Michael Moore: Guns for "containing slavery"

Independent ^ | 5/17/02 | Independent

[weegee]

Heston simply repeated the party line of the NRA in robotic fashion. "I wasn't there to talk politics with him. I was there to talk about him personally, as a human being. And he didn't know how to respond to that."

Lessee. He's making an anti-gun agit-prop film and he's interviewing the head of an American gun owners' lobby.

But make no mistake. This is just a courtesy call to find out what it was like to star in Ben Hur and Planet Of The Apes. What was the stuff that the made the prop "Soylant Green" out of since they couldn't really use people?

R-ight.

[weegee]

Not that Moore is entirely depressed about the US.

From reports Moore posted on his own website, he was stuck with what to do with his film that he was editing when we were attacked on 9/11. The largest number of people murdered and not a single gun was used.

It made him question just what he was doing. Of course he still makes the plea to bans guns and vote anarchist-socialist. Way to go, commie!

[weegee]

Michael Moron. Spokesperson for stupid white guys everywhere.

[weegee]

He's a spy in the house of guns.

[weegee]

I think that he's making the other argument, that slavery gave us a need for guns. Since slavery was horrible, the least we could do is get rid of the guns...

[nickcarraway]

Maybe we should put down free speech because it allows to him to spout nonsense?

He should be so proud of himself that he uses his first ammendment rights to profit off the Columbine situation.

[weegee]

What's more, the suicidal terrorist pair got what they wanted: news and movie fame.

America. What a country.

p.s. He mentions Hunter S. Thompson. I was reading his Hell's Angels book when the Columbine shootings took place. There is a passage in there about some high school kids who went to school to shoot the jocks and the preps. It is somewhere near the end of the book as he's trying to put the post WWII outsider outlaw culture (and biker culture) into perspective as to where it may be leading us.

This is the mid-60s folks. Faded from the public consciousness.

[galt-jw]

why some fool who cant groom himself enough to not wear a hat is fit to make pronouncements on anything of substance is beyond me...cover hollywood, pissant.

[rdb3]

He conveniently ignores the fact that firearms helped free the slaves. Harriet Tubman comes to mind.

Darned straight.

Question: What do you call a slave with a shotgun?

Answer: A free man.

[300winmag]

The early genesis of fear in America came from having a slave population... that grew from 700,000 to four million," he states. The Colt 6-shooter, invented in 1836, was cheap and portable, and was just what the white folk needed to "contain slavery" for the final 25 years. "

The Colt was the high-tech wonder of its age. It was also fantastically expensive. It was bought by people who took survival very seriously. Oh, and the 1836 Patterson was a five-shooter.

So much for his "documentary" ability. What a total waste of white.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

He is now a national celebrity in the US.

Whatever! He's known for one movie, a TV show that was on for a summer (and not invited back), and a book that only the stupidest Gore-voter will buy. He's falls just a tad short of being a celebrity. He's a wannabe and nothing more.

[bok]

What about the poor whites and owning guns? Should racism/slavery to be blamed all on all whites now? I think discrimination exists today in forms of affirmative action. Minorities probably get more opportunities for college academic/sport scholarships and also jobs. Look at professional sports and tell me jesse jackson and the NAACP wouldn't be screaming if the percentages were reversed?

[over3Owithabrain]

Michael Moore is as stupid as he is fat. And he's getting fatter every day.

The fat bastard is the best example of why liberals can make films, write books, anchor newscasts, and edit newspapers, but not successfully host talk-radio shows. Moore's inconsistent ramblings and lack of facts would not stand up to the barrage of dissenting phone calls he would have to air.

[FreedomPoster]

Dean Wormer said it all when it comes to this putz:

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

[MarkL]

Asked why he kept a loaded gun in the house, Heston admitted he'd never been a victim of crime or been threatened. "Why do you have it loaded if you're not afraid of anything?" Moore asked. "Because the Second Amendment gives me the right to have it." The conversation went around in circles.

"Why do you have a fire extinguisher in your kitchen, if you've never had a kitchen fire?" "Why do you wear a seatbelt while driving, if you've never been in an accident?"

The list of this sort of questions can go on and on... Interesting how a writer can ignore the obvious when they're writing a propaganda piece.

Mark

[piasa]

I guess it never occured to this guy that if Africans had had guns, their tribal leaders and the arabs wouldn't have been able to enslave them and sell them to overseas shippers in the first place.

[ArneFufkin]

I am always interested when I see the rankings of his book. I was in a Barnes & Nobles last weekend and I was paging through his book. The store manager happened by and I asked her how the book was selling and she told me it was a disappointment and after the initial rush of interested fans it wasn't working at all as an impulse pick up.

There's a lot of hanky panky surrounding NY Times and Amazon.com best seller lists. Who knows how many copies are being bought back by the publisher or by groups affiliated with Moore to pump these lists.

The guy is just a gross dirtbag.

[gundog]

This clown "hoves into view" at about 1500 yards.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Isn't it convenient to try to link the invention of the six shooter to slavery yet fail to link gun control to it also?

[RandallFlagg]

"a book that only the stupidest Gore-voter will buy."
I went out to dinner last night with my Wife, Son, and my In-Laws for my Father-in-law's birthday. My Wife's Mom started saying about how she just finished reading this book and how great it was......

You wouldn't believe how hard it was to bite my tongue!!!!