Posted on 01/26/2015 11:21:23 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
"Here's the truth they can't or won't report: I'm the one who has supported these troops - much more than the bloviators on Fox News," Moore writes.
Filmmaker Michael Moore caused a firestorm this week when he tweeted, in response to the film American Sniper, "My uncle [was] killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot you in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders are worse." Even Kid Rock criticized the Fahrenheit 9/11 director, writing "[expletive] you Michael Moore, you're a piece of $#*+ and your uncle would be ashamed of you." After a week of being attacked by the right wing and Fox News for allegedly "hating the troops," Moore penned a lengthy Facebook response that details his frequent support for our armed forces.
"Here's the truth they can't or won't report: I'm the one who has supported these troops - much more than the bloviators on Fox News," Moore writes before listing the many ways they're misinformed in their opinion of him. When Moore's father passed away, he asked that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Veterans for Peace. The filmmaker also refuses to do business with vendors that don't hire vets, sits on the Advisory Board of the Pvt. Bradley (Chelsea) Manning Support Network and has donated thousands of dollars to "help veterans and wounded warriors."
There's also this: "From the Dept. of Irony: I only hire Navy SEALS and ex-special forces for when I need security - such as this week, when so-called supporters of those SEALs want me harmed," Moore said.
While Moore's remarks on director Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, a film that Matt Taibbi called "almost too dumb to criticize," is what started this whole ordeal, Moore is still showing the film at the movie theatre he programs in Manistee, MI. "Not because I like it, but because, unlike the other side, I'm not a censor," Moore wrote. "I trust smart people and people of good heart will know what to do. You can't have a conversation about what Clint Eastwood is up to if you haven't seen what it is he's up to." Also of note: A vet serves as that theater's projectionist.
"In the end, the thing I'm most proud of for what I've done for the troops was sticking my neck out 12 years ago to become a leading opponent to Bush and the war. I tried to save more lives than a sniper ever could hope to – by preventing us from going to war in the first place," Moore wrote. "So, Fox News and the other lazy media -- quit making $#*+ up about me! You look ridiculous."
Wonder if Michael would have said the same thing about the Soviet sniper, Vasili Zaitsev when Enemy at the Gates came out?
I’m waiting to read in the papers where Moore’s mansion on Torch Lake had its windows accidentally shot out by deer hunters with poor aim..........LOL!
Does anyone know who Michael Moore’s uncle was, and how he served?
Given what we know about Mikey....I think we can pretty safely assume that his uncle was at least as big a Pain as Mikey is... yes
hiring bodyguards
mmmm snipers?
perhaps hes extremely...ah pathologically... Paranoid?
He asked for donations in lieu of flowers at his fathers funeral for vets and he’s donated thousands of dollars. Isn’t he a billionaire? Isn’t he the generous one! /sarc
If I were he, I’d stay as far away from a camera as possible. What a thoroughly unattractive excuse for a human being he is - physically, spiritually, and (non)intellectually!
i wish that soon someone gives him a harry reid . would like to shake the hand that made harry look like he does
I’m not sure what they mean by “even Kid Rock”.
Kid Rock is a pretty conservative dude, politically.
Typical pacifist garbage.
Not only did he not save lives by protesting the war, he and his idiot followers cost many more servicemen their lives and body parts by forcing a change in the rules of engagement.
Screw you Moore, you liar.
That’s the best picture of him I’ve ever seen.
What a tub of lard.
Does this asshat actually believe supporting some communist tranny is supposed to shut the rest of us up?
Note the absense of his outrage over Mustafa!
Does he pack heat in his left pocket?
Oh, no!
THAT was not necessary.
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