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: : : June 30th, 2004 4:34 pm : : : NY Daily News: "A soaring display of American patriotism" : : : Moore's message delivered, big-time : : : By Denis Hamill / New York Daily News : : : Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 : : : Micheal Moore as an A-hole. This POS was a political action movie , , facts are few and far between. What really comes out is this idiots hatred of George bush and anything American. Remember , this is the same crack pot that told a UK crowd that Americans are the dumbest people on earth. But you know what , after reading the prior posted comentary , he might be right. : : : : : : As an American mother named Lila Lipscomb drowned in anguish over the death of her son in Iraq, the packed Loews Bay Terrace theater in Queens was so silent at the 11 a.m. show of "Fahrenheit 9/11" on Friday that all you could hear was the rustle of tissues. I sat in the back of the theater, with an unemployed construction worker from Brooklyn, and as the movie played, I watched men and women, young and old, wiping their eyes in silhouette. : : : They were the tears of the nation this weekend as "Fahrenheit 9/11" blazed from sea to shining sea as the No.1 movie in America. : : : This was a brand-new moviegoing experience. : : : Since I started going to the movies at age 4 at the RKO Prospect in Brooklyn, I don't think I've ever sat with an audience so personally involved with the story being told on screen. This was not, after all, some exploding-fireball blockbuster. : : : No, the exploding fireballs in this film are real. The dead people in this film are real. The dialogue is real. Real soldiers, real victims, real mothers, real dead kids. The bad guys, as portrayed by filmmaker Michael Moore, are all too real. : : : The only thing fake is this administration's reasons for going to war, exploiting the nearly 3,000 deaths of Sept. 11 so that a rich kid who went AWOL from the National Guard during the Vietnam War could send American troops to die in Iraq and call himself a "war prez'dint." : : : And the reason the people in the audience, the American people, get so involved in this movie is because we are all extras in the story. : : : The film - as sidesplitting as it is heartbreaking - is a soaring display of American patriotism, one that defies classification because it is a personal statement, the way Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" was something brand new in its bloody day. As Paine wrote, "Government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." : : : Moore doesn't tolerate Bush's government. Sometimes we need a smart, funny, common Joe to make some common sense out of what's happening in his country. If there had been cameras around back in the day, Tom Paine might have made a documentary instead of writing a pamphlet urging independence from England. : : : "Fahrenheit 9/11" oozes with patriotism because it is a loud celebration of our great Bill of Rights, telling our commander in chief that we think his war stinks in an election year. : : : Look, the Bush campaign spent $85 million in three months trying to convince the electorate that John Kerry is a flip-flopping left-wing threat to national security. Moore spent $6million to make his documentary showing that Bush is an arrogant, self-serving, dangerous buffoon who is a threat to national security. : : : "Fahrenheit 9/11" is also a corrective to the daily drumbeat of right-wing talk radio, which slants the news to fit a radical agenda. Yet the Rush Limbaughs and Sean Hannitys scorn Michael Moore for daring to express his point of view with pictures. But Americans don't like hypocrites. And so they are forking over $10 a head to say so, in places like Queens and Brooklyn and small working-class towns and neighborhoods across the fruited plain from which come the kids who do the dying in America's good and bad wars. : : : "Fahrenheit 9/11" also has been picked apart by the legitimate press. But this is because Moore spanks the American news media for being swept up in the myopic post-9/11 patriotic hysteria, allowing themselves to be "embedded" by the administration and spoon-fed jingoistic Iraqi war news. : : : "Fahrenheit 9/11" is also a testament to American capitalism, because nowhere else on the planet could a working-class guy from a place like Flint, Mich., grow up to skewer the President of the United States with his own words and actions and turn it into the biggest-grossing documentary in history, taking in $21.8 million in its opening weekend. : : : This is a great American Horatio Alger story, one that every American should applaud. : : : Which is exactly what the audience in Queens did last week after George W. Bush mangled his final sentence and the end credits rolled. I was as emotionally moved by the applause as I was by the film, because that was the powerful sound of "Joe Public," as Bush refers to We the People. : : : Out here in the opinionated boroughs, I expected some boos. I didn't hear one. Instead, I left with a deeply moved crowd, passing a long line for the next show. : : : Back in Brooklyn, the unemployed construction worker bought a bootleg copy of "Fahrenheit 9/11," shot with a camcorder in a movie house. : : : He called to say, "Even the audience in the bootleg film applauds at the end. : : I can't help but feel that Micheal Moore has made a mockery out of the freedom of speech that so many fought and died for,Not only disgracing him self but the hero's who died to give him that right. For what? Millions,And the men and woman that are saving his fat ass cant even pay their bill's.Mr. Moore you don't deserve to live in my country.

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