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'Fahrenheit 9/11' Ignites Cannes Audiences with Anti-Bush Assault
By David Germain
Associated Press
As promised, Michael Moore lit a powder keg at the Cannes Film Festival: His incendiary "Fahrenheit 9/11" riled and disturbed audiences with a relentless critique of the Bush administration in the post-Sept. 11 world.
If Moore can get the movie into U.S. theaters this summer as planned, the title "Fahrenheit 9/11" could become a rallying cry in the fall election for voters hoping to see Democratic challenger John Kerry defeat President Bush.
"Will it influence the election? I hope it just influences people to leave the theater and become good citizens," Moore said at a news conference Monday. "I'll leave it to others to decide what kind of impact it's going to have on the election."
The movie reiterates other critics' accusations about the Bush family's financial connections to Saudi oil interests and the family of Osama bin Laden. Moore charges that the White House was asleep at the wheel before the Sept. 11 attacks, then used fear-mongering of future terrorism to muster support for the Iraq war.
Yet Moore - the provocateur behind the Academy Award-winning "Bowling for Columbine," which dissected American gun culture - packages his anti-Bush message in a way that provokes both laughs and gasps.
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Coming soon to a theatre near you . . .
God willin' and the jack-booted thugs don't rise!
'Fahrenheit 9/11' Ignites Cannes Audiences with Anti-Bush Assault
By David Germain
Associated Press
As promised, Michael Moore lit a powder keg at the Cannes Film Festival: His incendiary "Fahrenheit 9/11" riled and disturbed audiences with a relentless critique of the Bush administration in the post-Sept. 11 world.
If Moore can get the movie into U.S. theaters this summer as planned, the title "Fahrenheit 9/11" could become a rallying cry in the fall election for voters hoping to see Democratic challenger John Kerry defeat President Bush.
"Will it influence the election? I hope it just influences people to leave the theater and become good citizens," Moore said at a news conference Monday. "I'll leave it to others to decide what kind of impact it's going to have on the election."
The movie reiterates other critics' accusations about the Bush family's financial connections to Saudi oil interests and the family of Osama bin Laden. Moore charges that the White House was asleep at the wheel before the Sept. 11 attacks, then used fear-mongering of future terrorism to muster support for the Iraq war.
Yet Moore - the provocateur behind the Academy Award-winning "Bowling for Columbine," which dissected American gun culture - packages his anti-Bush message in a way that provokes both laughs and gasps.
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