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 Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 10:21 pm Post subject: Thank You Michael Moore! |
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http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=46653
How Michael Moore got Bush elected
By JAY AMBROSE
Guest Commentary
| Quote: | GEORGE W. BUSH received more votes in Tuesday’s election than any Presidential contender in the history of the United States, and I would like to believe Michael Moore was partly responsible.
Here, after all, was not simply a film director whose “Fahrenheit 9/11” emitted a vile propagandistic stink, indicating something contemptible in the mindset of its creator, but someone who went trotting about Europe telling the adulatory press that Americans “are possibly the dumbest people on the planet.”
While some Europeans may still be slapping their thighs at such cleverness, it should not be surprising that some Americans may have taken offense. They may have figured, for starters, that they have the mental edge over someone whose anti-Bush film neglected to distinguish facts from malicious fantasy, but there is a much bigger point.
It is that literally millions of the hard-working, responsible, decent citizens of this nation just may have had it up to their eyebrows with those Hollywood types and others who disdain their intelligence, mock their religion, dismiss their values, deprecate their lifestyles and disparage their social contributions.
These citizens may suppose their lives add up to at least as much as the lives of celebrities taking time from their divorce schedules to issue morally superior pronouncements about issues they don’t understand.
They may further suppose they have a better grasp of everyday political truths than the ultra-privileged who don’t have to deal with such problems as how to pay their monthly bills when unexpected expenses leap out of nowhere and grab their wallets.
Yes, yes, celebrities have every right in the world to be active in politics, and even should be: Leave politics to the politicians and democracy will race from the room. And no, no, not every celebrity can be squeezed into some narrowly conceived stereotype; many are thoughtful, respectful and humble, I would guess, and I would also guess that many are as far from debauched as the average denizen of small-town America.
What I would like to stress is that a certain belittling, Hollywood-fostered stereotype of small-town, rural and suburban Americans — and especially the stereotype of religious Southern and Midwestern Americans of a conservative disposition — is itself an absurdity overlooking the strength they lend this country.
These Americans are a mix of many things, of course, and I don’t want to replace one stereotype of small-mindedness and dim-witted intolerance with another that overreaches and is too sweeping; any large grouping will include some number of the stupid and the morally careless, even the downright criminal, along with the brilliant and morally upright, even the downright saintly.
It seems to me, however, a safe, supportable generalization to say that these Americans mainly do a good job of raising their children, that they are mostly productive in their jobs, that they are by and large generous in their giving to charity, that their word is reliable and that they are more often than not kind to those they encounter.
I take particular umbrage at the caricature some paint of the religious. When you listen to someone like the TV comedian Bill Maher ridicule Christianity, for instance, you wonder whether he has any notion at all of tenets residing at the heart of the faith: that we can experience forgiveness if we ourselves first forgive, that we can find redemption even when our lives are in tatters, that nothing less is demanded of us in our dealings with others than sacrificial love. This is the stuff of satire?
Another proposition of the faith is that confession is good for the soul, and I have to confess that I am not in a very forgiving mood. It delights me to suppose that Bush-despising Hollywood lefties may actually have aided his cause in their excessive rhetoric (check out actor Richard Dreyfus’s speeches someday) or their middle class-alienating vulgarities (see comedienne Whoopi Goldberg’s jokes about the President).
I get special joy — I must get over this — in contemplating the hell Michael Moore might go through if he dwelled on the possibility that he contributed to the Bush victory by so unmistakably signaling his elitist attitudes.
Jay Ambrose is director of editorial policy for Scripps Howard Newspapers and can be reached at AmbroseJ@shns.com
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He got a thank you note from me!  If it ever occurs to Michael Moore-on that most "real people" completely reject his brand of bullsnit, he'll never admit it. He's an elitist, now - as all the moonbats think of themselves - set apart from the "real people."
That was a really good article, though - most of us will "get it," even if the moonbats do not. 
I suggested that he follow up with an article about how John Kerry's past helped re-elect the President and provided leads - cross your fingers.
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Last night my husband and I decided to watch Fahrenheit 9-11... now that Bush is safely POTUS for 4 more years! I have been hearing Oscar buzz about it ( NO Golden Globe thank goodness!!) so we wanted to see what all the fuss was about. This movie in our opinion is definitely NOT Oscar material. If Hollywood gives even a nomination to this film it has lost all credibilty and we will be boycotting hollywood and seeing less movies in 2005 if we see any at all! It is typical MM op-ed and at the most belongs with docu's. There is no way this film gets anywhere near "Passion" or "Ray". We are waiting to view FahrenHype 9-11 but there is a VERY LONG WAIT to rent it!!
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What ever happened to the human shields that were going to save Iraq
from our wrong war, wrong place, wrong time?
I think Michael was one of them, he could have shielded Baghdad all by himself.
He's a 400 pound communist gorilla that talks out of his a$$hole. |
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GoEagles
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He helped Bush get elected in 2000 as well. In 2000, Michael Moore'on endorsed Ralph Nader. It's obvious that if enough of his followers in New Hampshire or Florida hadn't voted for Nader, than Gore would have won in 2000.
Michael Moore is President Bush's best friend 
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