Anyone who treads in the danger zone.
Posted on 05/25/2004 4:22:22 PM PDT by .cnI redruM
Michael Moore seems to have adorned himself as the paramount hegemon of modern left wing propaganda. This achievement deserves a certain grudging respect; coming from a man of no particular artistic or intellectual talent. Moore brings two intangible assets to the table and they seem to have won this man life’s jackpot. He believes in his ideals and he works very hard at what he does for a living. In most members of society these would praiseworthy attributes anyone would appreciate possessing.
The problem with Moore’s professional achievements exists because they come at a cost. Not a cost to Michael Moore, I doubt his skipped a buffet anytime this month, but rather to society as a whole. Moore’s films project his nihilism and moves society towards the vision of his movies. He views the world as an ineluctable conspiracy of the privileged and then wallows in privilege like Commodus, The Vile Roman Despot.
Michael Moore cannot profoundly hurt Roger Smith, President Bush or even the principal of Columbine High School. These people suffer less from Michael Moore’s detestable demagoguery of demonization than the audiences who sit in the theatre and listen. These audiences listen and feed on all the reasons to quit.
Reason unabated by faith does not provide the vitality a person needs to work hard towards a goal. The world of Michael Moore is one of nihilistic twilight. A man who disbelieves in everything, doesn’t have any ground left to stand on. Michael Moore tells the audience that everyone and everything is corrupt and contemptible. The cynicism of Michael Moore will never defeat a giant. It will only convince “the little guy” that he’s an utterly powerless midget.
Moore ridicules to destroy, but never has a positive or even a palatable alternative. He portrays a world of excrement and won’t even give it credit for making the grass grow green. I have never seen nor heard any positive content from a Michael Moore crockumentary.
It’s not so much his beliefs that are inherently evil. Samuel Gompers and Albert Schweitzer both believed in causes that could easily be construed as liberal in nature. What truly renders Michael Moore a corpulent coprophage of corruption, is the unremitting hate and negativity.
The negative-minded will always steal oxygen from the left, right and center of the political and ideological spectrums. The tragedy accompanying Michael Moore’s masochistic methodology is that it works. The world once required at least some positive and uplifting content from it’s entertainers.
Michael Moore flushes he entire world down his horrendous, unsanitary toilet. The judges at Cannes liked the ride enough to hand him a Golden Palm. What does this say about them? What does that do to the rest of us?
Baltodog calls Micheal Moore "honest fiction".
Michael Moore, the democrat's Joseph Goebels
I like your rant!
Lexicographically pleasing and cogent.
The epidemiologic classification of the Moore effect may not yet be known to human science, and a cure may not be available in our lifetime,unless his ends before ours.
More like Joseph Gobbles
I understand how you feel. What about me? I am the daughter of an 89 year old german born anarchist mother who thinks Michael Moore is wonderful. She told me yesterday she can't wait to see his new film. I have come to the conclusion that this despicable tub of lard is loved by all who hate the US. Why does my mother hate the US? She was in love with a GI after WW2 who she says, abandoned her. I guess Michael Moore appeals to everyone who needs someone to blame for their perceived victimhood and stupidity. Michael Moore offers a sense of power to cowards who can not live with reality nor truth. He has learned to use an entertainment medium to preach anarchy, nothing more, nothing less.
Michael Moore is a Ralph Nader wannabe that somehow has neither the gumption nor the intellectual endowment to do the hard work of acquiring a respectable education. Like Nader, he remains willfully ignorant of any scrap of information that may conflict with his adopted view of the world. Nader has always remained pure in his motives, while Michael has traded on his prejudices for personal gain. Unlike Nader, however, Michael is not a likeable person. Michael is the boorish inebriate at the party that gets into people's faces, daring them to shut him up. He intimidates, rather than using diplomacy or dialogue, and he does not care whether the person he has offended today may be part of the crusade that takes him on tomorrow.
Soon, Michael, soon. This is like the hunt for a Saddam Hussein who doesn't have the sense to hide.
Man, ain't that the truth? The world took a dive toward Hell when it started to celebrate offensiveness.
It's kind of hard bashing the President and the war when you're parroting Michael Moore...althought that doesn't seem to be slowing them down much.
Anyone who treads in the danger zone.
"Moore feeds off negativity..."
How right you are. Michael Moore is to Negativity as a symptom is to a Disease.
I can't tell you how painful it is, having a Moore lover in my family. I thank God I am immune!
BAD NEWS: Michael, you're still an A$$hole
Great post! Any American should detest Moore.
On his international book tour, the author of “Dude, Where’s My Country?” was asked what he thought of Americans. “They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet ... in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug pricks,” he replied. “We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don’t know about anything that’s happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.”
source: MSNBC
LOL! Very well put!
That's their problem. They already hate W and pretty much hate America and themselves. Michael Moore just happens to be 'preaching to the choir' and is in a class all by himself.
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