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By Michael Moore
March 27, 2003
A word of advice to future Oscar winners: Don't begin Oscar day by going to church.
That is where I found myself this past Sunday morning, at the Church of the Good Shepherd on Santa Monica Boulevard, at Mass with my sister and my dad. My problem with the Catholic Mass is that sometimes I find my mind wandering after I hear something the priest says, and I start thinking all these crazy thoughts like how it is wrong to kill people and that you are not allowed to use violence upon another human being unless it is in true self-defense.
The pope even came right out and said it: This war in Iraq is not a just war and, thus, it is a sin.
Those thoughts were with me the rest of the day, from the moment I left the church and passed by the homeless begging for change (one in six American children living in poverty is another form of violence), to the streets around the Kodak Theater where antiwar protesters were being arrested as I drove by in my studio-sponsored limo.
I had not planned on winning an Academy Award for "Bowling for Columbine" (no documentary that was a big box-office success had won since "Woodstock"), and so I had no speech prepared. I'm not much of a speech-preparer anyway, and besides, I had already received awards in the days leading up to the Oscars and used the same acceptance remarks. I spoke of the need for nonfiction films when we live in such fictitious times. We have a fictitious president who was elected with fictitious election results. (If you still believe that 3,000 elderly Jewish Americans -- many of them Holocaust survivors -- voted for Pat Buchanan in West Palm Beach in 2000, then you are a true devotee to the beauty of fiction!) He is now conducting a war for a fictitious reason (the claim that Saddam Hussein has stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction when in fact we are there to get the world's second-largest supply of oil).
Whether it is a tax cut that is passed off as a gift to the middle class or a desire to drill holes in the wilds of Alaska, we are continually bombarded with one fictitious story after another from the Bush White House. And that is why it is important that filmmakers make nonfiction, so that all the little lies can be exposed and the public informed. An uninformed public in a democracy is a sure-fire way to end up with little or no democracy at all.
That is what I have been saying for some time. Millions of Americans seem to agree. My book "Stupid White Men" still sits at No. 1 on the bestseller list (it's been on that list now for 53 weeks and is the largest-selling nonfiction book of the year). "Bowling for Columbine" has broken all box-office records for a documentary. My Web site is now getting up to 20 million hits a day (more than the White House's site). My opinions about the state of the nation are neither unknown nor on the fringe, but rather they exist with mainstream majority opinion. The majority of Americans, according to polls, want stronger environmental laws, support Roe vs. Wade and did not want to go into this war without the backing of the United Nations and all of our allies.
Michael Moore is in the house (and he's damn happeh)
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Michael Moore is in the house (and he's damn happeh)
His book and his movie are doing even better after his scandelous Oscars speech. Love him or hate him, he's not leaving anytime soon
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
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Hey, so what? I can point to Rush Limbaugh bestsellers in the early 1990s
as proof that the majority of america wanted a hard-right government
Moore is just another bloated blowhard like Limbaugh and Buchanan
as proof that the majority of america wanted a hard-right government
Moore is just another bloated blowhard like Limbaugh and Buchanan
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Just a nitpick:
Bowling for Columbine is no more a documentary about gun violence than Jaws is a documentary on the lives of sharks.
Bowling for Columbine is no more a documentary about gun violence than Jaws is a documentary on the lives of sharks.
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You mean Jaws wasn't real?Glocksman wrote:Just a nitpick:
Bowling for Columbine is no more a documentary about gun violence than Jaws is a documentary on the lives of sharks.
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
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Whether you disagree with Bowling for Columbine as a documentary or not, I loved it. Also it raised quite a few questions that most people are too afraid to answer. Shame.
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Fucking BS. Those questions are asked all the fucking time, just not with such heavy-handed, fat finger pointing as they were in the film.Crown wrote:Whether you disagree with Bowling for Columbine as a documentary or not, I loved it. Also it raised quite a few questions that most people are too afraid to answer. Shame.
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Too bad that many of the questions were based on lies and staged events.
The Truth about Bowling
The one question about violent crime that no one wants to talk about today is why the black crime rate is (both as perpetrator and as victim) so much higher than it is among whites?
The last person that I am aware of who addressed the question was former NY Senator Daniel Moynihan back in the 1960's
And I agree with his conclusion that the breakdown of the black family is largely to blame.
The Truth about Bowling
The one question about violent crime that no one wants to talk about today is why the black crime rate is (both as perpetrator and as victim) so much higher than it is among whites?
The last person that I am aware of who addressed the question was former NY Senator Daniel Moynihan back in the 1960's
And I agree with his conclusion that the breakdown of the black family is largely to blame.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."- General Sir Charles Napier
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Yes, but don't forget, hiding in the suburbs of Baghdad is Saddam's most feared unit...the Fedayeen Liebstandarte Michael Moore "Fat Bastards".
They can be easily recognized. The Waffen SS often used the Totenkopf, the "deaths-head," as their symbol. The Liebstandarte Michael Moore uses crossed Krispy Kremes. Bavarian creme filled, of course.
(not mine, but funny as hell)
They can be easily recognized. The Waffen SS often used the Totenkopf, the "deaths-head," as their symbol. The Liebstandarte Michael Moore uses crossed Krispy Kremes. Bavarian creme filled, of course.
(not mine, but funny as hell)
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
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I think somone gave my dad that as a gag gift3rd Impact wrote:Has anyone here read Stupid White Men? I was unfortunate enough to pick it up at an airport, and I can unequivocally say that it is one of the worst books I have ever read in terms of writing and content...
And this is why you don't watch anything produced by Ronald D. Moore after he had his brain surgically removed and replaced with a bag of elephant semen.-Gramzamber, on why Caprica sucks