'30 Days' with Morgan Spurlock

[Safeway]

People really get wrapped up in all this. The point of him doing it is to make money.

 

[UNCjigga]

Anyone watch today's episode? OMG that 'doctor' prescribing all the injections and pills just looked like a total hack! That was scary when he went to the spermologist the 2nd time around!

 

[rahvin]

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
Anyone watch today's episode? OMG that 'doctor' prescribing all the injections and pills just looked like a total hack! That was scary when he went to the spermologist the 2nd time around!

Actually Amused would have enjoyed the episode I think, contrary to how much he hates spurlock. (Honestly Amused, you are intelligent enough to see through his propganda and the shows have been interesting, after seeing the minimum wage one I set a season pass on the Tivo for it and I agree with you completely about supersize me). That doctor was a complete quack, taking testosterone injections, HGH and all those suppliments was just really bad mojo. The guy is lucky he didn't have liver failure. I particularly liked where he asked the professional body builders opinion and he told him to stop all the BS injections and suppliments and do it the natural way.

 

[RadioHead84]

Umm I am not going to read all of this since its 6 pages deep but i did catch the end of the 30 days thing on min wage.

I watched super size me and I liked it. I thought it was a interesting thing to watch and makes me not want to eat fast food anymore. The reason i dont is that it really points out how bad it is for you..but really..NO ONE is going to eat that stuff every single day for every meal. THe facts he spews out and the effect it has on his body is because he is doing it more then anyone ever would. ANYTHING in overdose will be bad for you.


On the min wage thing i thought it was interesting and it shows a good point that its hard to live on min wage but that ending speach was terrible! He talks about how it effected him an everything and encourages everyone else to go out and do the same thing to see how hard it is. thats EASY for him to say when he is getting paid lots of money....for going..on min wage. He knows he only has 30 days of min wage to go through then he goes back to getting paid probably VERY well.

In review I think his shows bring up good points that need to be addressed like the min wage and fast food/diet but it does it in a VERY over dramatic way much like a bowling for columbine kind of thing.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

The second episode was good also.
Horrible that the guy started shooting blanks! It's so funny how spurlock went to tijuna for drugs. My grandparents used to do that long time ago, buy prescriptions over the border at a lower cost.

Next weeks episode with the Muslims topic will be interesting, i like the preview " did he just give me the finger... no it was a peace sign."

 

[mcvickj]

Boy did that guys wife look pissed after the 2nd visit to the sperm center. I wasn't at all suprised at how easy it was to buy that stuff down in Mexico. I'm sure I'll watch the show next week but I'm not sure how intersting it will be.

 

[hevnsnt]

I tried to watch the second one, but that dudes wife made me want to jump through the TV and punch her. God, he needs to get HER in check before he worries about himself.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: hevnsnt
I tried to watch the second one, but that dudes wife made me want to jump through the TV and punch her. God, he needs to get HER in check before he worries about himself.

yeah she was annoying. He should have run off with the personal trainer.

 

[mcvickj]

Originally posted by: Jnetty99

Originally posted by: hevnsnt
I tried to watch the second one, but that dudes wife made me want to jump through the TV and punch her. God, he needs to get HER in check before he worries about himself.

yeah she was annoying. He should have run off with the personal trainer.

lol. My roommate said the same thing during the show.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: Jnetty99

Originally posted by: hevnsnt
I tried to watch the second one, but that dudes wife made me want to jump through the TV and punch her. God, he needs to get HER in check before he worries about himself.

yeah she was annoying. He should have run off with the personal trainer.

:thumbsup: The trainer seemed like she was clashing with the wife, LOL. Stupid cow (the wife)

I thought it was funny how it killed his sperm, dumbass deserves it for trying that sh!t. He lost like 17lbs or whatever in 21 days, but I bet you that was almost ALL because of his exercise and healtier diet; not those horomones & sh!t. Just eat healthy, exercise, and take some multi-vitamins. Fvck people, this isn't rocket science!!?!?!?!

 

[Queasy]

Review of the next show from OpinionJournal.com.

Last year, I received a request to appear on Mr. Spurlock's new reality show, "30 Days." The episode for which I was being recruited, "Inside an American Muslim Family," airs next Wednesday. It features Mr. Spurlock's childhood friend from West Virginia, David Stacy, spending 30 days "living as a Muslim" in the Detroit area.

While Mr. Spurlock is often referred to as a journalist, and touts "30 Days" as a "documentary," the outcome of the show was decided before production began. A show summary sent to me before taping said: "This process aims to deconstruct common misconceptions and stereotypes. . . . Our character will learn firsthand about Islam and the daily issues that . . . Muslims in America face today. The viewers will witness our character emerge from the immersion situation with a deeper understanding and appreciation for the Muslim-American experience. . . . The potential is great for this program to enlighten a national television audience about the Muslim American experience and increase their compassion, understanding and support."
...
I asked the show's executive producers--all of whom worked on "The Awful Truth With Michael Moore," a cable TV show--how this could be a documentary when they had decided the outcome in advance. Wasn't it possible that Mr. Stacy would come out seeing that there isn't Islamophobia to the extent that the Muslim community claims? Might he see that there is disturbingly strong support in the Detroit-area Islamic community for terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah--a fact regularly documented even in the normally pliant Detroit media?

No, the producers told me. "Morgan wants the show to demonstrate to America that we are Islamophobic and that 9/11's biggest victims are Muslims." With this in mind, I agreed to be filmed only with final approval of my appearance, which I never gave. Thus I will not appear in Wednesday's show.

