Michael Moore Is The Real Victim!
By Mitch Berg
In the immediate wake of the anniversary of 9/11, Micheal Moore is reminding us who the real victim was.
Him.
He’s declared himself the “most hated man in America” – and he’s started with a quote from Glenn Beck:
‘I’m thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I’m wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it … No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out [of him]. Is this wrong? I stopped wearing my ‘What Would Jesus Do?’ band, and I’ve lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, ‘Yeah, I’d kill Michael Moore’, and then I’d see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I’d realise, ‘Oh, you wouldn’t kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn’t choke him to death.’ And you know, well, I’m not sure.”
Now, I don’t care for Glenn Beck much. Honestly, I don’t care for his show.
And since we do have to try to run a country together, I’ll urge everyone to refrain from threatening each other.
But it’s worth noting that if I thought someone seriously was threatening me, I’d be talking to the police. It’s not academic; I’ve gotten threats (although it was a while ago); if Moore didn’t file a restraining order against Beck at the very least, then I think it’s safe to say that he wasn’t especially worried about it.
To be fair to Hemmer, I was not unaware that my movies had made a lot of people mad…Why was I still alive? For more than a year there had been threats, intimidation, harassment and even assaults in broad daylight. It was the first year of the Iraq war, and I was told by a top security expert (who is often used by the federal government for assassination prevention) that “there is no one in America other than President Bush who is in more danger than you”.
Odd, that, Moore contributed to that danger to the President – y’all know that, right?
How on earth did this happen? Had I brought this on myself? Of course I had. And I remember the moment it all began.
Well, I remember the moment I began to completely detest everything about Moore. It had something to do with this:
That’s Moore in “Bowling for Columbine”, badgering Charlton Heston about…well, stuff that neither Heston nor the NRA had any culpability for. It was the noxious capstone in a reprehensible movie.
Still, Moore has been on the wrong end of some weirdos:
But the worst moments were when people came on to our property. These individuals would just walk down the driveway, always looking like rejects from the cast of Night of the Living Dead, never moving very fast, but always advancing with singleminded purposefulness. Few were actual haters; most were just crazy. We kept the sheriff’s deputies busy until they finally suggested we might want to get our own security, or perhaps our own police force. Which we did.
We met with the head of the top security agency in the country, an elite outfit that did not hire ex-cops, nor any “tough guys” or bouncer-types. They preferred to use only Navy Seals and other ex–Special Forces. Guys who had a cool head and who could take you out with a piece of dental floss in a matter of nanoseconds. By the end of the year, due to the alarming increase of threats and attempts on me, I had nine ex-Seals surrounding me, round-the-clock.
And right there is the reason I detest Michael Moore. He’s spent a good chunk of his career attacking the law-abiding American’s right to defend themselves from, well, exactly the stuff that Moore is worried about.
And those of us who can’t afford to hire a bunch of Navy Seals to deal with life’s crazies have every reason to wish Moore would…
…get smarter.
September 12th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
I should have sympathy for a crazy stalker being stalked by crazies? Are you crazy?
September 12th, 2011 at 12:47 pm
“…CNN’s Bill Hemmer, stuck a microphone in front of my face…” well, where else would he put it being that he was interested in broadcasting the sounds coming out of your mouth? But I digress.
I refuse to call Michael Moore a documentarian – fakeumentarian maybe, but not documentarian. The Motion Picture Academy had to break their own rules to award him an Oscar because he didn’t ‘document’ anything in “Bowling for Columbine”. He made stuff up, presented his set-ups as naturally occuring events and otherwise failed to meet the basic requirements of a “documentary”. Hell, even his first major fakeumentary, “Roger & Me” failed to disclose that he did in fact meet with Roger Smith of GM during the filming. He claims to be a working class guy who’s just fighting for the little guy, but the world is filled with stories of how he has screwed over everyone from his unpaid interns to (people who actually deserve a screw over) Hollywood Moguls he has partnered with to put out his drivel.
September 12th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
It’s blazingly obvious that Heston was confused at the whole encounter. He had no idea who Moore was, and thought he was an ally when he displayed his NRA card.
Then he parades around Heston’s house berating him.
I was apathetic about guns then… but knew all I needed to know about Moore… The truth doesn’t matter when an emotional lie will do… It’s hard to debate emotion. Emotion can exist without logic. Moore encapsulates this more than any person I have seen.
