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As time goes by we lose our friends by distance in TEFL land.

Since some of you are in S. Arabia now, I want to post this for
you from Michael Moores site.

Enjoy

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How about Letterman�s Top Ten List: �Top Ten George W. Bush Complaints About 'Fahrenheit 9/11'":

10. That actor who played the President was totally unconvincing

9. It oversimplified the way I stole the election

8. Too many of them fancy college-boy words

7. If Michael Moore had waited a few months, he could have included the part where I get him deported

6. Didn't have one of them hilarious monkeys who smoke cigarettes and gives people the finger

5. Of all Michael Moore's accusations, only 97% are true

4. Not sure - - I passed out after a piece of popcorn lodged in my windpipe

3. Where the hell was Spider-man?

2. Couldn't hear most of the movie over Cheney's foul mouth

1. I thought this was supposed to be about dodgeball

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from Michael Moores Site directly ////////////////////////

For now, please know the following: Every single fact I state in "Fahrenheit 9/11" is the absolute and irrefutable truth. This movie is perhaps the most thoroughly researched and vetted documentary of our time. No fewer than a dozen people, including three teams of lawyers and the venerable one-time fact-checkers from The New Yorker went through this movie with a fine-tooth comb so that we can make this guarantee to you. Do not let anyone say this or that isn't true. If they say that, they are lying. Let them know that the OPINIONS in the film are mine, and anyone certainly has a right to disagree with them. And the questions I pose in the movie, based on these irrefutable facts, are also mine. And I have a right to ask them. And I will continue to ask them until they are answered.

In closing, let me say that the most heartening response to the film has come from our soldiers and their families. Theaters in military towns across the country reported packed houses. Our troops know the truth. They have seen it first-hand. And many of them could not believe that here was a movie that was TRULY on their side -- the side of bringing them home alive and never sending them into harms way again unless it's the absolute last resort. Please take a moment to read this wonderful story from the daily paper in Fayetteville, NC, where Fort Bragg is located. It broke my heart to read this, the reactions of military families and the comments of an infantryman�s wife publicly backing my movie -- and it gave me the resolve to make sure as many Americans as possible see this film in the coming weeks.


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ARTICLE FORM THE fayetteville. NC

July 2nd, 2004 4:44 pm
Fahrenheit 9/11 Breaks Records in Military Town


"'Fahrenheit 9/11' sets record"
By Matt Leclercq / The Fayetteville Observer (North Carolina)
June 29, 2004

"Fahrenheit 9/11," a left-sided documentary that bashes the Bush administration's war on terrorism, wouldn't find much of an audience in a military town.

Or so they thought.

"This has broken all of our past records," said Nasim Kuenzel, an owner of the Cameo Art House Theatre. "The movie that I thought would make us hardly any money - I never thought it would break all the records."

Both showings sold out Friday at the Cameo, the only theater in Fayetteville to carry the Michael Moore film. A midnight showing added at the last minute Friday brought in 60 more people.

Saturday and Sunday were just as busy, Kuenzel said, with nearly 1,000 tickets sold over the weekend. As many as 75 percent of moviegoers were soldiers or military families, Kuenzel said.

Many were like Natalie Sorton. She is 25 and married to an infantryman who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"I want to see what my husband is fighting for," Sorton said Monday before going into the theater with a friend, Kathy Norris.

Another military spouse had recommended the movie. While Sorton described herself as a moderate Republican, she said she gained respect for Moore after seeing his last documentary, "Bowling for Columbine."

In that film, Moore pestered corporations and celebrities to take responsibility for gun violence. Sorton said she wanted to see Moore be equally pestering to politicians who make decisions about war.

"I'm going because from what I heard about ('Fahrenheit 9/11'), it fills in a lot of blanks, a lot of questions we've had about the Bush administration," Sorton said.

The documentary assails President Bush's decisions surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Moore attempts to link the Bush family with Saudi Arabia and blame business interests as the reason for invading Iraq. "Fahrenheit 9/11" includes frank comments from soldiers in Iraq and emotional interviews with families who lost children in the fighting.

Almost all the crowds at the Cameo have applauded the film at the end, with some people giving standing ovations, Kuenzel said. Many have tears in their eyes as they leave the theater.

"I think it's going to open my eyes a little, and that worries me," Sorton said before taking her seat.

Lea Barnes, a Republican, seemed giddy as she and a friend bought tickets Monday.

"I'm not pleased at all about the way things are going" with the war, Barnes said. "I trust Michael Moore. He can be out there a bit, but he's for the common man."

Negative reactions have been few, Kuenzel said. The theater received three calls and two letters in opposition of carrying the film, she said. No one has protested, though some people handed out anti-war fliers on the street Friday evening.

Nationwide ticket sales totaling $23.9 million launched the film to the No. 1 spot over the weekend, a record for a documentary. Twelve other theaters in North Carolina are carrying "Fahrenheit 9/11," according to the film's Web site.

Other theaters

The Varsity Theatre in Chapel Hill also sold out over the weekend, with some patrons from the Fayetteville area, said owner Mary Jo Stone. The publicity surrounding Disney's refusal to distribute the film because of its political content helped ignite sales.

"I think people are interested in perhaps getting a different perspective than what they see in the news all the time," Stone said.

Since the Cameo opened in 2000, the only other movies that approached the sales figures for "Fahrenheit 9/11" were "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Other theaters across the country are expected to start showing the film in the next few weeks.

After Monday's showing, Sorton emerged with a grim face. She said she plans to buy the film on DVD and give it to everyone she knows.

"I'm disgusted," she said. "Disgusted."

The film changed her opinions on the war in Iraq by convincing her that oil and corporate interests were behind decision-making, she said. Worries over whether Moore would vilify soldiers were unfounded.

"I don't think they portrayed them as bad," she said. "I don't think it portrayed them as not doing their jobs. It showed them doing what they're told.

"All this movie did was open my eyes a little more to what's really going on," she said. "I think this is definitely going to have an impact on the election. I'm glad I'm a voter."

[Stephen Jones]

Michael Moore seems dedicated to proving that Democrat ugly middle-aged fat white slobs in baseball caps can tell just as many outrageous lies as their Republican counterparts iin suits.

"Dude, what happened to my country" on which Fahrenhiet 9/11 is based, is a collection of misreporting, lies. out of context quotes and innuendo. Anybody who takes it seriously needs their head examining.

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stephen J

for you my love


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