Shots Across The Bow

Mainstrean Democrat Michael Moore

As I said last week, by virtue of his prominence at the Democratic National Convention, it is clear that Michael Moore now represents the mainstream of the Democratic Party. After all, fringe whackos don't get seated with ex-Presidents, do they?

And so, I did a quick search to pull out a few quotes by Mr. Moore, to see just exactly what the Democratic party believes these days.

The results were very interesting, and while I'm sure you've seen some of these quotes before, I'll bet you haven't seen them all.

• I mean, they are up at six in the morning trying to figure out which minority group they're going to screw today
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• I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants.

  Speech at Cannes accepting the Palme D'Or for Farenheit 9/11

• There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

  Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English (and we don't even speak that very well.)

  On Americans in an Open Letter to the German publication Die Zeit (June 11, 2003).

• If the passengers had included black men, he claimed, those killers, with their puny bodies and unimpressive small knives, would have been crushed by the dudes, who as we all know take no disrespect from anybody."
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• They [Americans] are possibly the dumbest people on the planet . . . in thrall to conniving, thieving smug pricks. We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.

  The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich."

  It’s all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton. David Brooks in the New York Times, June 26. 2004

• I agree with the National Rifle Association when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people,' " he told NBC's "Today" show. "Except I would alter that to say, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'

  Moore, in the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page on March 21, 2003.

• In October of 2003, Moore was quoted in the University of Michigan’s student newspaper, The Michigan Daily, as saying “there is no terrorist threat in this country. This is a lie. This is the biggest lie we’ve been told.”

• On his book tour to promote, “Dude Where’s My Country,” Moore stopped off in Cambridge, England, where he lamented before a large audience that, ‘You’re stuck with being connected to this country of mine, which is known for bringing sadness and misery to places around the globe.

  Newsmax.com, June 6, 2004

• You know in my town the small businesses that everyone wanted to protect? They were the people that supported all the right-wing groups. They were the Republicans in the town, they were in the Kiwanas, the Chamber of Commerce - people that kept the town all white. The small hardware salesman, the small clothing store salespersons, Jesse the Barber who signed his name three different times on three different petitions to recall me from the school board. Fuck all these small businesses - fuck 'em all! Bring in the chains. The small businesspeople are the rednecks that run the town and suppress the people. Fuck 'em all. That's how I feel.

  These are one of the biggest landowners in this country - no one individual should be able to own that much property. This is not his [SPI owner A.A. "Red" Emerson's] property, this is planet Earth and its inhabited by the people who live here and other living things and one individual should not have so much say and power cutting down trees that are that many years old.

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Hmmm. I'm not too sure how that's going to play with the undecided voters.

Posted by Rich at August 2, 2004 4:00 PM | TrackBack