Oscarwatch Forum Discussion - Fahrenheit 9/11--facts or lies?

Oscarwatch Forums - Fahrenheit 9/11--facts or lies?:

"Michael Moore Is Ready for His Close-Up
By PHILIP SHENON

Published: June 20, 2004

MICHAEL MOORE is not coy about his hopes for 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' his blistering documentary attack on President Bush and the war in Iraq. He wants it to be remembered as the first big-audience, election-year film that helped unseat a president.

'And it's not just a hope,' the Oscar-winning filmmaker said in a phone interview last week, describing focus groups in Michigan in April at which, after seeing the movie, previously undecided voters expressed eagerness to defeat Mr. Bush. 'We found that if you entered the theater on the fence, you fell off it somewhere during those two hours,' he said. 'It ignites a fire in people who had given up.'"