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Samizdata quote of the day “Part of me hopes that Michael Moore’s movie makes hundreds of millions of dollars and that he suddenly wakes up from the slumber of logic he has been in for many years while the opportunity to choose to help the downtrodden and poor has passed him by. But I now see what Moore truly is in a different light, and success will only encourage him to lie to more people and mislead them about the opportunities that await them, should they only dream. After all, he’s a rich and powerful capitalist. The same thing he’s teaching his audience to hate. Irony, in a word.”
Michael Wilson, who has made a film about the rotund limousine socialist. If he ever imagines Mr Moore, a truly revolting character, is likely to have an epiphany when his bank account gets ever bigger, he’s in for a long wait. Of course, such things do occasionally happen: to wit, the case of playwright and film-maker David Mamet.
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“rotund limousine socialist”
How about “limousine leninist”?
I have a good punishment for Michael Moore.
Eternal life.
I mean _eternal life_ …. he will, biochemically and if possible fully-consciously, be forcibly made to live for ever, and ever, and ever, and ever. When his body fails in about 100 years, we will attach prosthetic organs – not just limbs which are low technology by comparison. Whatever technology is required to keep his brain physically and psychologicall conscious, will be applied. Whatever drugs are needed to keep his biosystems from sleeping, will be injected.
He will be prevented from physical motion, or from uttering speech. Not even !”ugg”! will be allowed. His eyelids will be propped open with rusty needles attached to his specs. No food or drink – just a drip: he will be on a “positive-going-and-future-directed-healthcare-pathway”.
Telescreens, showing what is befalling the masses whom he champions, as a result of his policies, will be placed before him. But he will never, never, ever be allowed to die. Ever.
And We the Living will not even eat him. Not like the rest of them. He’d probably taste nasty anyway.
I often wonder something about these “limousine leninists” and the other buggers in the Enemy Class.
Do they do it because they get to **** more girls like that, or what?
I sincerely don’t think anyone of any intellectual caliber takes Micheal Moore seriously anymore. Thanks to the all pervasive internet, and a number of documentary film makers the man has been well discredited. Even a good number of left leaning acquaintances of mine cringe when Micheal Moore gets mentioned.
Also, Jonathan, rotund hardly fits (slight pun intended)…. Would you call Jabba the Hut rotund? same pasty colour too..
I also gotta say that every time I see that fat blowhards self righteous face turning every which way in clips from his “documentaries” I just want to drive a bat into the roiling mass of lard!
Saw a wonderful piece by John Stossel of NBC called ” Sick in America” recently. He interviews Moore, and in terms of answers he either gets joking evasions, or a steady stream of unbacked statements.
pst314
Surely “Lardy Limousine Leninist”?
For a brief period I wondered if Moore wasn’t being paid by Bush; his attacks were so facile as to be pointless but while he was attacking others didn’t. Then I realised if you were going to create an enemy in that way you would create a credible one.
DD:
My guess is a frantic need to feel superior to others, via perpetually lying and getting away with it and thus experiencing a feeling of demonstrating to themselves their superior abilities to alter the minds of others. As for MM himself, think of a child born of Ellsworth Toohey and Gus Webb’s ugliest older sister.
However, it’s not that the particulars of individual tosspots like MM matters that much anyway – psychologising doesn’t help us any. He is a symptom, nothing more. The proper response to him directly is: “But I don’t think of you.”
The real issue is why most people are willing to cede moral authority to him and his ilk, separate to and over-and-above the lies-content of his movies and the others’ blather. Why do many people think of him? Fix that and the LL’s become but ill-smelling greasy-haired louts at poorly-attended street-corner protests sporting banners paid for with movie takings less than that for Zyzzyx Road and shouting uselessly to unamused passers-by who just cross the street or wind their car windows up.
JJM
Moore is just a con man. He’s found a way to make amazing amounts of money by telling liberals what they want to hear. He releases the occasional movie, writes a book once in a while, and lectures for tens of thousands of dollars a pop, and becomes a multi-millionaire. And that’s not even counting the praise, the awards, and the recognition from the left, who *never* demands that he live according to his co-called “ideals.” It’s the same game Al Gore plays even more successfully.
Moore clearly doesn’t believe what he preaches.
I doubt there’ll be that much for libertarians to object to, despite the title. He’s criticising the bank bailouts. Genuine capitalism doesn’t feature states pouring lobbyist-directed tax money into bank coffers.
Just tell yourself it’s “Corporatism: A Love Story”. Fact is, most people using the word “capitalism” don’t mean what libertarians mean. They mean the crooked mess we have, with government and big business stamping on the entrepreneurial spirit.
Rodrigo, does he also mention the banks that were forced into the bailouts by the government?
I think Moore “woke up” long ago, and like Otto says, he makes loads of money by saying what people want to hear, as does Gore. He took the shallow leftist rhetoric of so many celebrities and wrapped it with a business plan, and thus created a vastly scaled up version of the Che Guevara t-shirt. Capitalism and irony at their finest.