There is an interesting story in this week's Weekly Standard written by a British Conservative who can't understand why his fellow conservatives accross the pond don't like Bush who should be their compatriot. The writer, an Adrian Wooldridge, derisively calls them "Michael Moore Conservatives" after the rotund filmaker/activist who tends to play loose with the facts in his books and movies.
Mr. Wooldridge and many so-called conservatives here in America are exceedingly blind to how much Bush has messed up America and the world in three years. I used to be someone who have the President the benefit of the doubt, but now I do think the man is a simpleton who does not think deeply and has a very shallow view of Christianity. What has Mr. Bush done to engender such hero worship among American conservatives? He is hardly a great leader, let alone a great politician. Ronald Reagan was not a brain, but he was a skilled politician and knew how to get things done. He was a conservative that many fellow conservatives around the world praise and revere. He earned people's respect. Bush has thumbed his nose at the world and has bought into the fantasies of the wacko right who are narrowminded and hateful. These people are far from conservatives.
Mr. Wooldridge is doing what many Bushies have done in the past; paint anyone who dare criticizes Bush as some kind of looney ala Mr. Moore. But there is too much evidence to think that these British Tories are wrong. They have seen how Bush acted and they know he is a disgrace. Mr. Wooldridge would do well to take off his rose-colored glasses and see the truth.
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Posted by: Robert at August 17, 2005 01:03 PMYes, Moore is great. He must be right, every single thing he says. It's not like the media only tells half the story or anything like that. There's no way Saddam was supporting terrorism. Even though he said that he'll pay a large sum of money to the family of anyone who kills themselves to kill Americans. Yeah, there's no way he was a problem. Moore has to be right about the Terrorist/Minute Man thing, too. Seeing as he compared American freedom fighters to terrorists that perform unprovoked attacks.
You can't act like 9/11 was the only thing bad to happen. Terrorists have been doing this for quite a while. There are probably around thirty attacks before 9/11 as far as I know. So what should we do? All of the past presidents simply sat around and did nothing. What happened then? We were attacked again and again. Then, we have president Bush. He decides to retaliate. He's not the type to want his people to die. Retaliation's a bad thing, though. Never ever stand up for yourself, that's a bad thing to do. Bush certainly isn't well spoken, but some course of action had to be taken. If we continue to sit around, they'll continue to attack, just like they have been for years.
Michael Moore and Ted Kennedy must feel right at home watching Animal House. Remember the scene where Flounder is in Dean Wormer's office? They both probably thought to themselves "Are you talkin' to me?" when he said "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."
Posted by: keith at February 1, 2005 03:05 PMif moore is an idiot what does that make you? how many best selling books have you written? how many #1 movies have you made? if you have more best selling books and more #1 movies than moore then i apologize, if not then you must be a bigger idiot than he is
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Posted by: greg stomberg at August 11, 2004 11:54 AMhey, i just read bush is a convicted theif and a convicted drunk, is this true? or is this more of m moore's lies? please respond and let me know...
Posted by: greg stomberg at July 23, 2004 12:31 PMhey, i just read bush is a convicted theif and a convicted drunk, is this more lies from michael moore or is this true?
Posted by: greg stomberg at July 21, 2004 11:30 AMHey, Moore no doubt has bias, but his movie discusses in a very public way topics which have been ignored in the press. A big one for me: Why the hell can't we get our hands out the Saudi's pockets, and get their hands out of ours. They are one of our biggest enemies: They fund radical Islamic hatred, they fund Al Qaeda, and they smile and buy our weapons. Terrible.
I believe that the Bush administration is nothing more than a front for business, corrupt to the core, using conservative values only to promote their economic agenda; if liberalism could get them the profits they would be right there, but they have chosen faux conservative values as their vehicle. We are just fools for following them, and must demand that they pay attention to core conservative values, and the people who care about them. We don't want just lip service, and we don't want to just be used again to guarantee their inflated bottom line!
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Posted by: Dennis at June 3, 2004 11:45 AMReally! You're from MI! A small world we indeed live in. We should trade notes--I'd rather not do that on the blog. Is there an e-mail I can contact you directly? Would love to chitchat more! Glad I've found you! :-)
Posted by: James from MI at June 3, 2004 09:39 AMJames,
I hail from Flint, so I have mixed feelings about Moore. I think he has some good points, but like I said in my post, he at times plays way too loose with the facts.
Like you I long for the days when the Michigan GOP was the party of Milliken and Romney (though Romney was before my time). And Anderson should have stayed in the party as should have Jeffords. We need to stand and fight and not just run away when things get rough.
Posted by: Dennis at June 3, 2004 12:01 AMI've had varying thoughts about Michael, given that he's from my neck of the woods. To be sure, many of friends (and family from the Flint area) cannot stand him. Personally, I love him! I was personally moved by Bowling for Columbine--it hit me at a very emotional time in my life--having saw it at a discount house a calm Sunday evening around this time last year after I had spent a weekend volunteering at a camp for children and parents of those who recently lost a family member. So the emotional impact of the movie was that much stronger for me. Yes, he could be manipulative, from jiving off the emotions of that poor principal of Buell Elementary, to picking on Dick Clark (how could anyone pick on Dick Clark?--okay don't blog me that one but you get my drift). But he defined Michigan to a tee, from the run-down rust-belt cities like Flint which hold the dispossessed, to the poor angry rural areas where I grew up. Both areas love their guns--and look at the consequences. And the fear, the divisions, the resentments--which defines now our national psyche, certainly Michigan's. It is said the Detroit Metro area is the most segregated area in the nation (2000 census). All this, despite Michigan's past which produced progressive Republicans who united and healed the whole state, like George Romney (Mitt's father), and Bill Milliken, Sr., who promoted landmark environmental legislation, tried to unite all of Michigan (instead of outstate vs. Detroit), and held progressive social policy issues. It is that Republican party to which I hold allegiance. True, we didn't hold majorities in the legislature during those years, but now we don't hold the governor's office either. Of course, our current governor, Ms. Jennifer Granholm, was a supporter of Congressman John Anderson's campaign in 1980. The big mistake Anderson made was to quit the Republican party, when he should have fought the right when he did. Too bad. If he had stayed, our governor would have had room to likely call herself a Republican (many Dems. argue that she should). I believed "she should have been ours." She certainly garnered many moderate Republican votes in the last election, and even the current state GOP chairwoman, Amway heiress Betsy DeVos, no longer takes pot shots at her. Instead DeVos picks on...Michael Moore!
Posted by: James from MI at June 2, 2004 08:09 PMMichael Moore drives me nuts, for a number of reasons, but its so hard for me to not like him. I can't help but agree with his sentiments AND he's from Michigan and the flint area, but dang, does he do a helluva lot more than just play fast and loose with the facts, its downright brilliant rhetoric that at BEST plays fast and loose with the facts.
Ah well. What a crappy election year. I feel like I'm forced to vote with Bush because Kerry is such a freaking putz.
Can we please get some decent people to run for president?
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