Michael Moore challenges a United States president in 'Fahrenheit 9/11'

I would not go as far to say Bush used 9/11 fully for political and financial gain, but more of power over the people, they GOP cry freedom and states rights, and all that yet Bush was doing a lot to cut our freedoms one by one with little from the Dem's about it during but of course you were labeled a traitor because somehow you were then supporting terrorism. Ever notice how those anti drug commercials for supporting terrorists countries were on for a while and then they disappeared. It made no sense to put minimal forces into Afghanistan, and still claim a victory then pull up stakes, to move as much resources to the Gulf so we can invade a ruthless dictator his GOP pals supported in the early 80's. Saddam deserved to die, he needed to be overthrown, and if Bush would have said terrorist are not only the ones who strike us but those who use their military and their SS type soldiers to inflict their will against their own people, I'd sign up for that, but we should have been doing that in Africa where this is so common its truly sickening, but those people are less white so we wont worry about them till we really really have to. And now we have a president who doesn't look like the last 43 and all the sudden this organic uprising of discontent occurred almost over night with the help of Dick Army and Karl Rove, funny how he spells his name with a K kind of like Karl Marx. It was truly amazing during McCain's yielding speech to Obama there were people yelling "Kill Him" when he talked about Obama. Then these idiots go on about Obama is going to take their guns away, really how would he do that and what police dept. or military service is going to police their own population like that? When they can clone humans and grow them fast like they do in the 7th Day or Star Wars Clone Wars then I'll worry there might be a dictator powerful to do that. People blame Obama for doing to much, then its too little all the while crying too much government, and taxes even though its the lowest its been in years, and if it wasn't for the mega wealthy with all their tax beaks this country would be in a far better shape, but its the almight dollar the GOP and their chief supporters worship.

The greatest crime ever committed on American soil, greater than the financial collapse on Wall Street, 9-11 has never been investigated. The 911 Commission, forced into existence by the Jersey widows, ignored anything that did not fit the government explanation. It ignored the collapse of Building Seven and the money trail to Pakistan’s ISI. So when I watch the mainstream media coverage of the tenth anniversary of 9-11, I see them dancing around this elephant in the room. They never show the marchers who are calling for an investigation, and ignore the questions raised about what happened that day by architects, scientists, engineers, pilots, firemen, demolition experts, professors and others of 9-11 Truth!
The mainstream media somehow believes that to honor those who died that day as well as the survivors, they must ignore the question of why the buildings collapsed. The best way to honor those who lost loved ones that day is to call for a thorough and independent investigation of the crime scene. Unfortunately, much of the evidence has since been removed or destroyed, however there still are many questions that can be answered.
Since our present wartime foreign policy is based upon what happened that day, it is imperative that this investigation be conducted if we are ever to restore trust, respect, and confidence in the U.S. government. Preemptive strikes; Extraordinary Rendition; torture; assassination teams; denial of Habeas Corpus; killing of civilians by UAV’s, attack helicopters, and cruise missiles; loss of liberties due to Patriot Acts 1 & 2; unlimited Executive power; domestic surveillance, wiretaps, and invasion of privacy have all usurped the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and turned America into a police state!
Unfortunately the mainstream broadcast media, which is supposed to be a Fourth Estate of checks-and-balances to help ensure the preservation of our democratic republic, has become nothing more than a mind-numbing propaganda ministry for the Neocons who have taken over our government. It is no longer a government “Of the people, by the people, and for the people,” but a government of the corporation, by the corporation, and for the corporation. The government no longer represents the American people, but the huge “to big to fail” Wall Street criminals that caused the economic meltdown.
For the mainstream media to bury it’s head in the sand, and ignore what most Americans have come to realize is a cover-up of events that happened on September 11, 2001, will not make this go away. Their refusal to seriously look at what appears to be a False Flag operation, and all that it implies, is indicative of their being under the control of the very institutions that helped create it and are in control of the government. The consolidation of the media into a monopoly controlled by their owners and advertisers has made a farce out of free speech with their domination of the airways. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, FOX, and even FSTV seem unwilling to discuss what brought down those buildings that day, or anything else related to 9-11 that strays from the government’s conspiracy theory.

Bowling for Columbine capured and harnessed the emotion of the victims relatives, then turned and stabbed viewers in the face, almost in the eye. The misrepresentation of normal firearms owners in connection with these two warhead - out of control unsupervised juveniles... The hype after the 2006 OKC bombing sent the FBI on a big Blaire Witch hunt into the woods tracking down hillbillys, farmers and hunters while diverting their attention away from Osama and crew and away from preventing 9/11. Then slams Bush. Have you noticed how all these conspiracy theories turned into fodder?

