Moore making ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ sequel.
By on May 13th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Moore making ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ sequel.
Variety reports that Michael Moore is making a sequel to “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which was a “scathing indictment of George W. Bush’s war on terrorism and a hit at the worldwide box office.” The new film will reportedly pick up where “Fahrenheit” left off: “In the time since, President Bush’s popularity has plummeted, while the Iraq war continues and the economy falters.”
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Go Mike!
May 13th, 2008 at 4:41 pmCan it be released in October, to keep all of the repug atrocities and lies fresh in the electorate's mind before november?
Michael Moore is a patriot. Thank you, Mike!
May 13th, 2008 at 4:42 pmIn the time since, President Bush’s popularity has plummeted, while the Iraq war continues and the economy falters.”
- - The story centers around Bush. Too bad Moore can't title this movie, "Sicko."
May 13th, 2008 at 4:44 pmWoooHoo! The sheer mass of bush's staggering incompetence gives Michael so much more material this time around.
They'll have to be two more sequels or one 15-hour movie...
May 13th, 2008 at 4:49 pm3. Badmoodman Says:- - The story centers around Bush. Too bad Moore can’t title this movie, “Sicko.”
Why not, "Prick-o?"
May 13th, 2008 at 4:50 pmRAD!
May 13th, 2008 at 4:53 pmThe hope is that Moore will point out in his sequel that neither Obama nor Clinton is in favor of a total and immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, thus ensuring that more young terrorists will enlist to fight for their cause.
Not exactly the best way to support the troops, by having them remain in Iraq and Afghanistan, where they can continue to brutalize and terrorize the Iraqi and Afghan people.
Support the troops-bring them home-alive and in one piece-NOW.
May 13th, 2008 at 4:58 pmIt is truly a shame that the movie will not come out til next year. Michael did such a fantastic job of showing Bush just sitting there for 7 minutes after he got the news with his typical dumb "I don't know what to do" look on his face.
It sums up not only how much he doesn't care about this country, but that he doesn't have a clue what to do during a crisis.
Thanks Michael, I will add this new one to my collection of your movies. I can't wait!!!
May 13th, 2008 at 4:59 pmErroll Says:
Not exactly the best way to support the troops, by having them remain in Iraq and Afghanistan, where they can continue to brutalize and terrorize the Iraqi and Afghan people.
Wow! I didn't know Senator Durbin blogged here. Cool.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:05 pm#9-Keltoi
Not quite sure how to intelligently respond to your comment since I have no idea what your alleged point is supposed to be.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:12 pmYeah but, if Bush weren't technically the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, it would be like making fun of a retarded kid.
Y'know, now that I think about it...
May 13th, 2008 at 5:13 pmErroll Says:
#9-Keltoi
Not quite sure how to intelligently respond to your comment since I have no idea what your alleged point is supposed to be.
A lost reference, then. Your quote reminded me of something Durbin said on the floor of the Senate a few years ago, basically to the effect that US troops were behaving similar to Nazi stormtroopers. I guess it was Kerry who said US troops were terrorizing Iraqis, I got my hyberbolic Senatorial America bashing mixed up, my bad.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:17 pmSlightly OT, but maybe Michael Moore will include it in his Movie....
Remember all those stories about Iranian meddling, and proof of Iranian supplied weapons in Iraq? The Pentagon Was going to release this evidence in a news conference soon. WELL...
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq said on Sunday it has no evidence that Iran was supplying militias engaged in fierce street fighting with security forces in Baghdad.
Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said there was no "hard evidence" of involvement by the neighbouring Shiite government of Iran in backing Shiite militiamen in the embattled country.
Asked about reports that weapons captured from Shiite fighters bore 2008 markings suggesting Iranian involvement, Dabbagh said: "We don't have that kind of evidence..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080504/wl_mideast_afp/iraniraqpoliticsunrest_080504134305
May 13th, 2008 at 5:20 pmPlease Michael focus on the missing Pentagon Videos of the attack. Maybe you can do an expose on the video archist at the pentagon. The missing vids are the achilles heal. Mom and Dad six pack can get their heads around the video issue. Force the issue. Please.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3B_Tyal3D_c
May 13th, 2008 at 5:23 pmAnyone recall how folks who even hinted that 9-11 was an inside job were treated?
Now, it's in the news that Rummy made a statement along the lines that America needed an attack in response to the GOP losing Congress in 2006. Check it out:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/13/rumsfeld-on-2006-election_n_101537.html
very scary...makes you wonder what is going to happen this fall, just before the elections...hmmm (shudder)
May 13th, 2008 at 5:24 pmI see a box-office hit, surpassing his earlier effort.
Who says sequels aren't as good as the originals?
