Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man
by David T. Hardy
and Jason Clarke
Here's my suggestion though: Photocopy a ton of the Hitchens review (or any other truth-minded article; there have been a number posted here at FR) and hand them out at the theater to the people waiting in line at the box office. Ask people politely if they'd like to hear a critique from a former Trotskyite who thinks Moore is "sophomoric" and "one of the great, sagging blimps of our sorry, mediocre, celeb-rotten culture".
Every American should see this movie
Tonight, I crafted and sent the following e-mail to Lion's Gate, to the attention of Tom Ortenberg, their head of distribution, who was quoted as proclaiming "This is a testament to Michael Moore. His voice resonates across the country in what I think we can all now fairly describe as America's movie":
At the risk of momentarily interfering with the backpatting going on at Lion's Gate over the "Fahrenheit 9/11" opening weekend numbers (against such stalwart competition as "White Chicks"), let me just tell you that, despite my fondness and high regard for "The Dead Zone" TV series, the Season 2 DVD set of which I immediately went out and bought when it became available, I will never again spend a single cent on any Lion's Gate product.
That you tout the latest piece of Michael Moore garbage as "America's movie" is as appalling and disgusting as it is laughable, yet ironically your claim is as honest as the film itself, which is to say not in the least. You must really regret not having been able to clean up by helping produce "Triumph of the Will" in the 30s and then open it nationwide across this country in, say, January of 1942. Oddly enough, that film was far more truthful in its presentation. I don't think Goebbels would have dared take the liberties with facts that Moore does on a daily basis.
Sadly, it is unfashionable to enforce our laws regarding treason these days. We have become a more tolerant nation in many ways, both good and bad. Unfortunately, our days as a nation (at least a free one) may soon be coming to an end given that so many, such as yourself and your company, have become tolerant of lies, deception and treasonous behavior, particularly during a time of war. Surely this film easily meets the standard of "aid and comfort to the enemy." At least during WWII, Goebbels and Tokyo Rose weren't operating from within our borders.
Michael Moore has compared the terrorists currently attacking our soldiers and beheading civilians to the minutemen who helped the U.S. gain its freedom during the Revolutionary War. Further, he has stated his desire that more of our soldiers be killed in order to teach us some great lesson (such as the one that Iraqis were so much happier under the thumb of Saddam Hussein and we spoiled that). He has also, on foreign soil, referred to his fellow countrymen as "possibly the dumbest humans on the planet."
How proud you must be to associate yourself with sentiments like that. "America's movie"? I think not. "America's enemies' movie" would be far closer to the truth.
I can hear your hollow defense of "free speech" and the latest in-vogue phrase of the left, "dissent is patriotic," a statement as nonsensical as the rest of what passes for logic among supporters of Moore. Dissent, in and of itself, is not patriotic. Defending the right of dissent is, but dissent itself can be composed of very unpatriotic content; and the right to dissent ends at the point of treason.
Put simply, there are no adequate words to describe my contempt for you. You and your company are the lowest of creatures. You have used your political bigotry to endanger your fellow countrymen, for you can rest assured that this film does indeed encourage the terrorists Moore so gleefully (and dishonestly) tries to link to the Bush administration. And more Americans will die as a result, whether in Iraq or on our own soil. The terrorists will not stop their killing under a John Kerry administration, however much he may try to appease or hide from them. They will continue to kill anyone, including fellow Muslims ultimately, who do not embrace their particular form of Islam.
We didn't come to Europe's aid to stop Hitler before he was able to exterminate 6,000,000 Jews (who, it's worth mentioning, are the primary target of this current insanity), and how much regret has there been over that. President Bush was not willing to wait until the numbers got that high, nor did he have to wait that long. On 9/11, we suffered another Pearl Harbor, only it was our civilians who were attacked, not our military. Yet you and your ilk attack Bush at every opportunity because, unwilling to see more attacks on our soil, he is taking premptive measures to prevent such from happening. You wasted no time staking out your positions regarding Bush's so-called lies or the lack of Saddam's WMD's; and now that more and more evidence is mounting that Bush has been telling the truth, you happily ignore it without consideration of the cost to this country and its people. You, by way of Michael Moore, continue to spread the lies and make money doing it.
I hope this nation survives long enough for you to realize your errors in judgment, but if we do, it will be in spite of your actions.
