary. ("A half-truth is a whole lie," according to a Yiddish proverb.) In Fraudandhype 9/11, the truth was edited out. What is true is that Michael Moore blamed America for being attacked, lamented the fact that more Republicans weren't killed in the attack, has called Americans "stupid," stated that the more American troops killed, the better, and has likened the Iraqi terrorists to the Minutemen. [Snip]

Growing up in a conservative family should have prepared me for the latest in manufactured drama now being broadcast everywhere in blazing broadband multimedia overkill. It should have, but it didn't. My mother's vibrant retelling of the heroic stories of Samson did, however, enable me to quickly see a parallel where others may be searching for an apt metaphor. Similar to the Old Testament book of Judges, I now bear witness to millions being slain with the jawbone of an ass. The slack-minded and gullible of our nation and the world have succumbed to the thrall of Michael Moore's Farenheit...

One-time girlfriend of quirky California Gov. Jerry Brown in the '70s, singer Linda Ronstadt has been busy lately. She dedicated her song "Desperado" to Michael Moore and his bogus-mentary, "Fahrenheit 911," she got herself tossed out of the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas, and she gave an interview to a newspaper. Although I doubt this was her intention, she has actually taught us three lessons: One, she and many of her fellow entertainers do have a religion – I'd call it "secular fundamentalism." Two, it's open season on Christians, the last unprotected minority in America. Her third lesson, well, I'll...

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Disney chief executive Michael Eisner has seen "Fahrenheit 9/11," the film that The Walt Disney Co. refused to distribute - and he liked it. "The reason it is a hit is it's entertaining," Eisner said last week. "I thought it was like going to a rock concert. I loved it, but not in a political (sense)." Eisner spoke at Fortune magazine's fourth annual Brainstorm conference, co-hosted by The Aspen Institute. "Fahrenheit 9/11" criticizes President Bush's response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the war in Iraq. The documentary has filled theaters since its release in...

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The real deal Linda Ronstadt's current tour – 'a history lesson of music' – reflects her dedication to authenticity, and quality By George Varga July 15, 2004 Other singers may have a greater passion for music than Linda Ronstadt. But few have a greater passion for more types of music, or the willingness to perform them, even at the risk of falling on her face. "My career has befuddled other people, and it's befuddled me," admitted Ronstadt, 58, who finds her fans are polarized by her nightly on-stage salute to "Fahrenheit 9/11" filmmaker Michael Moore. "I've been dedicating a song...

To hear controversial filmmaker Michael Moore tell it in his new movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11," the only government officials who knew in advance al-Qaeda was a threat to the United States were members of the Bush administration. "Every single fact I state in [the movie] is the absolute and irrefutable truth," Moore says in a blog on his Web site. He goes on to take another jab at the administration after hearing White House spokesman Dan Bartlett describe the movie as "outrageously false," even though Bartlett said he had yet to see it. "At least they're consistent," Moore wrote. "They never...

I’ll actually admit that I recently went to see the movie “Farenheit 9/11”. As a columnist and talk show host, I wanted to be able to refute Michael Moore’s latest set of convoluted conspiracy theories and desperate cheap shots. I knew that it would only be a matter of time until people were emailing and calling me and approaching me at parties, daring me to counter “the gospel according to St. Michael of Propagandaville”. Not that I paid to see the movie, mind you. I couldn’t actually bring myself to contribute a single penny to Michael Moore’s hypocritical, limousine liberal...

France's passion for cinema and its collective antipathy for President Bush made Wednesday's opening of "Fahrenheit 9/11" a headline event that quickly proved a boon at the box office. But even Michael Moore could not escape that critical Gallic eye. The movie that won the highest award at May's Cannes Film Festival wracked up "extraordinary" ticket sales for its first afternoon showings in Paris, according to the MK2 movie chain. Elevating the movie to an event, the left-leaning newspaper Liberation left the laudatory commentary to its nationally known executive editor. "Michael Moore is a television show unto himself," Serge July...