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Michael Moore Belongs on Same Shelf With Thomas Paine, Says NYT Book Critic
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2011/09/14/michael-moore-belongs-same-shelf-thomas-paine-says-nyt-book-critic ^

Posted on 09/14/2011 6:00:08 PM PDT by chessplayer

The front of Wednesday’s New York Times Arts section featured Dwight Garner’s review of the new book by left-wing documentary film-maker Michael Moore, “Here Comes Trouble -- Stories From My Life.”

Garner, a fan, called Moore (infamous for his anti-conservative conspiracy theories and vicious, purposely misleading mockery of Republicans) a “necessary irritant,” and in one nauseating paragraph suggested Moore’s book belonged alongside works by the revolutionary founding activist Thomas Paine.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dwightgarner; enemedia; mediabias; michaelmoore; moore; newyorktimes; nyt
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1 posted on 09/14/2011 6:00:11 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

His book needs to be printed on something soft, preferably a roll. I have the perfect place to hang it.


2 posted on 09/14/2011 6:01:43 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain 5 yrs Left/1 year right "BAD!" - Republicans 3 yrs Right 1 year Left to elect RINOs. "Good?")
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To: chessplayer

Then, if they’ll just give them away, I’m in.


3 posted on 09/14/2011 6:03:10 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain 5 yrs Left/1 year right "BAD!" - Republicans 3 yrs Right 1 year Left to elect RINOs. "Good?")
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To: chessplayer

Michael Moore belongs on the same shelf as the toilet bowl cleaner.


4 posted on 09/14/2011 6:08:22 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: chessplayer

He belong on the shelf of “books to wipe your ass with”


5 posted on 09/14/2011 6:10:11 PM PDT by DainBramage
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To: chessplayer
Moore’s book belonged alongside works by the revolutionary founding activist Thomas Paine.

Yeah right. He really rallied the revolutionary Union thugs in WI to a win during that battle. More predictable mental masturbation from the NYT. Who cares. This book will bomb because no one cares about him and his Communism.


6 posted on 09/14/2011 6:10:49 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: chessplayer

No, it belongs on the same shelf as ex-Speaker Jim Wright’s ‘book’.


7 posted on 09/14/2011 6:12:12 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: chessplayer

Michael Moore is a Tuchas Pain.


8 posted on 09/14/2011 6:15:02 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (i.e., He's a pain in the arse.)
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To: chessplayer
OK, it's time to quote my favorite part of Common Sense, and perhaps my favorite passage of anything I've ever read. Let's see if Mr. Paine would agree with Michael Moore...

"SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others."

9 posted on 09/14/2011 6:17:10 PM PDT by ElectronVolt
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To: chessplayer

Garner must have written that review in a blackout.


10 posted on 09/14/2011 6:18:35 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: chessplayer
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11 posted on 09/14/2011 6:18:40 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: chessplayer
Everything one needs to know about Michael Moore can be found here...

Deconstructing Michael Moore
12 posted on 09/14/2011 6:20:37 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: rfp1234
No, it belongs on the same shelf as ex-Speaker Jim Wright’s ‘book’.

Big ROTFL on that. :)

13 posted on 09/14/2011 6:22:59 PM PDT by ElectronVolt
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To: chessplayer

And the NYT continues it’s full vertical dive, max afterburner plunge to earth.

I eagerly await the upcoming splat.

Sad, though, back in my college days, they used to hire folks who had talent - still liberal, but at least they had some class.


14 posted on 09/14/2011 6:23:14 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: chessplayer

Here's Dwight

15 posted on 09/14/2011 6:25:43 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: chessplayer

:-D )))

Ah…no.


16 posted on 09/14/2011 6:30:48 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: chessplayer

Oh Puh-leeeeeeeze....


17 posted on 09/14/2011 6:36:47 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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To: chessplayer
It'd be easier to understand if the book critic were a Brit ;)
18 posted on 09/14/2011 7:15:34 PM PDT by danielmryan
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To: chessplayer

The only fit place for Michael Moore is in a shipping container-sized pine box dropped in a deep hole with an outhouse on top where folks could pay $1 to take a dump on him.


19 posted on 09/14/2011 7:21:30 PM PDT by tarotsailor
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If you’re going to put him on a shelf, make sure it’s a stout one...


20 posted on 09/14/2011 7:28:56 PM PDT by BWDog
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