The reason so many Americans don't like Michael Moore, I intuit, is that we Americans are one big alcoholic family in denial and Moore is the black sheep who verbalizes our open national secrets. Shhhhhhhhhhhh!
'9/11' on 6/25!
The Los Angeles Times has an interesting article about Michael Moore's new anti-Bush-regime film "Fahrenheit 9/11," which opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, June 25. (I am so there on opening day that I'll probably take the day off from work.)
The Times notes, as I have mused, that it will be the first time in U.S. history that a scathing film about an incumbent president will be released nationwide during a presidential election campaign season. (You can be a part of history by buying your advance tickets here.)
Of course, the Bush regime is responding to "Fahrenheit 9/11" the way it responds to everyone who doesn't suck up to it or at least keep his or her fucking mouth shut: It is using variations of "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me!" and is attacking the messenger rather than responding to the messenger's message. (Can you say "Richard Clarke"? "Paul O'Neill"? "Joseph Wilson"?) Reports the L.A. Times:
So far, the Bush reelection campaign has played down concerns about the film's effect.
"Voters know fact from fiction coming from Hollywood," said Bush campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel. "It's designed to entertain. American voters want fact, not fiction, when determining their vote. And everyone knows where Michael Moore is coming from."
Others have been more aggressive in trying to discredit Moore, who attacked Bush from the Oscar podium when he won the feature documentary prize for his "Bowling for Columbine."
Former President George H.W. Bush called Moore a "slimeball" last month, dismissing the upcoming film as "a vicious attack on our son," according to the New York Daily News.
I guess that calling someone a "slimeball" isn't "a vicious attack," or that Republicans are incapable of making vicious attacks because God is on their side, and therefore their attacks are Godly. (They have it all wrong; God is on my side, and so my attacks are Godly.)
And memo to Bush spokesweasel Scott Stanzel: Moore's main intent, it is pretty apparent, is to inform and to persuade, not "to entertain." (But, of course, you know that, you fucking liar.) If Moore can entertain us while he shows us the awful truth, that's a good thing -- it allows us to laugh instead of to cry.
(But it was nice of Stanzel to put forth yet another pathetic attempt at a Jedi mindfuck, as is typical for members of the Bush regime. "Watch the swinging pendulum. Watch it go back and forth! You are feeling very sleeeeeeeepy. Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy! Repeat after me: Michael Moore's new movie is fiction. Fic-tion!")
I've watched the trailer for "Fahrenheit 9/11," and the film appears to be comprised mostly of film and video footage of real events -- not "Hollywood" "fiction" -- and the camera doesn't fucking lie.
For example, in the trailer there is a clip of Gee Dubya telling what CBS News calls a "diamond-studded $800-a-plate crowd" in October 2000: "This is an impressive crowd: The haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elites; I call you my base." (This is supposed to be funny.) I especially like the last scene in the trailer, in which "President" Dumbfuck is playing golf while "seriously" discussing his regime's "war on terror." (You gotta see it. Click here.)
These are windows that open directly into George W. Bush's dark soul and you cannot explain them away, such as by claiming that somehow they were taken out of context.
That said, does "Fahrenheit 9/11" have a Moorian slant? I'm sure that it does. But again, the camera doesn't fucking lie, and the film and video clips in Moore's film speak for themselves. Moore-bashers can't argue against what has been captured on camera, so they are making personal attacks on Moore instead. Expect innumerable personal attacks on Moore from members of the Bush regime and the regime's sleepwalking supporters in the coming months, but don't expect the attack dogs to actually address any facts or issues that Moore raises in his film. Expect them to attack his character and his motives and expect them to make juvenile cracks about his appearance.
But the Bush regime's novel idea of preemption apparently has caught on. Reports the L.A. Times:
To anticipate and fend off the criticism that already is brewing, Moore has set up a "war room" populated by former Clinton White House operatives plotting swift counterattacks on Bush supporters who question the film's credibility.
To lead the effort, Moore has hired Chris Lehane and Mark Fabiani, former political advisors to Bill Clinton and Al Gore. "Employing the Clinton strategy of '92, we will allow no attack on this film to go without a response immediately," Moore said Thursday. "And we will go after anyone who slanders me or my work, and we will do it without mercy. And when you think 'without mercy,' you think Chris Lehane."
Moore also said he planned to use the film to register thousands of voters, and will stage screenings to benefit antiwar groups set up by families of U.S. troops in Iraq and victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Will Michael Moore singlehandedly prevent "President" Dumbfuck from getting a second term?
No, but "Fahrenheit 9/11" will be an important piece of the overall Bush removal effort in the coming months. (Other important pieces of the overall Bush removal effort -- besides, of course, the John Kerry campaign and the Democratic Party -- include MoveOn.org, Air America Radio, numerous left-leaning Web sites, and, if I may say so, weblogs.)
There hasn't been a coalition to defeat the dark forces of evil like this since the fellowship of the ring.
We're showing George W. Bush and his henchpeople and their zombified supporters what a real "coalition of the willing" looks like.
P.S. to "liberal" Moore-haters: You suck. No, really, you do.
When you make superficial, juvenile comments about his appearance and make false allegations about his motives, when you bash him without actually taking on the facts and the ideas that he presents -- using logical arguments and facts -- you sink right to the bottom with the Bush-lovin' AmeriNazis.
And when your Moore-bashing sounds just like the right-wing nutjobs' Moore-bashing, it's painfully apparent that your main problem with Moore actually is that he is ridiculously successful (a bestselling author and an Oscar-winning filmmaker) and that you are...not.
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