No matter how you feel about Michael Moore’s movie, I think we can all agree on one thing- that squawky woman at the end outside the Whitehouse who says “It’s all staged!” and then challenges the woman about the veracity of her son’s death in Iraq is a grade A bitch. Does anyone know anything about her? Did she have to agree to be in the film (if so, how the hell did they pull that off?)? Has she commented at all on the film? Been run out of her neighbourhood?
Ghost-writing for Ann Coulter, I’d wager.
I think the woman was partially correct, to tell the truth. Not about the lady whose son was killed in Iraq but about the person in the tent who was doing a fake Iraqi accent. I think the woman felt like she was warning tourists about the fake Iraqi stunt (which is kind of bitchy and self-important in itself, I guess) and got caught off guard by a real mom of a real dead soldier. Even so, once she had caught on that this lady wasn’t faking, she should have shown some respect and contrition instead her bitchy remark that “well, he’s not the only one.” (which was supposed to mean what, exactly?)
Come to think of it, even though she wasn’t wrong about the staged “Iraqi” stunt, she still was a total bitch, wasn’t she?
I imagine she tells her friends she was misrepresented by Michael Moore somehow.
I don’t think that woman in the tent was doing a fake Iraqi accent, I think she’s just mentally ill and talks that way. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen her (or at least that tent) in Lafayette Park with some regularity – up until March of this year I used to work right there.
–Cliffy
Definitely. I ran across that woman a couple of times. It’s not a fake Iraqi accent so much as the woman is just mentally ill.
I see. Is she really Iraqi?
Yeah, we can agree on that.
gooti and I both REALLY dislike Michael Moore. But while watching F9/11, we agreed that bitch would look better with a shiv sticking out of her skull.
I hear she fell into lava while light-saber fighting with Obi-Wan Kenobi, and then changed her first name to “Darth”.
I don’t think so; I don’t think the movie portrayed her as such, either.
–Cliffy
My first thought when I saw that woman was - “That looks like my high school principal!” I don’t think it was, but the attitude was about the same.
It seemed to me that the thing that affected Lila most was the woman yelling “Blame it on al-Qaeda!” because right after that Lila said (something like) “People don’t know. I didn’t know. I thought I knew. I didn’t.” I took it to mean that far too many people falsely believed then (and many still believe) that Saddam and Iraq were somehow responsible for 9/11 and so we were justified in invading and occupying the country.
I didn’t even notice that the woman in the tent supposedly had an “Iraqi” accent. How many people (Americans) even know what an Iraqi accent sounds like and what makes it different from an Iranian/Jordanian/Saudi Arabian/Syrian/Turkish accent, or any other country in the Middle East? Americans are ignorant as bedposts about the Middle East, Iraq in particular. Most people can’t even distinguish between Australia and New Zealand accents. I don’t exclude myself in this. Is there something in the DVD extras that focuses more on that woman in the tent that would make you think that whatever she was doing was staged? I don’t have the DVD yet. Where’d what you say come from? I don’t care one way or the other if whatever she was doing was staged (whatever that means in this context) since Lila and the ignorant woman were the focus of the scene, I’m just curious.
I didn’t mean that I thought it really sounded like an Iraqi accent. It just sounded like she was doing some kind of weird fake voice and saying something about her children getting killed in Iraq. I thought it was supposed to be some sort of stunt by a protester. I guess I misinterpreted it.
No, I think that’s just the way that woman speaks. (I’ve never heard her speak in real life, but as I said upthread I’ve seen that tent out and it’s in the park basically every day, so the woman who sits there obviously doesn’t get a lot of human contact.)
–Cliffy
I think Michael Moore ate her.
SORRY! I couldn’t resist.
:::::::::Ducking and running::::::::
When will I ever learn to hit “preview” :smack: