Please, a little less of Moore

The News & Observer ^ | April 7, 2002 | J. Peder Zane

[Timesink]

The article's a week old, but still well worth reading.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Moore might have written a better book had he paid closer attention to his own words. For example, a section on global warming notes that cars account for "almost half the pollutants in our air." Then Moore tells us that although he lives in Manhattan, he owns two cars, including a minivan that gets 15 miles to the gallon.

He drinks bottled water because he doesn't trust his tap and defies New York's recycling laws because he believes his newspapers and cans wind up in the dump anyway. Moore is a portly fellow, but that doesn't stop him from advising us to "lighten up on the food and drink. ... If you and I would eat less and drink less we'd live a lot longer."

I see, thanks for clarifying........

........Moore is one of the pigs in "Animal Farm"

[He Rides A White Horse]

Nothing better than some bloated communist to drive home the 'excesses' of our evil capitalist society.

[C7pilot]

Just saw this unkempt fat slob on Lew Dobbs' CNN program "Moneyline". A holdover from the Clintonista Kool Aid Kadets who will no doubt enrich himself with his mindless drivel and intellectually impoverished, shop-worn mantras. For example, he brands W. as "functionally illiterate."

The idiot congressperson from Georgia who accused the Administration of having prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 attack likely got her ideas from him if the assertions he made on "Moneyline" about the Administration's collusion with the Taliban are contained in his book.

The fact that it apparently is a best seller says acres about what we are dealing with in the country.

[stands2reason]

"We don't pay their bills -- the top 10 percent do, and it is their will that will always be done."

First off, fatass, what's that "we" crapola? Everyone knows you're a millionaire, in the top one percent. Give us a break the size of your butt.

Second, You're absolutely damn right that only the top ten percent pay. Because that's exactly what you socialists want. But you then have the total idiocy to then whine about it? Somebody call the WAAAAAHHmbulence!!!!

[stands2reason]

Hey, buying a several thousand copies of his own book is his way to make the world a better place.

[pray4liberty]

If all the "Stupid White Men" in America took offense at this and decided not to go to work for a week, two things would happen (1) this country will be on its knees and (2) Moore would have to eat his words, because he wouldn't have groceries.

[connectthedots]

Nothing better than some bloated communist to drive home the 'excesses' of our evil capitalist society.

Sort of like the obese welfare mother who complains she can't feed her children on the amount of food stamps she gets.

[Outraged]

bump

[backhoe]

Here's info on "that idiot congressperson's" ( far too kind! ) supporters:

McKinney Campaign Contributors

[CharlesI]

"Confusion reigns" in the USA, he continues, the "Dumbest Country on Earth." Our nation "not only churns out illiterate students BUT GOES OUT OF ITS WAY TO REMAIN IGNORANT AND STUPID." Our high schools are breeding grounds of anesthetized mediocrity, "packed with burned-out teenagers shuffling from class to class, dazed and confused, wondering what the hell they're doing there."

This is all a result of left-wing influence on the family and education. His solution would be more left-wing nonsense. Stick a fork in him, he's done!

[Caleb1411]

Hugh Hewitt rightly tabbed Moore as the top recipient of a 2002 Haney Award: Pegging America's most annoying people

In this season of awards, I annually bestow my own. These are the Haneys, named for the character played by Pat Buttram on television's "Green Acres."

Mr. Haney was easily the most annoying member of that cast and quite possibly all casts from all programs. He was the wheedling, whining, always manipulative entrepreneur of misfortune, and his appearance at the farm of Oliver Wendall Douglas would quickly drive Douglas to distraction.

The Haneys are a sort of reverse MacArthur Fellowship. The MacArthur Foundation emerges each year to dump great sums of money on various "geniuses" so that those "geniuses" are free to pursue their callings with as much vigor as a lack of concern over funding will allow. If I ever secure full funding for the Haneys, these too will come with wheelbarrows full of gold, but with one condition attached: The winners must agree to stop doing what they have been doing completely and to exit the public stage. The Haneys would be, in short, a bribe designed to encourage those who annoy the country most to simply go away.

Here then, the 2002 Haneys:

Michael Moore. He continues to make movies that very few people who do not subscribe to the Nation watch, and now he's taken to publishing books that very few people who do not subscribe to the Nation read. He has flogged his one interesting achievement, "Roger and Me," into a career of intellectual slapstick for the humorless left. . .

[Caleb1411]

Let's try this link to Hewitt's article: Pegging America's most annoying people

[metesky]

Good list, but this list from the latest cycle contains a much higher percentage of Abduls and Fauds, enough to keep your blood heated on the coldest winter day.

[backhoe]

I have saved that & will try it later- it's acting up right now.

[Ben Chad]

"Confusion reigns" in the USA, he continues, the "Dumbest Country on Earth." Our nation "not only churns out illiterate students BUT GOES OUT OF ITS WAY TO REMAIN IGNORANT AND STUPID." Our high schools are breeding grounds of anesthetized mediocrity, "packed with burned-out teenagers shuffling from class to class, dazed and confused, wondering what the hell they're doing there."

Sounds like a freeper to me.

[metesky]

You save everything and a lot of us depend on you for it. Thanks for all the hard work you put into this forum.

[backhoe]

Well, thanks- I just tried the link, it works now, and it truly is awful to behold. I'm sure the watchdog press will quickly inform her constituents of this.... [/bitter sarcasm]

[Mr. Jeeves]

Except that Moore means "ignorant of the glories of socialism and stupid enough to support Bush".