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Why Michael Moore is irrelevant in the age of Trump
NY Post ^ | 10/13/2018 | Kyle Smith

Posted on 10/13/2018 12:42:01 PM PDT by simpson96

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Too bad it took 30 years, but a leader like Trump made it happen.
1 posted on 10/13/2018 12:42:01 PM PDT by simpson96
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Big fat socialist are on the out in America?


2 posted on 10/13/2018 12:46:01 PM PDT by Leep (Thanks)
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📽🎞🎬. Nah. He was always irrelevant to a lot of us discerning folks from day one. Kinda like Obxxx but with less power. 👹
3 posted on 10/13/2018 12:46:28 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Excuse Big fat RICH socialist are on the out in America?


4 posted on 10/13/2018 12:46:57 PM PDT by Leep (Thanks)
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Excuse me..Big fat RICH socialist are on the out in America?

K, I will stop editing now.


5 posted on 10/13/2018 12:48:10 PM PDT by Leep (Thanks)
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Moore has been irrelevant for a long time.


6 posted on 10/13/2018 12:48:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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JOBS not BLOBS


7 posted on 10/13/2018 12:51:12 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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Somebody needs to tell Moore that.


8 posted on 10/13/2018 12:52:32 PM PDT by Innovative
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My Economics teacher made us watch Roger & Me in 1994.


9 posted on 10/13/2018 12:54:25 PM PDT by conservative98
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That’s the last time he was relevant to me. 24 years ago.


10 posted on 10/13/2018 12:56:57 PM PDT by conservative98
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Holy moley, is this photoshopped?


11 posted on 10/13/2018 12:56:58 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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“Jobs”? Don’t you mean “Jabba” as in Jabba The Hutt? :P


12 posted on 10/13/2018 1:02:32 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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I hear his new movie is called “Son of Moby Dick...an autobiography.


13 posted on 10/13/2018 1:07:32 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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It’s a sad reality for the man who once considered himself General Motors’ greatest scourge,

Nothing sad about this.

Is the fat man entitled to spew hate and venom? No one is interested in his 'work'.

14 posted on 10/13/2018 1:08:38 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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It’s a sad reality for the man who once considered himself General Motors’ greatest scourge, but, to steal a phrase, General Motors is alive and Michael Moore is dead.

"Roger and Me" is about Moore running around trying to get GM executives to care about the cities and people who were being devastated by GM closing auto plants and moving them offshore. Since then, one man has a plan to bring those factories back, and is acting on it. That is Donald Trump. What does Michael Moore think? He hates Trump and fights against him. Moore is the biggest hypocrite in the media.

15 posted on 10/13/2018 1:13:50 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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For a realistic look at Flint and Moore’s relation to it, I recommend the book “Rivethead” by Ben Hamper. Hamper actually worked the assembly lines for years (unlike Moore), and made it clear that Flint had been in a slow decline long before the events of “Roger and Me”.

As to Moore’s fading from relevance, he irretrievably associated himself early on with the blue-collar voters that the Democrats have since thrown aside in favor of identity politics and urban snobbery. Witness his speech describing Trump’s election as “the biggest eff you in recorded history”...it explained the Rust Belt’s votes, but went ignored.


16 posted on 10/13/2018 1:15:18 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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Michael Moore set the record for the highest-grossing documentary of all time (1989’s “Roger & Me”).

That was the only movie of his that I have seen. He did a good job of skewering GM and the lame efforts of Detriot's politicians to rejuvenate the city after the massive layoffs.

There was one absolutely scathing scene at an upper management party where they used some of the just-fired employees as "living statues" for the event.

It's still one to watch.

17 posted on 10/13/2018 1:16:40 PM PDT by Oatka
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It’s a sad reality for the man who once considered himself General Motors’ greatest scourge, but, to steal a phrase, General Motors is alive and Michael Moore is dead.

How well is GM doing? They certainly aren't what they used to be.

18 posted on 10/13/2018 1:20:47 PM PDT by x
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Hamper described Moore himself as a lifelong troublemaker who stood out as a “radical” (posturing or otherwise) in blue-collar, Catholic Flint. Once he headed off to the big leagues at Mother Jones, Moore realized he was a small fish in the huge California pond, and kept looking for reasons to come back to his old BMOC grounds in Flint...needless to say, his bosses at Mother Jones didn’t appreciate his absence from the office.


19 posted on 10/13/2018 1:25:18 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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His comments in Michigan before the election about Trump and why Trump would win was priceless and helped Trump win.Great video


20 posted on 10/13/2018 1:28:24 PM PDT by cnsmom
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