Michael Moore In Boston

Foghorn Leghorn the loud mouth schnook strikes again, wordy and blathering on and on. He's a consummate propagandist, loud with an inflated ego and a target that he can righteously demonize. Media made him a multi-millionaire so don't expect his proselytizing to be too serious, he just wants to bask in the glow. Canada could easily do without his faint praise and if his Democratic party buddies win, Canada will certainly do without the movie production business and those pesky high-paying jobs that come with it. Our hero Ben Affleck will be cashing in his favours to John Kerry and get the law on his side to produce Hollywood flicks only in Hollywood, supported by Mike Moore no doubt. Leni Riefenstahl was a 'documentarian' too....

From what you have said here it's not even apparent that you read the article, as the only thing you are contributing here is calling people names and innuendo about their character and motives. If you did read it and disagree with it in whole or in part let's hear exactly what it is you disagree with and why with some reasonable and logical argument. Otherwise, I think your comments here can simply be dismissed as coming from a person who simply refuses to make any effort to inform themselves and is therefore in capable of properly engaging in such discussion.

From what you have said here it's not even apparent that you read the article, as the only thing you are contributing here is calling people names and innuendo about their character and motives. If you did read it and disagree with it in whole or in part let's hear exactly what it is you disagree with and why with some reasonable and logical argument. Otherwise, I think your comments here can simply be dismissed as coming from a person who simply refuses to make any effort to inform themselves and is therefore in incapable of properly engaging in such discussion.

>Media made him a multi-millionaire so don't expect his proselytizing to be too serious, he just wants to bask in the glow. <p>Ya, I remember James Woods foaming at the mouth about Moore one night, on Leno I think, and the millions he made propagandising. Next day - very next day - I happened to hear Woods narrating a thingy on Palm Beach, including a bit on the estate of Rush Limbaugh and all the millions he made propagandising (abt 10 times as much as Moore). Not a hiccup. <p>Anyway, Moore's in good Republicrat compny in that regard. <p>>Canada will certainly do without the movie production business and those pesky high-paying jobs that come with it. <p>Piffling nonsense. We had a good stream of movies (not necessarily a stream of good movies) made here in Nova Scotia (eg just those handy Chester, <i>Dolores Claiborne</i>, <i>Love and Death on Long Island</i>, <i>Two if by Sea</i>, <i>Catch a Falling Star</i>) which has dried <em>right up</em> since Shrubya took command. <p><em>We're already doing without it and you can't blame it on Demopublicans.</em>

He didn't say nice things about us, he said Canada is like the Red Sox, which is a team of losers. He did say that our day will come though.

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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va

Moore is the best thing that ever happened to the US this year, along with Nader and Kucinich.

I just wish Nader could win the election.


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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
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The thing that I think offends people about Michael Moore is that he isn't a suit wearing, image of beauty as per hollywood style, and that he actually is reaching people, being the voice of many who haven't been heard for years! The fact that he made money telling it the way he sees it is just bonus, it seems that people prefer those born to wealth to have wealth and that anyone who gets it the hard way is 'bad'. He had to invest in himself to get the first movie made, he had to promote it and take the criticism, I give him credit for taking the risk. It sure beats the heck out of sitting in front of the boob tube and complaining to dead air.

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

<i>It sure beats the heck out of sitting in front of the boob tube and complaining to dead air.</i><p> Or complaining about him Anonymously on the intarweb.<p> <p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain <br />
"The greatest price of not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors." Plato

Hear! Hear!

I prefer 'perennial also-ran' to 'loser'.

But hey, if it means I got to be a Yankee to be a winner, I'll stick with the also-rans.

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"When we are in the middle of the paradigm, it is hard to imagine any other paradigm" (Adam Smith).

There are a few things about Moore's harshest critics that amuse me.

Their number one complaint is that he's rich. So what? The guy has made some money in a multi-billion dollar industry. Hey, why not? Agree with the message or not, his movies are entertaining. I wasted three hours watching "Romeo Must Die" last night and nobody is trying to crucify whoever made it.

Their number two complaint is that Moore tends to be overweight. Again, so what? Obesity is a major problem in the US and in Canada. A guy who claims to represent the people actually looks like those people? Shame on him! LOL.

Their number three complaint is that he took the easy way out and suddenly hit the big time. 'Scuse me, but Roger and Me wasn't exactly a smash hit. Moore's TV shows were bigger in Canada (on cable) than the US...not exactly a vehicle to riches there, either. He might have hit the upper middle class during that period, but he certainly hadn't hit the big time. Nobody seriously criticised him for what he was doing and if you would have asked Bill O'Reilly or Anonymous here who he was, you would have gotten a blank stare in return.

Then Stupid White Men came out. It was huge, sitting on the best seller lists for months. Moore got rich. He'd struck the right nerve at the right time and hit the jackpot. He parlayed that into even more money from more hits by saying the same basic thing he'd been saying all along.

He's a target now not because of what he's saying, but because some are afraid that people might listen. I take that as a serious sign that we should all listen.

I think that's an image thing more than anything else. Noam Chomsky & Bertrand Russell were/are in similar situations. Chomsky is really open about the fact that he makes ~$120,000/yr, I guess because someone could just look it up somewhere if they really wanted to know. I haven't heard of someone trying to call him a hypocrite for simultaneously being an anarchist & being well off. His hero, Bertrand Russell, came from a wealthy family & lived off his inheritance for many years, and he was a hardcore socialist also. I guess Moore must get treated like that since he's in a similar situation, but I don't know what any of those people would say if they were accused of being hypocrites.

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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va

The issue isn't that Moore got rich "the hard way". It's that he got rich through the very system he's been bashing in all his films and books. In that sense, he's much like the Hollywood liberal poseurs who slam capitalism from their limos.

Moore is an egotist and a propagandist, but the Canadian left just soaks up his shallow flattery. It's sad, really. The very people who bash Americans and American values all the time gush when a high-profile American pats them on the head. How ironic.

Right on.