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Fahrenheit 9/11:
The Reviews Are In
Meria Heller says that we were right all along,
and conservative, William Norman Grigg
says that the Bush regime are Busted,
and Frank Cerabins's daughter says it's
The Passion of the Christ for Democrats.
BreakForNews.com 26th
June, 2004
Farenheit 9/11:
We Were Right!
by Meria Heller
I
just got back from the first screening in my neighborhood theater
(it's playing everywhere in Phoenix) of Farenheit 911. The second
show was already SOLD OUT when I left the theater.
Someone has tossed some Moveon stickers on the floor in the theatre
saying "Defend America, Defeat Bush" - it's on my car now under my
Kucinich for President sticker.
I will tell you this, after all the years of telling the stories that
are being seen/heard for the first time by so many Americans, it still
kicked me in the stomach. Bring tissues. You'll need them.
The crying started for me at the beginning with the stolen election.
Seeing those images again brought up all the feelings of disgust and
sadness over losing our country in 2000 to the Supreme Injustices.
Of course there wasn't a one story I haven't covered on my show in
depth numerous times (1,000 archived shows and growing).
Michael covers a lot of issues in his usual style of music, levity,
and seriousness. The audience (packed) was as quiet as a mouse, except
for the loud laughter at each Bush "guffaw".
What Michael Moore has done with this movie is something the losing
Democratic party and the "left" media should have been doing all along.
However, when you are two sides of the same coin, feeding off the
same corporate trough you do as they do - NOTHING. It's a pity when
the only source we have for getting the news out is a MOVIE, not our
own airwaves or newspapers.
If you don't believe what Craig Hulet had to say on my show yesterday,
this movie PROVES it in pictures. So many brave Americans have been
SCREAMING trying to be heard for the past four years, yet called conspiracy
freaks by the dumbed down, drugged down masses. This film will put
them on the pedestals they have EARNED through being real patriots
and real good human beings.
For years I have been called everything from a neo-pagan to a crackpot.
Well, if a picture is worth a thousand words, this movie shows that
my 1,000 shows are worth a zillion words.
Pray that EVERYONE gets to see this film and discusses it. Pray that
EVERYONE says "STOP THIS CORPORATE WAR", and a loud "NO" to a draft.
It's not time to take our country back, it's time to take the planet
back. Back to people being informed, educated, safe and secure. As
Neo would say "Imagine a world without them in it".
World governments are now Corporate governments. They don't care a
whit for any of us. We are cannon fodder and feeders. We HAVE all
the power we need to bring them down. All we have to do is say "NO".
Vote with your dollars every chance you get.
1. Stop paying for television which is nothing more than mind control
for the masses
2. Stop paying for newspapers/magazines that LIE to you and load you
up with subliminals.
3. Stop paying your dollars to Corporate conglomerates/franchises/superstores,
they are breaking our economy
4. Stop banking at multi national banks, and put your money in local
banks or credit unions
5. When someone says support the troops, ask them to sign up for the
military
6. Stay sound in your beliefs and don't waste time with people that
want to argue and fight. They are part of the problem
7. When you cancel supporting one world order factories, such as America
Online, let them know WHY. You can't even post a review on moviefone.com
unless you're a member of AOL!
Let your bank know WHY you are pulling out. Let your voice be heard
in the few dollars we are allowed to have.
8. Support those who truly are supporting freedom, truth and LIFE.
No one I've interviewed in four years is rich. Not a one of them is
getting corporate dollars. Not a one of them gets any money except
from whomever is kind and aware enough to support their work.
Are you fed up enough to say "I'm mad, and I'm not going to take this
anymore"? It's time to choose. The fence is lined with glass, no more
time to sit on it. Will you stand for love and truth, or fear and
hate?
Buy someone who can't afford it a ticket to the movie. Buy a bunch
and hand them out. Buy your friends a subscription to my show, or
a two day pass. The clarion call is out! It's time to get on our horses
and RIDE!!!!
The time is NOW. We ARE the saviors we've been waiting for.
Get out there and kick some butt this weekend,
Love,
Meria
"THE MERIA HELLER SHOW "- 4th yr On The Net- #1 on Net!
www.Meria.net & www.meriaheller.com
& WARL1320am Radio, R.I.
Fahrenheit 9/11: A Conservative Critique
by William Norman Grigg
Lew Rockwell.com
I just returned from viewing Fahrenheit 9/11 here in Appleton,
WI. I went to the 1:30 PM showing, which was – astonishingly – sold
out.
The crowd was overwhelmingly white and middle-class (this IS Wisconsin,
remember), ranging in age from early teens to retirees. The people
were polite, friendly, well-mannered (something we shouldn't take
for granted on the part of contemporary theater crowds).
There was tumultuous applause at the end, punctuated by a moment of
reflective silence as we read the dedication card invoking those murdered
by terrorists on 9/11, and those murdered through state terrorism
in the aftermath.
