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Friday, November 5th, 2004 17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists...by Michael Moore Dear Friends, Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, “always look on the bright side of life!” There IS some good news from Tuesday's election. Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists: 1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again. 2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916. 3. The only age group in which the...

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11/5/04 Dear Friends, Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, 'always look on the bright side of life!' There IS some good news from Tuesday's election. Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists: 1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again. 2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916. 3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving...

I received this email because I am subscribed to the moveon.org email blast. It's always good to keep an eye on the enemy. Read and enjoy him trying to put a good spin on the drubbing they received.

Gazeta Wyborcza reviewer Jacek Szczerba called the film a "foul pamphlet". He said it was too biased to be called a documentary and was similar to work by Nazi propaganda director Leni Riefenstahl. But politicians opposed to Poland's involvement in the US-led occupation of Iraq have urged people to see the film. "In criticising Moore, I have to admit that he has certain abilities - Leni Riefenstahl had them too," Mr Szczerba said in his review. "Michael Moore will not convince Poles with his film," the Rzeczpospolita newspaper said in its review. 'A lot of truth' "People are very sensitive...

Feeling oh-pressed? Posted: March 18, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Isn't it odd how often it's the little things that offer the greatest insights? On March 8, Joseph Farah's column "Hollywood honors a Nazi," lamented that the Academy Awards had honored Leni Riefenstahl, who died last year at the age of 101. Academy officials did so without fanfare and without apology. Ms. Riefenstahl was an immensely talented woman. She was also Hitler's filmmaker. Her greatest film was "Triumph des Willens" (Triumph of the Will), which showcased the sixth Reich Party Congress in Nuremberg in 1934. Using the backdrop of Albert Speer's...

Oscar Honors a Nazi March 1, 2004 Hitler’s favorite propagandist has finally been rehabilitated. At Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, Hollywood gave Leni Riefenstahl its kosher seal of approval. As it does every year, the Oscars ceremony paid homage and tribute to all of the great actors, directors, composers, and other showbiz types who passed on in the previous year. But along with recently deceased legends like Bob Hope, Gregory Peck, Donald O’Connor, Robert Stack, Buddy Hackett -- and even John Ritter, Ms. Riefenstahl was so honored. Incredibly, the Hollywood audience in attendance gave loud applause in response to the televised...

Hollywood honors a Nazi Posted: March 8, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com I waited a week to write this. I waited intentionally to see if there would be any apology, any second-guessing, any mea culpa from Hollywood. Nope. A full week after the Academy Awards show that honored entertainment industry figures who died in 2003, including Adolf Hitler's filmmaker-propagandist Leni Riefenstahl, no one has expressed regrets or remorse to the American people or to the world's Jews. Incredible. Especially so since so many in Hollywood have spent the last eight months obsessing over non-existent anti-Semitism in this year's...

Oscar Tribute to Nazi Filmmaker Draws Ire 13 minutes ago NEW YORK - A tribute to Nazi-era filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl (news) during the 76th annual Academy Awards (news - web sites) rankled a few Oscar-watchers, who argued the propagandist shouldn't have been included. AFP Slideshow: Academy Awards "Are we now giving equal time to Hitler?," Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman told the New York Post. "I don't know what could have been in the mind of the Academy to include her as one of our greatest filmmakers. There are a lot of other dead bigots who don't get honored...

Holocaust Institute Criticizes Academy Awards for Tribute to Nazi Propagandist 3/1/04 10:32:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Rafael Medoff of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, 215-635-5622 or rafaelmedoff@aol.com PHILADELPHIA, March 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A leading Holocaust research institute is criticizing the Academy Awards for including Nazi propaganda filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in the memorial tribute to recently-deceased movie industry figures during last night's awards ceremony. Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, wrote in a letter to Frank R. Pierson, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...

During a segment honoring those stars who died this past year, Nazi Propagandist and Hitler Sympathizer Leni Riefenstahl was mentioned. And some people actually clapped! Hollywood slams Bush but honors dead Nazis! And they claim Mel Gibson is an anti-Semite.

Last fall, one of the world's most talented movie directors died at the age of 101. According to obituaries, she was "daringly innovative" and a "genius." Not only that, but she was one of the first women to become famous as a director. But there were no misty-eyed television tributes to this director and no posthumous film festivals organized to celebrate her career. And it's a safe guess that no one at this year's Academy Awards will share fond memories of the woman whom some have called "the devil's director." In her long life, Leni Riefenstahl never lived down her...

Leni Riefenstahl, the German filmmaker whose daringly innovative documentaries about a Nazi rally in Nuremberg in 1934 and the Berlin Olympics of 1936 earned her both acclaim as a cinematic genius and contempt as a propagandist for Hitler, died Monday night at her home in Pöcking, south of Munich. She was 101. After the defeat of Germany in 1945, she was pronounced a Nazi sympathizer by the Allies and never again found work as a movie director. But her revolutionary film techniques deeply influenced later generations of documentary makers and television commercial makers, keeping alive the debate over whether her...

BERLIN (AP) Leni Riefenstahl, best known for her Nazi-era propaganda films, has died at age 101, a German magazine reports, quoting a long-time friend.