Michael Moore to make Fahrenheit 9/11 sequel

"Director Michael Moore is planning a sequel to "Fahrenheit 9/11," his polemic against the Bush administration, to be released about the time of the next presidential campaign, according to a spokeswoman for his distributor."

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=619817&section=news

The way the right completely and totally discredit and dismiss Michael Moore, I'm not sure this is going to help in election 2008. It'll be good preaching to the choir material, but will it appeal to moderates and the other side?

•  Not sure about this:

  "the right completely and totally discredited Michael Moore"

  by BartBoris on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 04:13:10 PM PDT

  •  They just say they discredited him

    over and over.  Proof by assertion is how the right wing and republican-owned media operate.  The only thing they ever really questioned him about was the US flying Saudis out of the country story, which is true.  

    by unterhausen on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 04:23:38 PM PDT

    •  To add

      obviously MM is going to stick around, but everything in his movies is truthful.  If we let ourselves say one of ours is discredited because he is constantly lied about and slandered, how does this help us?  Hannity knowingly brings up lies about democrats that have been thouroughly debunked and he knows it.  He fills books with these lies.  Same with Coulter, Limbaugh and a host of others that aren't called "discredited," when in fact they have lied so often that nobody should believe a word they say without independent verification.

      by unterhausen on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 04:31:13 PM PDT

  •  What aren't you sure about?

    It's utter rubbish. As a member of the reality based community, I can assure you Michael Moore's credibility is fully intact.

    by TocqueDeville on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 07:40:53 PM PDT

  •  My response

    I work at a very right-wing company.  I am a lone liberal in a sea of conservatives.  There's a group of us that exchange political emails - two independents that voted Kerry, two wingnuts that voted bush, and me, the lib that voted Kerry.

    The two independents loved F9/11, but feel it is biased, and not quite factually accurate.

    The two wingnuts say that everything in the movie is false.  Michael Moore does nothing but lie.  

    I can say that every fact in the movie was vetted, and he has backing sources for everything in the movie.  Falls on deaf ears.

    So that's my perspective.  I love Moore, and want the second movie to come out.  But the right-wing, seeing stuff coming from Moore, will say its all lies.  The echo chamber will amplifiy it to the nation.

    There you have it.

    by Greenkermie in AZ on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 08:58:18 PM PDT

    •  that's not a response

      You wrote "the right completely and totally discredited Michael Moore", which is completely and totally false, and you've offered nothing to support it.
      

      by jqb on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 11:13:49 PM PDT

      •  Diary edited.

        I'm learning that I need to be verrrry careful of how I put things.  Not the first time I've been shredded for careless semantics around here.

        Sheesh.

        by Greenkermie in AZ on Sat Nov 13, 2004 at 09:25:15 AM PDT

•  The right never discreidted Moore.

   They never once challenged one of his facts. They attacked the messanger, not the message. And basicly I find the idea that you advance this theory to mean one of 2 things.

   1. You are spinless.
  or
   2. You voted for Bush.

  by JoshInWa on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 04:26:04 PM PDT

•  Ahh, but.

  The right may have worked to discredit him, but it is likely that the continued developments in Iraq over the next 4 years will make him appear prescient.

  The reality is that his movie was not all that misleading.  There was a twinge of conspiracy in the first half but the 2nd half will likely become even more powerful should this war continue to go down the toilet.

  As much as I dislike Bush and love it when he looks bad, I'd prefer the war end up working, but I highly doubt that will occur.

  by kj on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 04:29:40 PM PDT

•  So, has he dropped his plans to make a doc...

  about the health care industry.  I thought that was going to be his next project.

  by greensurfer on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 04:33:19 PM PDT

  •  still working on Sicko

    Moore said he is still working on this movie too (apparently called Sicko).

    by bgod on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 04:40:36 PM PDT

•  I want to see it!!!

  Regardless of how the election went, sitting in a packed house with a bunch of my fellow democrats and watching the eagerly awaited F 9/11 was a great experience.

  by redfish on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 04:43:52 PM PDT

•  They're just pulling

  a Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton on Moore.
  They're smart about vilifying our stars.
  Over and over and over till we're scared to
  even touch the matter.
  Let's go after Rove.  
  Aren't there any old
  girl (or boy) friends who will talk?
  Why did we drop that sex predator CEO over
  at Sinclair?

  by checkers on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 05:00:34 PM PDT

  •  Finally !

     Someone who GETS IT ! Exactly !!! Why the hell are we afraid of Moore? Because the republican's tell us to be! How the hell does that make sense ? ? ?

    Why isn't Rush, Savage, Hannity, Novak, Snow, American Spectator, Heratage Foundation, ZEL FUCKING MILLER not blasted and then tied around the neck of the ENTIRE RETHUGLICAN PARTY !!!!

    You think more is taboo? Listen to Savage for about 3 minutes. Count Rush's distortions and lies ect. Its not rocket science people. Attack the messanger as a nutjob, make stuff up if you have to, THEY DO. Thats how you gain control of the Senate, House, Presidency, Majority of the Govonorships, Majority of the state house's. Hell even the school boards! How do I know it works? Because I have watched it for the last decade happen before my own damn eyes.

    by JoshInWa on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 07:14:03 PM PDT

•  Let's petition the FCC

  to dump O'Reilly.
  Imagine, our innocent children
  listening to that pervert.
  They're still investigating Rather.
  Let's go after O'Reilly.
  Anybody know where Hannity comes
  from?
  Let's get some dirt on him.  I bet
  plenty of his highschool friends hated
  his guts and would love to talk.

  by checkers on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 05:03:04 PM PDT