--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > > > The path to 9/11 and other myths. > > > > > > All I heard about this is that it is not historically accurate, > > > and historians have asked for it to be pulled, and that it was > > > orchestrated by some right wing shennanigans in Holywood > > I don't think any "historians" asked for it to be pulled.
(Barry has acknowledged that he was mistaken on this point.) > What happened is that some Democrats, terrified that some > misinformation in the film would lose votes for their > candidates in the next election, demanded that it be > pulled. Barry conveniently neglects to mention that a significant number of conservative Republicans--including Bill Bennett and Bill O'Reilly--have *also* urged that it be pulled. > The hilarious part about this is that many of > the same people calling for this film not to be aired > (including our own Judy Stein) are the SAME people who > threw a hissy fit and screamed to high heaven when > Republicans tried to keep Fahrenheit 9/11 from being > aired on public TV before the 2004 election (and for the > exact same reason...they were afraid that film would > lose votes for *their* candidates). Actually, the Republicans tried to persuade *movie theaters* not to show the film. It was never scheduled for public television. At one point Moore had planned to show it on pay-per-view the night before the election, but decided against it, as I recall. The Republicans had every right to urge movie theaters not to show the film. They were exercising their right to free speech, and the movie theaters exercised *their* right to free speech by showing it despite the protests. > Basically, it's a pretty fascinating study in hypocrisy. You can't get your facts straight enough to do any kind of study. > The bottom line for the censor's mindset seems to be > that it's only censorship if the other guys are doing it. > When *we* do it, it's something else, something noble. It's not censorship in *either* case. > > Yeah, right. > > > My understanding is that it aired wthout commercials? > > Who paid for it? > > ABC. > > http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117949477?categoryid=14&cs=1 > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
