Re: Portrait of a disturbed guy [Michael Moore]

From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 09:14:15 MDT

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    Best analysis yet. This is a remarkably unattractive personality.

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    When asked by a reporter from the Arcata Eye in 2002 why he wasn't speaking at
    independent bookstores rather than at corporate chains, he exploded in a tirade
    that revealed his willingness to have his principles-in this case, his distrust
    of corporate power-take a backseat to his personal vengefulness. "You know in my
    town the small businesses that everyone wanted to protect? They were the people
    that supported all the right-wing groups," he ranted. "They were the Republicans
    in town, they were in Kiwanis, the Chamber of Commerce-people that kept the town
    all white. The small hardware salesman, the small clothing store sales persons,
    Jesse the Barber who signed his name three different times on three different
    petitions to recall me from the school board. Fuck all these small
    businesses-fuck 'em all. Bring in the chains."

    < http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_3_michael_moore.html >
    [complete lengthy article]

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    DISCLAIMER: Not defending any particular statement or action, or
    disputing any specific information in the article, BUT

    Moore at least attempts to balance out the incredibly hostile right
    wing lunatics so very common these days. Reasoned arguments,
    listening to your opposite, common courtesy are all very much out of
    fashion. At least Moore is attacking people (IMHO) who have very
    little interest in my personal well-being.

    St. Louis has a holy fool named Larry Rice, (again IMHO) not a very
    attractive personality and one I disagree with on many fundamental
    issues, but the only one who stands up and says it was immoral to
    spend gazillons on new sports stadia, etc., when people are starving,
    that sort of thing.

    Rice has not, to my knowledge, ever profited and appears to live on
    about the same level as his homeless shelters, if not in them. It is
    possible that Moore is a calculated money-grubber but he also appears
    to be in it more for the princle than some that pollute our airwaves.

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     Moore at least attempts to balance out the incredibly hostile right
    > wing lunatics so very common these days. Reasoned arguments,
    > listening to your opposite, common courtesy are all very much out of
    > fashion.

    None more so than with Moore, whose appearances on TV debates inevitably end
    up in him attempting to shout down his opponents.

    Martin

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    Lynn disturbed my rest to tell me:

    >DISCLAIMER: Not defending any particular statement or action, or
    >disputing any specific information in the article, BUT
    >
    >Moore at least attempts to balance out the incredibly hostile right
    >wing lunatics so very common these days. Reasoned arguments,
    >listening to your opposite, common courtesy are all very much out of
    >fashion. At least Moore is attacking people (IMHO) who have very
    >little interest in my personal well-being.

    I still go with the lovely image somebody came up with in Might
    magazine way back when - Moore made it big because the left thought
    they needed their own big fat idiot to balance out Rush Limbaugh. His
    heart's very much in the right place, but there was a lot of "Bowling
    for Columbine", for example, that just seemed to be cheap sentiment
    dressed up as some sort of radicalism (most notably the very end).

    As I'm sure I've mentioned before, I literally bumped into Moore in
    Shaftesbury Avenue last winter, while he was doing his stint at the
    Roundhouse in Camden, and the conversation went roughly thus:
    Self: I've just read "Stupid White Men", it's really good to see
    stuff like that getting out there.
    Moore: Have you come to the see the show yet?
    Self: Er, not yet.
    Moore: There's only three or four performances left, it's really
    great, you should come. Anyway, see ya.

    -- 
    Joe McNally :: Flaneur at Large
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    //HUMER//
    Talking of Moore, has anyone else seen "As-yet unproven claims by Michael Moore" 
    on < http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/ > (a videogame humour site for bitter SEGA 
    fans).  The present one is: "Tap water is really raw sewage dyed with 
    see-through bleach".  Not actually as funny as the rest of the site but there 
    you go.
    Stew
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