This is hilarious.
Guess who's helping Moore's "documentary" in Lebanon? (http://www.hiff.fi/uutiset/?id=20040609fahren).
Scroll down the page a bit to see the English translation.
A very interesting development:
In terms of marketing the film, Front Row is getting a boost from organisations related to Hezbollah which have rung up from Lebanon to ask if there is anything they can do to support the film. And although Chacra says he and his company feel strongly that Fahrenheit is not anti-American, but anti-Bush, "we can't go against these organisations as they could strongly boycott the film in Lebanon and Syria."
Too fucking funny.
Now Moore IS a long-term Arab supporter, so doing what he can to make sure they see the film doesn't surprise me. (One of the terms on his contract for Roger And Me was that the only way it could be shown in Israel is if the Palestinians could see it whenever and whereever they wished).
However, Hezbollah supporting the movie does kind of surprise me, and would disgust me if Moore was still capable of such a thing, as he is the type of person who always talks about how people on the right destroy lives through commerical means (Reagan's financial policies supposedly destroying his hometown of Flint, MI, etc.) and harps on gun policiy in the US leading to deaths, so I find it ironic that he'd let his film be promoted by people who have actively taken part in the killing of hundreds of US citizens.
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This message was edited by Se7en on 6-17-04 @ 7:54 PM