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Did you see "Fahrenheit 911" ?
| Tue, 06-29-2004 - 1:31pm |
Did you see "Fahrenheit 911" ?
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- No, but I plan to
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| Tue, 06-29-2004 - 1:31pm |
You will be able to change your vote.
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The last time anyone listened to a Bush, they were lost for 40 years! Looks like we're doomed to "wander" ano
A tidbit of trivia for you. Michael Moore didn't grow up in Flint, MI, after all. It turns out he was raised in a rich suburb. That story wouldn't sell as well, though, and MM, never to be held back by the truth, decided to change his history...
Hmmmm.... *very* interesting! I'd like to read more on this... do you have a link or an article by chance? Thanks!
"Without music, life is a journey through the desert"...
NAME: Michael Moore
BORN: 23/04/1954
BIRTH PLACE: Flint, Michigan
BIOGRAPHY
An unlikely figure bumbling along, unshaven in glasses, cap and baggy jeans, Michael Moore is America’s most fearless and populist political commentator. A passive aggressive, Moore’s style is to hurl himself into major issues with wit and humour and hope his energy enervates public opinion. He believes in the common man’s stand against the State.
Moore’s politics is home grown. Born in Flint, a town then dominated by General Motors car plants. Moore saw his Irish father and grandfather earn their livelihood at the factories and then watched as a town of men like them were sacked as GM relocated to cheaper labour pools in Mexico. The town was left destitute as GM and its shareholders profits fattened.
Moore’s lust to reveal cooperate injustice and misdemeanour began when he was an Eagle Scout and made a slide show exposing all the businesses that polluted Flint. At 18, Moore won a seat on the Flint school board, making him one of the youngest people in the US to hold public office.
Preferring activism to study, Moore became a journalist on the Flint Voice, in time he became editor and the paper expanded into the Michigan Voice. The outspoken writer graduated to editor of Mother Jones, the leftist political journal in 1986, though frequent arguments with the publishers made the partnership a short one.
Moore used his Mother Jones settlement money as the seed for Roger & Me a documentary film describing GM’s part in the economic collapse of Flint. Determined to get the story on the air, Moore had to sell his house and host bingo evenings to finish the film. It was one of the most financially successful documentaries ever.
If you want to read more:
http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/new_site/biography.php?id=802&showgroup=589
I can't remember where I read it and can't find it anymore. I did read somewhere that he grew up in a wealthy suburb and has always been priviledged.
"Without music, life is a journey through the desert"...
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