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"Ramone Garcia" |
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26 Jan 2004 01:04:11 PM |
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Michael Moore's Magic Kingdom |
Michael Moore's Magic Kingdom
By Daniel G. Jennings
June 6, 2003
In the last two months patriotic Americans have become increasingly
disgusted with the behavior of one Michael Moore, a documentary
filmmaker considered a genius by the Hollywood establishment. Average
Americans were outraged with Moore's vicious attack on President Bush
at the Academy Awards, yet he received the best Oscar Award for his
documentary "Bowling for Columbine" (which blamed the Columbine High
School Massacre on the U.S. military).
Now if that wasn't bad enough the geniuses at the Walt Disney Company
have given Moore the green light (that is financed) his next
masterpiece "Fahrenheit 911." This abomination will try to show
audiences that the US government and President Bush were somehow to
blame for Osama Bin Laden and the Sept. 11 atrocity.
Why, we must ask ourselves does Hollywood love Michael Moore and keep
bankrolling his brand of lunacy? For several reasons, which reveal the
hypocrisy, lack of morality and sheer stupidity of the ignorant,
uneducated, bigoted, greedy and arrogant elite that runs our
entertainment industry.
The first reason Disney is bankrolling this nonsense is a simple one:
it amounts to pure profit. Moore's documentary will cost only a couple
of million bucks to produce. (A million for Moore, a few hundred
thousand more for actual production costs.) Yet it could bring tens of
millions of dollars of profit into the cash strapped Disney empire.
"Fahrenheit 911" will surely attract large numbers of arrogant left
wing intellectuals to art house movie theaters around the US. These
people will pour in and pay $8 or $10 a pop to see Moore's nonsense.
Even if it earns only ten or twenty million bucks in domestic release,
it'll generate a nice chunk of change for Disney.
There's also the shock factor here, Disney executives seeing the big
money brought in by reality TV and the MTV Jackass movie may hope that
the shocking nature of Moore's film will attract viewers. They think
maybe they can create a profitable brand of reality movies by
promoting controversial propaganda that makes absurd and shocking
conclusions. These executives may hope that lots of people buy tickets
simply to see if the rumors about Moore and his movie are true.
Then there's the overseas market. This horrendous documentary will
undoubtedly attract huge audiences in Europe, the Middle East, Russia,
China and other places will large numbers of people hate us. It'll
pack them in, in Cairo and Paris and Beijing and make more money over
there. More importantly it'll establish Disney's reputation as a
staunchly anti-American company overseas. Deflecting the mouse factory
from terrorist violence and boycotts.
The second reason for Disney and Hollywood's embrace of Moore is one
of convenience rather than ideology. In recent years, Hollywood has
taken a lot of flack for promoting violence. The Columbine gunmen seem
to have inspired by violent films like the Matrix. al-Qaeda and other
violent Islamic
fanatics have also been inspired to a high degree by violent Hollywood
movies. American action films make big money in the Arab world. The
same young men who blow themselves and Americans up love to watch
videos of really violent films like the Matrix and Rambo. The anti
Americanism of many of these movies, (such as the plot line of the
X-Men sequel X-2 in which U.S. military personnel are shown as Nazi
type storm troops who terrorize innocent children and plot genocide)
are a blatant attempt to market these
movies to American hating young people overseas.
Sadly enough, only one person in Hollywood seemed to draw the obvious
connection between these violent fantasies and the Sept. 11 events.
The iconoclastic film maker Robert Altman (best known as the creator
of the movie version of "MASH") said Hollywood's big budget action
movies helped inspire the 9 11 terrorists. Altman is a cantankerous
gadfly who long ago cut his ties with the Hollywood establishment. Not
surprisingly, Altman wasn't invited to the podium to pick up the
Oscar for best director for his latest film, "Gosford Park," despite
his long and distinguished career.
If large segments of the public can be convinced that the evil
military industrial complex is responsible for the violence. Hollywood
is off the hook. It doesn't have to worry about censorship, boycotts
and government interference. Hollywood celebrities don't have to clean
up their act and start behaving responsibly. Executives don't have to
change plot lines or stop making profitable movies that might be too
violent or offensive.
Since Hollywood's leaders can't come out and say these things
publicly, (this would attract too much attention to Tinseltown's
promotion of violence and anti-Americanism). The movie industry
quietly finances propagandists like Moore who spread its sick message
in a quiet almost underground campaign of lies.
Finally by bankrolling Moore, the Hollywood elitists can feel like
radicals and intellectuals rather than pampered and greedy
entertainers. When average Americans criticize them they can feel like
activists suffering for the cause rather than rich hypocrites. They
can feel morally superior to the rest of us when they are clearly
morally inferior to average people.
It is time that average Americans gave Michael Moore and his superiors
in Hollywood the attention they deserve: no attention. For the best
way to put a stop to buffoons like Michael Moore is to ignore their
antics. If Moore's little exercise in Hate America propaganda has no
effect Hollywood will stop bankrolling such nonsense.
--
"If we invade Iraq, there's a United Nations estimate that says,
'There will be up to a half a million people killed or wounded.'" -
America-Hater Janeane Garofalo
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26 Jan 2004 02:14:56 PM |
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"Ramone Garcia" <ramone_marcia4@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9e651013.0401261104.11c79147@posting.google.com...
Ramone Garcia is EVERYTHING he accuses the right of being. He
is mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,
selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.
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