This is just a heads up that the latest masterpiece from our fearless leader will be showing this week in San Francisco at the Red Vic – 1727 Haight St.
Tuesday – 7:00, 9:30 Wed – 2:00, 7:00, 9:30
Some people were having trouble downloading the uncompressed AIFF files, so I’ve saved them with a .aif extension in a different directory:
Did CNN Modify Its Re-broadcast of Michael Moore’s Uppity Oscar Acceptance Speech?.
This is, of course, in reference to this earlier post (Did CNN Turn Up The Boos On Michael Moore?), which, by the way, has a wonderful discussion going on currently about the various technical explanations that could explain the discrepancies between the broadcasts.
Thanks to Tristan for creating these waveform comparisons of the original ABC feed and the CNN rebroadcast. Thanks so much for putting this up!
Some data extracted from Michael Moore’s speech, as transmitted on CNN and ABC
Some data extracted from Michael Moore’s speech, as transmitted on CNN and ABC
The audio files were downloaded from http://www.lisarein.com/michaelmoore/michaelmoorecompare.html. I cropped the most controversial ‘booh’ part in the two versions, when he says tells “…that elected a ficticious president…. we…”.
I compiled a stereo file with each version on each channel, submitted it to common analysis tools in a sound-editing program, and ended up with this (click on the images for a high resolution version)…
In the audio version, the stereo file with each version on each channel, you can clearly spot the difference between the two speeches. I let you hear where the booooohs come from. FYI, CNN’s channel is on the left.
The conclusion
is as always up to you
Something to keep you busy over the weekend!
Check out the video and audio from the live ABC broadcast and compare it for yourself to the video and audio of the CNN re-broadcast:
Did CNN Turn Up The Boos During Michael Moore’s Speech?
Michael Moore At The Oscars: ABC’s Live Audio vs. CNN’s Re-broadcast
This is a quote from my introduction:
…I decided to help Ellison Horne out by digitizing and posting his video footage on the internet so the debate over this issue could begin, and so we could all look over the evidence together in order to determine whether or not the audio track was altered in the CNN rebroadcast…
This is a quote from Ellison’s introduction:
I’m urgently calling for an investigation of the broadcast by CNN and CNN Headline News’s reporting of Michael Moore’s acceptance speech last month at the Academy Awards.
CNN and CNN Headline News aired a significantly different audio response to Mr. Moore’s speech than was orginally broadcasted on ABC.
It seems that someone has manipulated the audio to give the impression there was constant loud “booing” throughout Moore’s speech, when in reality, there was only marginal booing often overridden with cheers and applause.
This needs to be fully investigated.
Michael Moore plans Bush-bin Laden film
“The senior Bush kept his ties with the bin Laden family up until two months after Sept. 11,” said Moore.
Moore told Variety the primary focus of the new project will be to examine what has happened to the United States since the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. He accused the Bush administration of using a tragic event to push its agenda.
“It (the new project) certainly does deal with the Bush and bin Laden ties,” said Moore. “It asks a number of questions that I don’t have the answers to yet, but which I intend to find out.”
Moore said he expects the new movie to be in U.S. theaters in time for the 2004 presidential election…
“I expressed exactly what was in the film and instead of being blacklisted, I’ve not only gotten a deal to fund ‘Fahrenheit 911’ but offers on the film after,” he said. “Presales on (‘Bowling for Columbine’s’) video release ran ahead of ‘Chicago’ this week, and my book is returning to the top spot on the New York Times best-seller list.”
Moore said the success of his documentary and book reflects majority public support for his political argument.
“It’s because the majority of Americans agree with me, see the economy in the toilet and didn’t vote for George W,” he said. “People are now realizing you can question your government while still caring about the soldiers.”
Ha! Another media disinformation campaign. A friend was telling me how he was hearing that “everyone was booing” when Moore took advantage of this rare opportunity to sneak some truth out to the nation.
You can listen and decide for yourself, but I hear as much clapping as booing as our fearless leader, right on schedule, says what needed to be said.
