{"id":1935,"date":"2004-05-07T02:03:10","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T09:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/05\/disneygate\/"},"modified":"2004-05-07T02:03:10","modified_gmt":"2004-05-07T09:03:10","slug":"disneygate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/07\/disneygate\/","title":{"rendered":"Disneygate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe details on Michael Moore&#8217;s Disney fraud are becoming so clear that even he <a title=\"News\" href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/americas\/story.jsp?story=518901\">can&#8217;t deny them any more:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Less than 24 hours after accusing the Walt Disney Company of pulling the plug on his latest documentary in a blatant attempt at political censorship, the rabble-rousing film-maker Michael Moore has admitted he knew a year ago that Disney had no intention of distributing it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, the New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/06\/opinion\/06THU4.html\">published an editorial bashing Disney <\/a>instead of correcting its misstatement of the facts of the matter:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Give the Walt Disney Company a gold medal for cowardice for blocking its Miramax division from distributing a film that criticizes President Bush and his family. A company that ought to be championing free expression has instead chosen to censor a documentary that clearly falls within the bounds of acceptable political commentary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Give that gold medal to the Times.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The details on Michael Moore&#8217;s Disney fraud are becoming so clear that even he can&#8217;t deny them any more: Less than 24 hours after accusing the Walt Disney Company of pulling the plug on his latest documentary in a blatant attempt at political censorship, the rabble-rousing film-maker Michael Moore has admitted he knew a year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/07\/disneygate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Disneygate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-vd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}