This guy really has rocks in the head.

Looking at it from a business standpoint I can see where Disney is coming from. As a company that likes to try to be family friendly and straddle as many fences as possible to maximize profits, Moore just isn't really the kind of guy you want hanging around.

You know what happens to people who straddle fences ..they end up with a pole up their arse

You guys are missing the deeper point. Eisner honestly doesn't care whether or not the movie actually does get released.

Let's say he gets his way. Then he's garnered excellent political capital and he's created massive buzz about F911, which means Miramax can ask a hell of a lot more for it from whatever company ends up releasing it.

IF he doesn't, then Disney-owned Miramax will get major cred for standing up to their corporate parent, and he's created massize buzz about F911, which he will get a percentage of. Also, his tax breaks are now secure; no one will want to be associated with his ham-handed censorship attempt.

Michael Eisner doesn't care if he's seen as the bad guy. He's spent decades in business screwing people. He's the one who takes home the millions. He's laughing all the way to the bank.

I'm very glad to see a blog about this.
"crackpots" are gaining a larger and larger audience every day.
Every time a "crackpot" is censored, it gives credibility to them. They will find another outlet and gain an even larger audience.

I have http://www.michaelmoore.com/ bookmarked.
Any time that someone is censored, it makes such a strong point that no "crackpot" could make more eloquently.
Have you noticed that the "crackpots" being censored are all highly intelligent people, and the ones doing the censoring are in it for the money?

Takes real "courage" to make up facts and make a movie based on those facts....right.

What I like about Moore though is that you he is really good at attracting know-nothing anti-American foolbots and getting them to clap their hands seal-like. It enables the rest of us (known as normal people) to discount their opinions on issues Moore covers from then on.

Hmm, it would appear even Moore is confirming the fact that he is both a liar and a media whore.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=518901

Looking at it from a business standpoint I can see where Disney is coming from. As a company that likes to try to be family friendly and straddle as many fences as possible to maximize profits, Moore just isn't really the kind of guy you want hanging around. You know what happens to people who straddle fences ..they end up with a pole up their arse

Gothic, that is one of the best quotes that I have seen all week!

+Insightful for you.

-- B

Does Disney or any other company release everything they're given or do they pick and choose what is released and what isn't and if it's the latter, do people have a problem with that?

What I like about Moore though is that you he is really good at attracting know-nothing anti-American foolbots and getting them to clap their hands seal-like. It enables the rest of us (known as normal people) to discount their opinions on issues Moore covers from then on.

Eh, Brad...I'd be inclined to say that many Americans are know-nothing foolbots and have absolutely no fucking clue as to what goes on in the political arena save for what they are fed by the news. And we all know how unbiased they are. I think that the intelligent self-thinkers are far in the minority.

Have you ever seen 'Spinal Tap', 'A Mighty Wind', or 'Best in Show'? These are all movies whose genre is mockumentary. However, to come across as being portrayed as a realistic documentary-like feature, the producers of these films must have had some background or research into the themes of these movies. To discredit Michael Moore by saying he knows nothing of current-day politics based on his 'mockumentaries' is preposterous.

-- B

We all like to think that we're unique and everybody else is dumb.

We all like to think that we're unique and everybody else is dumb.

Very true, but if you talk to the 'man on the street' about politics, most of the time he'll be pretty clueless about something unless it's in the media spotlight. It's a lot of effor to stay on top of these things, and it's no discredit to Americans...but for the most part they're all sheep. I'd wager that if you had a person standing outside a polling place handing out $100 bills to voters, and that voters would get one if they voted for a particular candidate, there would be quite a few takers. Maybe not a majority, but I bet there would be a significant number of them.

I think some people voted for Bush because of the likelyhood of his tax rebates. In essence, waving that $100 bill in the voter's face.

-- B

I guess that my problem is that people, whether American or otherwise, who "know" politics often have only the facts they want to have, even if they aren't true at all. For example, the same people who say the American media has no integrity or credibility will immediately believe an article published by it that shows the US in a bad light. I can't help but think that picking and choosing what one believes based solely on what they want to be true is any better than believing everything one's told. In fact, I'd say that the sheep aren't nearly as bad as the self-proclaimed pundits.
Also, I have a feeling that Michael Moore would accept a bribe to vote for a certain candidate. It's not as if honesty and integrity are his forte.

Also, notice how the same people who don't like the American media are accepting their version of the news on Michael Moore and not the news from the "more credible" British source.

Hah, gothic! Great quote. I agree with you. I was just stating how Disney possibly sees things, trying to sit on as many fences as possible to please as many people as possible and generate as much revenue as possible.

Just as an aside, I am not a big fan of Disney (Eisner especially) so I am not trying to defend or vilify.