Did you see "Fahrenheit 911" ?

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Did you see "Fahrenheit 911" ?
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Tue, 06-29-2004 - 1:31pm

Did you see "Fahrenheit 911" ?



  • No
  • No, but I plan to
  • Yes


You will be able to change your vote.


 

The last time anyone listened to a Bush, they were lost for 40 years!   Looks like we're doomed to "wander" ano

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Registered: 03-25-2004
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 4:27pm
I can't wait for Oct 8th for the DVD to be released!

 

The last time anyone listened to a Bush, they were lost for 40 years!   Looks like we're doomed to "wander" ano

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 4:31pm
I do think Michael Moore is a hypocrite - that aside I was having a bit of fun with it.

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...

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 4:33pm
I hear the DNC has ordered over a million dollars worth of copies. I wouldn't rush out and buy one immediatly - they may send you one free!
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Registered: 08-21-2004
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 4:37pm
After reading this board
Donna
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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 8:43pm
He's never claimed to be against capitalism, unless you think capitalism and corporate greed are one and the same. Do you think the SEC is a socialist body?
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Wed, 09-08-2004 - 8:46pm
"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"...

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Registered: 08-28-2004
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 9:01pm
I get it - you're a jr. high girl posing as an adult, right?
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Registered: 04-04-2003
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 9:57pm
I found a number of different biographies on Moore. Given certain people's tendencies here to denounce any source that goes counter to their views I went through many of them. All say that Moore was from Flint Michigan. I finally settled on this one to post as a source hoping that the Biography Channel wouldn't get blasted in the same manner. I don't know it might. I'm constantly surprised at what here is considered a good source and what gets blown off as a bad one.

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

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Registered: 04-05-2004
Wed, 09-08-2004 - 11:40pm
I must be wrong, how can I argue with the Biography Channel?

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.

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Registered: 05-09-2003
Thu, 09-09-2004 - 8:17am
Thank you Suemox. I was interested to find out, as everything I'd read about him stated he is in fact from Flint. :-)

"Without music, life is a journey through the desert"...

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