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Michael Moore: Republican Operative?

As I was reading some of the reviews of this popular book debunking a lot of Moore's lunacy -- and worse, bald-faced lies -- I couldn't help but wonder: Is Michael Moore really a Republican agent provacateur?

The theory is tantalizing -- it's the same kind of far-fetched thing Moore himself might try to pass off as fact. I mean, as an actual conservative, I can think of perhaps a dozen legitimate criticisms of the Bush administration -- too much social spending, immigration policy, etc. What better way to distract from real weaknesses than to engage in such over-the-top fabulisitic slander?

By way of analogy, imagine a guy were perpetually guilty of double-parking his car: blocking traffic inconveniencing others, blocking other cars in... now imagine someone else starts vehemently accuring him, saying he's really Joseph Stalin or Adolph Hitler. The actual, legitimate charges will be quickly forgotten -- if the harassment is dogged and absurd enough, the double-parker may even start to garner sympathy.

Does Moore even believe the stuff he alleges? Given the slights of hand he performs with editing -- some of the stuff documented here, for example -- he must know that what he's saying has no factual basis. But hey, it makes him money, that's for sure.

Comments

Keep thinking stuff like that and you are going to wind up in the looney bin.

I have wondered that myself from time to time, remember chairman newts con-act on america, then Dr. Jeckle starts talking about letting social security wither on the vine and women not fit for combat because of what he called "their monthly infection" WOW !!! long story short, Clinton was elected and the republicans lost control of the house and senate.

Posted by: Pinky Blue on August 11, 2004 11:30 AM

Michael Moore is no different than Jerry Springer. Both prey on the ignorance of the TV/Movie viewer who does not know how to read nor decipher with acute discernment the difference between truth and lies. Watching him on the "Today Show" is a great example of his great "obstruction" of the obvious, "He is nothing more than a big balloon filled with hot air." Perverted at most and obsessed with fantasy, Moore does nothing more than strike out at the same people who pointed out his lust for unmet expectations in a world filled with confusion. Though he resembles greatly the portly man on "The Family Guy" in need of a haircut, hiding behind a ballcap prop, he is only the obese likeness of the guy and not even close to the aforementioned title given to the primetime cartoon. Hiding behind what he knows is totally false he defends his claim that the innocent were killed in Iraq when George Bush says, "The bombing has started," when showing the kids playing in "serene peace and tranquility." What he failed to show was the serene peace and tranqility of the little kids in the nursery just minutes before the AIRPLANE PLOWED INTO THE TWIN TOWER that temporarily housed the INNOCENT during their tenure while awaiting their parents who would eventually pick them up after work. As I stated in the beginning, Jerry Springer does the same: Present the lies of life to the bloodlust of many who have nothing to look forward to but another dose of hypnotic macabre. But what are we to do? Vote! That's what we are to do. How do you silence the leftist lie? Vote for what is right. George Bush, has made bad decisions as any other lead has in the past. Who is perfect? None! However, he has secured, and kept our nation free of the fear that was incited blindly by the Liberal Left who thought it more important to concentrate on the "Private Life of an Immoral President" that the agenda of "Middle Eastern Moles" who secretly and successfully infiltrated the belly of our nation and injected a serum that has YET to be totally burned out of our system. Michael Moore, is the traitor, the terror, and the tarantuala on our still young american minds ignorant of media, blinded from realities, and unconcerned about the power of their vote. But who can we call to revive them? You and I are the ones to revive them. We can't allow the Michael Moore's of our United States to continue to dissuade and deceive the future of our Nation: Our children, the leaders of tomorrow's politics, the destiny of our 21st century America.
Thank you

Posted by: Brian S. Charles on September 1, 2004 09:29 AM

So tell me, Joe, if Cheney was behind the 9/11 attacks, then who was behind the London bombings? How about the ones in Madrid? Did "Cheney" do those too, because he wanted Zapatero, a socialist, in power in Spain?

Was "Cheney" behind the recent rockets being shot at Israel? Or the Bali bombings? So, let me get this straight: There are no Islamic terrorists??? None? It's all just "Cheney"?


