Applauding This Speech Again

[K8-EEE]

With the Oscar hoopla beginning again, it has me thinking back to last year. I attended the ceremony, sat in the cheap seats and waited through the whole boring show for the Doc category.

I knew everyone had been asked not to reference the new and glorious war in Iraq. I also knew that if Michael Moore won, he would totally ignore those directives. So you could really feel the electricity in the room when Michael's name was announced.

At first most of the room stood up; then there was this phantom booing seeming to come from offstage, I looked down from the balcony and didn't see anybody booing down there. Definitely there were some people in the balcony by us booing.

Then of course, these "outrageous" words:

"On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to - they're here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fiction of duct tape or fiction of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much."

I'm proud to say that my husband and I were among the ones standing and applauding that speech.

Seeing how the whole WMD scare worked out, I think no matter what you think of Michael or his films...it's time to applaud this speech again. And applaud the protestors and everyone else who took a lot of bull from and "anti-patriotic" slams for simply stating the truth: that the case for the Iraq Invasion looked totally bogus from the start.

[tom_paine]

1. I agree...kick!

:kick:

[lovedems]

2. Michael Moore is a visionary.

He is a true voice for democracy.

[plcdude]

3. Absolutely

Thank God for Michael and Meryl Streep and all the others who have access to the general public. We can't stop standing up to this group in anyway we can from each of our stations in life. Let's hope we all hang in there together and change this country back to what we all know it should be. Since you were there did you sense that a majority were supportive of Michael Moore or were there quite a few who did not appreciate his comments. What is your take on the feelings of this community as a whole?