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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (6348)	3/25/2003 9:18:57 AM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7689

Strongly worded editorial in one of the Chicago papers this morning about Mr. Moore: <I also heard a tape of his rant this morning for the first time> suntimes.com Michael Moore's moment of shame March 25, 2003 We got a look at the nature of our enemy over the last few days. Pretending to surrender, Iraqi forces opened fire on coalition forces advancing to accept their surrender. Other Iraqis discarded their uniforms to make war in civilian dress. Then came the humiliation of captured American troops on Iraqi TV. All are violations of the Geneva conventions of war. And worst of all was strong suspicion that Americans taken prisoner were executed. None of that bothers movie maker Michael Moore; he's still fighting the 2000 election. Upon winning an Oscar Sunday night, Moore lumbered to the stage, the buttons on his tux threatening to blast away, evidence that what he stuffs in his mouth is a bigger threat to his health than the guns he rails against in his documentary "Bowling for Columbine." Clapping was heard as his acceptance speech began with a bow to other documentary nominees. But when Moore launched into a particularly vicious, no-class attack on the president, according to the New York Times, "scattered applause was drowned by a chorus of boos that echoed through the auditorium." It must have unnerved Moore a bit because backstage he immediately began trying to spin reporters, alleging that only "five loud people booed." We weren't there, but it sounded on TV like more than five people, though we don't doubt that the Academy Award audience was largely anti-Bush and anti-war. Still it was comforting to hear the boos, even if there was no evidence they were coming from the biggest stars made incredibly wealthy by the American people, more than 70 percent of whom support Bush. Moore sneered that we have a "fictitious president," alluding to the controversial 2000 election which, from Moore's view, ended unhappily. More disappointing for him was the 2002 election, which Democrats made a referendum on Bush and which he won stunningly. Moore scoffed that the war was being fought "for fictitious reasons." Never mind 17 UN resolutions ignored by Saddam Hussein, two wars against neighbors, or the murder, torture, rape and oppression endured by millions of Iraqis. But these, of course, are facts, and Moore wouldn't let pesky things like that get in his way. Nor would the thought of dead Americans on a battlefield far from home deny this egomaniac his chance to prance and strut on the stage, spewing rantings that amount to "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."