When I met David Stacy, about halfway through his 30-day experience, I was amazed at how uninformed he was. This new "expert" on Islam never heard of Wahhabism--the extremist Sunni strain of Islam that dominates Saudi Arabia and informs the terrorist-breeding madrassa schools throughout Arab and other Muslim lands. He was unfamiliar with groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. He did not believe me when I told him that Hezbollah had murdered hundreds of U.S. Marines and civilians in Beirut and elsewhere. He seemed mystified to learn that President Bush shut down American Islamic charities, like the Holy Land Foundation and Global Relief Foundation, for funding Hamas and al Qaeda.

In Mr. Stacy, it is clear, Mr. Spurlock had found the perfect tabula rasa. He had also found the perfect "experts" and "key members" of Detroit's Islamic community to educate him. One such was Muqtedar Khan, a professor at Adrian College whose occasional columns in the Detroit News and elsewhere have urged us to understand how devout Muslims can be driven to commit terrorism because of the West's economic alliances.

Mr. Stacy was also taught by Imam Hassan Qazwini of Dearborn's Islamic Center of America, the largest mosque in North America. In November 1998, Mr. Qazwini's mosque hosted Louis Farrakhan, who was introduced as "our dear brother" and "a freedom fighter." I was there and watched Mr. Qazwini cheer on Mr. Farrakhan's attacks on America and his descriptions of Jews as "evil" and "forces of Satan."

When I told Mr. Spurlock's executive producer that I felt David Stacy was, well, a moron, she replied that Imam Husham Al-Husainy, a prominent Dearborn Shia cleric, "said the same thing" and refused to continue teaching him about Islam for the show. The biggest morons, though, will be not Mr. Stacy but the critics and viewers who fall for this supersized phony "documentary."

 

[0roo0roo]

must be spurlocks 2nd wife... he's got two kids? shes way too young

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Review of the next show from OpinionJournal.com.

Last year, I received a request to appear on Mr. Spurlock's new reality show, "30 Days." The episode for which I was being recruited, "Inside an American Muslim Family," airs next Wednesday. It features Mr. Spurlock's childhood friend from West Virginia, David Stacy, spending 30 days "living as a Muslim" in the Detroit area.

While Mr. Spurlock is often referred to as a journalist, and touts "30 Days" as a "documentary," the outcome of the show was decided before production began. A show summary sent to me before taping said: "This process aims to deconstruct common misconceptions and stereotypes. . . . Our character will learn firsthand about Islam and the daily issues that . . . Muslims in America face today. The viewers will witness our character emerge from the immersion situation with a deeper understanding and appreciation for the Muslim-American experience. . . . The potential is great for this program to enlighten a national television audience about the Muslim American experience and increase their compassion, understanding and support."
...
I asked the show's executive producers--all of whom worked on "The Awful Truth With Michael Moore," a cable TV show--how this could be a documentary when they had decided the outcome in advance. Wasn't it possible that Mr. Stacy would come out seeing that there isn't Islamophobia to the extent that the Muslim community claims? Might he see that there is disturbingly strong support in the Detroit-area Islamic community for terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah--a fact regularly documented even in the normally pliant Detroit media?

No, the producers told me. "Morgan wants the show to demonstrate to America that we are Islamophobic and that 9/11's biggest victims are Muslims." With this in mind, I agreed to be filmed only with final approval of my appearance, which I never gave. Thus I will not appear in Wednesday's show.

When I met David Stacy, about halfway through his 30-day experience, I was amazed at how uninformed he was. This new "expert" on Islam never heard of Wahhabism--the extremist Sunni strain of Islam that dominates Saudi Arabia and informs the terrorist-breeding madrassa schools throughout Arab and other Muslim lands. He was unfamiliar with groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. He did not believe me when I told him that Hezbollah had murdered hundreds of U.S. Marines and civilians in Beirut and elsewhere. He seemed mystified to learn that President Bush shut down American Islamic charities, like the Holy Land Foundation and Global Relief Foundation, for funding Hamas and al Qaeda.

In Mr. Stacy, it is clear, Mr. Spurlock had found the perfect tabula rasa. He had also found the perfect "experts" and "key members" of Detroit's Islamic community to educate him. One such was Muqtedar Khan, a professor at Adrian College whose occasional columns in the Detroit News and elsewhere have urged us to understand how devout Muslims can be driven to commit terrorism because of the West's economic alliances.

Mr. Stacy was also taught by Imam Hassan Qazwini of Dearborn's Islamic Center of America, the largest mosque in North America. In November 1998, Mr. Qazwini's mosque hosted Louis Farrakhan, who was introduced as "our dear brother" and "a freedom fighter." I was there and watched Mr. Qazwini cheer on Mr. Farrakhan's attacks on America and his descriptions of Jews as "evil" and "forces of Satan."

When I told Mr. Spurlock's executive producer that I felt David Stacy was, well, a moron, she replied that Imam Husham Al-Husainy, a prominent Dearborn Shia cleric, "said the same thing" and refused to continue teaching him about Islam for the show. The biggest morons, though, will be not Mr. Stacy but the critics and viewers who fall for this supersized phony "documentary."

Yep. A Micheal Moore wanna be with propaganda billed as documentaries.

And yet, the real morons are those who fall for Spurlock's BS.

 

[iamwiz82]

I may watch the next episode just to see the Detroit area

 

[iamwiz82]

Anyone watching today? I am in that part of Howell, MI quite often.

 

[Jassi]

I forgot it was on and I missed it. Do the repeat it during the week?