Hero of the Week
Michael Moore on March 23 shortly after his film "Bowling for Columbine" was named Best Documentary and he shook up the Oscars ceremony with his political acceptance speech.
Filmmaker and author Michael Moore is the Hero of the Week for being the only person at the March 23 Academy Awards ceremony who had the balls to say what needed to be said.
This is what he said at the podium after his film "Bowling for Columbine" was named Best Documentary:
"I’ve invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us. They are here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time when 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 is 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. And any time that you have the pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up."
The television viewer then heard a lot of booing from the audience, but according to the Web site inthesetimes.com, "Most of the Hollywood audience smiled and applauded, but stagehands, who were close to the microphones, booed loudly, making it appear to a television listener that Moore’s criticism of President Bush was not well received."
On his Web site, Moore explained that "before I had finished my first sentence about the fictitious president, a couple of men (some reported it was 'stagehands' just to the left of me) near a microphone started some loud yelling. Then a group in the upper balcony joined in. What was so confusing to me, as I continued my remarks, was that I could hear this noise but looking out on the main floor, I didn't see a single person booing. But then the majority in the balcony -- who were in support of my remarks -- started booing the booers."
Such explanations ultimately are irrelevant. It doesn't matter if even the entire Hollywood audience booed Moore; truth is truth and truth is not up for a vote. What Moore said was right on target and he alone had the balls to say the awful truth in the unflinching terms that these Bush-regime-induced dangerous times call for.
Other Oscar presenters and recipients, such as actor Gael Garcia Bernal, Best Supporting Actor winner Chris Cooper, Best Original Screenplay winner Pedro Almodovar and Best Actor winner Adrien Brody, made general statements about peace, but none of them mentioned "President" Bush by name.
Adrien Brody's comments especially were considered by the mainstream media to be "nice" -- as opposed to Moore's.
The time for "nice" has long passed. The Bush regime does not respond to "nice." The Bush regime did not care that the majority of Americans voted for Al Gore. The Bush regime did not care that the majority of the members of the United Nations opposed a U.S.-led, unprovoked attack upon Iraq. The Bush regime does what it wishes to do, regardless of the wishes of the majority of the United States and of the world. Like the Nazi regime, the Bush regime knows only force, not diplomacy, and therefore it is able to respond only to force, not to diplomacy.
Therefore, Moore's forcefulness at the Oscars was quite appropriate.
Moore spoke the truth that the corporately controlled mainstream media -- which are presenting the unprovoked, illegal and immoral attack upon Iraq as entertainment, like a movie or a videogame -- dare not utter. Moore was simply filling the vacuum.
Those who booed Moore at the Oscars and who vilified him afterward know on at least some level that they are worthless fucking cowards, that they are the brand of mindless zombie-sheep that through their complicity allow such horrors as Nazi Germany to come into being. They are guilty at least of their silence.
No one likes to hate himself, so the Moore-bashers aimed their venomous self-loathing at Moore, who is a much safer target than is the Bush regime, which might lock you up as an "enemy combatant" should it consider you to pose a real threat to it.
But Moore can take it. Moore, I highly suspect, is not afraid of dying for what he believes in.
No member of the Bush regime is willing to die for what he or she believes in. Instead, the members of the Bush regime send our young men and women to fight their wars for unbridled greed for them -- under the cover of such blatant propaganda as "Operation Iraqi Freedom" (the Nazi propagandists would be proud) -- and they make sure that their own precious rich asses are quite safe.
Nor would the Moore-bashers be willing to die for what they believe in. But if they continue their complicity, they very well could die anyway.
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