The hawks have only themselves to blame for Michael Moore's success

The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 07/04/04 | Matthew d'Ancona

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[Norman Arbuthnot]

"Moore is a price gouger, a capitalist run amok. Moore has become what he claims to hate in others!!"

He certainly knows how to live like a Capitalist. He's lives on the Upper Westside of Manhattan, one the wealthiest sections of New York City. He goes back to Flint, MI every now and then, but I'm sure he prefers living with all the rich liberals on the Upper Westside. A team of wild horses probably couldn't drag his fat body to the Bronx or Queens to live with working class folks.

[Mona Lisa2]

"When I told her that Moore's new film was compelling cinema and had to be seen, whether or not you agreed with its politics, she snorted with derision: "You just wonder how many people in the States will get to see it, since they live in a country under censorship."

This comment sums up the fantasy world many in Europe are living in right now. Of course, many believe it's Americans who are living in a fantasy world. Censorship? How many books have been banned in American? Zero. In Europe? Several. In Europe any criticism of Muslims or Islam means you are committing a "hate crime". I don't know of anyone in America who has had charges brought against them for speaking out, but there have been many in Europe. I have no doubt this woman in the bookstore really believes it's in America where the censorship is taking place. Could the censorship in Europe be the real reason so many are anti-Amercian? Hmmmm.

Just another example of the fantasy world many Europeans are living in - there is an article here (or elsewhere, I can't remember) that mentions the number of French Jews immigrating to Israel has doubled in the last year. This is at a time where worldwide immigration to Israel has decreased dramatically because of the violence. A French Minister insisted it's not because of Anti-semitism but its just a fluke. To face the truth would mean they have to come to terms with the threat of Islamic terror, right in their own front yard. Apparently, many there just don't want to do that. It's so much easier to blame, Americans, Bush and whoever else they can just as long as it's not Islam or Muslims.