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MILLIONAIRE MARXIST MICHAEL MOORE |
MILLIONAIRE MARXIST MICHAEL MOORE
Michael Moore: Class Clown
By Lowell Ponte
December 24, 2003
(Dude, Where's My Country? By Michael Moore, Warner Books 249 pages,
$24.95)
MILLIONAIRE LEFTIST MICHAEL MOORE lives in an America different from
yours and mine, and not just because wealth has given him an insular
life of privilege on liberal Manhattan's Upper West Side.
In Moore's myopia, the America he sees in Chapter 9 of his latest
bestselling book Dude, Where's My Country? is populated by Leftists
like himself. In this "Liberal Paradise" 57 percent of his fellow
citizens
believe that abortion should be legal "in all or most cases," 86
percent say they agree with the "goals" of the Civil Rights movement
and 83 percent agree with the "goals" of the environmental movement,
and similar majorities support most other "progressive" ideas.
To paint this portrait of Americans, Moore uses mostly Left-of-Center
pollsters who used heavily colored, fuzzy questions to produce the
pink sepia picture of vague agreement they wanted on these and other
liberal
issues. Heck, who doesn't favor the most noble "goals" of equality and
a clean environment? The public debate on such things has been mostly
over means, not ends.
But during the most recent elections in 2002, the Voter News Service
consortium of the nation's biggest networks and newspapers suppressed
and did not report its voter exit polling - until days ago. It's easy
to see why, given the hard Left bias of these media.
Those un-slanted, suppressed VNS exit polls reveal that America has
moved sharply to the Right. The evenly-split electorate of 2000 had by
2002 shifted 51-46 Republican. Those calling themselves
"conservatives" grew from 30 percent to 34 percent, more than a third
of the entire electorate.
"Even more importantly," wrote John Fund of the Wall Street Journal,
"the number of self-identified ‘liberals' shrank in 2002 despite all
the frantic efforts of Michael Moore and Al Franken to whip up the
troops."
Those willing to call themselves "liberals" in these 2002 exit polls
shrank to only 17 percent - roughly one voter in six - while
conservatives increased to include more than one voter in three.
Moore's self-deluded book has spent the past 10 weeks on the liberal
New York Times Nonfiction Bestseller List (bumped down to #4 this week
by fellow Lefty Al Franken's competing anti-American screed). But,
truth be told, a Politically Correct author can climb this list with
only a few thousand book
sales in the right (that is, the Left) bookstores. The larger question
with this, as with all of Michael Moore's books and film
"documentaries," is whether they should be listed as Nonfiction or as
fiction.
Moore faces what Karl Marx called internal contradictions. If the
nation were as Leftist as he claims, his book would be nothing more
than a simpleton repetition of common beliefs.
But Moore knows that his fellow Americans elected Republicans to run
the Senate, House and White House and are likely to do so again in
2004. The aim of his latest propaganda polemic is to rationalize and
then reverse this, to achieve "regime change" in the United States.
Americans vote Republican, contrary to their own self-interest, writes
Moore, because wealthy capitalist oil men have hypnotized them with an
illegitimate war in Iraq, fear of terrorists, and a few crumbs from a
tax
cut (given mostly to the wealthy) that feeds the American Horatio
Alger myth that we all can succeed.
"Horatio Alger Must Die," writes Moore. Americans should stop trying
to become rich. Instead they should desert the War on Terror and
enlist in the Class War. Our best chance for a halfway pleasant life,
he argues, is to tax all wealth away from the rich and redistribute it
to ourselves in the form of welfare, government healthcare and other
benefits.
"You are never going to be rich" like Horatio Alger, writes Moore.
"The chance of that happening is about one in a million." (This means
that in our nation of 293 million people, we have only 293
millionaires.…when in fact we have literally millions of citizens with
a net worth in excess of a million
dollars - and would have millions more if government greed and
excessive taxation could be ended…but is it fair to apply logic to an
utterly irrational hyper-Leftist ideologue like Moore?)
The problem with this pudgy messenger born 49 years ago into a working
class family in Flint, Michigan, is that Michael Moore IS that one in
a million who, in the jargon of Leftspeak, "won life's lottery."
This high school dropout and former editor of the Leftist magazine
Mother Jones has become very, very wealthy by playing class clown to
frustrated Leftist baby boomers.
In "Dude, Where's My Country?" he mocks readers by writing about the
huge windfall President George W. Bush's stimulative tax cuts have
given him. He has set up a website where readers can help him decide
where to spend his tax cut.
(Actually, he has already decided to spend it "to defeat George W.
Bush" and the Republican Party. Those visiting his website are merely
given a chance to recommend anti-Republican candidates as recipients
of Mike's largesse…if the new Campaign Finance Law allows such
expenditures.)
