More on Moore

groschke at luminousvoid.net groschke at luminousvoid.net
Sun Mar 23 22:35:03 PST 2003


On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Carl Remick wrote:


> Michael Moore booed as he slams Iraq war at Oscars
>
> HOLLYWOOD (AFP) - Famed US documentary maker Michael Moore used his win of
> an Oscar to launch a violent attack on US President George W. Bush and war
> in Iraq amid loud boos [!] from the audience.
>
> "We live in fictitious times," he said when picking up the award for best
> documentary for his anti-gun film "Bowling for Columbine."
>
> "We live in a time with fictious election results that elect fictitious
> presidents. We live in a time when we have a man sending us to war for
> fictious reasons.
>
> "We are against this war Mr Bush. Shame on you. Shame on you!," he said in
> front of a loudly booing [!!] audience of 3,500 people including most of
> Hollywood's top stars.

the line that was overshadowed by the musice went along the lines of "when the dixie chicks and pope are against you your time is up".

-gr



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