I remember the day like it was yesterday. The date was June 28, 2004. I attended an afternoon screening of Michael Moore’s "Fahrenheit 9/11."
As I heard thunderous applause emanating from the audience when the end credits rolled, I took note of the comment I overheard from the two audience members who were apparently so blindsided by the many untruths told in Moore’s movie that one of them said they are never voting Republican again.
It’s not their comment that ticked me off so much as it was their blind stupidity into accepting everything Hollywood just told them on the big screen is in fact the truth.
I won’t deny the film made me think how four years from now America will not be called “America” but “Amerika” with a “k” when it comes to President Obama’s socialist policies (though I believe in reality, America actually follows a form of socialism anyway and people simply just don’t realize it).
Even before the film started, I heard cheers coming from a few people several rows above me. That happened when conservative political commentator Glenn Beck showed up doing some promotional trailer, I didn’t pay much attention to though hearing those audience members applaud literally made me die laughing.
Just as I laughed at how a couple of the trailers before the film began catered to the conservative base which included "Atlas Shrugged: Part II" based on author Ayn Rand’s mammoth book and "Trouble with the Curve" starring Clint Eastwood who recently came out in support of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Honestly, "2016: Obama’s America: 2016" did not reveal to me anything that I hadn’t already heard the past four years listening to conservative talk radio. Like "Fahrenheit 9/11" I saw the film as entertainment and took 99 percent of the film’s statements (i.e.: Obama reducing our nuclear arsenals to less than 300 in the coming years or his being pro-Muslim for example) with a considerable grain of salt. If the president is so pro-Muslim as the film proposes, why did he continue what former Presidents Clinton (1993-2001) and Bush do and pledge to kill Osama bin Laden if elected? Every time I hear how President Obama has been outspending the country into oblivion, I hear how the budgets of previous presidents were even worse.
The idea that Michael Moore and Dinesh D’Souza are so powerful that their words and actions are able to sway the outcome of a presidential election is like saying the views and opinions expressed by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh represents everything the Republican party stands for.
©8/27/12
As I heard thunderous applause emanating from the audience when the end credits rolled, I took note of the comment I overheard from the two audience members who were apparently so blindsided by the many untruths told in Moore’s movie that one of them said they are never voting Republican again.
It’s not their comment that ticked me off so much as it was their blind stupidity into accepting everything Hollywood just told them on the big screen is in fact the truth.
The one and only goal filmmakers like Michael Moore do with so-called documentaries like Fahrenheit 9/11 is to help sway public opinion. The same can now be said for the latest “documentary” 2016: Obama’s America which is seeing a surge in box office revenue (not that the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida had anything to do with it) and an unexpected expansion from less than 200 to now over 1000 screens across the country. As of this writing, the film’s Facebook page has over 172,000 likes and over 185,000 people talking about it.Just like Moore’s film was a rallying cry for anyone still ticked off at the time at how former President George W. Bush (2001-2009) stole the election from former Democratic presidential candidate, Al Gore, in 2000 and took us into two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2016: Obama’s America might as well be called the “Conservatives Fahrenheit 9/11” as narrator Dinesh D’Souza, based on his books "The Roots of Obama’s Rage" and "Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream" rips President Obama to shreds.
I won’t deny the film made me think how four years from now America will not be called “America” but “Amerika” with a “k” when it comes to President Obama’s socialist policies (though I believe in reality, America actually follows a form of socialism anyway and people simply just don’t realize it).
Even before the film started, I heard cheers coming from a few people several rows above me. That happened when conservative political commentator Glenn Beck showed up doing some promotional trailer, I didn’t pay much attention to though hearing those audience members applaud literally made me die laughing.
Just as I laughed at how a couple of the trailers before the film began catered to the conservative base which included "Atlas Shrugged: Part II" based on author Ayn Rand’s mammoth book and "Trouble with the Curve" starring Clint Eastwood who recently came out in support of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Honestly, "2016: Obama’s America: 2016" did not reveal to me anything that I hadn’t already heard the past four years listening to conservative talk radio. Like "Fahrenheit 9/11" I saw the film as entertainment and took 99 percent of the film’s statements (i.e.: Obama reducing our nuclear arsenals to less than 300 in the coming years or his being pro-Muslim for example) with a considerable grain of salt. If the president is so pro-Muslim as the film proposes, why did he continue what former Presidents Clinton (1993-2001) and Bush do and pledge to kill Osama bin Laden if elected? Every time I hear how President Obama has been outspending the country into oblivion, I hear how the budgets of previous presidents were even worse.
I don’t need a “mockumentary” to make my decision on whether or not I think President Obama does not deserve a second term. My personal reasons on why he shouldn’t be re-elected again are mine and mine alone just as I don’t believe voters should be telling others who they are voting for. It’s no one else’s business.I don’t believe for a minute "2016: Obama’s America" will sway this November’s election. It didn’t work when "Fahrenheit 9/11" which was also released months before the 2004 election either.
The idea that Michael Moore and Dinesh D’Souza are so powerful that their words and actions are able to sway the outcome of a presidential election is like saying the views and opinions expressed by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh represents everything the Republican party stands for.
©8/27/12
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