Posted on 06/26/2004 7:42:01 AM PDT by kattracks
Americans currently flocking to see Michael Moore's movie "Farenheit 9/11" might be surprised to learn how little respect the Democratic Party's leading propaganda-meister has for them.''They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet," Moore told Britain's Mirror newspaper recently, referring to his fellow citizens as a whole. And that's not all Moore had to say about his brother Yanks across the pond. ''We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.''
Turns out, when the Democratic Party's all-but-official filmmaker is speaking at home, he has nice things to say about at least some of his fellow citizens. But according to New York Times columnist David Brooks, when Moore travels abroad it's not just the Bush administration he trashes - but the American people en-masse.
Here's a few more bon mots from the Kerry campaign's leading celluloid supporter, as cited by Mr. Brooks on Saturday:
''That's why we're smiling all the time,'' Moore told a rapturous throng in Munich. ''You can see us coming down the street. You know, 'Hey! Hi! How's it going?' We've got that big [expletive] grin on our face all the time because our brains aren't loaded down.''
To a crowd in Cambridge, Moore intoned: ''You're stuck with being connected to this country of mine, which is known for bringing sadness and misery to places around the globe.''
Here's Moore's reaction to the 9/11 attacks, offered while the rubble at Ground Zero was still smoldering: ''We, the United States of America, are culpable in committing so many acts of terror and bloodshed that we had better get a clue about the culture of violence in which we have been active participants.''
As for the terrorists currently killing American soldiers in Iraq, Moore compares them to Revolutionary war heroes who fought off British oppression:
''The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win.''
Somebody get a rope.
''They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet,"...
Only the ones who want to see Moore's garbage.
GMTA!
All that LardArse Moore has to do is look at the idiots, morons, dolts and nitwits that attend his screenings to be justified in his comments.
However, that would hardly constitute the bulk of our population.
1. An exaggerated sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
Translation: Grandiosity is the hallmark of narcissism. So what is grandiose?2. Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal loveThe simplest everyday way that narcissists show their exaggerated sense of self-importance is by talking about family, work, life in general as if there is nobody else in the picture. Whatever they may be doing, in their own view, they are the star, and they give the impression that they are bearing heroic responsibility for their family or department or company, that they have to take care of everything because their spouses or co-workers are undependable, uncooperative, or otherwise unfit. They ignore or denigrate the abilities and contributions of others and complain that they receive no help at all; they may inspire your sympathy or admiration for their stoicism in the face of hardship or unstinting self-sacrifice for the good of (undeserving) others. But this everyday grandiosity is an aspect of narcissism that you may never catch on to unless you visit the narcissist's home or workplace and see for yourself that others are involved and are pulling their share of the load and, more often than not, are also pulling the narcissist's share as well. An example is the older woman who told me with a sigh that she knew she hadn't been a perfect mother but she just never had any help at all -- and she said this despite knowing that I knew that she had worn out and discarded two devoted husbands and had lived in her parents' pocket (and pocketbook) as long as they lived, quickly blowing her substantial inheritance on flaky business schemes. Another example is claiming unusual benefits or spectacular results from ordinary effort and investment, giving the impression that somehow the narcissist's time and money are worth more than other people's. [Here is an article about recognizing and coping with narcissism in the workplace; it is rather heavy on management jargon and psychobabble, but worth reading. "The Impact of Narcissism on Leadership and Sustainability" by Bruce Gregory, Ph.D. "When the narcissistic defense is operating in an interpersonal or group setting, the grandiose part does not show its face in public. In public it presents a front of patience, congeniality, and confident reasonableness."]
In popular usage, the terms narcissism, narcissist, and narcissistic denote absurd vanity and are applied to people whose ambitions and aspirations are much grander than their evident talents. Sometimes these terms are applied to people who are simply full of themselves -- even when their real achievements are spectacular. Outstanding performers are not always modest, but they aren't grandiose if their self-assessments are realistic; e.g., Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, was notorious for boasting "I am the greatest!" and also pointing out that he was the prettiest, but he was the greatest and the prettiest for a number of years, so his self-assessments weren't grandiose. Some narcissists are flamboyantly boastful and self-aggrandizing, but many are inconspicuous in public, saving their conceit and autocratic opinions for their nearest and dearest. Common conspicuous grandiose behaviors include expecting special treatment or admiration on the basis of claiming (a) to know important, powerful or famous people or (b) to be extraordinarily intelligent or talented. As a real-life example, I used to have a neighbor who told his wife that he was the youngest person since Sir Isaac Newton to take a doctorate at Oxford. The neighbor gave no evidence of a world-class education, so I looked up Newton and found out that Newton had completed his baccalaureate at the age of twenty-two (like most people) and spent his entire academic career at Cambridge. The grandiose claims of narcissists are superficially plausible fabrications, readily punctured by a little critical consideration. The test is performance: do they deliver the goods? (There's also the special situation of a genius who's also strongly narcissistic, as perhaps Frank Lloyd Wright. Just remind yourself that the odds are that you'll meet at least 1000 narcissists for every genius you come across.) [More on grandiosity.]
