Posted on 07/28/2004 2:56:40 PM PDT by swilhelm73
Boston, Mass — Promoting his movie Fahrenheit 9/11 at the Democratic National Convention, radical filmmaker Michael Moore launched into a shouting, red-faced denunciation of Republicans Tuesday, saying supporters of the GOP are different from "real Americans"; that they are "people who hate"; that they are "up at six in the morning trying to figure out which minority group they're going to screw today"; and that in the upcoming presidential campaign, they "are going to fight...smear...lie...and hate."
Moore, who sat in former President Jimmy Carter's box at the convention Monday night, has been welcomed by wildly enthusiastic audiences at his appearances in Boston. He made his remarks about Republicans during one of those appearances, at a forum sponsored by the left-wing organizing group Campaign for America's Future. The speech drew an overflow crowd; fans stood in line for hours for a chance to hear Moore speak.
"The right wing is not where America is at," Moore said. "Most Americans, in their heart, are liberal and progressive. It's just a small minority of people who hate. They hate. They exist in the politics of hate."
"They're not patriots," Moore said. "They're hate-triots, and they believe in the politics of hate-triotism. Hate-triotism is where they stand, and patriotism is where real Americans stand."
Moore, who predicted victory for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry — "It's all over but the voting," he said — warned that the Republican Party will do almost anything to keep its hold on power. "They're not going to go without a fight," he said, "and believe me, they are better fighters than we are."
"I mean, they are up at six in the morning trying to figure out which minority group they're going to screw today," Moore continued. "The hate, they eat for breakfast. They are going to fight and they are going to smear, and they are going to lie, and they are going to hate."
Moore conceded that there are "good Republicans." Those Republicans, he said, will vote for Kerry in November.
Moore also attacked the media for not asking the "right questions" before the war in Iraq, and he tantalized the audience by recounting a story in which he said a major — but unnamed — television personality told him that Vice President Dick Cheney had interfered with news coverage of the war. Moore said he was on a morning talk show recently, and, "After we went to commercial, the person who was interviewing me said, 'You know, you're right. When the war started, it was very difficult here to book the people we wanted to book and ask the questions we wanted to ask. In fact, I got a memo about my tone of voice. Apparently, the brass had received a call from Dick Cheney's office, they said they didn't like my tone of voice. I got a memo on it.'"
Moore said he told the person, "You've got to tell that story." But the person answered, "I can't." Moore continued: "I said, 'They can't fire you. You're one of the most well-known people in America. You've got to tell this story, and if you don't tell it, I'm going to wait maybe another week.'"
The audience laughed at Moore's threat to expose the newsperson. Moore promised to tell the whole story on his website and name the person involved. "That person is on notice now," Moore said, "and I'm doing it in a friendly way."
It's all an act.
Michael Moore is pure marketing savvy.
He has found a perfect niche business.
He knows that the Wellstone/Dean/Nader nexus of Americans may be small, but that they are (1) well off and (2) more inclined to spend on propaganda items than the average citizen.
He has movies, he has books, he has speaking events, etc. and rakes it in from the same couple of million saps year in and year out.
He is building a franchise - right now he is the flavor of the week, but this brief vogue he's now enjoying is something he's been working toward for 20 years.
The people who buy into his show think that they are building a large, effective political movement with legs.
They're not - they're becoming a a media cult, like Rocky Horror Picture Show fans.
This guy has done more to marginalize the left in this country than anyone in decades.
Ten years ago, remember, it was the conservatives who were supposed to be the conspiracy-minded wackos living on the fringe and making ridiculous, unsubstantiated and irresponsible claims.
Moore is reversing the whole paradigm in order to beef up his investment portfolio.
The entire leftist agenda for decades used to be to pretend to be moderate for public consumption while promoting their more radical agenda whenever possible.
Moore has taken every impatient leftist who is unwilling to follow this prudent strategy and turned them into a movement which is now dictating policy to Democratic Party.
Moore is pulling the mask off and getting paid well to do it.
They better off Moore is, the worse off the left is.
Mark my words.
Where it's at,
I got two turntables and a microphone.
- Beck
He's right I DO plan to fight his kind to the bitter end
Memo to Moore: I am up well before 6AM, so there you are incorrect. And also, you incorrect about me scheming about how to screw minorities - no, I am scheming about how to shut up your festering gob, you daft twit!
Actually today I was up at 6 in the morning with a horrible stomach ache thinking I had horrible diarrhea.....
.....then I realized I was just thinking about Michael Moore.
I'm telling you, the guy is on the Chris Farley trajectory.
When do you think was the last time Moore was physically able to see his own balls?
The spew that comes forth from this man's mouth sounds more like Nazi style hate speech than anything else... Think about it...
...replace GOP with your oppressed scapegoat du jour...
I say, let him keep going, he will continue to show the world that the Kerrys, Moores, Deans, and Kennedys have strayed so far away from idealism that they have crossed over into fanaticism... with the same amount of zeal that the terrorists have. There will be a tipping point, and it will come sooner rather than later... Americans will realize their mistakes... Just as they always have...
Even if this is true, it doesn't matter. If you give large portions of your airtime over to people that preach pure lies and hatred about someone, that person is perfectly entitled to call over and say, "You know what? Maybe I won't give you that exclusive interview next week after all, *sshole!" Even if that person is Vice President of the United States.
This anecdote is classic Moore: A tiny bit of harmless truth packaged up to look monstrous. Everyone came away thinking that Dick Cheney had done something evil, like make a physical threat against the unnamed interviewer, or say "Start giving me better coverage or I'll bring the FCC down on you!" Yet all that actually happened (again, if the story is true at all) is that Cheney exercised his Constitutional right to decide who he's going to give interviews to and when.
His mother had to hire a pair of rodeo clowns to keep him distracted so she could get the groceries from the car into the house.:-)
"I mean, they are up at six in the morning
Actually I am up at FIVE in the morning. I like to get head start on my plot to screw over minority groups...after a cup of coffee and a bran muffin of course.
"I mean, they are up at six in the morning
..."
He's right. As a "Reagan Libertarian," I'm even more conservative than most people on this Web Site. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go downtown and punch an old woman. (sarcasm off)
m. moore is sadly uninformed and I am amazed that people actually buy into his rhetoric. Ah well, 'nuff time spent on that. Next article.
My husband just remarked that somebody ought to tar and feather him, but with oil at $43 a barrel, it'd be pretty expensive.
I am sick and tired of being labeled a racist and a hatemonger simply because I am conservative. It is offensive and wrong.
I believe in equal OPPORTUNITY for everyone, and if I thought for one moment that George W. Bush, or any other elected official on my ballot, was a racist or violated the civil rights of Americans, they would not get my vote.
Mr. Moore, the only person I see spewing hatred is your and your supporters.
Nope.
We never sleep.
Or pseudo-intellectuals who want to "hear all sides of the issue", and think that doubt and criticism are the highest form of mental acheivement.
Unfortunately, I know plenty of people like that.
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