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  Michael Moore (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Moore_(disambiguation)   (263 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The power of laughter
Moore is crying censorship, and complaining that Disney's Michael Eisner told his agent that he did not want to anger Jeb Bush, the governor of Florida, because tax breaks worth many millions of dollars were at stake.
Moore's breakthrough film, 1989's Roger and Me, was about how General Motors destroyed his home town of Flint, Michigan, when they closed a Buick factory: Moore personalised this by confronting GM's then chairman, Roger Smith, and taking him to Flint to see what he'd done.
Moore travels in corporate jets, and he's done well, and he is not modest, or indeed particularly likeable.
www.guardian.co.uk /usa/story/0,12271,1220763,00.html   (1222 words)

  
 Moore Michael Kenneth - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Moore Michael Kenneth - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Moore, Michael Kenneth (1949-), New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1990), and Director-General of the World Trade Organization...
After three years as deputy leader, Clark was elected leader of the Labour Party in December 1993, toppling Mike Moore after he had led the party to...
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Michael Moore - Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the ...
Michael Moore is a retard, and in Stupid White Men, he just throws radical ideas out there and backs them up with nothing but an orgy of facts and poor writing that would get nowhere without cheap humour and sarcasm (or are the two the same thing?).
Moore mentions the fact that a kid, after the Columbine massacre, is still more likely to get killed by a bolt of lightning than by a bullet in school.
Moore tries to sound as if the days of men are going to end and in a few generations there’s only going to be women on this planet.
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 "The Awful Truth" (1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Michael Moore is a roaring mouse in a world of corporate elephants.
In "The Awful Truth", he highlights the abuse of corporate power towards the little people, the weak, and the marginalised, in a style that manages to be serious and funny at the same time.
Moore is definitely in a class of his own, with the exception of the vast 'alternative press' that the media oligarchy would never put on air or publish.
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 Fahrenheit 9/11 - SourceWatch
Moore states that Bush spent 42 percent of his time in office on vacation during the months prior to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, based on an August 2001 Washington Post analysis by Charles Krauthammer (reproduced in Jewish World Review) [5] [6].
Moore criticizes the Bush administration for allegedly using 9/11 as a pretext to restrict civil liberties through the USA Patriot Act (Patriot Act I) and to launch what Moore sees as an unwarranted war with Iraq.
Moore is himself now the target of a politically motivated documentary - Michael Moore Hates America (movie 2004).
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 BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Fahrenheit 9/11: Your reaction
Moore is one of the few to challenge Bush in early 2003.
Michael Moore has made a great movie, and done something that hasn't been seen in the US for quite sometime....riled the electorate and started people talking about voting, politics and getting people involved.
Michael Moore is a great self publicist who has made a career out of misrepresentation and falsehood.
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 Book: 'Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man'
Moore never makes this claim outright because he knows that statistical evidence shows fls are not dying in Iraq in any disproportionate number to their percentage of the U.S. population.
Moore is large and bloated is not in question here; that is simply an observation based on the long tradition of the Left of attacking their political opponents' physical features.
Moore's film would be filled with poignant home movies of final Christmases and birthday parties and exploitative footage of anguished parents going to Washington to demand the truth about what happened that day and an end to the lame Bush spin about vague "threats" to public buildings.
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 They're not all Moore-ons, Dave Kopel, Independence Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Michael Moore has the courage to look in the mirror and a lot of people are pissed off that he is doing so.
Moore obviously believes to his core that he is essentially correct in his characterization of the Bush Administration's march to war and would tell you that the end justify the means.
Moore a supporter of Iraq and detractor of American soldiers based on the fact that he is anti-war/anti-killing Iraqi civilians is as thin as many of the claims made by Mr.
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 portland imc - 2003.10.01 - Michael Moore Digs Himself a Deeper Hole   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Michael Moore must have a serious crush on war criminal extraodinaire, General Wesley Clark--either that or he is on General Clark's payroll.
I was wondering how filmmaker Michael Moore would react to the avalanche of criticism, outrage, and shock set off by his paean to retired General Wesley Clark, the ex-Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe, who's thrown his hat into the ring for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Moore defends Clark as a man who recommended the right - that is, civilian casualty limiting - tactics, without uttering a word of disgust for the whole sordid exercise, or Clark's role in it.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2003/10/272681.shtml   (4568 words)

