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I'm looking forward to seeing how much the rich hate the poor and the United States once again ruined things for the rest of the world. I wonder how soon I can buy my tickets?

He is the white Jesse Jackson.

G

Mr. Moore is a fool.

He's a giant socialist weasel.

Green Blow Fly wrote:He is the white Jesse Jackson.

G

Lololololololol

oh yeah-

YOUR A RACIST! HOW DARE YOU!

He's just like every other over opinionated yank, only he weighs even more, never washes and has a camera sadly.

The last time Moore was interseting was his show in the early 90's on NBC. In one episode, he went to the Yugoslavian embassy while they were busy killing each other and asked to see the person in charge of warranties for his Yugo.

Since then, Moore's brain has fallen out.

Don't watch his movie. Jessie is a lot worse than Moore. He lies in wait till somebody is wrongly killed and uses that to advance his agenda. To this day I think Having MLK die in his arms broke his mind.

Moore is a useful idiot.

I enjoyed Michael Moore's books, and most of his movies.

**runs screaming from horde of conservative haters**

Well that calls for this

Green Blow Fly wrote:He is the white Jesse Jackson.

G

That's insulting to Jesse.

Frazzled wrote:Moore is a useful idiot.

Agreed. Moore has such obvious bias, but some of the issues he brings up are legit. There's no such thing as "balanced" reporting especially in America. I've found it easier to find news at the poles and then find my own middle ground on what's true and what's just opinion. BTW 24 hour news is the worst thing to have ever happened in America.

Look up the term useful idiot.

I know what useful idiot means. If you are referring to him as a communist sympathizer, than I still stand by what I said, if you mean the more modern usage of someone easily swayed in opinion, then I do not.


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Before you stomp my communist ass, I'll just say that I don't agree with 99% of what he says, but I think it's healthy to have a substantial amount of government criticism and for it to come from many different directions. Whether its Limbaugh or Moore or Olbermann or Coulter, it's good to have so many different sources of reporting.

I meant both.

You're not communist. You're just young. You're supposed to be like that.

But don't mistake what he, Olbermann (sp), Coulter, and Limbaugh do is anything close to reporting.

Frazzled wrote:I meant both.

You're not communist. You're just young. You're supposed to be like that.

But don't mistake what he, Olbermann (sp), Coulter, and Limbaugh do is anything close to reporting.

Oh don't worry, I'm not. I was a journo major for 3 years before switching to education. I switched because I saw just how little reporting is done and how its mostly polarized political commentary. There are a few things that are decent though. I like KCRW's Left, Right, and Center program (although its still skewed quite left) and obviously BBC is nice. Our NPR stations are pretty decent. But, ya I get what you are saying. And yes, I am a youngin with years to experience still.

Mmm....memories of sitting outside the commonly called Socialism Hall (it was even painted red, now thats funny) near the School of Education building. Lots of gals easy on the eyes there. That was for sure. Good times.

I think he lies in wait, waiting for the perfect subject to come along.

"Ooh, that's contraversial! I can exploit that with a poorly-made documentary where I force-feed the viewers my own political standpoint, thus breeding a new generation of brainwashed idiots - it's ok, they're my brainwashed idiot fanboys- and make a mountain of money at the same time. God Bless the country I pretend to hate that gives me irreproachable freedom to do this."

I think he hates republicans more than the country. It's a useless pointless and ofttimes wrong hate.

The annoying thing is, I often agree with him, but his methods are so ludicrous all he serves to do is damage the argument.

@ Sexiest_hero: Damn right! I'm not an American, but I like to poke my nose into other people's business. If I were to have a chance at voting for your president, my vote would have sat firmly with Gov. Ron Paul.
A controversial decision admittedly, but I agree with all his points. I love that he's a republican and you can tell he loves his country, and it's people.

@Greebynog: Totally. Jerk.

Tek wrote:@ Sexiest_hero: Damn right! I'm not an American, but I like to poke my nose into other people's business. If I were to have a chance at voting for your president, my vote would have sat firmly with Gov. Ron Paul. .

Vive Ron Paul!

I'm a staunch bleeding heart Libral Democrat. But he does to our point of view what rush does to the other side.Deamonize them to the point where people stop thinking of them as fellow country men with diffrent points of view to Monsters who want to destroy everything. Oh and they both make a huuuuge profit.

Greebynog wrote:The annoying thing is, I often agree with him, but his methods are so ludicrous all he serves to do is damage the argument.

Agreed on all counts there, some of the stunts he pulls to try and get his point across are just stupid, moronic and often ill thought through.

The whole fanfare about how Moore is terrible is ridiculous. He's simply not that terrible. Don't get me wrong, Moore isn't that good - his work fails to address decent counter arguments or misrepresents them, and he often relies on appeals to emotion over properly formed arguments.

But there's a whole lot of documentary makers out there that are at least as dodgy as Moore, and none of them have spawned a mini-industry of people dedicated to complaining about him. Moore and his fans would assume this mini-industry exists because they represent some kind of great threat to the powers that be, but that's a load of rubbish. It's just an accident of history, as Moore rose to international recognition at a time when the American right wing was at the height of its power and aggression. They were set to attack anyone that stood out, and Moore just happened to be standing out at that time. Moore, being the kind of guy Moore is, was happy to court the negative attention.

But none of the means he's worth the negative or positive attention. He's just a big fat guy that makes middle of the road documentaries, and isn't that interesting. But I am kind of interested in the ongoing industry of anti-Moore on the other hand, and their followers that just have to jump into any conversation or internet discussion to mention that Moore is really, really horrible, that is interesting. I mean really, is Moore that big a deal to you all?

sebster wrote:I mean really, is Moore that big a deal to you all?

Well, it is the internet.

Everybody sounds three times as concerned as they really are.

Moore might be a fool but as pointed before, although biased he often has a point.

M.

Orkeosaurus wrote:Well, it is the internet.

Everybody sounds three times as concerned as they really are.

Heh, fair point, though I reckon three times zero should still end up zero.