From Filibuster Cartoons.
Posted on 06/24/2004 3:31:31 PM PDT by El Conservador
WASHINGTON - U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore sounded off Wednesday on Canada's election, warning voters not to elect a Conservative government.
Moore, in Washington for the official American premiere of his movie Fahrenheit 9/11, said he hopes his film will convince Canadians to bypass Stephen Harper.
"You've got four days after it opens, to get people out to the polls to make sure that Mr. Harper doesn't become your next prime minister," he said.
"We're trying to get rid of our conservative, you know. We're going one way, you guys shouldn't be going the opposite direction," said Moore, whose new documentary takes a critical look at U.S. President George W. Bush's response to the Sept. 11 attacks and the Iraq war.
"You should be saying, 'You know what? We don't want this country, Canada, to become like Bush's America,'" he said.
When asked why he's concerned with Canadian politics, Moore responded: "Well first of all, I live on the Canadian border. I don't want to have to look across the border and see you guys going our way."
Moore said he's trying to convince Americans to be more like Canadians, and praised the country's "ethic."
"And that ethic says: 'We're all Canadians, we're all in the same boat. If one of us gets sick, that person should get health care 'cause we're all affected.'
"The American way is pull yourself up by your bootstraps: 'Me, me, me, me, me. It's mine. It's mine.' You know? Don't go that way. Your Conservatives are trying to take you that way."
Written by CBC News Online staff
I wanna see his face when he sees PM Stephen Harper taking office.
You mean Moore is not a Canadian?
What a hate-filled anti-American jerk!
Since when has the Upper West Side of Manhattan been "on the Canadian border"?
"The American Way is, pull yourself up by your bootstraps."
I could make some cruel jokes here, but I won't.
Hey Canada! Michael Moore wants to be one of you and influence your elections!
Please take him in and make him Canadian. We'd gladly trade him for Wayne Gretsky... or Brian Mulroney... or some softwood lumber... Heck, we'd give you him for free, as long as you promise never to let him leave.
Please be a good neighbor and give this piece of refuse a home.
Thanks.
Moore's just standing up for his fellow fatties, knowing that they suck up more health care resources than those not 100 pounds overweight. How could a fattie expect to pay for his own health care? You need a nation to support such gluttony.
I think Moore needs some geography lessons. Manhattan is not on the Canadian border.
After landing in Charleston Genet tarried for a few days, issuing letters of marque and reprisal to four privateers which would be manned by American sailors and arranging with the French consul in Charleston to set up a prize court. On April 18 Genet left for Philadelphia so that he could officially be received by the United States Government. Genet chose to travel by land, calculating that the enthusiastic reception he had received on the docks of Charleston might well be repeated along his journey.(Clinton's book tour)
He calculated correctly, for every village and hamlet along the 28 day journey (Cannes Festival standing ovation)turned out to cheer the personification of the French Revolution. His trip was a grand progress and not a simple journey. When Genet arrived in Philadelphia on May 16, he was greeted with an even more enormous festival(There's that word).
The American Revolution had engaged in a few moments of dramatic public theater, but only in a few. The French Revolution had used political theater at every instant, from dramatic confrontations to formal set pieces. The king(Bill and Hillary) had his long tradition of pageantry and spectacle, and the French Revolutionaries countered with their own pageants, their own stylized gestures. Genet brought this theatricality, this sense of making grand gestures and of playing to the balconies, with him to Philadelphia.
Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton (Bush, Cheney, Rummy) and the other American leaders were very familiar with the politics of personal presentation. Their accustomed venue was not a street full of cheering citizens but a drawing room or other circumscribed site. The American cabinet tried to decide what to do with this flamboyant and charismatic Frenchman. They had a good idea of his intentions, having quickly heard of the privateers and of his attempts to raise a force of American soldiers to spread the principles of the French Revolution to Louisiana, Florida, and Canada.
In the end, we asked the Democrats...um...in France, to take him back. But the French Gov't had changed, and he would have been led to the guillotine. Washington let Genet stay in the US where he passed on in 1834. I say we let Moore stay in Canada.
Thanks for the link. A lot of hilarious cartoons. Especially the one with the Stanley Cup.
"Michael Moore Hates America" - coming soon to a theater near you.
I kid you not. Go to the website of the same name . . .
Why Michael Moore getting so much press. We should just ignore the obnoxious leftist trash.
So what the heck is wrong with that?
Manhattan's Upper West Side is on the Canadian border? Who knew!
maybe they should BURN moore!
Fat makes a bright flame!
"Since when has the Upper West Side of Manhattan been "on the Canadian border"?"
Who knows? Maybe from that penthouse of his in the sky, he actually CAN see the Canadian border.
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