More on Moore

[chris hurl]

I don't know if Michael Moore was necessarily booed.  It seemed like an
ambiguous response.  Scorcese looked like he was about to start clapping.
And ironically, a moment before he got a standing ovation.  It seemed like
the crowd was pretty divided between the peace-pin folks and the
american-flag pin folks...  Of course the media will describe it as outright
booing.

chris (long-time listener, first-time caller)

----- Original Message -----
From: <groschke at luminousvoid.net>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: More on Moore


> 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
>
>