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Time's Man of the Year? It could happen.
American Digest ^ | November 13, 2004 | Vanderleun

Posted on 11/13/2004 8:46:14 PM PST by vanderleun

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This just in.

As suggested by a Freeper!

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TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: manoftheyear; michaelmoore; neckbeard; soiledshorts; timemag; whatsthatstink
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1 posted on 11/13/2004 8:46:15 PM PST by vanderleun
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To: vanderleun

Suck-up!

Just kiddin...

NeverGore :^)


2 posted on 11/13/2004 8:47:44 PM PST by nevergore (“It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.”)
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To: vanderleun

Disgusting thought (and sight).


3 posted on 11/13/2004 8:48:42 PM PST by AJS
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To: vanderleun

Nice of somebody to put a picture of him about 100 pounds shy of reality on the cover. Its more doctored than the one put on the movie posters


4 posted on 11/13/2004 8:48:42 PM PST by bpjam (I don't know what a neo-con is and neither does anybody else.)
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To: vanderleun; Slings and Arrows; Lijahsbubbe; SJackson; veronica; MeekOneGOP; Yehuda; dennisw; ...
I'm casting my vote, in advance, for Arafat's French cardiologist.

C'mon, you know the guy deserves it!

5 posted on 11/13/2004 8:49:06 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("They don't want some high brow hussy from NYC characterizing them as idiots..." (Zell Miller)
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To: vanderleun

How Michael Moore got Bush elected

By Jay Ambrose


George W. Bush received more votes in Tuesday's election than any presidential contender in the history of the United States, and I would like to believe Michael Moore was partly responsible.

Here, after all, was not simply a film director whose "Fahrenheit 9/11" emitted a vile propagandistic stink, indicating something contemptible in the mindset of its creator, but someone who went trotting about Europe telling the adulatory press that Americans "are possibly the dumbest people on the planet."

While some Europeans may still be slapping their thighs at such cleverness, it should not be surprising that some Americans may have taken offense. They may have figured, for starters, that they have the mental edge over someone whose anti-Bush film neglected to distinguish facts from malicious fantasy, but there is a much bigger point.

It is that literally millions of the hard-working, responsible, decent citizens of this nation just may have had it up to their eyebrows with those Hollywood types and others who disdain their intelligence, mock their religion, dismiss their values, deprecate their lifestyles and disparage their social contributions.

These citizens may suppose their lives add up to at least as much as the lives of celebrities taking time from their divorce schedules to issue morally superior pronouncements about issues they don't understand.

They may further suppose they have a better grasp of everyday political truths than the ultra-privileged who don't have to deal with such problems as how to pay their monthly bills when unexpected expenses leap out of nowhere and grab their wallets.

Yes, yes, celebrities have every right in the world to be active in politics, and even should be: Leave politics to the politicians and democracy will race from the room. And no, no, not every celebrity can be squeezed into some narrowly conceived stereotype; many are thoughtful, respectful and humble, I would guess, and I would also guess that many are as far from debauched as the average denizen of small-town America.

What I would like to stress is that a certain belittling, Hollywood-fostered stereotype of small-town, rural and suburban Americans — and especially the stereotype of religious Southern and Midwestern Americans of a conservative disposition — is itself an absurdity overlooking the strength they lend this country.

These Americans are a mix of many things, of course, and I don't want to replace one stereotype of small-mindedness and dim-witted intolerance with another that overreaches and is too sweeping; any large grouping will include some number of the stupid and the morally careless, even the downright criminal, along with the brilliant and morally upright, even the downright saintly.

It seems to me, however, a safe, supportable generalization to say that these Americans mainly do a good job of raising their children, that they are mostly productive in their jobs, that they are by and large generous in their giving to charity, that their word is reliable and that they are more often than not kind to those they encounter.

I take particular umbrage at the caricature some paint of the religious. When you listen to someone like the TV comedian Bill Maher ridicule Christianity, for instance, you wonder whether he has any notion at all of tenets residing at the heart of the faith: that we can experience forgiveness if we ourselves first forgive, that we can find redemption even when our lives are in tatters, that nothing less is demanded of us in our dealings with others than sacrificial love. This is the stuff of satire?

Another proposition of the faith is that confession is good for the soul, and I have to confess that I am not in a very forgiving mood. It delights me to suppose that Bush-despising Hollywood lefties may actually have aided his cause in their excessive rhetoric (check out actor Richard Dreyfus's speeches someday) or their middle class-alienating vulgarities (see comedienne Whoopi Goldberg's jokes about the president).

I get special joy — I must get over this — in contemplating the hell Michael Moore might go through if he dwelled on the possibility that he contributed to the Bush victory by so unmistakably signaling his elitist attitudes.


6 posted on 11/13/2004 8:49:21 PM PST by Shellback Chuck (Hey John, whose your daddy?)
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To: vanderleun

That's the Hutt of the Year.


7 posted on 11/13/2004 8:49:50 PM PST by Paul Atreides
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To: vanderleun

actually it should be US!

Can we nominate FR for a nobel prize?

Can FR be times site of the year? The did nominate the computer at one point.


8 posted on 11/13/2004 8:50:03 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: vanderleun

I thought old dirty bastard was dead.


9 posted on 11/13/2004 8:50:37 PM PST by Rome2000 (Democrats are perverted socialist crooks)
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To: bpjam

I thought that was Leonardo Dicaprio.


10 posted on 11/13/2004 8:50:47 PM PST by Rokke
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To: vanderleun

This is why "Barf Alert" in the title was invented.

Learn it. Use it. :)


11 posted on 11/13/2004 8:51:11 PM PST by tbeatty (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat salad.)
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To: bpjam
O.J. Simpson:

What have I been tellin' you?(!) They're settin' the brotha up!

12 posted on 11/13/2004 8:52:51 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("They don't want some high brow hussy from NYC characterizing them as idiots..." (Zell Miller)
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To: longtermmemmory

I don't know. We're good, I can't deny, but I think John O' Neil and the heroic swift vets won over more votes than we did.


13 posted on 11/13/2004 8:52:51 PM PST by Our man in washington
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To: vanderleun

OH, Hell no...


14 posted on 11/13/2004 8:53:25 PM PST by PhotoFixer3
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To: vanderleun

Can we help make sure that Fat Pig Moore makes another film for 2008 like he has been promising?

In the end he had his silly sycophants who went to see his idiotic movie 10 times. He did a much better job energizing the Republican base to rise up from fly over country and revolt against the enemies of America. We got millions of more votes than we lost as a result of his antics.

Maybe he will help us again in 2008, we can only hope.


15 posted on 11/13/2004 8:54:04 PM PST by putupjob
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To: vanderleun

Anybody notice the two little horns?


16 posted on 11/13/2004 8:55:00 PM PST by proudpapa (of three.)
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To: vanderleun
They will give the award to Arafat. He killed more Jews than Moore. Moore would have liked to have killed more Jews. But as an infant Leftist, he wasn't in a position to do so. Nonetheless, Hitler is smiling on both.
17 posted on 11/13/2004 8:55:02 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Time to let slip the dogs...)
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To: vanderleun

Man?


18 posted on 11/13/2004 8:55:05 PM PST by freedomlover
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To: longtermmemmory

Perhaps Buckhead?


19 posted on 11/13/2004 8:55:10 PM PST by TFine80 (Patton's Son: "There's no soap ever been invented that can wash that blood off his hands.")
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To: Rome2000

He is too busy being a capitalist pretending to be a maxist comunist.

He is not even worth an honorable mention.


20 posted on 11/13/2004 8:55:46 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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