Posted on 10/18/2018 8:07:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It falls to Michael Moore’s empty stomach to help explain to me the difference between hope and optimism. “Right now, I’m hoping that somebody will feed me today,” he says. But that hope is passive. It may whet his appetite, but the disappointment will be all the more crushing if it isn’t satisfied. On the other hand, he explains, optimism is constructive, strategic. “I’m in a first world country, and somewhere I have a wallet with a credit card and some money in it. So the optimist in me has credibility, because it’s safe to say I will eat. Does that make any sense?” I mull it over, and I think so. While hope is passive, optimism determines the actions we will take.
Throughout our conversation – mostly in a London hotel as he munches on vegetarian dumplings – he scrambles around for these illustrations: some work, some don’t, sometimes he gets lost down a rabbit hole. But it is an insight into the mind of one of the western left’s great communicators: an almost obsessive desire to popularise political issues and causes, to trigger an emotional reaction among audiences that spurs them into action.
For young leftists, myself included, Moore’s work was something of a political life-raft back in an era when the traditional left was all but sunk. Fahrenheit 9/11 – his indictment of George W Bush’s so-called war on terror – courageously advanced otherwise marginalised ideas: it suggested that a proposed gas pipeline through Afghanistan may have played a role in the war, and noted links between the Bush administration and the Saudi regime....
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Ha!
Trump got Elizabeth Warren to disprove her own ancestry claims. Now Michael Moore is writing fat jokes about himself.
What happened to Moore’s pledge to bring 1 MILLION people to DC to prevent a vote on Kavanaugh? From what I saw he fell about 999,800 short.
The man only the media notices.
“Right now, I’m hoping that somebody will feed me today,”
He could live five years on his stored fat. Maybe even seven years.
That stomach has never been empty. You could feed Africa on what Moore packs in every day.
This fat tub of crap is a heart attack waiting to happen.
Michael Moore starting as Peter
“He met with Francis yesterday or the day before.”
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The pope or the talking mule?
Never mind....they’re one and the same.
“It falls to Michael Moore’s empty stomach...”
Stopped reading right there.
the left continues to have delusions about themselves as well as the people of our country.....
Great weight does not equal great power, no matter how much you eat and talk with your mouth full.
Michael, go eat another burger.
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Obsessive desire to popularize causes?
How about an obsessive desire to corner the market for fake documentaries that make him a ton of money to support buying mansions and feeding himself like Jabba?
One of Mike’s farts has the power to crush legions.
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