DATELINE: June 09, 2004 - Los Angeles, CA - Is the Hollywood Left "Steppin' Out" or "Marching On?"

Danny DeVito, Sharon Stone, Rob Reiner, Drew Barrymore, Rhea Perlman...all out, prancing on the red carpet in Hollywood the other night...but for what? For the Hollywood premeire of Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11 of course. It was the first showing here in the U.S. of  the award-winning (much to WWHD's dismay) fillum.  Farenheit 9/11's whole premise is this:  Make Bush look like an ass.  Finger-point at Bush for what the director thinks is shoddy handling of the war on terror in Iraq.   Try to show links between the Bush family and prominent Saudis including the Osama bin Laden and his family. 

Anyway, back to the Elite parade on premeire night.  One thing all these celebrities have in common? They all hate Bush! Okay, so it's a Bush-hating film. But what about some Hollywood celebs who don't wear their political hearts on their sleeves, like Billy Crystal and Martin Sheen, what's their attraction to the film? Well, Hollywood reporters like Entertainment columnist Jeanne Wolf conclude that all these folks came out "Because there was huge interest in what MM is serving up," says Wolf, "Part of the curiosity came not just from parallel politcal beliefs, but what he did in Hollywood is unusual. He beat the movie system...see, even huge Hollywood producers have to spend millions to get their stuff out there to get picked up but, this little guy--he came out with this little film and it's smoking up and getting big very quickly."

Bill O' Reilly likened the whole scene at last week's premiere to be sort of like "the Oscars for the left!". WWHD agrees. Once again here are these famous people trying to put politics on their agenda just to promote and draw any kind of attention to themselves. O' Reilly's belief is that the "Hollywood liberal elite" (as he calls them) are just causing a stink about things they only pretend to care about, and as he tells it, "it's like some of these people say 'Oh no, I can't get my Jaguar out of the driveway, there's so much pollution!' ".  One unnamed entertainment journalist doubts that, believing there is simple a genuine curiousity and interest, by saying that ..."[Drew Barrymore] tried running fom the cameras by going around to the back entrance."
 
This writer doubts that Drew Barrymore was avoiding the cameras because of 'geniune curiousity in the film'.  I'm pretty sure it was because she does not want to have to explain her 19th 1-week-long marriage or whatever shitty thing she's up to as of late.

Regarding others' take on the film, D.A. Pennebaker, a veteran documentary film director told reporters on May 24th “It’s going to get a lot of publicity, and this country is really in the mood for somebody to tell ’em what they should think, what to do.”

WWHD would like to know who the fuck in this country has EVER needed to be told what to do and how to think?

White House communications director Dan Barlett, told the New York Times earlier last month that the film "is so outrageously false, it’s not even worth comment.”, and the entertainment reviews that Daily Variety put forth called the film a “blatant cinematic 2004 campaign pamphlet”

The fillum is a documentary--which, for the most part--consisted of a montage of candid video clips.  Some of the clips, you may notice, were edited to generate the right spin, then put painstakingly back together and then set to music to create a brilliant arrangement which plays to (and delights, we're sure) the mind and nature of the liberal beast, who--we're also sure--is saying under his breath, something to the affect of "I knew it, that Dubya is a crook," or whatever emotion Moore is trying to elicit at the moment.  Much of the movie boasts cheap shots aplenty.  One in particular, of the President about to make a serious address, caught on tape making a humorous comment when he thinks he's off-camera.   
  
I've seen these clips and believe that using these to try to show an uncaring leader is just plain old immaturity.  Any person about to go in front of a crowd or onto nationally broadcast television will tell you that was nervous humor which is a natural part of stagefright.  We all know GW is not blessed with the greatest of ease in front of crowds. 
 
Also featured to delighted the liberal beasts in the audience, are clips of Moore going up to politicians and asking them something and then the politicians practically running away!  What the fillum doesn't tell you silly liberals is this:  The politicians aren't running away because they are shocked or upset at the question he's asked them...they're running away because it's Michael Moore for chrissakes!  Everyone should run from him!  -wwhd
 
 



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