The Michael Moore Fan Club
Charles Johnson
Fri Aug 18, 2006 at 1:18 pm PDT • Views: 1,047
Michael Moore has fans all over the world, not just at Daily Kos: Iraqi group uses Michael Moore film to mock Bush.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group has produced an elaborate video of what it said were attacks on U.S. troops, in the latest example of the increasingly sophisticated propaganda war being waged by Iraqi insurgents.
“The Code of Silence” was posted on the Internet by the Rashedeen Army, thought to be a relatively small Sunni group which has produced videos in the past of attacks it claims to have carried out. At almost an hour in length, it is the longest and most professionally made of recent postings by mainly Sunni militant and insurgent groups fighting the U.S.-backed government. …
Lifting scenes from Michael Moore’s anti-war film “Fahrenheit 9/11”, Rashedeen’s narrator taunts President Bush in softly spoken English over graphic images of Humvees being blown up by roadside bombs, and purportedly dead U.S. troops.
It was not possible to verify when the documentary was made or the authenticity of any of the images portrayed by Rashedeen, whose name means Army of the Rightly Guided.
At one point, the documentary cuts to a scene from Moore’s 2004 award-winning film where he lobbies on the steps of the U.S. Congress in Washington. “After all, there are honest and influential guys in America and if Mr Moore can talk to you like that, so can I,” the Rashedeen narrator says.
Moore also has fans in Hizballah’s movie critic wing: Moore’s Distributor OK with Hizballah Support.
Frank says: