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Fahrenheit 9/11 banned in Iowa and Nebraska

The AP is reporting that Fahrenheit 9/11 will not be playing in Iowa and Nebraska:

The president of a company that owns movie theaters in Iowa and Nebraska is refusing to show director Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11."

R.L. Fridley, owner of Des Moines-based Fridley Theatres, says the controversial documentary incites terrorism.

Fridley said in an e-mail message to company managers that the company does not "play political propaganda films from either the right or the left."

"Our country is in a war against an enemy who would destroy our way of life, our culture and kill our people," Fridley wrote. "These barbarians have shown through (the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001) and the recent beheadings that they will stop at nothing. I believe this film emboldens them and divides our country even more."

The Bird sparks debate…Part two

Remember my post regarding the email I received in response to my Tony Dean column in “the Bird”? The debate continues. Here is a link to The Duck Hunters Refuge Forum where someone has compared Tony Dean to Michael Moore, and uses that same email I received (and Tony Dean posted it) as an example. Excerpt:

After reading some posts on Tony Dean’s website I started thinking he may be the closest thing SD has to Michael Moore. He posted an email from a reader who claimed that Clinton’s IQ is 181 and George W Bush’s is 91. Of course it was a total fabrication but since Tony himself didn’t write it he can’t be held up to normal journalistic standards. He only posted it. He posted another statement from one of Daschle’s buddies who self-righteously proclaims that the NRA supports Teflon bullets to kill cops. When he says that I can only assume that he means the dense metal core bullets that are coated with Teflon to protect the barrels of the guns that are firing them. The Teflon doesn’t do anything to make it penetrate a flak jacket anymore than the ammo you can buy at Dakota Mart. If he weren’t so ignorant he would know that the NRA helped pass the legislation that banned the sale of those same bullets to the public. He also said that the NRA supports plastic composite guns to avoid detection. He is probably referring to the Glock 17 here. It had the anti-gun whackos all worked up in a fury a few years ago because it supposedly could avoid detection in airport security. Never mind that it doesn’t and there aren’t any guns that can. As long as you can score cheap political points against the hated NRA you don’t have to tell the truth. Being in the US Army for two years seems to make him an expert on guns even though this guy states that he only carries a gun to hunt game in the fall. How cosmopolitan. I’ve fired every small arms weapon in the US Army and most crew served weapons. I shot five raccoons and one skunk this past week. I’m afraid to say what guns I may have shot some of them with for fear of frightening anyone who is afraid of a bayonet lug on an accurate sporting firearm.

Later in the thread you will find this response to the above comment:

I used to watch his show all the time but not anymore. Tony Dean is confused, misinformed, and just plain wrong most of the time. I think his heart's in the right place but not his mind.

Then there is this:

I am with ya on this waders!! In my opinion Dean has been and always will be full of crap!!! The very sad thing is a very few people listen to him.

UPDATE: DVT has a great post on Daschle's failure to denounce the lies of Michael Moore. It will be interesting to see if Tony Dean will fail to denounce Daschle's anti-gun votes and endorse Daschle. I am 100% confident the NRA (including the South Dakota affiliate) will be endorsing John Thune.

Daschle’s constitution for Iraq

Senator Tom Daschle was in Mitchell, SD tonight to discuss his recent trip to Iraq. He said little about the justification for the war, but instead turned the story into South Dakota National Guardsman who deserve free health care when they return. That's how we say thank you for their service according to Daschle.

Then he talked about the inspiration the Iraqis have from America as they embark on creating their own constitution. Daschle must have some problem with who created America’s constitution, because he believed Franklin Roosevelt’s speech in 1944 was the inspiration the Iraqi people need to understand. He spoke about a second bill of rights based on economic security. Those rights include jobs, housing, education, and of course health care.

Yes, Daschle talked about promoting socialism for Iraq just as he is promoting socialism for America. He even stated that the speech of Roosevelt was the premise behind Spain’s and Russia’s constitution.

So as we begin celebrating the birth of freedom in America, the Daschle Democrats are celebrating the birth of free government handouts…Russian style. (I wonder if the lady wearing the star and stripes in the photo understands any of this?)

