And if Michael Moore had bought a GM, it more than likely would've been built in Mexico or Texas or somewhere other than Flint. Something tells me that the anti-Moore brigade wouldn't have let that slide. Just call it a hunch.
I remember my dad, the staunch Republican, loving Micheal Moore when Roger and Me came out. He has worked for GM for over thirty years as a line worker. I remember seeing pictures of then CEO Roger Smith all carved up with darts sticking out of them all over the plant my dad worked in. He was a popular target at the time for his policies regarding the auto workers. He made it easy for a guy like Moore to make a name for himself. Now, my dad absolutely hates the guy. Not because his message has changed all that much, but because his targets include the right wing. Side note: Jaguars did suck until Ford bought them. Also, the main driving force that has kept the American auto manufacturers from automating their lines as much as foreign competition is the UAW.
Re: Farenheit 9/11 makes box office history Fair point but nevertheless, I don't think it would have taken a medical degree to realize that the guy wasn't exactly "all there."
Re: Farenheit 9/11 makes box office history Interestingly, I've read all 9 pages of this thread and nowhere has anybody documented a bona fide Michael Moore "lie." Plenty of people have called him a liar, but there is no documented evidence of it (at least on this thread). And the moorelies.com site is hilarious. I've seen more meat on a Tofurkey.
I said "more American labor." If you spend $x on a US car, a much higher % of the cost (on average) will be traced to American labor than if you buy a foreign car. I don't have any problems with Americans buying Japanese or European cars since the comparative advantage is not based on mistreatment of labor.
I had to go out today to see some property. Just happened that 9/11 was showing near there!!! It is pretty powerful at times but nothing was a surprise to me. The only thing that does surprise me is the gullibility of the people who follow Bush and his party line. I mean the real republicans who follow the party line right or wrong but don’t want to hear if it’s wrong. The people who won’t really ‘read’ the news or read or watch anything that’s reportedly controversial to the party line. These are good people who are afraid that their leaders, their country, could be wrong. This is a great country, I choose to live here, I’m just saddened by what is going on. I’m not a religious person but I say “God Damn George Bush” and the cronies who are pulling his and the countries strings.
I haven't read a single post to this thread, but I wanted to post my thought. ******** Moore and all he floats for!!!!!! ******** that FAT BASTARD!!! ******** HIM IN THE ASS!!!
Re: Farenheit 9/11 makes box office history If true, then what was the NRA doing re-electing him to a new term as President of their organization? I think Moore's sin here isn't that he sat down and interviewed Heston and just watched as Heston talked himself into a corner. It's that Moore still used a lengthy part of the interview -- and thought enough of it to make it the final major scene in the film -- after it was learned that Heston was losing his mind. If the i-view had been spliced throughout the film, it would have blunted the fact that Heston was likely not the best possible speaker for the NRA. But my guess is that Wayne LaPierre would never have sat down with Moore in the first place. Hence, we got Moore vs. Heston, the intellectual equivalent of Tyson - Spinks '88.
Re: Farenheit 9/11 makes box office history My guess is that Moore ends up like Tyson, too I'm a street bum, says broke Tyson
He seems to think that fat Bastard stole the name from his book. Incidently, Moore never bothered to ask permission to use the name. So the old gentlemen thinks the fat bastard is a theif.
Translation: "Despite my self-admitted abject ignorance, I feel so passionately about this subject that I am compelled to corn-hole a fat man." You give legions of chubby-chasing Log Cabin Republicans a bad name.
one thing that will always bother me about michael moore is when he acts like a stupid little kid when he asks people questions/interviews them. and he's a patronizing ********.
anyone seen any of his appearences on the morning news shows??? there was a pretty funny clip of him w/hannah storm on cbs morning news that was shown on the daily show last night
Or he received $50,000 from Moore's distributors to "complain". Whatever puts it on the front-pages...
that was unreal, my gf and i were rolling on the floor, the cbs lady was pretty damn flustered, and she deserved every second of it, considering how she began the interview. I have seen a bit of his rounds on the other networks morning shows and he's faced pretty much the same thing from matt lauer (sp?) etc. He keeps responding by asking them why didn't they ask the administration the same kind of questions in the run up to the invasion...and how if they had, he probably never would have even had the opportunity to do this film....
Tack on another $4.45 million to the liberal till. The $5,127 per screen average for Monday was five times the haul of any other movie tracked.