"Path to 9-11" writer calls self "a conservative Michael Moore"

[npincus]

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cyrus_Nowrasteh

Well, well.... the author of this tripe, Cyrus Nowrasteh, is a self-confessed, anti-Micheal Moore (partisan) conservative who fancies himself a "story-teller".

Cyrus Nowrasteh is a Persian-American who was born in Boulder, Colorado, and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. <1> (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637493/) His "family had to flee Iran when it was taken over by Islamic fundamentalists." <2> (http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/index.php?p=462)

Nowrasteh "attended New Mexico State University on a tennis scholarship, but later transferred to U.S.C. to study in their renowned School of Cinema."

Among his most recent writing and producing credits are "The Path to 9/11" (2006 Docudrama), a 6-hour miniseries to be shown September 10 and 11, 2006, on ABC, and "Into the West" (2005), a TV miniseries. Other credits include the Paramount/Showtime production The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001); Showtime's 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002); "the independent 1996 Sundance hit, The Interview, "Nikita" (1997) (which was "the pilot for the hit USA Network series, La Femme Nikita), and the adaptation of Alan Dershowitz's novel, The Advocate's Devil (1997) (TV) for ABC." <3> (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637493/bio)

On Michael Moore

"To quote Team America, he’s an out of control socialist weasel (laughs). Listen. I’m probably more of a libertarian than a strict conservative. In my writing and directing, I don’t want to just be a conservative version of Michael Moore. I’m here to tell a good story first and foremost - and that’s why I can navigate the networks and get my work produced."—Interview, June 9, 2005. <4> (http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/index.php?p=462)

[no_hypocrisy]

1. OK, I just mentally drafted a new defamation of character action

on behalf of Michael Moore . . .

[Warpy]

2. They just can't help LYING

While Moore may stretch the truth from time to time (editing clips and doing mockups of newspapers), his films are factually correct.

The right doesn't seem to know the difference between fact and belief, between documentary and propaganda.

That's part of what makes them so dangerous.

[zbdent]

12. Those in charge in the Reich, er, Right do know the difference between

fact and belief ... they just don't give a damn ...

as long as it fits their agenda, they go with it ... truth, honesty, integrity be damned ...

[stepnw1f]

3. Wrong... He's a LIAR That Has Gotten BUSTED!

Michael Moore was honest in his movie, even iif the mouthbreathers want to believe it was based on lies, they still havn't proven ONE LIE yet.

[Marlie]

8. Big difference

First of all, Moore's film didn't utilize publicly-owned airwaves to capture an audience. People who have seen F9/11 either paid for a ticket, paid for pay-per-view or a movie channel that showed it, or rented it. That's quite a big difference in and of itself, but it's not the biggest one. The biggest difference between this fictionalized account and F9/11 is that F9/11 relied on video footage of actual Bush administration members, and others, saying the things that they actually said. Moore wove those into a narrative that illustrated his personal point of view, which you may find objectionable, but he didn't make anything up, as did the producers of this hit piece. Which is probably why the million dollar bounty for anyone who can find any inaccuracy or lie in Moore's film has gone unclaimed.

[stepnw1f]

17. Yes (nt)

[npincus]

4. LimpBalls said documentary writer is a "Friend of his"????

did I just hear that on MSNBC????

[newspeak]

6. so, he thinks of himself as an exaggerated Michael Moore

instead of stretching the truth, he just fabricates a lie and calls it the truth. Well, he's no Michael Moore!!!

[waiting for hope]

5. Here's a twist....

Couldn't Michael Moore get Fahrenheit 9/11 televised? What network would carry it? It just seems quid pro quo.

[Nikki Stone 1]

7. Except Michael Moore's film was a fact checked documentary

And this turd's little flick is piece of right wing fluff.

[npincus]

9. Yes, and the point is he's a RW partisan trying to legitimize

propaganda by claiming it's true to the 9-11 commission report.

[ThomCat]

10. And Moore can't seem to get F911 aired on television.

It's funny how only the concervatives can get their stuff on the air.
:grr:

[Cosmocat]

11. that’s why I can navigate the networks and get my work produced

that statement alone makes him the polar opposite of Moore, not just in political terms, but in ethical terms ...

I hate to say it, but I thought the Into the West series was pretty good ...

[NewJeffCT]

13. Have any facts from Fahrenheit 9/11 been honestly refuted or debunked?

I'm sure some disagree with Moore's opinions, but I don't recall any of his actual facts being proven wrong?

[ComerPerro]

14. and I haven't even heard conservatives legitimately prove that

Michael Moore completely invented scenes like they did in Path to 911

[raysr]

15. F 9-11 never made it to "MSM" did it?

[KamaAina]

16. Poor transcription: he meant "a conservative hack and bore"

:P