More Moore with a Dash of Abu Gharib

TIME.com: There's More to Moore's Film Than Bush Bashing -- May. 17, 2004

Eisner told reporters last week that he had rejected the movie because he did not want Disney to get dragged into partisan battles in an election year. But the Miramax camp scoffs at that claim, pointing out that Disney's radio arm has no compunction about distributing fire-breathing conservative Sean Hannity's show. The film has been described as an incendiary attack on the Bush family's ties to Saudi Arabian oil money and the Osama bin Laden clan. But a source who has seen the picture tells TIME that the Bush-Saudi elements make up only about 15 minutes of the roughly 110-minute film.

Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the Miramax bosses who earlier chafed at Eisner's overruling of their plans to release Kevin Smith's religion spoof Dogma, are said to be outraged that he dismissed the Moore film without having seen it. The Weinsteins are looking for a new distribution plan, but according to a Miramax source, they may also evoke a little-used clause in their contract to arbitrate the matter with Disney.

Sorry to dwell so much on the Micheal Moore story. I have really wanted to touch on the whole Abu Gharib scandal, but I just don't think I am ready to dive into that right now. All I have to say is that I did not support this war. I vehemently opposed this war. I am secure in the fact that I do not have blood on my hands, but that doesn't mean that when I see a photograph of an Iraqi about to be attacked by a group of American soldiers' vicious dogs that I am not horrified by it. I am starting to seriously wonder who the terrorists are in this war.
Photo Courtesy of The New Yorker
But I digress. More on this later, if I'm up to it.

Posted by Paul Hina at May 9, 2004 11:10 PM