Fahrenheit 911 ist ein Film von Michael Moore, welche unter anderem die geschäftlichen Verbindungen zwischen Bush und der Bin Laden-Familie vor dem 11. Septermber 2001 aufzeigt.
Um Bush zu schützen, hat sich nun der Disney-Konzern entschieden, diesen Film ganz einfach nicht zu zeigen: The Walt Disney Company is blocking its Miramax division from distributing a new documentary by Michael Moore that harshly criticizes President Bush, executives at both Disney and Miramax said Tuesday.
The film, "Fahrenheit 911," links Mr. Bush and prominent Saudis — including the family of Osama bin Laden — and criticizes Mr. Bush's actions before and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. [...]
Mr. Moore's agent, Ari Emanuel, said Michael D. Eisner, Disney's chief executive, asked him last spring to pull out of the deal with Miramax. Mr. Emanuel said Mr. Eisner expressed particular concern that it would endanger tax breaks Disney receives for its theme park, hotels and other ventures in Florida, where Mr. Bush's brother, Jeb, is governor. [NY Times, siehe auch das Editorial]
Eine bessere Werbung, ein stärkeres Zugeständnis an diesen Film, kann es doch eigentlich gar nicht geben. Jeb und George Bush sowie der Disney Konzern lassen hier ja quasi schon vorab verlauten, dass die in dem Film erhobenen Anschuldigungen zu guten Teilen wahr sein könnten. Diese neue Ehrlichkeit gefällt mir.
Direkter geht es mit der Ehrlichkeit natürlich nur noch beim "einfachen Volk": So lassen sich auch einige der US-SoldatInnen welche auf den Bildern mit gefolterten und/oder gedemütigten irakischen Bürgern zu sehen sind in den Trailer Parks ihrer Heimat bereitwillig dafür feiern: Good ol' girl who enjoyed cruelty
By SHARON CHURCHER in Fort Ashby
May 7, 2004
POINTING crudely at the genitals of a naked, hooded Iraqi, the petite brunette with a cigarette hanging from her lips epitomised America's shame over revelations US soldiers routinely tortured inmates at Abu Ghraib jail near Baghdad.
Lynndie England, 21, a rail worker's daughter, comes from a trailer park in Fort Ashby, West Virginia, which locals proudly call "a backwoods world".
She faces a court martial, but at home she is toasted as a hero.
At the dingy Corner Club Saloon they think she has done nothing wrong.
"A lot of people here think they ought to just blow up the whole of Iraq," Colleen Kesner said.
"To the country boys here, if you're a different nationality, a different race, you're sub-human. That's the way girls like Lynndie are raised.
"Tormenting Iraqis, in her mind, would be no different from shooting a turkey. Every season here you're hunting something. Over there, they're hunting Iraqis." [via Joi Ito]
Disney blockiert Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911
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Michael Moore admits Disney 'ban' was a stunt
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/s...
Less than 24 hours after accusing the Walt Disney Company of pulling the plug on his latest documentary in a blatant attempt at political censorship, the rabble-rousing film-maker Michael Moore has admitted he knew a year ago that Disney had no intention of distributing it.
The admission, during an interview with CNN, undermined Moore's claim that Disney was trying to sabotage the US release of Fahrenheit 911 just days before its world premiere at the Cannes film festival.