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Ärende: Even Dems turning against Moore
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Even the Democrats have had enough of Michael Moore and his propaganda.  Read
on and learn why.


ELECTION 2004
Democrats urge party to shun Michael Moore
Web-based organization has petition that can be forward to DNC

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Posted: August 11, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern


By Ron Strom
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com 

An online petition drive has been launched by a group calling itself Democrats
United Against Michael Moore. 

According to organizer David Prince, the effort is to "implore the Democrat
leadership to distance itself from Michael Moore and his practices." 

Prince says the organization, based in North Hollywood, Calif., consists of 23
people who "actively promote the petition through a multitude of online
channels and traditional media." 

The group's online petition includes a link where party members can contact the
Democratic National Committee. They are instructed to copy and paste the
petition into their messages to party leadership. 

"We Democrats and other supporters of John Kerry for president petition the
Democratic National Committee to forthwith disassociate itself from filmmaker
Michael Moore and reject his incendiary, propagandistic methods," begins the
petition. "It is our steadfast belief that Michael Moore has violated the
public trust by presenting misrepresentation, factual inaccuracy and dramatic
re-creation as truth in his films. He has usurped time-honored ethics of
journalism, to which documentarians are bound, and has employed classic
techniques of deception cognate to totalitarian propaganda." 

Moore's popular documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" skewers President Bush and
serves, some say, as a movie-length advertisement for Kerry. 

Says the petition: "We must not allow our vehement opposition to President Bush
and his policies to blind us from truth. We must not abandon reason in favor of
political expediency. On the contrary, we must march forward on the foundation
of virtue, confident that truth is our greatest weapon." 

The group's site blames Moore on Kerry's failure to best Bush in opinion polls
despite the president's historically low approval rating. 

Says the site: "No doubt the slogan passed around Republican National
Headquarters is soon to be, 'It's Michael Moore, stupid!' The Republicans, in
particular conservative media, have seized upon Moore's extremism as a rallying
cry. Will it be to anyone's surprise when the images of Michael Moore sitting
next to Jimmy Carter at the DNC begin to appear in Bush ads?" 

As if to prove its Democratic credentials, the site compares popular figures of
the right with Moore: 

"There is no question that one could make a similar argument against
conservative demagogues like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter," the site says.
"They, too, only serve to denigrate the political process by promulgating
distortions and preying on the prejudices of the electorate. 

"However, we are Democrats and other supporters of John Kerry for president.
Our exclusive concern with this petition is the direction being taken by our
party and our candidates, not with what are opponents are doing or have done.
Simply because our opponents may embrace this type of demogoguery does not
justify our doing the same. We will not win the battle of ideology by lowering
ourselves to such standards, but by transcending them. We must appeal to a
higher principle." 

Prince estimates that thousands of petitions have been sent to the Democratic
National Committee, but, he tells WND, "we have had no formal acknowledgement
yet from the DNC." 

Jano Cabrera, communications director of the DNC, said he was unaware of the
group's campaign. 

"Our position on Michael Moore's films has always been the same," he told WND,
"namely that … people should go and watch ['Fahrenheit 9/11'] and make up their
own minds on it." 

Added Cabrera, "With the exception of one person, namely John Kerry, we don't
take positions on individuals."



John 

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