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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 09:12 PM
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Writer challenges rightwing to debunk facts of Fahrenheit 9/11
... is the movie accurate? Do the Saudis own 7% of this country? Does the President’s family have deep ties to the Bin Laden family? Did the President arrange for the Bin Laden family to be flown out of this country on 09/13, while there was a ban on flights, and then lie about it for two years? Have they made the billions of dollars from the Saudis that Moore asserts? Did the Taliban meet with GW Bush in the late 90s to discuss a pipeline through Afghanistan? Did GW Bush sit in that classroom reading My Pet Goat while we were under attack? Did he use macho tag lines, while soldiers were dying, such as bring em on and we’re gonna smoke em out? Did the White House really turn over the President’s military records with the name of James Bath crossed out with marker? Did the Patriot Act get passed without being read? Did that mother lose her son in Iraq? Did those children die, and are they still dying in Iraq? Did Halliburton make billions upon billions of dollars in no-bid contracts from this war? Did Dick Cheney used to run Halliburton? Is that profiting, from a war, which some are calling war profiteering? Was the man GW Bush named to run Afghanistan, Hamid Karzi, a consultant for Unocal, the same company that wanted that infamous pipeline? Is there more than one Senator who has a kid in Iraq right now? Did Bush spend 42% of his first year on vacation? Did he not read the intelligence briefings, which may have tipped him off to 9-11? Were the soldiers lied to about how long they would be in Iraq? Is the predatory nature of recruitment for the armed services aimed at minorities and the poor? These are just some of the facts asserted in this movie and I challenge anyone to actually prove any of these wrong. I understand that the right desperately wants to prevent the American people to connect the dots, but that does not take away from the credibility of the film. They can parse words and confuse the issues but at the end of the day, these are facts and they are not disputable.

The PR firm that handled the Recall Gray Davis effort and the banning of The Reagan's miniseries, started a website, pretending to be a “grass-roots” effort to stop this film. Efforts included harassing theater owners, including threats.

In response to this documentary, there is now in development, a documentary called “Michael Moore Hates America”, which is an obvious attempt to smear him, and thus take away some of the legitimacy from this movie.

A conservative group, Citizens United, has filed a complaint to stop advertising for this movie, using the campaign finance laws. Ironically, the ads wouldn’t be in violation, even if it is found to have substance, for another two months.

Right wing pundits and assassins, such as Hitchens are dispatched to discredit the film, before it even opens.

This is a lot of effort to try and stop you from seeing this movie. You have to ask yourself why? Is it so bad that you might get a dissenting opinion from this movie to counteract the daily spoon-fed media drivel? Why would so many people, go to such extreme lengths to stop you from seeing this film?

http://www.opednews.com/wade_062604_blocking_fahrenheit_911.htm
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Moonbeam_Starlight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 09:13 PM
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1. I posted a link to this article earlier....it's a great oped isn't it?
Edited on Sun Jun-27-04 09:14 PM by Moonbeam_Starlight
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 09:15 PM
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2. i loved this reply to the Hitchens "review" too
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 10:11 PM
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5. I wish I could write even once a quality comment like that -Chris Parry is
an excellent writer.

:-)
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bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 09:18 PM
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3. my cynical self
Edited on Sun Jun-27-04 09:18 PM by bloom
figures that the likes of Rush Limbough and other such people are probably glad for the film. After all, it gives them something to rail about and probably increases ratings.


In our local paper, a woman (uninformed, of course), wrote that she would not be going to see the film because she could already get left-wing junk on the "liberal" (evening) news. :eyes:
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 09:23 PM
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4. Beautiful
Thanks!
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 11:36 PM
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6. This is great! n/t
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