  
 Michael Moore MP - Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Borders MP Michael Moore has expressed concern about the seriousness of the ongoing closure of the A72 at Dirt Pot Corner between Innerleithen and Peebles.
The local politician has spoken to Bill Lillico, Director of Transport and Environmental Standards at Scottish Borders Council, to raise the worries of local communities about the road closure.
In response to a House of Commons Library enquiry as to how much British sourced beef has been exported since the ban was lifted by UK companies DEFRA said that, as there are only two companies ‘in the frame’, they are unable to release these statistics for reasons of ‘commercial confidentiality’.
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 Wendy Campbell vs Michael Moore : Melbourne Indymedia
Michael Moore's cowardice (and avarice) reveals itself in many ways, although he pretends to be your average person, and a good Christian on top of that.
For example, Michael Moore himself, and many others, seem to be impressed with his "courage" to chase down and harass the aging Charlton Heston in his documentary "Bowling for Columbine", because Heston was the figurehead for the National Rifle Association.
Note how Michael Moore didn't include any footage in his film from the now famous Fox News 4-part series on Israeli spying in the US with Brit Hume and Carl Cameron, which was amazingly broadcast shortly after 9-11 happened, although it was deleted from their archives shortly after.
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 Michael Bérubé
Posted by Michael on 03/18 at 03:30 PM So you were being ironic when you used the word imperialism.
Moore’s not saying terrorism is not a threat the way you tell a child that the bogeyman is not a threat.
Posted by Michael on 03/21 at 12:06 PM Opposing the war in Iraq is well and good, but the real question is *liberal imperialism*, which MB has managed to shroud in a postmodernist fog.
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 London Times: Alas, Michael Moore is an unguided missile
MICHAEL MOORE’S blockbuster, Fahrenheit 9/11, is the worst good film I have seen.
It should be compulsory viewing for every politician who orders into the air that most obscene and cowardly weapon, the bomber.
I also left with a deep respect for many American soldiers, having to risk their lives in the backlash from the bombing yet not afraid to admit their shame at what America was asking them to do.
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 village voice > news > Angry White Men by Eric Demby
The success of a handful of books that assail the Bush administration as hypocritical, incompetent, and corrupt has demarcated a groundswell of Americans who desire truth about their leaders amid the dearth of critical and official information that is today's mainstream media.
On Michael Moore's recent lecture tour, he became convinced that he was no longer just preaching to the converted.
Palast responded to this explosion of attention and his jump from an indie press to a mainstream publisher by way of complimenting Michael Moore: "Apparently, this is the moment for the awful truth.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0234/demby.php   (1295 words)

  
 Michael Moore (UK politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For others of the same name, see Michael Moore (disambiguation).
Michael Kevin Moore (born 3 June 1965) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
On leaving university he worked for a year as a researcher for Archy Kirkwood MP before joining the Edinburgh office of accountants Coopers and Lybrand.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Moore_(UK_politician)   (368 words)

  
 NewsFromRussia.Com Michael Moore starts scholarship for students who defy university's administration
The Michael Moore Freedom of Speech Scholarship will award US$2,500 (Ђ1,900) each to two students at California State University, San Marcos, "who have done the most to fight for issues of student rights by standing up to the administration," according to a statement Wednesday.
Moore has the right to do whatever he wishes to do, and we're glad to see another scholarship available to students who go to our school," he said.
Michael Moore has established a scholarship for students who defy the administration of a California university that canceled a talk by the U.S. filmmaker last year.
newsfromrussia.com /usa/2005/04/21/59320.html   (2254 words)

