It’s amazing what a little free market force will do, isn’t it?
Faced with comeptition, the prices are coming down.
“America is dumb, it’s like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive,”
So says another idiot leftist, Johnny Depp.
Ah yes. Someone so high on (insert drug here) that he can hardly remember his freakin LINES, and this moron thinks himself fit to pass judgement on President Bush whilst telling us all he’s going to live in his adopted country, France for a while. (Well, let’s see, here. Wasn’t this ther country that couldn’t figure out how to afford Air Conditioning in it’s nursing Homes? See Socialism Kills for the article by Dennis Prager)
Like most Americans I’m damned tired of idiots like this spouting their anti-American crap while demanding we, the American taxpayer, pay for their socialist stardom dreams.
With any luck, Depp has just hosed his career. His next movie will be of interest as the receipts (don’t) come in.
Kinda makes you wonder why a ‘Chicks clause’ hasn’t been put into the contracts of these people, huh?
Got this off the fine blogger called Spinsanity
I urge you visit there.
Normally, I’d not bother postng the whole thing here, and my apologies to Spinsanity… but this important story needs to get out. Somehow, I think they won’t mind.
Moore alters “Bowling” DVD in response to criticism (9/2)
By Brendan Nyhan
In the newly-released DVD version of his Academy Award-winning documentary “Bowling for Columbine,” filmmaker Michael Moore has altered a caption that he fictitiously inserted into a 1988 Bush-Quayle campaign commercial — one of a number of misstatements and deceptive arguments we criticized when the film was released last year. Ironically, on the same day the DVD was released, Moore issued a libel threat against his critics on MSNBC’s “Buchanan & Press,” saying, “Every fact in the film is true. Absolutely every fact in the film is true. And anybody who says otherwise is committing an act of libel.”
While we were among the first to call Moore on the inaccuracies in his film, most notably the alteration of the Bush-Quayle ad and his misleading presentation of US aid to Afghanistan in a timeline sequence, we were far from the only ones. Dan Lyons of Forbes Magazine also revealed several important lies or distortions, including the fact that the scene during which Moore receives a gun at a bank was staged. And David Hardy, an Arizona lawyer specializing in gun issues who has worked for the National Rifle Association, has compiled a voluminous list of allegations, including Moore’s heavy and misleading editing of NRA President Charlton Heston’s speech in Denver after the Columbine massacre.
Moore has generally refused to concede error in response to critics, in one case writing an angry email to Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert denouncing several charges as “Internet crap” and “not true.” In subsequent correspondence for Ebert’s online column, Moore wrote, “if I state something as a fact, I need the viewers to trust that those facts are correct.”
While promoting the DVD release, he was asked about the charges by guest co-host Jerry Nachman during a August 19 appearance on “Buchanan & Press.” Moore then attacked Hardy while accusing critics of libel:
NACHMAN: Michael, I want to start with what your critics chiefly say. And that is, while you criticize President Bush for being a fictitious president, as you called him, winning in a fictitious election, a lot of your critics say that your documentary should have been more like an Oliver Stone movie because of the liberties you took with chronology and facts in both “Roger and Me” and “Bowling for Columbine.” You’ve heard that criticism, I’m sure.
MOORE: Well, yes. No, the NRA and some gun nut Web sites have really come after…
NACHMAN: Well, it’s not…
MOORE: … the film.
NACHMAN: … it’s not just gun nuts. I mean it’s people who have tried to lay out a chronology of what you said happened…
MOORE: Like who?
NACHMAN: … when it happened…
MOORE: Like who has done this…
NACHMAN: Well…
MOORE: … that is not a conservative right-winger that has a vested interest in wanting to attack me instead of debating me on the issues I’m raising?
NACHMAN: This guy…
MOORE: Every fact in the film is true. Absolutely every fact in the film is true. And anybody who says otherwise is committing an act of libel.
However, the release of Moore’s DVD proves otherwise. As we first documented, when “Bowling for Columbine” was released in theaters, it featured a 1988 Bush-Quayle ad called “Revolving Doors” (Real Player video), which criticized a prison furlough program in operation when Michael Dukakis was governor of Massachusetts. Though Horton was furloughed under the program in question, the ad did not explicitly mention him, unlike the more famous ad aired by the National Security Political Action Committee, which had close ties to Bush media advisor Roger Ailes.
But because this part of “Bowling” attempted to show how portrayals of black men are used to promote fear in the public, Moore apparently inserted the caption “Willie Horton released. Then kills again.” into the ad, using a text style nearly identical to the ad’s original captions. A casual viewer would assume that the text was part of the original ad. The fictitious caption more directly connecting Bush to Horton is used to back up Moore’s statement, which runs over the sequence, that “whether you’re a psychotic killer or running for president of the United States, the one thing you can always count on is white America’s fear of the black man.”
However, according to the archived video of the ad linked above, media reports and interviews with a high-level Dukakis official and political experts, the caption did not appear in the original ad. Moreover, it was incorrect — Horton raped a woman while on furlough, but he did not commit murder.
In a tacit acknowledgment that the caption was both phony and factually incorrect, Moore has altered the text in the DVD version. The caption now reads “Willie Horton released. Then rapes a woman.” Clearly, every fact in the film was not true, and critics who pointed the alteration of the Horton ad (among other things) were not committing libel.
Moreover, Moore’s correction doesn’t make the insertion of text that wasn’t in the original ad any more excusable. And he has conspicuously failed to correct the rest of the film’s distortions and inaccuracies. While it is too late for the Oscar voters he deceived, Moore still owes it to the public to set the record straight.