September 12th, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Angryclown would assume Moore has plenty of reason to fear the flaming nut-jobs who follow Beck. But Angryclown agrees with Mitch on that scene with Heston. Reprehensible. And while Moore can be entertaining, he has so many bad ideas, he’s not worth paying attention to: OJ’s innocence, 9/11 conspiracy, Ralph Nader…
September 12th, 2011 at 2:10 pm
“due to the alarming increase of threats and attempts on me, I had nine ex-Seals surrounding me”
I could put in a cheap shot about “covering the circumference” here, but I won’t. His eating habits don’t concern me the least. His embodiment of “baseless propaganda” does, and should concern most people.
September 12th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Not sure if it’s still available, but “Michael Moore Hates America” by Michael Wilson is a classic send up using Moore’s own techniques to show what a fraud he is. It also shows enough of Moore’s films so I didn’t have to contribute a nickel in order to see his work first hand. I think he is extremely talented. So were Leni Reifenstahl and DW Griffith. For that matter, so are Matt Damon, George Clooney and most of the Hollywood liberal posse (let’s exclude Sean Penn, who is only skilled at playing himself). But that doesn’t mean they have a clue as to what is happening in the world.
September 12th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
“…not worth paying attention to: OJ’s innocence, 9/11 conspiracy, Ralph Nader…” …AssClown… …Branch AlGoreans…
September 12th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
The best Michael Moore story I heard was from some guy who said he went to high school with him. Apparently, Moore was as shlubby in high school as he is now and he was tired of seeing all the pretty cheerleaders fall for the football players, so he circulated a petition to eliminate football and give the money saved to some kind of a feed the starving African kids charity.
The petition went nowhere, of course, but it let him browbeat the football players and cheerleaders about how they’d rather play their silly game than save starving children.
Don’t know if it is true or not, but it sounds like something that he would do.
The classic Bleat takedown of Moore:
http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/04/0704/070804.html
September 12th, 2011 at 7:25 pm
Terry ventured: “Don’t know if it is true or not, but it sounds like something that he would do.”
That’s about as strong as the evidence gets in a teatard argument.
September 12th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
It wasn’t an argument, Angry Clown.
How dumb are you, anyhow? Oh, wait, you voted for Obama.
September 12th, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Haha, you’re the smart guy Terry? Voting for the cranky old guy and Caribou Barbie?
“I can see Russia from my house!”
September 12th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
I didn’t say that I was smart, Angry Clown.
I will say that I am smarter than you, though. I didn’t vote for Obama.
I’m smarter than the fella’ in the White House, too.
The Biden VP pick was bad news, and it’s been downhill ever since for our community organizer in chief. It’s not going to get any better. He’s not going to “find his legs”. He’s not going to rebound. He’s drowning in shallow end of the pool, messing up on the easy stuff. It probably reminds him of Harvard. Good thing for him he had that affirmative action ace in the hole. .
The GOP candidate next year will likely be Perry or Romney. They have been fully vetted and have applicable experience. Neither has ever put “community organizer” on his resume. Perry has never lost an election, or so I hear, and TX politics are vicious even within the party.
Frosting on the cake if the SC finds Obamacare unconstitutional. Say, didn’t Obama teach constitutional law?
September 12th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
Here is how Drudge is playing the Obama’s jobs bill:
September 13th, 2011 at 3:14 am
“I can see Russia from my house!”
You’re not smart enough to know that Palin never said those words. You’re also not smart enough to know that when you use an insult that is just a flat out lie, you make yourself look even less intelligent than the dolts in the White House.
For that, you truly deserve kudos.
September 13th, 2011 at 11:04 am
Bill C sprung Angryclown’s rhetorical bear trap: “Palin never said those words.”
Don’t know if it is true or not, but it sounds like something that she would say.
Terry will get that. Angryclown doubts you will, Bill C.
September 13th, 2011 at 1:12 pm
Who would be dumb enough to vote for Obama?
September 13th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
“Who would be dumb enough to vote for Obama?”
51.5% of voters, about the same percentage as those who pay no income tax.
September 14th, 2011 at 8:11 am
angryclown said:
“Don’t know if it is true or not, but it sounds like something that she would say.”
“Truthy” and “fake but accurate”. Don’t really care if I “get it” or not, but that is an effective way of saying that you’re less intelligent than the folks you call stupid. *shrug*
September 14th, 2011 at 11:16 am
“Terry will get that. Angryclown doubts you will, Bill C.”
You give yourself way too much credit.
September 14th, 2011 at 7:36 pm
That is not possible.