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<blockquote data-quote="CaryP" data-source="post: 5410" data-attributes="member: 34"><p><strong>Farenheit 9-11</strong></p><p></p><p>I am no fan of Michael Moore. He's been a nut case to me for about as long as I have known about him. I've never seen his movies or read his books, until now. I saw F9/11 on opening weekend, and I got to say Michael Moore may be a nut job, but everybody needs to see this movie. I keep up with most things going on in the world (financial and political primarily - it's my job) and there were a number of disturbing things in this movie I had never seen or heard of, most of them surrounding the 2000 elections. The Bush/bin Laden connection old news, but details in the movie were new. The conference on how to make money on the Iraq war/occupation - typical corporate greed. The inaugural motorcade footage was a surprise. I never knew that Bush's limo got pelted with eggs and they cancelled the traditional walk down Pennsylvania Ave. because there were so many protestors. The most shocking thing of the movie was the ratification of the 2000 election by Congress. According to the movie, it takes one signature from the House and one signature from the Senate on a written objection to object to the Electoral College results. The movie shows about 6 or 8 Reps. reading their petition of objection and NOT ONE MOTHER FREAKIN' SENATOR HAD THE BALLS TO SIGN ANY PETITION. If I had been a Senator, I would have signed the damned thing just to stir the controversy because everyone was apparently told to get in line and shut up. The irony of the whole surrealistic event (yes, the actual hearing is in the movie) is that Al Gore as President of the Senate presides over the hearing. He's the one that tells the Reps. that their petition is invalid because it doesn't have a signature from the Senate. I thought, "I can't believe that Wellstone from Michigan didn't sign any of these petitions." My wife later reminded me that he died in an "accidental" plane crash before the elections. What a damned shame. </p><p></p><p>The movie is well worth the admission price. From what I've heard, 2/3's of the proceeds (I'm sure it's the net, not gross) from the movie are going to charity, so not every dollar is going to line Michael Moore's pockets. And so what if he makes money off of the thing. It cost millions to make, not to mention a ton of time. Why shouldn't he be allowed to make some money from his efforts and the investors from the risk they took to finance the project? This is America, and profits are allowed. If the damned press were doing its job and doing a bit of investigative reporting, we wouldn't need some nut job like M. Moore to bring us the facts in a documentary. In case you were wondering, I've been a life long Republican (even voted for Dubya in last election - what a mistake!), so I'm not here as some chronic liberal beating the "fight the man!" drum.</p><p></p><p>Go see the damned movie, or get it off the web for free if that's your M.O. If I sound pissed, I am. The country's been hijacked and nobody seems to give a shlt.</p><p></p><p>Cary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CaryP, post: 5410, member: 34"] [b]Farenheit 9-11[/b] I am no fan of Michael Moore. He's been a nut case to me for about as long as I have known about him. I've never seen his movies or read his books, until now. I saw F9/11 on opening weekend, and I got to say Michael Moore may be a nut job, but everybody needs to see this movie. I keep up with most things going on in the world (financial and political primarily - it's my job) and there were a number of disturbing things in this movie I had never seen or heard of, most of them surrounding the 2000 elections. The Bush/bin Laden connection old news, but details in the movie were new. The conference on how to make money on the Iraq war/occupation - typical corporate greed. The inaugural motorcade footage was a surprise. I never knew that Bush's limo got pelted with eggs and they cancelled the traditional walk down Pennsylvania Ave. because there were so many protestors. The most shocking thing of the movie was the ratification of the 2000 election by Congress. According to the movie, it takes one signature from the House and one signature from the Senate on a written objection to object to the Electoral College results. The movie shows about 6 or 8 Reps. reading their petition of objection and NOT ONE MOTHER FREAKIN' SENATOR HAD THE BALLS TO SIGN ANY PETITION. If I had been a Senator, I would have signed the damned thing just to stir the controversy because everyone was apparently told to get in line and shut up. The irony of the whole surrealistic event (yes, the actual hearing is in the movie) is that Al Gore as President of the Senate presides over the hearing. He's the one that tells the Reps. that their petition is invalid because it doesn't have a signature from the Senate. I thought, "I can't believe that Wellstone from Michigan didn't sign any of these petitions." My wife later reminded me that he died in an "accidental" plane crash before the elections. What a damned shame. The movie is well worth the admission price. From what I've heard, 2/3's of the proceeds (I'm sure it's the net, not gross) from the movie are going to charity, so not every dollar is going to line Michael Moore's pockets. And so what if he makes money off of the thing. It cost millions to make, not to mention a ton of time. Why shouldn't he be allowed to make some money from his efforts and the investors from the risk they took to finance the project? This is America, and profits are allowed. If the damned press were doing its job and doing a bit of investigative reporting, we wouldn't need some nut job like M. Moore to bring us the facts in a documentary. In case you were wondering, I've been a life long Republican (even voted for Dubya in last election - what a mistake!), so I'm not here as some chronic liberal beating the "fight the man!" drum. Go see the damned movie, or get it off the web for free if that's your M.O. If I sound pissed, I am. The country's been hijacked and nobody seems to give a shlt. Cary [/QUOTE]
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