UPDATE: Here is a link to the whole Roosevelt speech.

The Iraq War first hand

The Mitchell Daily Republic has a report on Andy Young, 27, a Marine captain and Mitchell native, who spoke about his experience in Operation Iraqi Freedom during the Rotary Club luncheon Thursday at the Holiday Inn in Mitchell. Excerpt:

The fighting in Iraq was tough. Most of the Iraqi military shed their uniforms and used civilians as human shields.

“It was hard to identify who was the enemy and who was not,” Young said. “It’s hard to fight moral warfare against those who wouldn’t fight moral warfare.”

While near Nasiriyah, Young witnessed battles where close to 30 U.S. troops were killed and 100 were injured in one day.

He described nightmare-like scenarios where Iraqi soldiers would board buses with civilians and attack U.S. troops.

He also witnessed some of Saddam’s regime’s torture against his own people firsthand.

“We crossed over a little river and the people on the other side were helping us across,” he said. “The people who helped us across were tortured.”

He saw victims with cigarette burns, and even some with their tongues cut out.

Communists support Moore's film

As reported by WorldNetDaily:

Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" got at least one rave review yesterday – in the Communist Party USA's newspaper People's Weekly World.

Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man

As of the time of the post, the book, "Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man", is at number 3 at Amazon.com. Order yours now. Here is a partial description:

Watching Michael Moore in action -- passing off manipulating facts in Bowling for Columbine, spinning statistics in Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country?, shamelessly grandstanding at the Academy Awards, and epitomizing the hypocrisy he's made a king's fortune railing against -- has spurred authors David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke to take action into their own hands. In Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man, Hardy and Clarke dish it back hard to the fervent prophet of the far left, turning a careful eye on Moore's use of camera tricks and publicity ploys to present his own version of the truth.

Communist propaganda about communist propaganda

I found this China link regarding Fahrenheit 9/11 that is indescribable…so here it is:

The film slamming US President George W. Bush was banned in the United States, but its release was authorized by the government after it won the Gold Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival in May, reported Thursday's CRI online.

Sources indicate there's a strong possibility some of the violent scenes will be cut if "Fahrenheit 9/11" is screened in China.

I am sure the people of China are used to propaganda by now, but the American government banned it until it won an award in France? OK…but we Communists are only going to censor some of it. LOL.

When your done laughing check out DVT’s post that has a picture of Tom Daschle attending the premiere of a movie that paints him as a weak leader for the cause of the Democrats.

When will the nation find out

I am shocked to realize that David Kranz has reported on something unkind to Daschle and the national media, including the conservatives, have yet to respond to (but then again, he was maybe trying to take the heat off those asking Daschle to denounce the anti-Bush negative attack).

Remember my post on Hugh Hewitt’s point that Daschle Democrats should denounce the Moore propaganda piece? Now that is the lead to his WorldNetDaily column. But he added this ending:

I do want to provide a link to the best "shut-up" story to provide Michael Moore fans. Easiest part of the Michael Moore paranoid fantasy to explode: that President Bush arranged for the bin Laden family to flee the U.S. after 9/1. See this story from The Hill. Richard Clarke – hero to Moore's movie in other parts – let the bin Ladens go. It never got to Bush. Moore didn't have time to put that in the movie.

You might also want to ask Moorites why Hezbollah loves the flick. Moore got asked and he ducked the question. What a surprise: No courage from Jabba the propagandist, Tom Daschle's favorite moviemaker.

As my previous post states, Michael Moore was not kind to Daschle. How long will it take for the national pundits to find this out and chew on the latest twist to this controversial film?

Daschle out in the cold

Today’s David Kranz column provides a huge revelation concerning Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 movie regarding Tom Daschle:

Sen. Tom Daschle is characterized by critics as being close to Michael Moore, whose controversial documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11" is now showing. But area residents who saw the film say there may be a reason why Daschle left the movie early.

