Fictitious Times: Michael Moore's Acceptance Speech

(75th Annual Academy Awards)
Moore: "Whoa. On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to ﾗ they're here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much." Since I skipped the Oscars this year, I missed all the drama over Michael Moore's speech, but found it on the Oscar site. I guess he got booed off the stage or something. That's the MO at the Oscars: don't make political statements. It's ironic that Hollywood gets on a high horse and whips those in their own community who choose to voice their opinion. Are you telling me that Hollywood doesn't ram a f*cked-up point-of-view down people's throats everytime the lights go down and the projectors starts rolling? Please!

Here's a link to Moore's post-ceremony press conference. (Windows Media Player required)
Blogged: Tuesday, March 25, 2003

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