But Michael Moore is very secretive about his own private life and how
many dollars he makes. The amount of his income might be embarrassing
to this foe of capitalism. Somebody might ask how this self-proclaimed
champion of the proletariat justifies keeping, after taxes, millions
and millions of dollars
for himself instead of giving it all to the poor. Or some fellow
socialist might ask why Moore takes this tax cut at all instead of
telling the big government he loves so much to keep the money,
government being so much better at spending our money than we are.
"Michael Moore would never withstand the scrutiny he lays on other
people," says his former manager Douglas Urbanski. "You would think
that he's the ultimate common man. But he's money-obsessed."
"He was the most difficult human being I've ever met," Urbanski, who
today manages stars such as Gary Oldman, continues. "There was no one
who even came close."
"He's careless with his facts, hysterical in debate and, most
basically, a guy trying to make a star out of himself," says famed
film critic Richard Schickel, who shares some of Moore's political
views but sees the filmmaker' s disreputable tactics as helping
bolster the other side.
"He's a self-aggrandiser," Schickel described Moore to the Times of
London. "And, perhaps, the very definition of the current literary
term, ‘the unreliable narrator'. This guy either can't or won't stick
to the point, build a logical case for his arguments. It's all
hysteria - but, I think, calculated hysteria."
Like the huckster who runs every shell game, Michael Moore prefers to
misdirect his readers' attention elsewhere. Look at the Bush family,
he writes, and its friendship with the bin Laden family and Saudi
royal family.
(Moore's next documentary, "Fahrenheit 911," scheduled to come out
next year to influence the election, reportedly will focus on such
purported links and use them to imply that the Bush family was somehow
responsible for 9-11. It reportedly is being produced by Mel Gibson's
company Icon Productions.)
But why should not two Presidents from a Texas oil family be friends
with the oil-rich American allies of the House of Saud? The bin Ladens
are a very large family with one black sheep, the 17th child named
Osama born not to a wife but to a mistress who has been disowned by
other family members both
for his terrorism and his attacks against the House of Saud. To be
friendly with the Saudi royal family is to be the enemy of Osama bin
Laden.
So how would Michael Moore prevent terrorism? "Stop being terrorists,"
he writes, giving the usual Leftist examples of America doing evil
around the world and thereby angering people.
Who does Michael Moore support for President in 2004? "Oprah Winfrey."
Or, more precisely, because he fears that President Bush will use
future terrorist incidents as pretext for creating a police state in
America, he will support anybody who can defeat the incumbent
President.
Middle age, as the saying goes, is when a narrow waist and a broad
mind change places. As disheveled and bloated in mind as he is in
body, Moore faces his 50th birthday this coming April and is showing
signs of turning from a free-spirited critic of the Democratic Party
who in 2000 supported Ralph Nader into just another dour,
narrow-minded Democratic Party apparatchik robot.
(Nader, having taken four years of curses from Democrats who blame his
92,000 votes in Florida for Al Gore's 2000 presidential loss,
announced this week that he will not run again as a Leftist third
party candidate in 2004.)
Moore is smart enough to know that Democrats will lose in 2004 unless
they can peel off moderate and even some Republican votes. In one
chapter in his book, he envisions conversing with his future
granddaughter named Ann Coulter Moore.
To win converts, Moore uses all his wit and charm to produce a guide
Leftists can use to win over that conservative brother-in-law with
whom they debate once each year at Thanksgiving. Moore suggests ways
to build bridges across the political spectrum, above all by appealing
to conservative "self-centeredness" by showing how liberal social
policies will make them richer and happier.
"What you will encounter in the conservative mind is fear," writes
Moore to his fellow Lefties. "Fear of crime. Fear of enemies. Fear of
change. Fear of people not exactly like them. And, of course, fear of
losing any money on anything."
He does not mention fear of Leftists, who are just as eager to impose
their morality on everybody else by using the bayonets of government
power as are the "evil right-wing preachers" feared by the Left.
(Moore, who as an Irish-American boy considered becoming a Catholic
priest, makes clear that he despises George W. Bush for his devout
Christian values and faith.)
"You know there are many things about conservatives that we like and
believe in ourselves - even though we usually wouldn't be caught dead
saying them out loud," writes Moore in the most winning (and for him
hard to write) passage of this book.
"Say them out loud" to your conservative brother-in-law, Moore advises
his comrades. "Tell him you, too, are afraid of being a victim of
crime and want to prevent criminals from getting away with their
actions…. Tell him you don 't like freeloaders, either…. Tell him how
dependable conservatives are. When you need something fixed, you call
your redneck brother-in-law, don't you?…. Conservatives are organized,
on-time, efficient, well-groomed, and consistent. These are all good
qualities and attributes…."
