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Originally posted by 7up
My friend just read this Michael Moore book, at least I think that his name. Now all he does is talk about how bad Bush is and how Nader would have been the best president. It sucks, because e has nothing to back this up with except this book, which he can't explain well at all, and I know if I read it I will just get pissed off.
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Michael Moore is a middle-aged overweight white guy (living in Manhattan) with more money than brains. He's a foaming-at-the-mouth lefist that hates America (especially the middle class) and thinks capitalism is a curse on mankind. He admits to owning stocks so I suppose he could also be called schizoid.
Moore gained fame in the late 1980's with a documentary
('Roger and Me') on the closing of GM plants in Detroit in the '80's and how it affected the citizens and workers there. He contrasted this misery with the million dollar salaries of GM executives like (then) GM CEO Roger Smith who either tried to whitewash the economic effect the GM plant closings were having or simply ran away when Moore tried to interview him, as he realized he was being set up for an ambush.
Anti-capitalist Michael Moore made a fortune from the documentary and I doubt he gave any of those fat profits to the displaced, unemployed citizens of Detroit that he exploited to make his award-winning and very profitable documentary that castigated a major American car company for attempting to economize when the car business was in steep decline.
According to Michael Moore, this was evil. The fact that if no one buys the product the company can't keep employing people at the same level seemed to escape Michael Moore. That the big CEO and executive salaries were paid to men running a billion-dollar business also escaped Moore. Easier to portray the GM CEO as an evil, greedy Scrooge, screwing the workers and ignoring the Detroit community. Disingenuous, at best.
I always find it ironic that anti-business fanatics like Michael Moore
hate business and profits but demand that business supply all the good-paying jobs everyone wants. What a fraud. I also notice that the anti-capitalist types like Moore never fail to cash the checks from their producers and publishers and don't find
their income 'excessive' as they do CEO salaries. Hypocrisy on stilts.
The fact that your friend 'read a book' that claims the media are involved in a conspiracy to support Bush shows you how uninformed he really is. The media is about 90% liberal and
hate George W. Bush with a passion. They all think he's a drooling idiot who 'stole' the election (in Florida). Michael Moore is in the forefront of this crowd that love democracy as long as their man is the president. Bush is not their man - by a long shot. The fact that GW Bush is president infuriates them. It's almost fun to watch if you like watching tantrums.
Far from supporting Bush, they
attack him at every opportunity, as evidenced by the recent accusations that somehow Bush 'knew' that Arab terrorists would attack America via hijacked airliners. Total BS and offensive to me.
The Democrats and their media water carriers have backed off that line but they were eager to jump on it as long as it appeared as if the public might buy it. They didn't. It was a lie and the American public knows it was a lie so the Democrats and media backpedaled, fast.
Ask your friend how this squares with the contention (in the book he read) that the U.S. media conspire to support President Bush. Absurd on it's face, this kind of twisted thinking is all too typical of liberals these days.
If your friend buys all this bogus anti-Bush, anti-American crapola - including Michael Moores new book with the offensive title:
'Stupid White Men
...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! -
then he's either blind to the realities or just not very bright and easily led, as are most liberals who have the dogma down pat with no substance to back it up. I enjoy chewing up those types and spitting them out. They usually taste like chicken and need salt.
My advice is to find some new friends. The kind that respect America, our core values and our President.