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Scott Ott's Examiner Scrappleface: Obama to lobby academy for Michael Moore Oscar

By: Scott Ott
Examiner Columnist
October 6, 2009

News fairly unbalanced. We report. You decipher.

Just days after his personal pitch failed to secure the 2016 Olympic Games for Chicago, President Obama will reportedly "get right back up on that horse" and personally lobby the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in an effort to get an Oscar for Michael Moore's last film.

Moore's documentary, "Capitalism: A Love Story," chronicles the adventures of the multimillionaire director as he seeks to prove that the system that made him rich and famous is immoral, and a failure.

The president, the first lady, Oprah Winfrey and the entire cast of the Broadway musical "Mamma Mia!" will fly to Los Angeles aboard passenger jets with the call signs Air Force One through Seven, to make a multimedia presentation to a meeting of academy members.

Last week, Obama reportedly cut short a meeting in Copenhagen with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, to take in a private screening of "Capitalism."

"While the president still has double-digit popularity, he needs to spend it in support of his agenda," said an unnamed top White House official. "Michael Moore couldn't have done a more effective job of visualizing the talking points if we had given him a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts ... although I'm not sure we didn't do that. If we can get this baby an Oscar, then perhaps some people who don't wear hemp will actually rent the DVD next year."

The director of "Roger & Me," "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Sicko," is reportedly already at work on his next movie, a sardonic take-down of the documentary film industry, which Moore contends has become "little more than a conduit for leftist propaganda."

Examiner Columnist Scott Ott is editor in chief of ScrappleFace.com, the world's leading family-friendly news satire source.



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TheHempcCloud.com

Oct 6, 2009

This is pretty suprising as I expect the film to be scathing of the way capitalism works.
It is also nice to see that "unnamed top White House official" admits that there is an American hemp economy. ;)

 

Mike

Oct 6, 2009

I just threw up in my mouth.

 

gafisher

Oct 6, 2009

I'm waiting for Moore to take on the diet and fitness industry. Oh, and then Cardiac Intensive Care.

 

Whitney

Oct 6, 2009

I'm glad Mr. Obama has time to seek out Oscar nominations for his friends but doesn't have time to read the bill upon which his entire political career hangs.

 

RAM

Oct 6, 2009

Yes gafisher, this will also give Obama the opportunity to inform Moore AND Oprah that they will have to pay a 29 million dollar co-pay to offset their unhealthy lifestyles.

Never mind Obama's smoking and his fat wife, being hypocrites the same rules will NEVER apply to them.

 

ladybug

Oct 6, 2009

I'm still trying to decipher whether this is all true, partially true, or all made up. Hmm, when reality and make believe flow together.

 

Charlie

Oct 6, 2009

Who thought it would be a good idea to post this fabricated story? Unquestionably someone who has no idea how serious the situation in this country is. The writer apparently thinks that the country being spent into oblivion isn't a serious enough issue to cover when he can show just how clever they are by writing this ridiculous article. Grow up and at the same time get a new job as this paper is performing a valuable service as this country is facing a very serious time.

 

Jan

Oct 6, 2009

Sounds like A GREAT NEW JOB FOR OBAMA! Then someone qualified can be president!

 

Bea

Oct 6, 2009

This article is from Scrappleface, a site well-known for its satire. In other words, it's a joke. ;)

 

bokoo143

Oct 6, 2009

Is this for real?

 

JamesonLewis3rd

Oct 6, 2009

There is a growing consensus somewhere that the Michael Moore Oscar should definitely go to Michael Moore. [Michael Moore Oscars are awarded for Heinous and/or Depraved Wastage of Film]
He is, after all, a Poster Man for Obsequious Narcissism.

 


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