It Had to Be Art that Brought the Downfall of Bush

[boobooday]

Art is truth! They tried, but they couldn't stop Art, and they couldn't stop Truth!

I sat in a packed audience at a 1pm matinee in a well-used theater, and suddenly I knew I was back in America.

Our democracy's brush with death could rejuvenate us, and I pray that it will, but the other thing I realized watching the movie is that we cannot undo the horrible wrongs done by * in our names. Our country will have to rise to a new standard -- that doesn't compromise our humanity by denying the humanity of others. We have to start again, but that is an opportunity too.

I'm very happy tonight. I have laughed, and wept, and ultimately felt hope that we might end the madness. Thanks Mike.

:grouphug:

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[seventhson]

1. me too

[donhakman]

2. Hitler and Stalin clamped down on Art

I am hard pressed to say this is art however...

[billbuckhead]

3. Michael Moore for President in 2008

If they can run Swartzeneggar, Liberals ought to able to run Moore.

[boobooday]

10. No that is.

But if you want to see something scary, look at what I came across:

[NuttyFluffers]

12. bizarre, looks like the eagle is regurgitating at Bush.

perhaps it's puking? :puke: poor eagle... symbolic no?

[cease_fire]

4. Fantastic Post boo!

What a wonderful feeling, eh?

The country that I love gathered in our theaters and demanded a mandate for truth.

To be surrounded by people, just ordinary people who LOVE this country enough to take it back into our control...

Its, well... It's liberating.

[boobooday]

7. Thanks

It was like Bowling for Columbine, the collective gasps, the laughs, the boos, the calling out, only magnified 10 times.

And I feel like we connected with everyone across the country who saw it.

:hug:

[chookie]

9. Biggest "Meet-Up" ever

There was probably a 60 year age spread in the audience I attended with today. People spontaneously were talking to each other, as I have never seen before. There was an immense feeling of patriotism in that theatre today. We found America again, my friends. I love these people! I love this country! Today I feel that we're going to overturn this madness.

[Frances]

5. Did anyone see ABC news tonight?

I was really upset at how ABC tried to "debunk" the movie.

For example, ABC showed Richard Clark saying that it was OK to let the Saudi royals fly out of the country because they weren't dangerous. BUT Moore's point was that if the majority of the 9/11 hijackers had been from another country, Bush would never have allowed this to happen, no matter how innocent the people were.

CBS was much more fair in their coverage.

For several weeks, I have watched ABC and then CBS immediately afterwards. CBS gives more facts when they cover the same story as ABC. Plus CBS has been fairer than ABC when covering the same story.
Just my observation.

[joefree1]

6. You bet, they're scared shitless of art

they've got money and discipline, but the left is more talented and we're better looking.

We're just cooler.



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See what other DUers are doing for F911 opening night:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x8384

[donhakman]

8. OH Yeah?

It appears that Republicans have better lawyers, think tanks, high crimes and misdeamers.

In short they are far more cruelly clever.

[joefree1]

13. "YEAH!"

Don't let them give you an inferiority complex.

They're not clever but devious. They use their vast wealth to stifle independent thinking, but never for long. Fascism never lasts long. Initially it burns bright in it rhetoric of hate and fear but then just as quickly burns out.

Be cool not paranoid.

[Eloriel]

11. So true. I've been thinking the same thing myself.

I am not myself an artist, but I vaguely understand the principle that art can't be totally suppressed, and has immense power to transform consciousness.

IMAGINE what things would be like if contemporary music were liberated. That's what I yearn for since I'm more attuned to music than most other forms of art.

And to whoever upthread claimed this is hardly art: bah! Of COURSE it's art. Read this review, if you haven't already, from someone familiar with the genre (everyone should read it -- it's a work of art unto itself):

Fahrenheit 9/11. A Review. There are things in this film.... (Long)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1854244#

[joefree1]

14. You sound like an artist to me

Art is is just being open to all sensation and then expressing this experience.

"A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it."
- Simone Weil (1909 - 1943)