November 22, 2005
Michael Moore: America's New Energy Source
Michael Moore should be designated as America's new energy source, because the hot gases blowing forth from his piehole seem to be unlimited in quantity.
This past weekend, Moore was given an award...and not just any award (click below to read more).
Read More "Michael Moore: America's New Energy Source"Moore received the first Paul Wellstone Memorial Award from the Progressive Caucus of the Genesee County Democratic Party for his grassroots political activism.
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Moore also riffed on several topics, including:
Celebrity and being criticized by the Republican Party, conservative broadcasters and others: "They've created a fictional character called Michael Moore. I think it's funny." (No, Moore has created his own fictional character, such as behaving like a working class schlub when he owns two expensive homes, a ten-acre retreat on tony Torch Lake in Michigan, and a penthouse in New York City.)
Delphi Corp. filing bankruptcy and the company's impact on local workers already affected by GM job cuts: "It's just so un-American, destroying the middle class. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if, in the next five years, if Toyota buys General Motors." (If Moore is so worried about jobs leaving the US, why has he outsourced his website and its servers to Canada?)
Polls showing Bush's declining popularity: "The country's changed. I'm in the majority now." (Only in girth, Michael. Seriously, a fall in the polls for Bush isn't exactly the headline news Moore and the MSM would like it to be. Didn't Jimmy Carter, loved by libs everywhere, once hit 28%?)
A White House spokesman last week saying a Democratic U.S. representative who wants troops out of Iraq is endorsing Moore's viewpoint: "The White House is completely discombobulated. Their time is up. They know the great unraveling is taking place." (That's not really answering the charge, Moore, it's more tired rhetoric.)
Moore also said troops must be withdrawn from Iraq as soon as possible and the American people must promise they won't be sent to war again unless it is absolutely necessary.
"That's our job," Moore said as the crowd rose in a standing ovation. "We didn't do our job. Make it up to them by promising we will never do that again."(Um, no, it's the job of the president and Congress to send troops into war, and they did it, no matter how many Democrats are trying to backpedal and rewrite the history books. How about making it up to them by promising to quit backstabbing them while they put their lives on the line for their country?)
The following is from OpinionJournal's Political Diary. I am printing it in full because you need to subscribe to see it online:
Radical filmmaker Michael Moore was in his native town of Flint, Michigan over the weekend to accept an award from the local Democratic Party. During his speech, he acknowledged just how controversial he had become since his agitprop film "Fahrenheit 9/11" debuted at the height of the presidential election. Last year, a local "Hall of Fame" committee disbanded rather than deal with a proposal to consider him for induction. One member resigned and called
Mr. Moore an embarrassment to the area.
To many he still is. Mr. Moore was greeted before his speech by an article in the local Flint Journal that questioned his bona fides as a populist muckraker. "Which well-known figure associated with Flint has outsourced jobs to other countries and used union-busting tactics?" the article asked. The paper proceeded to outline charges in a new book by Peter Schweizer, who writes that Mr. Moore had arranged to do much of his film production in Canada so he can avoid paying union wages. Mr. Moore is also said to have threatened employees with dismissal if they organized into a union.
The book also notes that Mr. Moore, a supporter of affirmative action, has never hired minorities to do any significant work on his projects. As for Mr. Moore's rants against the wealthy and claim that he owns no stock, Mr. Schweizer found that the wealthy filmmaker has extensive holdings in defense contractors. The foundation that Mr. Moore claims to donate 40% of his income to spends the minimum necessary to remain tax-exempt. Most of its money goes to support festivals that promote his films or nature preservation around his summer home in Michigan.
Mr. Moore didn't address the Flint Journal article during his visit this weekend. Instead he railed against Republicans and conservatives for their attacks on him. "They've created a fictional character called Michael Moore. I think it's funny," he told the crowd of local Democratic activists. Given his failure to adequately rebut the Schweizer charges, the biggest work of fiction may be Mr. Moore's own strained efforts to portray himself as a champion of the downtrodden working class.
Here's the link to the article OpinionJournal references.
Of course he ignored the charges. Ignoring them to Michael Moore amounts to their not existing at all. While he cries about accountability, he himself refuses to be accountable to himself and to his many deluded fans.
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When is he just gonna go away?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 22, 2005 07:03 PM
