Good Tom Tomorrow cartoon here makes fun of the "Sensible Liberal" who thinks it's rude to call Bush a liar and who distances himself from Michael Moore's rather effective filmmaking. Slate movie critic David Edelstein is a typical SensLib, declaring Moore "a blowhard the left can call its own" and implicity comparing him to Rush Limbaugh and Morton Downey Jr. (really climbing into the wayback machine on the latter). Does Edelstein really see no difference in Moore's incisive, frequently hilarious documentary and this schtick from the July 1 broadcast of the nationally syndicated Rush Limbaugh Show (via Media Matters)?:
LIMBAUGH: [laughter] Folks, it doesn't get any better than this. [laughter] Do you know something that's -- I'm sorry. [laughter] Oh, I'm trying to maintain my composure. The Democrats have found their keynote speaker for their convention: Saddam Hussein. [laughter] "The real criminal is [President George W.] Bush." Give him a talk show. Put him on "Dead Air America". [laughter]
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LIMBAUGH: It makes you wonder who hates Bush more, Saddam or the Democrats.
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LIMBAUGH: Let me -- let me ask you liberals out there: Did that image of Saddam in a sport coat and an open collar just melt your heart?
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LIMBAUGH: All he's doing is reading Democrat talking points. Come on. Bush is a criminal? What's the difference in what Saddam says and what you hear coming out of MoveOn.org every day, or George Soros, or any of these other people that are out there speaking against George W. Bush?
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LIMBAUGH: We killed his sons. We took his country. We put him in jail. He is still calmer and more rational than Howard Dean after he lost Iowa. He's calmer and more rational than Gore after he lost his mind. He's calmer and more rational than George Soros is.
Believe it or not, I actually can laugh at jokes at the expense of the left, but the above is just supremely unfunny. Moore's film nails Bush and his cadre (including the media) and doesn't deserve all the mealy mouthed qualifications it's getting from the center-left Democrats. Fortunately theatregoers are paying the full ticket price ($90 million in box office receipts so far), unlike the left-leaning pundits who insist on a "Michael Moore discount."
Sometimes one must be immoderate in the face of extremism ... not that I would ever resort to, say, screaming back at the digital brownshirts.
Referring to Fahrenheit 911 as "Moore's incisive...documentary", is comical, as much of it is simply false or only partially accurate. For a partial list of the inaccuracies of the film, visit http://fahrenheit_fact.blogspot.com. Unlike the film, this site backs up what it says by providing sources (what an interesting journalistic idea!) for its arguments. While I agree that Mr. Moore appears to be a fine filmmaker, as his awards would indicate, he doesn't present a fair and unbiased story that one should expect from a true documentary.
Yeah, that part about Bush sitting there with his thumb up his ass listening to the kids read "My Pet Goat" while American civilians were dying -- a complete fabrication. It was "The Pet Goat".
Shameless.
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Good Tom Tomorrow cartoon here makes fun of the "Sensible Liberal" who thinks it's rude to call Bush a liar and who distances himself from Michael Moore's rather effective filmmaking. Slate movie critic David Edelstein is a typical SensLib, declaring Moore "a blowhard the left can call its own" and implicity comparing him to Rush Limbaugh and Morton Downey Jr. (really climbing into the wayback machine on the latter). Does Edelstein really see no difference in Moore's incisive, frequently hilarious documentary and this schtick from the July 1 broadcast of the nationally syndicated Rush Limbaugh Show (via Media Matters)?: Believe it or not, I actually can laugh at jokes at the expense of the left, but the above is just supremely unfunny. Moore's film nails Bush and his cadre (including the media) and doesn't deserve all the mealy mouthed qualifications it's getting from the center-left Democrats. Fortunately theatregoers are paying the full ticket price ($90 million in box office receipts so far), unlike the left-leaning pundits who insist on a "Michael Moore discount."
- tom moody 7-19-2004 10:44 am
Sometimes one must be immoderate in the face of extremism ... not that I would ever resort to, say, screaming back at the digital brownshirts.
- mark 7-19-2004 7:35 pm
Referring to Fahrenheit 911 as "Moore's incisive...documentary", is comical, as much of it is simply false or only partially accurate. For a partial list of the inaccuracies of the film, visit http://fahrenheit_fact.blogspot.com. Unlike the film, this site backs up what it says by providing sources (what an interesting journalistic idea!) for its arguments. While I agree that Mr. Moore appears to be a fine filmmaker, as his awards would indicate, he doesn't present a fair and unbiased story that one should expect from a true documentary.
- Michael Moore inaccuracies (guest) 9-18-2004 12:23 am
Yeah, that part about Bush sitting there with his thumb up his ass listening to the kids read "My Pet Goat" while American civilians were dying -- a complete fabrication. It was "The Pet Goat".
Shameless.
- mark 9-19-2004 10:29 am