Posted on 07/13/2007 5:36:21 PM PDT by neverdem
What an insult. Riefenstahl was talented.
Practically ?
Yes, talented - and good looking in her youth, and also into physical fitness. Michael Moore: ugly, fat, and slobbish in both mind and body.
Aw, you beat me to it. Moore is a one-trick pony way past his prime, and his prime was nothing to write home about. It's fairly clear what he has in mind with this particular little stinker - set the issue up as pivotal in the 2008 elections. That's what he tried with Fahrenheit 9/11 - it didn't take, and it was better timed. The most precious thing to this bloated ego is the notion that his public hangs on his every word. Probably both of them do.
To quote myself:
He has found his niche in life which financialy rewards him very handsomely. Before these documentaries, he was a newsletter writer, worked for Mother Jones magazine, was on his local school board, among other positions. All of which paid little to nothing. Then he took a gamble on himself making the documentary Roger & Me. The gamble paid off very well. Roger & Me was a critical and financial success and Moore became a celeb on the left and a millionaire.
Powerful people in the Hollywood industry were lining up to offer him deals. He no longer had to scrounge for funding his projects. If the Roger & Me movie had failed, he probably would have went back to writing for Newsletters that nobody reads, earning mere pennies if that. But Roger & Me was a wake up call to him. He could make documentaries that would appeal to those left of center. Didnt matter if these documentaries were filled with lies, he gets millions of bucks in return, be a celebrity, and a hero to his fellow leftists.
For him to stop telling lies, and start telling the truth means that he would have to go back to a near poverty existence as well as anonymity. And there’s no way he’s voluntarilly going back to that.
But today, with all we know about Hitler and the Nazi regime, Triumph of the Will is still visually awesome.
Lumpy Riefenstahl
When did this "violence" begin increasing in our history? And why? I think the crime rate began rising with the New Deal--the beginning of our descent into Marxist/Socialist government policy and the collectivist mindset that has taken over our society. Lowry tries to blame Anerican exceptionalism for the lawlessness instead of laying it at the feet of frauds like Moore.
Walter Winchell called Leni Riefenstahl “as pretty as a swastika.” I wonder how he’d describe Moore.
She is probably also one of the most visually quoted directors of all time. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg borrowed from her liberally.
LOL!
The United States is the nation of the Age of Reason and the Age of Enlightenment. This is what makes us unique and better than any other country. We are a country founded on ideas such as reason, individualism,egoism, independence, freedom, rights,capitalism, limited government,and no monarch.
Michael Moore can take his ideas back to Germany, which is where his world view comes from, with its altruism, collectivism, statism, socialism, and irrationality.
MM should just go hug up to another giant bag of Double Stuff Oreos and Rosie O’Donnel and STFU. He is a witless punk communist. He will be Hillary’s Director of Propaganda if she is elected. OMG!!!!
Great analogy. Except Leni had to wait a decent interval of 50 years to be ressurected and reinstated by the always American-hating liberal left.
Now it’s instant, all the decency has gone out of it...no time to waste..on with the revolution!!!!!
Leni Riefenstahl, the absolutely morally worthless unrepentant Hitler-loving Nazi to the very end of her entire century of life upon this war-blighted Earth, even she was better than the fat fascist dictator-loving Michael Moore.
At least Hitler is dead. Castro and Chavez are not.
):^(
bfl
It's a shame that one so young can be so fat. His corpulence can reduce his lifespan 20+ years.
"Being sorry isn't nearly enough, but I can't tear myself apart or destroy myself. It's so terrible. I've suffered anyway for over half a century and it will never end, until I die. It's such an incredible burden, that to say 'sorry'... it's inadequate, it expresses too little."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726166/bio
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