The film itself very much reflects its creator: It's shaggy, flabby,
occasionally witty, and frequently infuriating. It will have a HUGE
impact because Moore – his facile leftist economics notwithstanding
– has nailed his case against the Bush regime flush to the plank.
It will be all but impossible for anybody who sits still and watches
this film to view Bush the Lesser as anything other than a petty,
spiteful, dim-witted, bloody-handed little fool – and the figurehead
of a murderous power elite. This explains why the Bu'ushists are threatening
to go Abu Ghraib on Moore: They're busted.
The most powerful moments in the film are those that humanize U.S.
troops, several of whom are shown on-screen criticizing the regime.
A major arc of the film is devoted to a Flint, Michigan housewife
from a military family whose son, just prior to being killed in Iraq,
wrote a letter condemning "George 'I wanna be like my Daddy' Bush"
for staging this useless, unjust war.
Moore himself, who narrates the film (and makes himself too much a
part of the story, incidentally) observes that the largest immorality
of this entire enterprise is the actions of a dishonest president
lying our country into war and forcing decent young men (and women)
to do immoral things.
It should be pointed out as well that the film – despite being lambasted
as an exercise in unalloyed Bush-bashing – doesn't spare Democrats
who acquiesced in Bush the Lesser's power grabs and his criminal war
against Iraq. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle comes off particularly
poorly, which in his case merely requires a recording device of some
kind. [..]
I chatted with several people as they left the theater, all of them
roughly my age (early 40s) and of similar economic and cultural background.
Each of them indicated that he or she would urge friends to see the
film – which means that it will have "legs" even if the GOP and FEC
were to choke off advertising somehow.
There were no screaming Bolsheviks (one viewer had an anti-animal
rights T-shirt) or marijuana-scented bohemians in the crowd. This
wasn't the sort of crowd you'd see at a Phish concert, or storming
McDonald's at an anti-WTO rally.
There were Wal-Mart customers, people who probably listen to country
music (even Toby Keith), and even vote Republican. And they were PISSED
– quietly, but palpably. A would-be political prisoner Martha Stewart
would say, that's a good thing. And well overdue.
June 26, 2004
William Norman Grigg writes from Appleton, Wisconsin.
Copyright © 2004 LewRockwell.com
Film stirs up unprintable
By Frank Cerabino,
Palm
Beach Post Columnist
Sunday, June 27, 2004
I've been to movies when people talk to the screen.
I've been to movies when people laugh, cry or gasp during the show
and applaud at the end.
I don't believe though, I've ever been to a movie when all that happens
in the same show, when the applause is a standing ovation, and when
the video image they're yelling at on the screen is the president
of the United States, and calling him... well, something unprintable
in this newspaper.
I've also never been to a movie theater before when people in the
audience linger to talk, organize and argue until the lights go down
for the next showing and the next batch of moviegoers start calling
out, "Hey, finish your fighting outside."
All that happened Friday night in Boca Raton, on the opening night
of Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore's seminal shock-and-awe firebombing
of George W. Bush's presidency.
"It's like The Passion of the Christ for Democrats," my 14-year-old
daughter said.
Discussion deteriorates quickly
The Sunrise Theatres Mizner Park is one of the few places in Palm
Beach County showing Moore's film, and on opening night, the theater
managers dedicated a second screen to handle the overflow crowd who
had come for the 7:45 p.m. show.
The large crowd was due in part to efforts by the anti-Bush political
action committee, MoveOn PAC, to rally the faithful at the theater.
I knew I was in for as much entertainment off the screen as on when
the 20-something couple behind me started saving seats with pieces
of paper that had anti-Bush slogans that said... well, it's unprintable.
"We're all here for the same cause," an older couple said as they
sat in the saved seats.
After the movie, Susan Glickman, an organizer for the political action
group in Florida, got on a microphone in front of the theater, to
underline that cause.
"We're going to be working this election cycle to defeat George Bush,"
she said.
But the orchestrated movie-theater discussion quickly degenerated
into a shouting match. Jim Mullins of Delray Beach, a Senior Fellow
with the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C., stood
up to deliver a dry recitation of U.S. international chicanery.
"The foreign policy of this country is to dominate the rest of the
world militarily," he said.
But somebody wanted him to talk about the so-called war on drugs,
and pretty soon, we had gone from Iraq to marijuana. Things degenerated
quickly from there.
Moore galvanizes both sides
The capper was when the microphone was commandeered by a couple of
18-year-old Boca Raton Republicans. Adam Sabin and Brett Karlin said
they thought the Moore movie was... well, that's unprintable too.
"It's just like liberals to cover up their ears and see one side of
it," Karlin said, as people in the audience booed. "It's all liberal
la, la, la."
I've been in the opinion business long enough to know that when people
don't agree with you they call you "biased" and when they do, they
say you "tell the truth." And so, depending on your view of the world,
you're bound to leave the movie muttering something under your breath
-- either about Bush or Moore.
And because it's such a powerful movie, those mutterings are likely
to be... well, something unprintable.