May 13th, 2008 at 5:25 pm#12-Keltoi
If Kerry did say that U.S. troops are terrorizing Iraqis, then he was simply stating an obvious truth. But that statement makes no sense since Kerry, along with just about everyone else in congress, has not logically called for the immediate and speedy withdrawal of U.S. troops from that abattoir in Iraq. Perhaps the axiom in congress is that it is better to be politically expedient than it is to tell the truth. The irony is that Kerry does not seem to have learned the lesson of Vietnam, where he served [as did I] and that is that the United States was wrong then and is wrong now to invade and occupy a country[ies] for absolutely no justifiable reason whatsoever.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:30 pmMichael Moore misses the mark a lot of the time, but his heart is in the right place.
I guess being in the Health Insurance Industry I was really disappointed that didnt hit the big point about why we're systematically getting screwed and instead focused on the emotional horror stories.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:32 pm#12 Keltoi...
You must wish somedays that the conservatives had a Media Matters. One stop shopping for transcript excerpts, video, and audio. Of course, reality seems to have a distinct liberal bias these days. Anything outside of a 3 soundbite tends to shoot down most conservative 'gotchas'
May 13th, 2008 at 5:35 pmBush is such a disaster and a huge criminal that you could have material for hundreds of hours for a movie, hell, just the material for comedy from just one day of these cretins keeps the night time hosts going for a week.
Hopefully he will really dig in his heels and expose these WAR CRIMINALS to the world.
Don't hope for the 28%ers to take notice though, their gods Rush and O'Lielly will tell them what to think.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:41 pmEXCELLENT!!
May 13th, 2008 at 5:43 pmZed Lefflin Says:
A bit off topic but I always see foreign fighters with AK 47’s…. Hey, I want me one, got GW’s kicker check in the mail now I am in the market for an AK…which one should I buy?
Do the human race a favor and just buy a dog.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:44 pm#18-deebaser
Just as amazing to me is to see Moore endorse a candidate, Obama, whose health plan rejects single-payer and elects to keep the insurance companies in the equation, thus ensuring that profits will be kept above the needs of the people. It is almost as if Moore did not see his own movie or realize that the only candidates who are advocating a single-payer system in this country are Ralph Nader. Cynthia McKinney, and Gloria LaRiva.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:46 pmBuy a dog? Pity the humane society, I've got some pet rocks he can buy, if he promises not to throw them through the neighbor's window.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:46 pmI admire Moore's dedication but isn't he basically preaching to the choir? I liken his movies to vanity publications - they really haven't made a significant difference - have they?
May 13th, 2008 at 5:47 pmRUCerious Says:
Buy a dog? Pity the humane society, I’ve got some pet rocks he can buy, if he promises not to throw them through the neighbor’s window.
Yeah, maybe he can start with some Scooby Do cartoons and then move up to a stuffed animal when he is ready.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:49 pmZed Lefflin Says:
A bit off topic but I always see foreign fighters with AK 47’s…. Hey, I want me one, got GW’s kicker check in the mail now I am in the market for an AK…which one should I buy? I see most foreign country’s supply US gun stores with their product one way or the other. Thanks for the help.
Romanian G
May 13th, 2008 at 5:49 pmSo TP thinks 9/11 was inside job?
May 13th, 2008 at 5:50 pmdownwamorica Says:
So TP thinks 9/11 was inside job?
Inside of what?
May 13th, 2008 at 6:03 pmAnymouse- whenever you make fun of someones physical appearance it is a mere confession of your own shortcomings. The mud only lands on the confessor. Heads up. Your life won't suck so bad if you take heed.
respect and kindness to you my perfectly sized virual friend.
Full Disclosure - I am in awe over the size of Mr Moore's brain and balls.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:04 pmanymouse20 Says:
Moore should have stared in “Super Size Me,” although it may not have worked since he is already Super Duper Sized.
I just checked with Michael Moore, and he says to to tell you "I know you are, but what am I?". I am not sure what he means, but it appears you surely cut him to the quick. Good job.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:06 pmEven if 9/11 was pulled of by elements that included gov’t employees, It should never be referred to as the “gov’t did it”. That label cast a too wide a net including all the postal workers, your local mayor, the coroner, DWP, and zillions of other functions of the gov’t. Absurd, innacurrate and alienating.
Even if every perpetrator of 9/11 were a gov’t employee, this would not warrant us to say the gov’t did it. We are a gov’t of the people. That would imply we the people perpetrated the attacks of 9/11.
respect and kindness to all.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:07 pmMoore should have stared in “Super Size Me,”
Why would he 'stare' in the movie. Why not just watch it?
May 13th, 2008 at 6:08 pmI will buy a full price ticket to see it in the theater and then I will buy the DVD when it comes out later.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:09 pmToo bad, he can't get it finished by the end of October, when it could really have an impact.
Although, the most of us who would see the movie would be voting Obama anyway - but the talking heads of the media would be talking about the movie and that would reach the thickheaded viewers.
Trolls here choose to denigrate Moore's appearance because they can't criticize his work. It says more about them than it does about him.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:11 pmYeah, sadly, that's a well-known side-effect of simplifying and distorting Senatorial statements for partisan demonizing.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:11 pmMay I suggest a title - "I Told You So"
May 13th, 2008 at 6:18 pmSo, Keltoi, were you intimating that what Kerry said wasn't true...?
