Posted on 03/23/2002 6:54:24 AM PST by edmundburk
Is this a legit reason to close down the board? Or is Moore getting too much of the wrong kind of press after Janitorgate?
From the site:
Michael Moore's Message Board » FYI
March 20, 2002 Due to excessively high traffic the board has been temporarily closed. We are currently looking at alternative options and hope to have the board up and running again by the end of the week. Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience.
Or maybe it was posting Bastiat's The Law. They never told me if they objected to my posting one or both.
Its available at the Gutenburg Project website like hundreds of other classic books. (gutenburg.net I think)
I'd think he'd have been ready to take advantage of the PR.
Maybe he was afraid to let people see the BB.
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On his TV shows, "TV Nation" and "The Awful Truth," Michael Moore has always cast himself as the champion of the common working man in the face of moneyed interests. But the anti-corporate crusader narrowly avoided getting arrested recently after running afoul of a middle school janitor at a book signing in San Diego. The signing was scheduled to end at 11 p.m., and at 11:15, custodian George Waller asked Moore to stop signing books so he could clean the auditorium and go home. Moore, seeing that there were still hundreds of people in line, ignored the request, and Waller called the police, who arrived 15 minutes later. On his web site, Moore says the police entered shouting "VACATE THESE PREMISES IMMEDIATELY OR YOU WILL ALL BE ARRESTED!" "I have never been arrested, strange as that may seem," reads Moore's on-line diary entry. "I could not believe that, of all I have done, all I have stood for over the years…I was about to be hauled away for autographing books!" Waller told the San Diego Union-Tribune that he saw it differently. "He didn't care that I had already put in a full day. I think he just wanted to sell books. He was all about the money." |
(Excerpt from the full article below. The full piece is worth reading, especially to compare it to Moore's self-serving account on his web site.)
PETER ROWE Don't judge an author by his cover: Michael Moore March 19, 2002
When Moore champions the overworked and overlooked American, you have to cheer.
But don't expect George Waller, a custodian at San Diego's Marston Middle School, to join in the applause. On March 8, Moore visited Marston for a talk that was scheduled to end at 11 p.m. At 11:15, Waller asked Moore to stop signing books, so Waller could clean the auditorium.
Moore refused.
"He didn't care that I had to work the next day," Waller said. "He didn't care that I had already put in a full day. I think he just wanted to sell books. He was all about the money."
It sounds like bandwidth was costing him too much money, LOL!
The Che hat on Michael doesn't surprise me.
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