Moore also advises Lefties to admit to that brother-in-law that the
Left has - gasp - "made mistakes." Among Moore's own confessions:
"Mumia probably killed that guy…." Not just a "guy," Michael, but a
cop helpless on the ground into whom Mumia emptied a gun.
"Drugs are bad." Agreed.
"Men and women are different." Darn, and just when we thought the Left
could be eliminated in one generation by urging them all to engage
only in same-sex relationships!
"It's really a bad idea to have sex before you're eighteen." Michael
clearly sees that big 5-0 rising like a full moon over his life, but
age brings greater wisdom and judgment to most of us.
"MTV sucks…." Moore continues, giving far more detail than my quick
thumbnail extracts here. "Granola is bad for you. It is filled with
sugar and fat…. The sun is good for you…. People who commit violent
crimes should be locked up…. Your children do not have a right to
privacy…. Not all unions are good, and, in fact, many of them are just
plain lousy…. SUVs are not inherently evil…. Getting back to nature is
a dumb idea…. Bill O'Reilly makes a few good points…. Animals don't
have rights…. Nixon was more liberal than the last five presidents
we've had…. Too many of us [on the Left] hold a hoity-toity view of
religion….This arrogance is a big reason the lower classes will always
side with the Republicans."
Is Moore mellowing and becoming more moderate? Or is he merely using
this outreach as a cynical tactic to seduce enough conservative and
Republican votes to keep a fast-sinking Democratic Party afloat in
2004?
Throughout his career in print and film, beginning with his
documentary "Roger & Me" to his error-filled Academy Award-winning
documentary "Bowling for Columbine," Moore has been accused of using
lies and deception to advance his immediate political and personal
agenda. Entire websites such as moorelies.com exist just to track what
critics call his history of deceit and dishonesty.
The good news for Michael Moore is that he can now answer his own
question: "Dude, Where's My Country?" Weeks ago he toured five cities
and was greeted everywhere with huge standing-room-only crowds of
young people who cheered wildly at his every word as if he were a rock
star or movie idol.
"We are socialists," a similar idol who shares Moore's politics told
just such a cheering crowd in one of these cities. "We are enemies of
today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the
economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly
evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property….and we
are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions."
Michael Moore's country, where these adoring crowds cheered him wildly
last month, was Germany.
It doubtless helped that Moore dressed in a brown jacket reminiscent
of the brown garb of that other idol who like Moore swayed and
hypnotized crowds of America-hating Leftist young people.
"I thought it was almost like a kind of cult," said truck driver Max
Klemmt after watching Moore spew his anti-American venom in Berlin.
"He says somebody is crap and everyone cheers."
"Please, stop this God Bless America stuff," Moore told the overheated
"Old Europe" Berlin crowd. "There should be a rule that you're not
allowed to bomb another country unless you can find it on the map." By
comparison with what a reviewer for the Leftist London Guardian
scornfully called Moore's "cliché-ridden….paint-by-numbers polemics,"
his friends the Dixie Chicks almost seem pro-American.
The other idol and cult leader whose socialist politics closely
parallel Moore's was the head of the Nazionalsozialistische Deutsche
Arbeiter Partei, the National Socialist German Worker's Party usually
referred to in its abbreviated form, Nazi. The Moore-like attack on
capitalism was made by Adolf Hitler in a speech on May 1, 1927. To
read other such Hitler quotes and learn more about Hitler's Leftist
socialist politics, click here.
Germany today has a population of about 84 million, only 28 percent
that of the United States. Michael Moore's previous best-seller,
Stupid White Men, came out with a total of only a million copies in
the United States, but in Germany with scarcely a quarter of our
population the same book sold 1.2
million copies. His new book, published with a German title that
translates "Full Cover, Mr. Bush," reported the November 17 Wall
Street Journal, had a huge initial print run in Germany of 200,000
copies, with more to come.
(In Germany, as the September 29th Wall Street Journal reported, every
kind of crackpot anti-American conspiracy book - like the Andreas von
Bulow tome alleging, Howard-Deanlike, that President Bush was somehow
involved in or had foreknowledge of 9-11 - nowadays sells like
hotcakes.)
So, Michael, you need never again ask "Dude, Where's My Country?"
You found it, amid the sweaty torchlight parades, beer halls,
swastikas, brown shirt socialists, goose-steppers and hypnotized
screaming crowds of freedom-hating, America-hating former East Germans
too young and uneducated to remember the nightmare into which the last
socialist demagogue like yourself led their blinkered culture. Welcome
to the cabaret, Michael Moore. Welcome home to your true country.
Too bad they impose confiscatory taxes on rich folks like you. But
what's sauce for the goose-stepper is sauce for the gander. This is
what you want for all of us.
--
Left-wing liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being. They
are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,
selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.
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26 Jan 2004 02:15:09 PM |
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"Ramone Garcia" <ramone_marcia4@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9e651013.0401261103.62821019@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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