I get the impression that the Giant Turd, Michael Moore, really isn't very bright. I'm not saying that just because I despise him and everything he does in public. He's either kind of dumb, or being dumb is part of his schtick.
Granted, he is very manipulative, especially for the lemmings on the Left, and he is charismatic to the same folks. But I don't see much evidence that he has persuaded anyone except possibly the ignorant. He doesn't so much argue as throw facts around, many of them questionable, in an inflammatory manner, without regard to whether those facts contradict themselves.
For example, in his latest screed, the Turd says that "...America has never thrown a sitting president out during wartime. That’s the facts." But wait a sec, Mike...you said in your book "Dude, Where's My Country?" that there is no war on terror. I saw you on the "Today" show with my own eyes, and you said those exact words: "There is no war on terror." I wouldn't be surprised if you copyrighted the phrase, and sold t-shirts with it on your Web site.
So the war doesn't exist, but somehow that non-existent war managed to sink your candidate? Your candidate who, if you didn't notice, did think there was a war on terror, one that he could fight in a "more sensitive" manner?
How can those two statements possibly be reconciled? Does the Turd think that there isn't a war on terror, but Evil Karl Rove convinced 51% of the American population that there was, and therefore the faulty impression that George Bush was a wartime president was enough to defeat Kerry? Or maybe he doesn't remember his previous statement that there was no war?
It's all too much to contemplate on a Friday afternoon. Happy Christmas shopping this weekend.
Eric: You're on a roll! Keep it going!
Thanks, Chris. I just re-published this post, as I screwed it up the first time.
Do we really have to spend any more time on this guy?
I'd rather not, but considering there's little sign that the Democrats are willing to abandon him and his positions, he's still relevant.
RC, you have it exactly backwards. We *want* to discuss this guy, because it makes the Evil Party look Stupid as well. And imputes every other vice imaginable on them -- treason, demagoguery, condescension, idiocy, hatred, and on and on.
The more the Democrats let Moore be a leader and a voice within the party, the better it is. I mean, when one of your two former living presidents says his two favorite movies of all time are CASABLANCA and FAHRENHEIT 9/11 ... I mean ... it's catnip for The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.
I mean, when one of your two former living presidents says his two favorite movies of all time are CASABLANCA and FAHRENHEIT 9/11
I assume you mean Carter, since Hillary would have killed Bill if he said anything as nuts as that in public.
In Casablanca, Rick (Bogart) passes up the opportunity for an affair with an old flame (Bergman): he urges her to stand by her husband for the sake of a cause greater than all of them.
If only Bill Clinton had that sort of character!
Well it was Jimmy Carter who said it, and I can at least imagine him doing what Rick does in CASABLANCA.
Bill Clinton I can imagine more as THE ENGLISH PATIENT.