It was, you know. The simple fact that our troops are Americans does NOT preclude them from acting like barbarians - or storm troopers.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:26 pmLet's just be clear here: it appears that you're proposing a standard whereby public figures are judged solely by the headlines that appear on their websites, and that their value to public discourse can be comfortably praised or condemned based on an interpretation of that evidence.
Is that the case? Because it seems to be the basis for the argument you present above. I just want to be clear on your intent.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:29 pmdownwamorica Says:
So TP thinks 9/11 was inside job?
If only you were that slick. I'm losing count of aliases, blackdude. Are you keeping track?
May 13th, 2008 at 6:29 pmGladly, anymouse. Gladly.
The bloody murder wreaked on the innocent in Iraq by the United States makes any good they've done completely meaningless.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:31 pmAnymouse – Thanks for the apology, that took some reflection. Now that we are past he fat jokes, Let us have a nuance discussion. A bad apple makes not the barrel.
Just because you criticize something, does not mean you are not being supportive. Being critical is the only thing that will save the skins of our troops, America’s reputation not to mention the Iraqi population, and any other innocent lover of life this happens to spill out of control towards.
Serious and non-mocking question for you Anymouse:
What would a troop(s) of any nationality have to do for you to consider it storm trooper behavior? Physically describe so I can grasp a clear picture of your moral line. Remember, any nationality. I am open to your answer. No judgment. Just for clarity of our conversation.
Thank you.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:47 pmTitles:
May 13th, 2008 at 6:47 pmBushwhacked
Brush Clearing for Idiots
What. me worry?
A Ranch with no Horses or Steers
Package Store Cowboy
Air Farce Aviator
Mission Act Compromised
The Decision Waffler
Thermite...Yellow liquid metal....WTC7
Bomb Sniffing Dogs Removed from WTC 9/6/01
NORAD Air Defense COMPLETE failure.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:58 pmP.S. Any time I see a person in uniform (airport etc) I shake their hands. If it seems like a respectful time to do it.
These folks need us just like we need them. (Can you hear U2's "One" playing in the background?)
May 13th, 2008 at 7:10 pmLooking forward to the sequel! :D
May 13th, 2008 at 7:21 pmCan't wait to see the sequel, even if it will be bittersweet in a way.
It will only remind us how the country should have listened to Moore in the first place. We can't take back all the lives that have been lost since that time, or give back the billions and billions of dollars wasted that could be helping Americans deal with the current economy.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:46 pmMike pretty much blew it with exposing some of the neocon middle-east agenda which can easily be understood through reading just a bit about PNAC, the conservative "think thank" which publishes its plans online for all to read but which few report on.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:55 pmI wonder if this new docu will be ready before the Iran bombing begins.
I can't wait. :)
May 13th, 2008 at 10:58 pmWhere are the clowns? Send in the clowns...
What gives, a topic like this outta be freak central!
May 14th, 2008 at 12:57 amoctamethyl Says:
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Go Mike!
Can it be released in October, to keep all of the repug atrocities and lies fresh in the electorate’s mind before november?
May 13th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Yes, because Fahrenheit 9/11 which played for 4 solid months prior to the 2004 Presidential election really did a whole lot of good in getting a Democratic President AND a Democratic Congress elected.
May 14th, 2008 at 5:22 amMore seriously, I don't think he could get a halfway decent documentary produced and IN the theaters with just 5 months' work. And, significantly, even if he could get the doc produced and ready for theaters that quickly, I don't think many theater owners would be willing to book this film given the way the FICTIONALIZED Iraq War movies have largely died at the box office in the last year. And documentaries have done very little box office--the travesty known as Expelled is the year's biggest documentary, and it's only taken in $7.25 million after 4 weeks, losing more than 50% of the box office take with each weekend (Scorsese's Shine a Light doc about the Rolling Stones is the year's #2 so far with just over $5 million after 6 weeks which means the top 2 docs of 2008 have a monthlong combined take of less than Speed Racer's lousy box office single 3-day opening weekend; rather depressing when it's put that way).
Doesn't this lame ass charade get old?
May 14th, 2008 at 9:12 amNo
May 14th, 2008 at 12:36 pmWhat Mike should include. To put to bed the lies that “all the Intelligence said that Saddam had WMD’s”.
Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 January Through 30 June 1999, Unclassified Report to Congress from the Director of Central Intelligence, [b]February 2000[/b]
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/bian_feb_2000.htm
. . . We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its WMD programs . . .
Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 July Through 31 December 1999, Unclassified Report to Congress from the Director of Central Intelligence, [b]August 2000[/b]
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/bian_aug2000.htm
. . . We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its WMD programs . . .
Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 January Through 30 June 2000, Unclassified Report to Congress from the Director of Central Intelligence, [b]February 2001[/b]
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/bian_feb_2001.htm
. . . We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its WMD programs . . .
And then after Bush restricted the Intelligence that Congress got to see after 9-11, the Intelligence started hinting their may be WMD’s.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:37 am