Michael Moore hammers Rush Limbaugh

WorldNetDaily ^ | 10/21/03

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Author and filmmaker Michael Moore preached to the choir at two sold-out performances in Santa Cruz, Calif., using the opportunity to hammer talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh and President Bush, as well as discuss potential Democratic candidates for the White House.

On Sunday, Moore's book tour/political pep rally rolled into the traditionally liberal town for shows at the Civic Auditorium, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

"Would it hurt your feelings if I tell you that we had 3,000 more in Baltimore?" he asked the first crowd, according to the paper.

"That's the good news: It's not just Santa Cruz anymore! There's been this huge shift, folks. Ah, man, Bush is in a lot of trouble,'' said Moore, to the approval of his fans.

According to the report, Moore's latest book, "Dude, Where's My Country?'' is scheduled to appear at No. 1 on the New York Times non-fiction best-seller list next week.

"Sales in northern California are phenomenal,'' Tom McIntyre of Warner Books, Moore's publisher, told the paper. "This is the absolute epicenter of Michael Moore.''

Moore's ongoing battle with Bush began earlier this year when he called him a "fictitious president" in a speech accepting an Academy Award for the film "Bowling for Columbine."

The author's California appearances have drawn thousands of like-minded Bush opponents.

Said the Mercury News: "Moore is more like a preacher than a media figure, his fans more like a congregation than an audience."

Moore had some choice words for Limbaugh, who is in the midst of a 30-day treatment program for an addiction to painkillers.

"Three days after my book came out, Rush Limbaugh had to check himself into a rehab center,'' Moore said, according to the paper. "I'd like to take credit for that. ... It's painful being an angry white guy. I know I should be more understanding, but not for Rush Limbaugh.''

Moore says he agrees with liberal Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich "100 percent," and of Howard Dean, he says, "He's a good man."

According to the report, Moore sees a silver lining in the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as California governor.

"For the last 20 or so years, Democrats have had to keep moving to the right in order to get elected ... guys like Gray Davis, a Republican pretending he's a Democrat," the paper quotes him as saying. "And Arnold, for the first time'' demonstrates "that the Republicans have got to become more liberal to get elected.''

As WorldNetDaily reported, Moore failed to meet the submission requirements of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences when nominating "Bowling for Columbine" for an Oscar. Also, critics of the filmmaker have called on the academy to investigate whether Moore fabricated scenes in the movie.

[goldstategop]

Michael Moore's on drugs. Arnold ran as a fiscal conservative not as a social liberal. He said proudly he was a conservative at the GOP state convention in September. I have yet to meet a liberal who will tell his party he's proud of being a liberal. Keep it up Mike!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Moore's rehab clinic is Krispy Kreme.

What a Loser. Anyone who thinks that dingleberry isn't on something is high.

[stainlessbanner]

"I'd like to take credit for that"

He admits he's supplying drugs?

[b4its2late]

Let him keep talking. He's burying himself.

[goldstategop]

He doesn't hold a candle next to Rush. Talk about making fun of someone who can't counter his accusations. Then again its just like liberals these days to hit below the belt!

[goodnesswins]

LOL...I did NOT even know he wrote a book...and it's going to be on the NY Slimes list? Let Mooremouth keep mouthing off.....the demise of the Dem party continues....if this is one of "theirs"....LOL...LOL

[HELLRAISER II]

What a POS, I would love for this prick to come to small town Georgia where we could him a piece of our mind, and our foot on his er well you know.

[kidd]

...According to the report, Moore's latest book, "Dude, Where's My Country?'' is scheduled to appear at No. 1 on the New York Times non-fiction best-seller list next week...

I've always thought that the position on the best seller list was based on sales. I thus found it odd that Moore's book is scheduled to be #1 on the list.

[sauropod]

Who weighs more? Michael Moore!

[dogbyte12]

Should be a very virulent campaign season. The top 3 books on the NY Times best seller list this week are...

1. Dude Where's My Country--Michael Moore
2. Who's Looking out For You--Bill O'Reilly
3. Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell them--Al Franken

The election is going to be polarized, nasty, and long. Part of this is all BS though. If 1 in 400 americans buy a book in a week, it is #1 on the list. Most people don't read these books. Those of us into politics falsely believe that americans give a damn about Mike Moore, Bill O'Reilly or Al Franken. The truth be told, 99% of people don't care what any of em say.

[jetson]

I think Michael Moore and Hillary ought to join forces and put together a REAL road show act!

[Woahhs]

I've got to admit, I didn't even read the article. I'm just responding to the preposterous title!

When I think of MOOre "hammering" Limbaugh, I think of a mouse bragging to all his mouse buddies about how he "had his way" with that female rhinoceros. It may, in fact, be true...but would the rhino notice?

[tdadams]

Moore says he agrees with liberal Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich "100 percent,"

I'm not sure that's an endorsement any candidate would welcome.

[Tired_of_the_Lies]

Thanks. I was wondering what Moore's twisted rationale for that statement was.

[mhking]

Michael Moore is a poster child for retroactive abortion...

[alloysteel]

Aw, you wouldn't want to soil your boots by stomping him and kicking his sorry butt from Moultrie to Waycross to Athens to Atlanta and back to Moultrie. It is tiring work and changes nothing.

Now, burying him in a hill of fire ants....would turn fire ants into useful creatures.

[Let's Roll]

Yeah, a week or so ago, there was a flap on FR because MM had called Rush fat and ugly. For MM to call someone - anyone - else, fat and ugly is pretty funny.

[Tired_of_the_Lies]

Good catch. I missed that tidbit. The San Jose Mercury News appears to have inadvertantly slipped into reality for a moment.

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Can someone please post the obligatory Michael Moore pigface photo? Thanks.