Addendum:
The DVD also contains further proof of Moore’s tendency to stretch and distort the facts. Hardy has criticized Moore for claiming that the plaque at the US Air Force Academy near a B-52 on display “proudly proclaims that the plane killed Vietnamese people on Christmas Eve of 1972. It was the largest bombing campaign of the Vietnam War.” This phrasing insinuates that the plaque praises the bombing of civilians. It actually says the B-52 “shot down a MIG northeast of Hanoi” on that date. The plaque does celebrate “the men and women of the Strategic Air Command who flew and maintained the B-52D throughout its 26 year history in the command,” including “Aircraft 55,003, with over 15,000 flying hours,” which presumably included bombing runs over Vietnam such as the one on Christmas Eve, but it does not “proudly” proclaim that it was used to kill Vietnamese civilians. According to Ebert, Moore’s response to this criticism was as follows: “I was making a point about the carpet bombing of Vietnam during the 1972 Christmas offensive. I did not say exactly what the plaque said but was paraphrasing.”
The DVD captures Moore exaggerating this still further, saying during a speech at the University of Denver on February 26, 2003 that the B-52 participated in the massive Christmas Eve bombing campaign. “And they’ve got a plaque on there proudly proclaiming that this bomber, this B-52, killed thousands upon thousands of Vietnamese — innocent civilians.” In both cases, his representation of the plaque is extremely dishonest.
Update 9/2 5:12 PM EST: A number of readers have written in to point out that Moore’s statement is a tautology — that is, it is correct by definition to say “Every fact in the film is true.” However, in context, he implies that all of his factual claims are true — asserting they are facts — and attacks critics of those claims with a charge of libel. As such, we stand by the post as written.
Seriously. Here’s the story.
OK, I’ll grant that this one’s lighthearted.But most of the Mainstream press (the obvious exception being the linked source) will never touch this story, because it puts President Bush in a positive light. Witness; had you even heard this one before?
A wonderful article by Dennis Prager, posted just today.
Here’s the money line:
Europe has given the world Marxism, communism, fascism, Nazism, racism and socialism, all rotten ideas that have caused immeasurable human suffering. But for Europeans and their ideological twins on the American left and at universities, ideas are not judged by their ability to ameliorate human suffering or reduce evil, but by their complexity and apparent profundity. An idea is not good because it produces good — that’s unromantic American pragmatism — it is good because it sounds good.
And as if to confirm my comments on Jerry Lewis’ weekend of success, he says……
….as a result of this socialist mindset, people in socialist countries give little charity, while Americans give vast amounts (just as Americans in conservative states give more charity per capita than people in liberal ones).
Jerry Lewis took in a reported record $60.1 million over the weekend. His efforts will be remembered. It’s something of an indication of his dedication that I need not even mention what it is he took in the money FOR. And that, perhaps is among his greatest accomplishments…. being an example of dedication to a good cause,a nd the success that can come from such dedication.
Perhaps it’s worth noting also, that this record amount continues a trend noted during the 80’s: Given the chance to be, we are a charitable people. Put another way: When Taxes go down, charity giving goes up.
Gee, Mario. Big shock, since you’ve been in the hip pocket of the Clinton cabal for years, now.
Of course he lends his support even though the Queen B___ has stated flatly she’s not running. Oh, OK, granted that she’s a liar, and her saying she’s not running is as good an indication as one can get that she will run….
So, one of two reasons are possible for this endorsement; He knows something she’s not admitting (And thereby she lied to us) else he’s just butt kissing.
Which is it, Mario?
I couldn’t resist this one…. A spousal abuse case, apparently, from Cambodia.
The wife… 46, gets into an argument with the Husband… 52. Grabs the guy’s testicles and starts squeezing, until he passes out. Fearing that when he wakes up, the guy’s gonna be REALLY pissed, the wife ties a scarf around the husband’s neck, and to a bedpost. Husband dies, though the exact cause of death isn’t clear, says the story.
The husband’s name? “Ouch Yan”.
I kid you not… you can’t make this kind of story up.
Here’s the link. See for yourself.
An interesting story, in my email today, that apparently ran in Toronto’s Globe and Mail.
Apparently, the city of Tikrit, Iraq now has unrestricted internet access. The first search done on the net? Here’s the String: George Bush.
No, you’re right; you never heard about this one from the so-called Mainstream press. And we both know why, don’t we?
The FBI is now confirming an arrest but is saying the details are sealed, at least until Friday afternoon, when the suspect is to be arraigned.
However, a report now running on AP’s wires is citing nameless Minnesota court official, as saying the suspect is one Jeffrey Lee Parson of Hopkins, Minn. According tot he report, Parson admitted to creating a variant of the Blaster worm, during a search of his home on Tuesday.
And the first outlet to break this story? Why of course… MSN.
Gee, what defense lawyer isn’t going to have fun with that one, eh? There’s a lot of other comments I could tack on about control of news agencies, but I’ll let it pass for the moment.
What interests me more is the report that this bozo only modified a currently existing version of the worm and re-released it.
Looks like he’ll end up taking the fall for the one who originated it, though.
A story on the AP wire this morning, reports that the FBI is pretty sure they’ve ID’d the 18 year old kid who wrote the ‘Blaster’ virus. Of course, they’re not releasing much in the way of detail, though they claim they’ll have them once this kid’s under arrest. Seems a bit odd that they’d let something like that drop. I wonder if they’re trying to rattle his cage a bit.
The AP is reporting, (and the New York Times, even is admitting) that the economy is on the mend. Up, in fact another 3.1% last quarter/ Better than the Democrats wanted, but better even than the Bush Administration had hoped. As I recall they predicted along the lines of a 2.4% growth.
The Washington Times, the only real newspaper in the loop, gets into some detail on this story.
Computers and software, my own field, showed particularly strong growth… around 8.2% of spending growth. This would seem to suggest a boom… a large one…. is currently underway.
A sound economy….Yet another reason why Democrats cannot win this next election.
