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marcosolo, 13. November 2003 um 21:11:45 MEZ
Michael Moore - Larson gave out number Michael Moore did not give out Lars Larson’s phone number per se. An event associate gave Michael Moore the number to Lars Larson’s cell phone. After Michael Moore dialed that number — without having given the number to the crowd! — an answering service picked up, and Moore intended on leaving a message. By this point, Michael Moore had put the call on the speaker so we could hear. The outgoing message of the answering service was Lars Larson, who proceeded to give his home telephone number. So, as an attendant at this event that drew a crowd of over 9,000 at the Portland Coliseum, I know that it was in fact Lars Larson who gave out his own phone number. Moore had no way of knowing that Lars would give his home phone number on that outgoing message. But it’s not surprising that Lars Larson would distort the story and add his dramatic touch to it (saying he fears for his safety now), because this is most likely the most press he has ever received and will ever receive. This is his brush with the big time. —Andrew Parodi Gervais ... Link marcosolo, 13. November 2003 um 21:07:26 MEZ Michael Moore: opiate of the (left-wing) masses When most authors do a reading they get a few dozen devotees in a chilly bookshop. Michael Moore, the American filmmaker turned best-selling polemicist (of Bowling for Columbine and Stupid White Men fame), is so huge that, when he promotes a book in Britain, he needs consecutive sittings at the London Palladium - and even they don't leave a spare seat in the house. Moore does very little performance: just him, a shlubby guy in baseball hat standing by the microphone. He riffs on a few themes, reads a chapter of his book and then takes a lot of questions. He does pack a few great lines. He urges Britons to be brave enough to sack Tony Blair: the left has nothing to fear from the Tories, who are deader than dinosaurs. "Come on, buck up here. You used to be brave and bold and send Australians into battle." He notes that United States Vice-President Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, has won several contracts to rebuild Iraq. If American and British soldiers are dying for Halliburton, "then it's only fair that for every kid that dies, Halliburton has to slay a mid-level executive". He hits all the buttons his audience want pressed: Tony Blair must go, George Bush is evil, Rupert Murdoch should be struck down by a thunderbolt. But the evening leaves a couple of reasons for a progressive not to feel so cheerful. First, it may come naturally to the right wing to have guru figures such as American shock-jock Rush Limbaugh, with his legions of "dittohead" followers. But the bow-down homage to Moore that precedes each audience question, coupled with Moore's own bragging about his phenomenal book sales and website traffic, feels incongruous for a gathering of the left. Second, what Moore serves up is political comfort food. There's no shame in that: he's trying to reach the masses turned off by politics. But the audience, lapping up a black-and-white view of the world in which lefties like them are goodies and everyone else is stupid, cannot let themselves off so easily. "What Moore serves up is political comfort food. He's trying to reach the masses turned off by politics." They ought to do better than this. ... Link marcosolo, 27. Oktober 2003 um 22:35:44 MEZ Volle Deckung, Mr. Bush!"- Michael Moore kommt nach Deutschland Rauschender Beifall, was sonst? Michael Moore kommt nach Deutschland und Österreich, um seine neue Kampfsatire gegen "George von Arabien" alias Präsident Bush in großen Sälen einem Massenpublikum vorzustellen. Das Ausmaß der Begeisterung ist so vorhersagbar wie die Mittagstemperatur am Äquator. 27.10.2003
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