From: mark.jacobs@custserv.com   
      
   SWMyers wrote:   
      
   > Disney is actually DEMONSTRATING free speech, they don't want their   
   > corporate image to be associated with Michael Moore's trash. Moore's films   
   > have limited commercial appeal and it would be wasteful for Disney to   
   > spend corporate dollars promoting and distributing something that has   
   > limited appeal. Moore generally has other problems such as a factual   
   > presentation of the subject, "Bowling for Columbine" was treated as a   
   > documentary but at best is a fictional account of a real event. The   
   > material used in his books has also been dismissed as fabrication by the   
   > people that are represented as well as by legitimate journalists that have   
   > researched the subjects. Michael Moore can distribute his own film for   
   > seek other partners for that role, Disney isn't required to finance anyone   
   > and everyone that may have a message or an axe to grind with someone else.   
   > He's sometimes entertaining, but that doesn't automatically give him   
   > access to Walt's Vault.   
      
   The real question about Disney's motives would be to ask yourself if they   
   would choose not to distribute a film called "George W. Bush, the greatest   
   president since George Washington". I bet they wouldn't hesitate a minute.   
      
   We in the country have free speech, you are free to set up a printing press   
   (or laser printer) and publish to your hearts content. That worked in the   
   1700's. In todays world no one would hear your voice. If the large media   
   companies have the ability to pick and choose what side, i.e. one side, of   
   any issue, we the people have lost our ability to decide for ourselves what   
   we want to see, what we want to learn, what positions we take on important   
   issues.   
      
   This is the country we are living in now, it is not the USA I grew up in and   
   want to live in the future.   
   --   
   Mark Jacobs   
   ----   
   "Why, of course, the people don't want war, voice or no voice, the people   
   can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders . . . All you have to   
   do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifist for lack   
   of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any   
   country."   
      
   -Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg war-crimes tribunal.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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