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| It’s Ok this time, though, since it’s not Bushitler/Ashkkkroft or the CIA, but everyone’s favorite fifth columnist, Lumpy Riefenstahl himself. Moore warns of swing to the right; Harper would `like this to be 51st State’ Is "strawman" morally equivalent to "blubber-boy"?
Filmmaker hopes his movie sways vote And the Star’s collective lips don’t even fall off when they say this. A clue, Star-niks: he’s a friggin FOREIGNER. PETER HOWELL MOVIE Firebrand Delusions of grandeur perhaps? Moore came to Toronto last night for the Canadian premiere of his Palme d’Or-winning film, which opens in theatres June 25 and which scorches the He’s still pissed that people other than Bush supporters were killed. And he brought with him a warning that if Canadians swing to the right by electing Harper on June 28, as polls suggest might happen, then dire consequences will follow.
"I can’t believe that you guys would think about going in that direction, when we’re trying to get out of that direction," Moore told the Star, shortly before heading to the Varsity Cinemas to make a red-carpet arrival at the screening. Breathtakingly stupid generalization, presumption of clarivoyance and presumption of authority. Moore is not the arbiter of what Candadians want, he is certainly not the arbiter of what Americans think, and this "we" for whom he makes these pronouncements is simply his own devoted little corps of pop-culture conformist slaves. "I hope this doesn’t happen. Bush is going to throw a party (after the Canadian election). He’s going to be a happy man. (Harper) has a big pair of scissors in his hand. He wants to snip away at your social safety net. He’d like this to be the 51st State."
Moore doesn’t let the Liberals off the hook, blaming them for creating the mood in Canada where a Conservative government seems plausible. "They moved to the right (under Martin), which then validated the right." "Too bad ’we’ can’t invalidate the right altogether and keep them from mucking around with democracy by running in elections and such." Moore, 50, has always loved Canada and followed politics here avidly even before his first film, Roger & Me, made him the star of the 1989 Toronto International Film Festival. Note that this isn’t "says he has always loved Canada" but the bald statement of this dubious claim as fact. He praised former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien for refusing last year to join Bush’s "Coalition of the Willing" in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. He regrets not giving Chrétien credit for his bravery in Fahrenheit 9/11, much of which takes a critical look at the Iraq invasion and the Bush family’s ties to terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. which were not as close as Chretien’s ties to Saddam Hussein (through stock in French oil companies).
... and anyone else who gives a rat’s ass about not inciting the terrorists with Goebbels-inspired appeasement propaganda. I am a Democrat, twice elected to public office as such, and I hate the ground this fat charlatan defiles with his presence. The surprise Palme d’Or win last month in Cannes helped Moore find other distributors, including Canadian Remember, for totalitarians, criticism and disagreement=oppression and censorship, since they assume the right to be free of any dissent. Despite all that, Fahrenheit 9/11 is still expected to roll out on hundreds of screens in North America on June 25. That includes 55 in Canada, but the Canadian tally will rise to 140 within two weeks. Moore said the distributors here originally thought of delaying the release of Fahrenheit 9/11 until after the Canadian federal election, to avoid influencing the outcome — even though the film makes almost no mention of Canada. Outraged audiences see lefty duplicity and Hollywood meddling for themselves and vote for Harper? "And I said, no, no, no. Even if it’s just four days before the election, you’ve got to get something out there to inspire people to do the right thing here. This movie should say to Canadians, you want to join the Coalition of the Willing? Get ready to send your kids over to die for nothing, so that Bush’s buddies can line their pockets." "or you can run up the white flag of dhimmitude so my Hollywood buddies and I can line our pockets." Fahrenheit 9/11 is unrelenting in its criticism of Bush, beginning with his controversial victory over Democratic challenger Al Gore in the 2000 election, a vote that was finally decided by the Republican-dominated Supreme Court.
The Hate-America Cult’s foreign media outlets often pretend that Americans are shielded from news that is, in fact, widely available here. It is one of the favorite themes of their smug, arrogant, and monumentally transparent anti-American bigotry. "I can’t take it any more," Moore said. "That’s really the bottom line. I can’t stand what Bush has done from the get-go." Neither can Osama bin Laden.
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