Cheese-us, I was gonna drop the Michael Moore stuff, but the lies keep on coming: now he claims that the booing was other people booing the original booers:
and then the people supporting what I was saying started booing them, and then it just turned into a (unintelligible) of people fighting with each other in the audience.
As my late stepmother used to say, "Bullllll-sheeyit!" Then there's Jim Treacher's take on one website's whitewashing ("It wuz the stagehands that did it, Maw! It warn't me!"):
A handful of stagehands drowned him out, that's pretty good. But why stop there? The real truth that the facist corporate-owned media is afraid to tell us is that the whole crowd was really cheering the whole time. Yeah! When Moore had the guts to speak out against "the fictition of duct tape," the crowd leapt to its feet! Ben Affleck clapped so hard he shattered his right ulna, Salma Hayek began ululating and manifesting the wounds of Christ, and several other major Hollywood stars were seen collapsing in a fit of near-Pentecostal ecstasy. But then those Oscar Nazis plugged in some canned booing, and replaced the footage of Moore's standing O with earlier shots of Harrison Ford sitting on his hands and Adrien Brody looking contemplative and achingly soulful during the award for Best Key Grip.
Why? So the Red states won't stop going to the movies.
Cowards! Why is the media afraid of the TRUTH?!?
Jim Treacher is my guru.
(CNN transcript link via Blog of Xanadu.)
Posted by Andrea Harris at March 27, 2003 12:44 AMReminds me of a running gag from Letterman's early days: "They're not booing, they're shouting 'Dave! Dave!'"
Posted by: Paul Zrimsek at March 27, 2003 at 04:07 PMThe guy you quote does not seem to have watched the show. Actually, neither did I. But wierdly I trust MTV's account, which says the audience -
stood and applauded at first
Appeared stunned by his first statement, and sat down during his second. Applause mostly stopped.
Booing started from the back of the room.
He was yanked after 47 seconds: there was a 45-second agreed-upon limit, was it actually imposed on anyone else?
"The guy you quote does not seem to have watched the show."
Heh...
Posted by: Jim Treacher at March 27, 2003 at 08:39 PMYeah, Jim -- what were you thinking? It was that woman from the Fat Greek thing movie who manifested the wounds of Christ!
Posted by: Andrea Harris at March 27, 2003 at 10:08 PM