Translation: Narcissists cultivate solipsistic or "autistic" fantasies, which is to say that they live in their own little worlds (and react with affront when reality dares to intrude).3. Believes he is "special" and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
Translation: Narcissists think that everyone who is not special and superior is worthless. By definition, normal, ordinary, and average aren't special and superior, and so, to narcissists, they are worthless.4. Requires excessive admiration
Translation: Excessive in two ways: they want praise, compliments, deference, and expressions of envy all the time, and they want to be told that everything they do is better than what others can do. Sincerity is not an issue here; all that matter are frequency and volume.5. Has a sense of entitlement
Translation: They expect automatic compliance with their wishes or especially favorable treatment, such as thinking that they should always be able to go first and that other people should stop whatever they're doing to do what the narcissists want, and may react with hurt or rage when these expectations are frustrated.6. Selfishly takes advantage of others to achieve his own ends
Translation: Narcissists use other people to get what they want without caring about the cost to the other people.7. Lacks empathy
Translation: They are unwilling to recognize or sympathize with other people's feelings and needs. They "tune out" when other people want to talk about their own problems.8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of himIn clinical terms, empathy is the ability to recognize and interpret other people's emotions. Lack of empathy may take two different directions: (a) accurate interpretation of others' emotions with no concern for others' distress, which is characteristic of psychopaths; and (b) the inability to recognize and accurately interpret other people's emotions, which is the NPD style. This second form of defective empathy may (rarely) go so far as alexithymia, or no words for emotions, and is found with psychosomatic illnesses, i.e., medical conditions in which emotion is experienced somatically rather than psychically. People with personality disorders don't have the normal body-ego identification and regard their bodies only instrumentally, i.e., as tools to use to get what they want, or, in bad states, as torture chambers that inflict on them meaningless suffering. Self-described narcissists who've written to me say that they are aware that their feelings are different from other people's, mostly that they feel less, both in strength and variety (and which the narcissists interpret as evidence of their own superiority); some narcissists report "numbness" and the inability to perceive meaning in other people's emotions.
Translation: No translation needed.9. Shows arrogant, haughty, patronizing, or contemptuous behaviors or attitudes
Translation: They treat other people like dirt.
Quote"'''You're stuck with being connected to this country of mine, which is known for bringing sadness and misery to places around the globe."
WELL PERHAPS A PLANE TICKET FOR MOORE...would be a good thing!
Better make it a strong one!
I'd probably feel the same as Moore.....if I spent my time around him and the people he associates with.
That sounds like the entire Democrat party.
Just imagine...this is what they all think of the common everyday working person. You should hear some of the things they say about people behind their backs.
Like once a very kind lady gave Hillary a pair of Razorback earrings thinking since she was the first lady of Arkansas that she might appreciate them. Not her. She turned around to one of her aides and said something to the effect of what the *ell does she expect me to do with these ugly things.
We absolutely have to fight back at this guy... Please!!! someone with funding, make a movie or even a one hour TV show, about a Great President who liberated 25 million people... What the hell is going in this country ? How could that event be so de-legitimized by the left ? It makes no sense.
I am begining to agree with Savage, that liberalism is a personality disorder, or better yet: mental disease.
My keyboard might explode, but I've got to agree with the cretin on this. Any group of people who voted for Clinton, how many times? Any group of people who have voted for Teddy, how many times? Any group of people who have voted and are going to vote for Kerry are indeed the dumbest people on the planet. We are so happy to welcome illegals that we give them free housingm medical, dental, education, and soon the right to vote. Not only that but buckle on law suits when we don't provide vatering stations for those crossing illegally. We're so PC that we don't allow our troops to do their duty because they might upset the widdle terrorists. Yeah, we are stupid.
Given these people's reaction to this cinematic swill, Moore may be right in his dumbness assessment when looking at 'his' Americans.
Most of the interviews were conducted in the Sarasota area. There are many airhead liberals there. The most recently famous being Faith Fippenger who was completely astounded for being fined $10,000.00 for going to Iraq as a human shield.
This fat slob has such an inferiority complex!!
BINGO
Moore obviously hates himself and instead of facing that self hatred has instead decided to hate America. You always get the sense when he's talking that he is still pissed off because some preppies or jocks picked on him in high school. Its intersting because I get that impression a lot from liberals. They all seem to be fat, ugly, "sensitive" theate/art types. Its sad when these people are so stuck in adolesence that they are willing to destroy a country.
It's all that dope smoking and butt sex that they are getting. It's driving them mad. They don't have many brain cells left.
if they are paying to see his crap they are.
I shouldn't have replied earlier. Every time an article about him is posted on FR adds to his 15 minutes. It only gives him more publicity and proves just how dumb we all are. The key is to ignore him.
''We, the United States of America, are culpable in committing so many acts of terror and bloodshed that we had better get a clue about the culture of violence in which we have been active participants.''
I am certain he's talking about ABORTION in this instance.....
I like Florence King's phrase (different topic, but applies perfectly to Moore): "The crude leading the crud."
It's always the fanatics like Moore, the ones who have THE TRUTH!!!, who "know" more than anybody else, who have low opinions of everyone elses intelligence. I guess they're stupid because they see through Moore...which is not easy believe me.
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