From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 09:14:15 MDT
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 >
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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 ------------------------- //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 -- Terry W. Colvin, Sierra Vista, Arizona (USA) < fortean1@mindspring.com > Alternate: < fortean1@msn.com > Home Page: < http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Stargate/8958/index.html > Sites: * Fortean Times * Mystic's Haven * TLCB * U.S. Message Text Formatting (USMTF) Program ------------ Member: Thailand-Laos-Cambodia Brotherhood (TLCB) Mailing List TLCB Web Site: < http://www.tlc-brotherhood.org >[Vietnam veterans, Allies, CIA/NSA, and "steenkeen" contractors are welcome.]
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