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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (50353)	7/6/2004 12:06:21 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 89467

Cover story in Time The World According to Michael Taking aim at George W., a populist agitator makes noise, news and a new kind of political entertainment By RICHARD CORLISS Posted Sunday, July 4, 2004 "Was it all just a dream?" Michael Moore poses that question at the start of Fahrenheit 9/11, his docu-tragicomedy about the Bush Administration's actions before and after Sept. 11, 2001. Moore's tone isn't wistful; it's angry. He's steamed about the Florida vote wrangle of 2000, the Supreme Court decision to declare George W. Bush President of the United States, the policies of Bush's advisers and especially what he sees as the deflection of a quick, vigorous search-and-destroy mission against Osama bin Laden into an open-ended war on terrorism—"You can't declare war on a noun," Moore said last week—that spawned a dubious and costly invasion of Iraq. Now, after a week in which his film became the highest grossing documentary of all time— and more than that, a nationwide rally point for Bush opponents, a red flag for Bush supporters, a cinematic teach-in for the undecided and a potential factor in the '04 presidential race—Moore may well be asking, "Is this all a dream?" For starters, is this the same film that not long ago was an orphan? In May a controversy-averse Walt Disney Co. ordered its subsidiary Miramax Films to dump the movie. But just weeks later Fahrenheit 9/11 copped the Palme d'Or (first place) at the Cannes Film Festival and eventually found other distributors, an indie coalition of the willing. By that time, the picture's incendiary charges and Moore's reputation as a folksy firebrand of the left had already begun to ignite accusations that he had twisted facts to suit his politics. Faster than you can say, "That's the kind of publicity no amount of money can buy," Fahrenheit 9/11 had become a secular Passion of the Christ and the most hotly debated political film since Oliver Stone's JFK 13 years ago. But whereas JFK merely spun conspiracy theories. . . time.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (50353)	7/6/2004 12:44:49 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

1.1 million new Bushy jobs come from suspect birth-death as a statistical analyst, I find the entire B-D model groundless its historical data, used to establish the model, is based on data in the 1985 to 2000 time frame China was not a player back then neither was India the model has no foundational basis yet it is responsible for over 80% of claimed new jobs created as a professional in a private consulting firm or large corporation, if I were to submit this model for usage, my manager would dismiss it in about 10 minutes of evaluation & discussion clueless economists do not bother to question these numbers they, like many other private citizens, have had their brains co-opted for political purpose, or for financial vested interest purpose / jim