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Politics : Discuss the candidates honestly. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBTFD who wrote (1029)	6/29/2004 5:16:15 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4965

Here's Moore's Oscar acceptance speech: Michael Moore: Whoa. On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to — they're here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much. arras.net Sounds to me like he's touting his work as nonfiction. However, I don't consider political cartoons (like F/911) or Hollywood types with such a clearly professed agenda as Moore's (see above) to be unbiased or able to produce "nonfiction". Given Moore's comments about the stupidity of the American public (made, naturally on foreign soil), it's not hard to understand why he's chosen the pseudo-documentary category of artistic expression. He thinks Americans are too stupid to distinguish between what he says is fact and what is fiction. As he laughs (or shall I say waddles) his way to the bank.....<g>