  
 A study in contrasts - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - December 27, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Moore and Miramax have decided to take an unusual and rather questionable approach in their Academy Award quest.
Moore has also failed to submit his film in the documentary category, which leaves only one option for Academy members who would be inclined to fall for his backlash pitch-vote for "Fahrenheit 9/11" in the Best Picture category.
Moore admitted as the audience began to applaud.
www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20041226-095825-9192r.htm   (729 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Michael, you wrote: I'd suggest either retracting that, or explaining yourself — and be warned, it would need to be a very good explanation.
UK and France fought against the turkish army.
Michael Moore is doing it like he did with his books and his movies.
www.michaelhanscom.com /eclecticism/2005/02/state_of_the_un.txt   (8877 words)

  
 Michael Moore Bashes Dems On UK Web Chat ("Wimps","Losers","Lazy","Cowards")   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Democrats are going to have a very hard time winning the next election - the Republicans have a number of star players and the Democrats have a lot of wimps and losers.
Moore is just trying to get his loony left support base to push the Democratic Party further to the left.
Moore keeps on screwing up, time and time again.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1331670/posts   (775 words)

  
 Global Politician: News, Analysis and Interviews Not Available Anywhere Else   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In the film, Duetsch converses with Moore and his companion, Lila Lipscomb, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq.
When the camera came off of her, her demeanor changed as she talked to the man with the camera (who turned out to be Michael Moore—I did not know who he was at the time).
Michael Moore had just spoken at her college also.
www.globalpolitician.com /interview.asp?ID=73   (873 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Hatred of America - the Socialism of Fools by Michael Gove
For a Labour politician to confront anti-Americanism is to set himself up in opposition to the dominant ideology of the contemporary Left.
The top of the UK bestseller list is Michael Moore’s Stupid White Men, a furious polemic against US foreign, domestic and economic policy by one of its own citizens.
Michael Gove writes for the the Times (UK).
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5527   (938 words)

  
 Michael Moore rips Bush yet another one. | MetaFilter
Moore's coming to speak at my stomping grounds.
Moore's paid to be smart, and he isn't.
Moore's not paid to be smart, he's paid to be funny and insightful.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Moore is only different because he is better at spin than most other celebrities.
Moore is appreciated in France and also has an award in Cannes Thanks to AK for his "geometry" of policy.
If i had known what i do now about Moore i would have been up in arms about him receiving an award.
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 • Hollywood Elsewhere •
Posted by: JD at October 28, 2006 10:31 PM I enjoyed Sheen in The Queen, but my one criticism (maybe any readers from the UK can correct me) is that he didn't feel like the Tony Blair I know from the news.
The real Blair seems to me to be a very slick politician, with a manipulative and cunning edge.
at October 29, 2006 04:23 AM Thrud: Michael used to be married to Kate so he probably has some great stories about "working with her".
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 Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog) » Michael Moore, Linda Ronstadt, and George Orwell
Linda Ronstadt, the paid entertainment, recently heaped praise on Michael Moore at one of her shows at Las Vegas’ Aladdin Hotel & Casino.
If so, he was speaking to the people who watch his movies, all of whom he considers to be morons who would fall for his garbage-speak.
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 ProfessorBainbridge.com: What might have been   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In the UK Tony Blair just won his third election in a row, the Conservative party did not have a ghost of a chance in any of them and few people think they can recover for the next election either.
The fact is that Bush reminds me of one a football coach that goes into halftime down but comes out in the second half with the same game plan he started the game with - then calls that leadership.
The one thing I've learned about politics is that a politician will eventually overstep right into a pile of crap.
www.professorbainbridge.com /2005/08/what_might_have.html   (12447 words)

  
 Hexapedia - Michael Moore (politician) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Michael Moore (born 3 June 1965) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
Moore is a former pupil of Strathallan School and Jedburgh Grammar School.
They Work For You - Michael Moore MP
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