Do the reasearch the facts speak for themselves.

I have done the research. I haven't yet seen any "facts" at which support your strange, tortured worldview. Mostly, it consists of people saying things are "secret", and thus unprovable. That's generally the "proof" I'm seeing. The best evidence is that there is no evidence, apparently.

Most of the narratives crumble when you poke at them. Answer my questions above, for example. I've never heard them given a reasonable answer by any of the 9/11 conspiracy theorists.


Bush is a direct descendent of Kings of Old...

Uh huh. And, if true, this means... what, precisely? News flash: Most of us are descended or related to royalty of one sort or another. (Example: I'm descended from the Danish king they named "Bluetooth" after.) It's kind of inevitable, giving the huge number of ancestors we each have.

Or didn't that cross your mind?


This is more than just idiotic conspiracy silliness. The extreme right had its beliefs about black helicoptors and the UN, the left has its 9/11 wackos.

But the problem I'm having here is that the right-wing wackos were, like, 0.0001% of the right wing, whereas the left-wing paranoiac appear to be 15-30% of the core -- including prominent Democratic leaders. (Yes, Joe will tell you he's not behind the Democratic party. And believes it. But his complaint is that they're basicly not, what I'd call "leftist", enough.)


Look at Joe's words and tone: He's dripping with hatred towards anyone who refuses to buy his view. Reasonable questions will not be tolerated. The world is in the grips of evil, and we're just as bad, being all complicit, or at least vastly intellectually inferior.

He's being used and manipulated, and assured -- as people inside the compound always are -- that it's really the rest of the world who are the mindless drones.

Of course, the world IS an evil place -- you'd have to be blind not to notice it. But I tend to notice that most of that evil -- a hundred million dead or more -- tend to have been associated with the sort of stuff I see Joe buying into.

Posted by: Tim (Random Observations) on August 22, 2006 11:39 AM

Delusionary at best.You read alot and try to place blame with possible good intentions yet cannot see what is right in front of you.You place blame and stand on your right or left side of the fence missing the whole picture.Mens goverments cannot succeed on this earth beit they have been emplaced upon peoples to trod on them to support their agendas and survival.It has been told Gods goverment is the only one that will work and from the messege it teaches, in a rational world one would see it and forgo their slavery to mans goverment.God oversees the world of his creation and watches as we continue like ants in confusion.In all the time we have been on earth we have not resolved against war and hatreds.Men say alot to be heard and to put themselves on their soapbox for to lead many astray.We continue on in mans way denying the original intent of Gods creation and therefor staying in ignorance of our birthright and gifts given yet we take for granted.I do not speak for gloom and doomers for they all are the same group of no hope and dwell into dark things.I can see those who are of like mind and they are the division of earths inhabitants and seek death of their oppostion then when it is done they turn on their own.The separation is coming to a battle that will engulf like a fire over the breadth of all earth.It will not be a battle of countries or of allegiance.It is a battle of those of who believes in God and his word and those who do not.My oppostion to these statements,I know who you are and who you serve.If you did really understand you would not question with dark hearts intentions or run like fowl with their heads cut off everytime something happens in the world.I see you study and live in the wrong masters house and must learn.Deception is natural for the one who guides you into a dark realm of which if you truly knew his intent you would run screaming into the night like you were on fire.You must decide in your life which battle you pursue.Mans? or Gods..Its in your everyday life.Young is man,like a spoiled child taught to deny what has been offered and to destruct himself and his kind.Even now most are in denial of the truth and throw it to the ground when heard.My two cents is that all your energy now is used up by those who keep you in division and you allow it like hooked fish by your reaction and this is what they expect to raise your fists and keeping you busy while they operate on a grander scale like you are a pawn in their chessmatch.Will you make it to the other side or be caught to be enslaved as in chess.The sooner you open your eyes and stop thinking as man the sooner you will see rewards of God.Its up to you.The Michael Moores of life is accusational and cries for blood...mans way.The way I see it he,the goverment and man is part of anti christs.One side or the other its your call.

Posted by: michaelangeloh on January 2, 2007 03:28 PM

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