"Please invite Michael to your college. He needs more corn."
Posted on 09/20/2004 9:15:38 PM PDT by Utah Girl
Documentarian and liberal rabble-rouser Michael Moore kicked off a 62-speech, pre-election tour Monday with a relatively subtle dig at President Bush (news - web sites).
He read "My Pet Goat" to an audience of more than 6,000. That was the children's book Bush read to an elementary school class after he heard about the 9/11 attacks.
In an appearance that was part stump speech and part standup routine, Moore didn't stay subtle for long, criticizing his preferred presidential candidate as well as the incumbent.
"It's debilitating to have a candidate who does not seem quite clear on where he stands on these issues. Maybe we need to have a slogan that says 'Bush and Kerry both suck. ... That's why I'm voting for John Kerry (news - web sites),'" Moore said.
Moore offered parodies of Kerry campaign slogans and Bush campaign television commercials, and also read letters of support from two soldiers in Iraq (news - web sites). He said that in the past year and a half, he has received some 3,000 similar letters and e-mails.
And he talked up his next book, a collection of such letters, entitled "Will They Ever Trust Us Again? Letters from the War Zone," which will be out in early October. He encouraged his audience to "Xerox and steal" the tome.
Moore didn't devote all his ranting at the Tweeter Center, a concert hall, to blaming Bush for the war in Iraq. He also blamed journalists for not asking more questions before it began.
"Where is the mainstream media? Where were they?" he asked. "In my opinion, blood is on their hands, too."
Moore's documentaries "Bowling for Columbine" and "Fahrenheit 9/11" have made him one of the nation's best-known leftist activists and, as such, a prime target of right-wing activists.
A book released earlier this year was called "Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man." He's also the subject of a new documentary, "Michael Moore Hates America."
His tour, which he calls the Slacker Uprising Tour, will go to college campuses and arenas and will concentrate on 20 swing states with the hopes of increasing the number of voters who cast ballots in the Nov. 2 election.
Judging by how he looks and, no doubt, smells, I'm sure his wife could read the same story.
In Moore's case, it's not really a pet.
More like a "significant other."
I thought it said,"Moore EATS 'My Pet Goat'"
I'll just go now...
I thought Moore ate the pet goat?
I'll wager that most of these are phonies. The putrid Marxist swine actually believes that he can swing the presidential election to Kerry by traveling the college campus circuit, trashing the President and weakening America's resolve. He deludes himself; most people think that he is a reprehensible, POS slob.
Oh that book. I thought he was reading his diary.
Slacker Uprising Tour....
Suddenly they like and attach endearing terminology to "slackers"....I thought that was their chief complaint about Bush during the 70's.
That's amazing. Does UVSC have a procedure for impeachment?
Go Mike Go! The more he opens his mouth the better Bush does in the polls...
How could they understand him...did they have an Arabic translator?
Michael MOO better get used to BEING a goat, come November.
There are various things going on right now to a) impeach the student council b) get the funding pulled c) getting the audience to not be rude, but not be receptive either.
When Moore was in Europe and went on that rant about how stupid Americans are, I was pissed. But it turns out he is right. They are paying to see his swill on a daily basis. Stupid Americans have bought his place in Manhattan and are sending his kids to private school. He is the P.T. Barnum of the "progressive" crowd and he plays them like a fiddle.
That is what passes for intellectual thought on the left these days.
"Please invite Michael to your college. He needs more corn."
I thought it was the teacher who read the book to the elementary school class during Bush's visit on 9/11.
He read "My Pet Goat" to an audience of more than 6,000.No it wasn't; as reported in The New Yorker, the book was Reading Mastery 2, which contains an exercise called "The Pet Goat."That was the children's book Bush read to an elementary school class after he heard about the 9/11 attacks.
The title of the book is not very important in itself, but the invented title of My Pet Goat makes it easier to ridicule Bush.
Moore's wife is the pet goat. Mike is the pet yorkshire hog.
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