Truthout/Pitt: Thank You, Michael Moore

[Raster]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/0625041.shtml

Friday 25 June 2004

"The light at the end of the tunnel could be the bulb in a film projector."
- Jeanette Castillo

Screens in Bartlett, Chattanooga, Jackson, Knoxville and Memphis, Tennessee will be showing it. Screens in Layton and West Jordan, Utah will be showing it. If you find yourself in Leawood, Merriam, Shawnee or Wichita, Kansas, you can see it. The same goes for Centerville, Fairfax and Abington, Virginia. If you happen to be in Akron, Bexley, Dublin or Elyria, Ohio, you're all set. Hoover, Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama will not be left out.

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Most Americans don't know about this stuff, and seeing it fully documented and meticulously researched on the big screen will be, to say the least, revelatory. Yes, Virginia, there are billions of dollars to be made off this Iraq war for Bush's friends. The second door on the left is the recruiting office. Sign on the line that is dotted, and be the first kid on your block to die for the benefit of Carlyle's stock options. Be sure to save your pennies beforehand, however, because the Army will dock your pay for the days you are dead. It's policy, you see.

Mr. Moore put two daggers into me with this film, the first of which had to do with American soldiers. Trooper after trooper spoke frankly for Moore's camera, condemning both the war and the people who thrust them into it. Several scenes graphically explained what happens to a soldier's body when it is caught in an explosion. The result is ruinous, and the cries of the wounded and the dying will ring in my ears forever.

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Michael Moore has unleashed a wolf within Mr. Bush's fences. There is no getting around it. Perhaps, now that it is far too late, we as a nation will wake up. On the day of that awakening, those of us who never stopped standing, never stopped marching, learned to live without sleep, learned to live in a nation that scorned truth for televised fantasy, those patriots I was with tonight in that theater can pause for breath. We can sit upon the grass on a bright day, strip our sleeves, and show our scars.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/0625041.shtml

[boobooday]

1. Thanks Mike!

And thanks Will!

:hug:

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[seventhson]

2. Yup! Props to Truthout, Pitt and Moore

This movie does what Tim Robbins' play does - only it reaches the multitude.

[burrowowl]

3. Bump

[MasonJar]

4. The trouble is that the people who should will not see it.

[mom cat]

9. From the postings that I have seen, we are making converts!

[foo_bar]

5. just saw this on Google News

via "Axis of Logic"

[Gothmog]

6. The movie is simply great

My family saw F 9/11 last night and it was great. I had no idea that there were this many democrats in Houston. The first three shows at AMC 30 were sold out.

[quispquake]

7. Just got back myself...

After waiting in line on a rainy day for Two & a Half hours to get in...they are COMPLETELY mobbed...

A seriously intense experience...thank you Michael Moore.

[struggle4progress]

8. Hmm. How do we show it to the soldiers in Iraq?

This is a blockbuster movie. The soldiers get to listen to Limbaugh. Why can't they see Moore?

[mom cat]

10. They will. And so will millions of potential recruits.