A dozen moviegoers say it is not particularly flattering to Daschle. They say post-2000 presidential election footage shows congressional leaders Daschle and Rep. Dick Gephardt sitting and looking at a telephone. A voice says: "And the Democrats, well, they just sat around waiting for the phone to ring."

Another sequence has minority members of the House at the microphone offering a motion to contest the outcome of the 2000 electoral college, which gave the election to Bush. Rules say a challenge must be signed by at least one member of the House and one member of the Senate.

After each plea by minority members, Vice President Gore, presiding as Senate President Pro Tem, says: "Is your motion signed by a member of the House and a member of the Senate?" Each Representative says: "No. No member of the Senate would sign it." The camera cuts to Daschle after these pleas.

Some viewers say there is a disconnect, however, when Moore characterizes Daschle as passive about the Iraq War. They point out that the Democratic leader took heat at home for saying the president didn't exercise enough diplomacy before going to war.

So it looks like now Daschle Democrats are starting to realize the fraud of Michael Moore. But the Daschle Democrats, including David Kranz, have not honestly accepted the clout Daschle has lost by trying to have it both ways…but DVT didn’t:

I just returned from "Fahrenheit 9-11" and it was basically as predicted--anti-Bush, anti-war, and organized around a Marxian theme of the rich and powerful controlling and manipulating the weak. Most interesting, however, were Moore's prominent digs at Senator Daschle, which must have made for some odd moments at the gala premier in Washington which Daschle shut down the Senate to attend. Moore sees Daschle as a weak enabler who supported Bush's "fraudulent" election in Florida and his "lies" about the Iraq war. This, once again, makes the point that the Michael Moore/Howard Dean base of the Democratic Party thinks Daschle is a weak leader and that's why the speculation continues that Daschle will lose his post as Minority Leader.

Now that Moore's propaganda piece is also a negative attack at Tom Daschle, when will he start whining about it and place it in his category of negative third party attacks? Answer: that would not play well with the leadership of the Democrat Party. The flip flopping Daschle has lost his credibility and his clout. South Dakotans should be informed on this before they vote in November.

Democrats Disenfranchise Indians

Want to see what the South Dakota media refuses to print regarding the Indian vote ? Check out this David Yeagley column:

But how exactly did the Democrats win? “The Indian vote,” liberals brag, along with the women’s vote. (Just what Indian warriors like to hear: we’re the same as women.) There are approximately 16,000 Indian voters in South Dakota, mostly Democrats.

But what if an Indian might want to vote differently? Rough goings at the polls, so the liberals themselves complain. But who’s intimidating whom?

Ask Oglala Sioux Indian, Bruce Whalen, who is Shannon County Republican Party Chairman and Poll Watcher for the Pine Ridge Agency. Shannon County, which includes Pine Ridge, has an American Indian population more than 94 percent, so Whalen’s observations are critical.

Whalen watched polls at Pine Ridge Village, the largest community of voters, with three precincts. Whalen is an elected, Republican official, but local Indian papers never asked him for any reports.

In an unpublished letter to the editor (originally sent to Tim Giago, editor of Lakota Journal, June 11), made available to me personally, Whalen cites two incidents of “non-Republican get-out-the-vote workers attempting to fight other people in the polling place.” He notes “non-Republican workers sat directly at precinct election tables giving the appearance of confusing or intimidating voters.” They even escorted voters through the voting process, “even to the point of entering the election booth with the voter!”

It’s all “anti-Indian” voter harassment, according to leftist Ruth Steinberger, well known activist for Indians in the Dakotas. She thinks white people in the Dakotas just don’t want Indians to vote. The implication is that Republicans are doing all the intimidating, because most of the Indians that do make it to the polls vote Democrat. Steinberger’s reports, unlike Whalen’s, do get published in the Lakota Journal or other Indian papers like Native Times, or on activist websites.

The fact that Democrat Indians would harass other Indians who might be voting Republican is not welcome news in Indian media. Democrat Indians aren’t interested in eyewitness reports like Whalen’s. Such reports will never be published in the Indian papers. Only the Democrat complaints are reported when it’s Indian against Indian.