Michael Moore or Saddam Hussein... you tell me

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[Mississippi Individual]

At least Moore has one advocate.

 

Stewart

 

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From the WSJ:

 

Even a monster like Saddam Hussein can occasionally perform a public service without realizing it. Iraq's erstwhile dictator, who appeared at a preliminary hearing before an Iraqi magistrate this morning, is all over the news today, which means anti-American filmmaker Michael Moore is suddenly getting very little airtime.

 

The only problem is, sometimes Saddam and Moore are hard to tell apart. For one thing, they both have those scraggly beards. And the things they say sound awfully similar:

 

"The real criminal is Bush."--Saddam, July 1, 2004

"I'm telling you, we haven't heard the last of [Bush's] criminal behavior."--Moore, MichaelMoore.com, Nov. 3, 2000

 

"What is this court? Who are you? Under whose jurisdiction did you fall? I am the president of Iraq."--Saddam, July 1, 2004

"Al Gore is the elected President of the United States. He received 539,898 more votes than George W. Bush. But he does not sit tonight in the Oval Office. Instead our elected President roams the country without purpose or mission, surfacing only to lecture college students and replenish his stash of Little Debbie's Snack Cakes. Al Gore won. Al Gore, President-in-Exile. Long live El Presidente Albertooooooo Gorrrrrrrrrrre!"--Moore, "Stupid White Men," February 2002

 

See what we mean? The only way we've come up with to distinguish these two is that Saddam is the thin one.

 

 

And here's a couple I noticed:

 

"This is all theater."--Saddam, July 1, 2004

"We live in fictitious times.  We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons."--Moore, Academy Awards, March, 2003

 

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110005293

[Mark]

Reminds me of the "Who Said This" story : AlGore or The Unibomber?

[Huck]

Yep. And it works just as well. It's a fun game that makes a very good point without even trying.

[sauropod]

Michael Moore is the dingleberry on the gluteous maximus of life!

[Socratic]

"Michael Moore is the dingleberry on the gluteous maximus of life!"

(Just bears repeating.)

[cricket]

Saddam offered in his defence this morning; that the 'truth was relative'. . .it surely is - if it depends on the meaning of 'is' . . .