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"Ramone Garcia" |
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26 Jan 2004 01:05:15 PM |
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Michael Moore Is Epically Wrong! |
Michael Moore Is Epically Wrong!
Geoff Metcalf
Thursday, Jan. 9, 2003
I read a piece by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in the London Independent that
made my blood boil. [http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/
yasmin_alibhai_brown/story.jsp?story=366725]
Fat, slovenly, left-wing radical big-mouth Michael Moore pontificated
to a London audience that the victims of 9/11 on the hijacked planes
were wimps and if only more bad-***** black gangstas had been on board …
"If the passengers had included black men," he claimed, "those
killers, with their puny bodies and unimpressive small knives, would
have been crushed by the dudes, who as we all know take no disrespect
from anybody."
Notwithstanding Moore's myopic and inaccurate stereotyping, he seems
to have overlooked the real hero passengers who DID attack the
hijackers and aborted one of the terrorist missions with a Pyrric
victory that cost them their lives.
Teddy Roosevelt noted:
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;
whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives
valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the
great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy
cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while
daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and
timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
Brown writes, "God save us from such stupid white men, especially now,
when in the US and the UK, black people's lives are being ripped to
shreds by drugs, lawlessness, fear and frightful violence plus the
endless circle of racism, exclusion and incarceration. This is not
awesome, Mr. Moore; it is a calamity, for descendants of slaves
unimaginably more so."
Using Moore's monumentally flawed reasoning, every black ghetto and
high-crime area suffering the epidemic of drugs, lawlessness, fear and
violence must be the fault of gutless black men? Scaredy-cats
intimidated into sheep-like submission by inarticulate bullies and
gangs lacking the stones to confront their tormentors.
As Moore rants about "how the passengers on the planes on 11 September
were scaredy-cats because they were mostly white," he conveniently
ignores the obvious collorary that residents in high-crime areas must
be wimpy scaredy-cats to allow criminals to rule with unchecked
violence.
You can't have it both ways, Mikey (you sanctimonious bubble of pus).
Talk about racist bovine excrement! Classic double standard liberal
claptrap. Can you imagine if Clarence Thomas or J.C. Watts had even
suggested anything so outrageous? ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, CNN, New York
Times, WashingtonPost, et al. would flog the outrage for a month.
However, when a left-wing radical
darling pukes racist, stereotypical falsehoods, he gets a pass? It is
sufficiently reprehensible to gag maggots.
It defies reason that this pretentious hack has somehow positioned
himself into any prominence based on one semi-professional documentary
about his inability to interview Roger Smith, then chairman of General
Motors.
Roger Ebert in his 1989 review of "Roger and Me" wrote: "Moore has
struck a nerve with this movie. There are many Americans, I think, who
have not lost the ability to think and speak in plain English - to say
what they mean. These people were driven mad by the 1980s, in which a
new kind of bureaucratese was spawned by Ronald Reagan and his
soulmates - a new manner of speech by which it became possible to
"address the problem" while saying nothing and yet somehow conveying
optimism. Ebert apparently considered Moore a "genius." I do not share
that opinion. However, opinions are like sphincters … we all have
them. Well, Mr. Ebert, this is my modest attempt to think and speak
(write) in plain (arguably too plain) English to say what I mean.
However, what is most galling is the inimitable yet chronic double
standard the darlings of the left enjoy. The selectivity of the
mainstream media in choosing to showcase 'celebrity idiots' when they
endorse the liberal left's doctrine and to completely ignore the
hypocrisy of the defenders of the downtrodden living high and
cheap-shotting anyone who has the misfortune to be even modestly
successful by merit of hard work.
Michael Moore should be placed in stocks at Ground Zero (right next to
Sen. Patty Murray) and free rotten vegetables and animal offal should
be provided to families of 9/11 victims.
Visit Geoff Metcalf's Web site at http://www.geoffmetcalf.com. He may
be
contacted at geoff@geoffmetcalf.com.
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| User: "None" |
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| Title: Re: Michael Moore Is Epically Wrong! |
26 Jan 2004 02:14:46 PM |
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"Ramone Garcia" <ramone_marcia4@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9e651013.0401261105.72152c65@posting.google.com...
Ramone Garcia is EVERYTHING he accuses the right of being. He
is mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,
selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.
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| User: "JTEM" |
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| Title: Spam, "Roman Garcia" and other handles (was Re: Michael Moore...) |
27 Jan 2004 07:27:00 AM |
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"None" <none@nospam.org> wrote
Ramone Garcia is EVERYTHING he accuses the right
of being.
I think you meant "Left."
Anyhow, this guy is just going to keep on spamming, and
he's going to keep on changing handles, no matter how
anyone responds.
All you can do is complain to his ISP.
That in itself is a bit of a twist. He's posting from something
called popsite.net (abuse@popsite.net, postmaster@popsite.net)
which in turn is hosted by starnetusa.net
(hostmaster@starnetusa.net).
Starnetusa.net doesn't list an abuse e-mail address, but they do
list customer service & support e-mail addresses:
If our resident spammer doesn't own popsite.net himself (merely
a hosted front) then they certainly don't care about abuse & spam
the way they pretend that they do, and there seems little point in
complaining to them. Your best bet is to send your complaints
to hostmaster@starnetusa.net, and
.
Heck, you can even add and
if you want to increase their incentive for action.
Just try to include all headers when you do so. For you, simply
right-click on the article, choose "Properties" and click on the
"Details" tab. What you'd be looking at is the "Full Headers." Copy &
paste those into his articles when you forward them to any of the
above addresses.
If you want to know how to find the source of these spams yourself,
the easiest way is to look at the full headers (as explained above)
and copy the I.P. address (the NNTP posting host). Next, go on to
google.com and search for a Traceroute Hack site w/ DNS lookup.
There's also no shortage of desktop applications you can download
for just this sort of job. "Neotrace" was once the be-all-end-all, if
you ask my opinion, but they've since been bought up by McAfee
who appear to have wasted little time in ruining it.
Good Luck.
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| Title: Re: Michael Moore Is Epically Wrong! |
26 Jan 2004 03:00:18 PM |
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"None" <none@nospam.org> wrote in message
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"Ramone Garcia" <ramone_marcia4@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9e651013.0401261105.72152c65@posting.google.com...
Ramone Garcia is EVERYTHING he accuses the LEFT of being. He
is mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,
selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.
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| User: "SMChristenson" |
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| Title: Re: Michael Moore Is Epically Wrong! |
02 Feb 2004 10:55:24 AM |
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:05:15 -0800, Ramone Garcia wrote:
Michael Moore Is Epically Wrong!
You know what? If Moore said that, and I'll accept that he did, I find it
offensive. But:
1. That shows he's human (and I'm sure alt.atheism isn't into worshipping
people either).
2. It's all relative. I've suffered for three years and am yet to hear
Dubya say anything intelligent.
So I can still like and support Moore. I think he may, in fact, speak
before thinking sometimes in an attempt to be funny so he is a little more
uncensored and spontaneous than he probably should be for his own good as
a lightning rod of criticism.
Why didn't the first two planes react:
1. Short trip
2. Mostly empty. The women probably aren't conditioned to think military
strategy and there probably wasn't a critical mass for concensus to rush
the hijackers.
3. With the division between first class and tourist, you can herd the
people into the back and it creates an ambiguous and confusing situation
that buys time because the people don't know what's going on up front.
4. Critically, the third plane got word that the first two were flown
into the Center. So the end game was revealed, and, to take nothing away
from the fact that they went out like warriors, their options were bluntly
clear.
Yes, Moore should have been sensitive to those distinctions.
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