Example number one: Michael Moore
'Fahrenheit 9/11': Connecting With a Hard Left - washpost - registration required so those pinkos can keep track of you.
Why is the title of Moore's flim inspired by Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451? How ironic that Bradbury's work is about censorship and anti-intellectualism. Left-wing propaganda doesn't get more anti-intellectual than Fahrenheit 9/11.
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Example number two: The nuts who cooked up The Day After Tomorrow, Al Gore, and moveon.org. Algore and the like-minded irrational animals at moveon.org are planning a rally the day that The Day After Tomorrow Comes out. I sense a Passion of the Christ kind of passion for the message of this disaster film. It's a new gospel written by the liberal illuminati. They'd like to see us all live like Franciscans of the Primitive Observance without the poverty, charity, humility, and of course, faith in Christ.
Moveon.org is calling this flick "the movie the White House doesn't want you to see." They admit the movie is "more science fiction than science fact," yet they trying to score political points by scaring the poop of people who can't separate science fact from science fiction. They vote for democrats, you know.
Agreed, Sal. The Loony Left has become the mainstream. They've lost their grip on reality.
What has long surprised me is that Moore can even raise money to get his films made. He's a completely self-absorbed, obnoxious adolescent boor who isn't the least bit interesting. Take his film Canadian Bacon: it's terrible in every regard--dialogue, pacing, plot, acting (Alan Alda cast in the one role he seems to know how to play, Hawkeye revisited). The film is like a high school film project.
Regarding Bush at the elementary school on 9/11: after the first plane strike at the WTC, even the media weren't sure it was terrorism. Bush may have been shocked and unsure, and of course he knew that the people under him--military, intelligence, were on top of the situation. No surprise it may have taken him a couple of minutes to get up and leave.
If the untalented, obnoxious Moore weren't on the media's side of the culture wars, none of us would ever have heard of him.
Unfortunately, "Bowling for Columbine" made $120 million worldwide, and that virtually ensures he'll be making many other movies.
You're completely right about him being prominent only because of his politics. The "Today" show, my morning infotainment program, said Disney was "blocking release" of the film in the U.S., when they simply said they didn't want to distribute it -- and they said that a year ago.
One wonders how many of the liberal illuminati who are pushing "The Day After Tomorrow" will be willing to give up their Volvos, their Ford Expeditions, their Lincoln Navigators, and all the high-tech conveniences of their $1 million-plus homes in tony city neighborhoods or suburbs like New York's Rye, Washington's Potomac, or Los Angeles' Bel Air.
After all, if they wish others to "live like Franciscans of the primitive observance," they will obviously lead by example, right? We all know how much wealthy social liberals can't stand hypocrisy, at least when it comes from social conservatives. I look forward to seeing their moral consistency! (yack, cough, gag, choke)
What's next? The "Night of the Living Global Warming?"
"Scaring the poop of people"?
I can think of a million witty things to say linking moveon.org and the fright they cause to human poop, but my priestly dignity prevents me.
More like science fantasy than fiction. The only way you could deliver enough heat into the atmosphere to generate a super-storm like that would be to drop one ( or more ) asteroids from orbit. It worked for Lucifer's Hammer, but not for TDAT.