Friday, 25 June 2004 - 7:03 PM EDT

Name: Sean

That would be fine. By that time word of mouth would have set in, and lord knows Moore would just find another crazy way to promote his movie/himself. He's like Sharpton with those press conferences!

I liked Roger and Me. Tolerated Bowling for Columbine. This one, I'm not so sure I want to see when I get back. I hate that he's a spokesperson for the progressive movement, given the fact that he proposes no solutions and contributes to the detriment of political discourse. I believe Hitchens when he says that Moore contradicts himself in this movie because I know he'll stand for anything as long as it's popular.

As for influencing the election, Reps are doing a good job of doing that themselves without another blowhard chiming in through mass media.

Saturday, 26 June 2004 - 8:50 AM EDT

Name: Marc

I hate that he's a spokesperson for the progressive movement

This is what really pisses Liz off about Michael Moore. It would be like if Pat Sajak or Tom Selleck were the most popular conservative in America. The Hitchens piece does a good job of pointing out the many problems that result from letting an entertainer make the intellectual case for an ideology. Speaking of Hitchens, I was listening to NPR last week, and I laughed for about 5 minutes when he said this:

Speaking here in my capacity as a polished, sophisticated European as well, it seems to me the laugh here is on the polished, sophisticated Europeans. They think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.

ZING!

That thing from the San Francisco Chronicle was about the nuttiest thing I've ever read in a major newspaper:

Just one election left before the coup. Take appropriate action.

You'd have a hard time getting that kind of tripe published in the City Paper, for God's sake. I swear I'll never complain about our local liberal media again (for one week).

Saturday, 26 June 2004 - 2:12 PM EDT

Name: Sean

I'll take that. It did get pretty nutty at the end there, didn't it?

Monday, 28 June 2004 - 9:37 AM EDT

Name: Sean

If this campaign doesn't work, they can always use irrelevant ad hominem name calling... In the spirit of "The O'Franken Factor" and Franken's first book, I present to you "Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man." That only worked once when Franken did it. Otherwise it's just sad.

The subject of Moore's wieght seems to come up a LOT. Even Nader, who must be really mad about not being invited to the premiere of F911, is weighing in on the subject.


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