I haven't recorded and watched this particlcular episode yet, but I
expect to eventualy. I hope they didn't miss the documentary: " Who
killed the electric car in California ? " Since current has an office in
San Francisco which is succeeding in what they failed to accomplish
in Los Angeles in 1997, (through no fault of their own), I'd expect it
would interest them. If everyone who absolutely needs to commute
from a remote area where there are no bus lines, had a cheap, well
built electric car it could save them aminimum of $100 a month in
their fuel & maintenence costs. That would be an economic stimulus
that no politicians would haggle over whether it was effective. As
it doesn't depend on Keynesian economic theory to understand.
It's simple. Money saved is money earned.

I watched this then and did not hear the booing! It's funny to see MM talking about the booing and I am thinking "what booing?" I remember that as cheering - of course the folks in front will give you nothing as they politically played their cards to look non-political so as not to alienate their fan base, because remember that is also a campaign! So they certainly were NOT giving the love!

Understand that with such a rigorous bought out media message, those of us organizing against the war were waking up in boos. We were meeting in homes wondering what the hell we were doing, some of us ... and the challenge for us was trying to access an audience (a countries populace) which was being inundated with this corrupted press spin being piped and blasted out of every outlet ... propaganda that as history unfolds further into the future will become a red stain on the US worse than the Gulf War. We were trying to appeal to people's logic, where their emotions and grief were being manipulated for very self serving reasons that had nothing to do with the ultimate safety of us all. I remember writing somewhere that if the data was fixed, if what was being told to us were all lies - the media articles that were essentially corrupted were all planted to be used later as irrefutable evidence to go to war - how would we know what the truth was? It really worked, because now they can say they didn't know - they too were fooled like all of us by the media ... the perfect crime.

We knew we were already losing the fight to stop it. But we proceeded anyway, convincing each other that it was the right thing to do. Our group was small - but we accessed whatever we knew how and the goal became 'let the world know that we are a democracy, and we are letting our voices be heard in disagreement to the president - we are divided in this issue." And to be honest, in retrospect, even though each day was an argument of why not to stop organizing, I am glad we did it. Because from the outside it played very differently and personally think it bought us some social capital.

So I heard cheers, and I noticed how glad and enthusiastic Diane Lane seemed. And really, the folks in front were smiling and cheering - it was all the botox.

However, I understand -- when half a million people demonstrated in San Francisco against the Gulf war, Bush Sr said, "50,000 unpatriotic people marched ..." I could not get over that massive lie that was meant to degrade our efforts (what does it matter about a little zero).

There must be an adjective for those who give a damn about humankind beyond country and state -- that we are all one.

I respected Moore so much for his speech at the oscars. The boos from the audience left a real negative feeling in my gut about hollywood. I thought. You cheap turncoats.

Michael Moore did a mighty service of truthtelling with this film. The most troubling thing I saw in this film is that on 9/11/01 George H.W. Bush was in the same room with the Bin Ladens as the buildings fell. Then they were given safe passage from to Saudi Arabia from the highest levels. The film stopped short of saying 9-11 was a false flag operation but I won't. Look at old film of buildings being bombed in WWII. When they're blown up they shatter and debris goes in all directions. Then look at video of buildings being demolished, how they implode into their own footprint. Now look at 9-11 footage of the Twin Towers and how they fell after the planes crashed into them; how they collapse into their own footprint. Which does that footage look like? Never mind that 7WTC wasn't even hit by a plane and it collapsed the same way. But then George W. Bush says, "Are you going to believe me or your own lying eyes?"

It's not surprising that Mike is well represented by this category. When a man will tell the truth, with no regard as to whose toe get stomped on, from Charlton Heston and corporate America to an illegitimate president who was not elected to the insurance industry. If more everyday Americans were like him, this would be a different country.

I would have put Fahrenheit 9/11 higher up the list. I believe this documentary started to change minds about the totally immoral Iraq War. At least it made enough people start to think about it.

I'm genuinely happy that Current TV moved to the channel lineup
between Reelz and Epix, which themselves are circa the Encore
movie channels and the Movie channel/Movie channel West. Now
when I surf the channels from the History, and History International
channels on up to the Science, Discovery, Military channels to the
Chiller channel, Current TV is sandwhiched in between all my fave
channels. I've DVRed Tiger Farms, and the documentary on Bhuttan,
the last Shangri La. And now I'm looking forward to setting more timers
for Current TVs spectacularly newsworthy documentaries. Though
I'm a serious minded invidual too, Bill & Ted couldn't have said it
any better: MOST EXCELLENT !!! Our State motto IS Excelsior.