BYU Student Makes Documentary on Moore

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=529&ncid=529&e=5&u=/ap/20050131/ap_en_mo/people_moore

A former Brigham Young University film student has maxed out his credit cards to make a $10,000 documentary about "Fahrenheit 9/11" director Michael Moore's controversial visit to Utah Valley State College.

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"I immediately just grabbed my camera and ran to the school and filmed the whole day," he said. "The halls were packed with students ... it was just a huge crush of political debate and an overwhelming sense of activity and electricity."

Moore arrived Oct. 20, applauding student leaders who took heat for inviting him and paying the $40,000 speaker fee with student money. Nine days earlier the college had invited Sean Hannity, a conservative Fox News commentator, to balance Moore's criticism of President Bush and the war in Iraq.

Kay Anderson, a real estate broker who offered student leaders $25,000 to rescind Moore's invitation, has written a letter to Greenstreet's lawyer asking that his interviews not appear in the film. "We were cautious about who we granted interviews to," Anderson said. "We didn't want to end up in a Michael Moore-type documentary."

[Mizmoon]

1. Love him or hate him, Moore makes people think

and thinking is something we sorely need in this country.

[0007]

4. Ha, fat chance!

The ministry of preaching harpoons from the pulpit on Sundays and FAUX CNN & MSNBC take care of the mindless the rest of the time. Not many want to read Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Madison Rousseau, Marx or Freud. Too Boring! Sean Hannity gives all the insight one needs to be fair and balanced, 'eh?

We're so screwed!!

[merwin]

5. There's gotta be something good about Moore if he scares tthe hell out of

them that much that they'd offer $25k to keep him away.

[yellowcanine]

2. "We were cautious about who we granted interviews to," Anderson said.

I guess not cautious enough. I believe it is too late for that Mr.? Anderson. ("Kay" can be a guy's name? Who knew?)

[jdj]

8. It's short for "KKK". n/t

[Coastie for Truth]

3. Need to look at a hidden issue in "Roger and Me"

Moore alluded to GM's pattern of using Michigan Industrial Development Authority money (taxpayer money) to build factories -- with a "promise" of future real estate tax gains for the locality.

Then, after the factory was built, GM would play hard ball for tax abatements. And then, they would appeal every tax assessment all the way up to the Michigan Supreme Court.

Net result was that after a string of local school district insolvencies, Michigan went to Hawaii style state funding of local schools.

Given that fact that the local school districts were NOT merged into one big state wide school district, and the tremendous "diversity" in school districts (Bloomfield Hills is right next to Pontiac) -- the system was cumbersome to start.

This was alluded to in "Roger and Me" --- and if you saw "Roger and Me" in a suburban Detroit movie theater as these districts were falling into insolvency and GM was appealing tax assessments --- the message was obvious.

[daleo]

6. It doesn't sound like the film will be a smear job

But Micheal Moore has proved he can withstand those anyway. That's pretty funny, bribing the Student's Union to cancel Moore's speech.

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7. kick

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