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Politics : Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Idiot -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lost1 who wrote (308)	4/30/2003 8:44:13 AM
From: Bill	Respond to of 1409

Web Site Wants Michael Moore's Oscar Revoked Monday, April 28, 2003 NEW YORK — Filmmaker Michael Moore (search) lost his cool during this year's Academy Awards ceremony — and now he might lose the statuette he won for best documentary. There's a movement to revoke the controversial director's Oscar. The Web site RevoketheOscar.com claims that Moore's Oscar-winning anti-gun documentary, Bowling for Columbine (search), is riddled with inaccuracies, misleading statements and unethical edits — and the site is calling for the film to be disqualified as a documentary. "Bowling for Columbine violated the Academy's own rules," the site states. "These limit the documentary competition to nonfiction films. Bowling isn't nonfiction. Whenever it was necessary to his theme, Moore invented facts, fabricated events, staged scenes, or doctored the depiction of what actually happened." The site's creator, David Hardy, claims that scenes of National Rifle Association (search) President Charlton Heston holding a gun over his head were edited to make the actor seem callous to school violence — and that the time-frame and location were misrepresented in the film. "You think you see Charlton Heston (search) on screen giving the speech. That's not the speech he gave. It has been heavily edited," Hardy told Fox News. "Whenever [Moore] had to, he just made things up to suit the theme of the movie." During his Oscar acceptance speech, Moore made strongly anti-war comments and called President Bush a "fictitious president." "We live in a time where we have fictitious election results, that elect a fictitious president," Moore said. "We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it is the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of 'orange alerts.' We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr Bush, shame on you." The Web site urges the public to contact the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ask it to revoke Moore's Oscar. foxnews.com The revoke the Oscar website... revoketheoscar.com