I don’t even know if this is a complete clip yet, but I wanted to make it available for you asap: Michael Moore At The Oscars
There’s a video stream of Q and A with Michael afterwards here too.
(Thanks to The Rattler and Kevin Burton for help finding this stuff.)
A Letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush on the Eve of War
By Micheal Moore.
2. The majority of Americans — the ones who never elected you — are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. We know what the real issues are that affect our daily lives — and none of them begin with I or end in Q. Here’s what threatens us: two and a half million jobs lost since you took office, the stock market having become a cruel joke, no one knowing if their retirement funds are going to be there, gas now costs almost two dollars — the list goes on and on. Bombing Iraq will not make any of this go away. Only you need to go away for things to improve.
3. As Bill Maher said last week, how bad do you have to suck to lose a popularity contest with Saddam Hussein? The whole world is against you, Mr. Bush. Count your fellow Americans among them.
4. The Pope has said this war is wrong, that it is a SIN. The Pope! But even worse, the Dixie Chicks have now come out against you! How bad does it have to get before you realize that you are an army of one on this war? Of course, this is a war you personally won’t have to fight. Just like when you went AWOL while the poor were shipped to Vietnam in your place.
5. Of the 535 members of Congress, only ONE (Sen. Johnson of South Dakota) has an enlisted son or daughter in the armed forces! If you really want to stand up for America, please send your twin daughters over to Kuwait right now and let them don their chemical warfare suits. And let’s see every member of Congress with a child of military age also sacrifice their kids for this war effort. What’s that you say? You don’t THINK so? Well, hey, guess what — we don’t think so either!
…Well, cheer up — there IS good news. If you do go through with this war, more than likely it will be over soon because I’m guessing there aren’t a lot of Iraqis willing to lay down their lives to protect Saddam Hussein. After you “win” the war, you will enjoy a huge bump in the popularity polls as everyone loves a winner — and who doesn’t like to see a good ass-whoopin’ every now and then (especially when it ‘s some third world ass!). So try your best to ride this victory all the way to next year’s election. Of course, that’s still a long ways away, so we’ll all get to have a good hardy-har-har while we watch the economy sink even further down the toilet!
Two of my favorite people on the same stage together.
Michael Moore On The Daily Show (Med-res 46 MB)
Michael Moore On The Daily Show (Lo-res 30 MB)
Audio – Michael Moore On The Daily Show (MP3 Hi-res 9 MB)
Audio – Michael Moore On The Daily Show (MP3 Lo-res 5 MB)
For those of you on dial-up lines, I’ve split the low resolution files into two smaller parts (of the low resolution files).
Michael Moore On The Daily Show – Part 1 of 2 (Lo-res 14 MB)
Audio – Michael Moore On The Daily Show – Part 1 of 2 (MP3 Lo-res 2 MB)
Michael Moore On The Daily Show – Part 2 of 2 (Lo-res 16 MB)
Audio – Michael Moore On The Daily Show – Part 2 of 2 (MP3 Lo-res 3 MB)
Bit Chat: Michael Moore
The controversial filmmaker crusades to save the Internet from corporate control.
By Dave Roos for Tech TV.
(Thanks, Cory!)
One of Moore’s greatest fears is that the Internet will come under the same corporate onslaught as FM radio. It’s hard for many of us to imagine, but FM radio used to be a lot like the Web. It was open, inexpensive, and independent. The music was all that mattered.
“Then they sucked the life right out of it,” Moore growls, referring of course to the corporate interests that bought out the FM frequency in the 1970s. The result is mind-numbing musical homogeneity. “It doesn’t matter where you go today,” Moore laments. “The FM station in St. Louis sounds like the FM station in Tampa.”
The same fate could await the Web. “Sooner or later,” Moore warns, “the forces of capitalism are going to say, ‘Wait a minute, this should only be about making money. If it’s not making us money, it shouldn’t be on the Internet.’ We have to prevent that from happening.”
