Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Seemed longer than fifteen minutes to me

Remember Michael Moore? That guy who made (I mean manufactured) that goofy film (I mean dissent) way back two or three years ago or whenever the hell it was? I think he even made two. Well as it turns out, now even the German leftist intellectual caste is turning against him. And that takes a hell of a lot before something like that can ever happen you know. No, wait a second. That doesn’t take much of anything at all.



Anyway, now that other politically correct filmmakers ("I agree with a lot of what Michael Moore says. I don't always agree with his methods. But I agree with what he says."), now that they have exposed this guy for what he is and always was, a true-blue Heuchler (hypocrite), a panderer of questionable goods made with even more than questionable methods, everybody who is anybody over here in Germany (and elsewhere) is suddenly quiet on the non-subject who used to be a subject, elegantly pretending that the guy never happened (of course that’s quite easy to do) or that they never proudly stood in line to watch his heavy-handed America sucks movies or ripped those third-rate hate books out of his grubby little hands. Wow. That was quite a sentence, don’t you think?

Yup, he’s gone with the wind and we’ll all miss him a lot (not). But thankfully, his timeless art and wonderfully infantile anti-Bush acceptance speech at the 2003 Academy Awards will remain with us forever. By the way, whatever happened to George W. Bush anyway?

Lieber eine gute Fälschung als die traurige Wahrheit.

Kommentare auf Deutsch? Selbstverständlich.

Posted by clarsonimus at 07:27:58 | Permanent Link | Comments (10) |
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1 - I had a lot of respect for Michael Moore because his message has been consistent - if you look at his TV series from the 90's he didn't change his message at all, he said the same things. In fact he stuck with a very unpopular message. Like him or don't like him - what makes America great is our belief in freedom of speech - you don't shout someone down or threaten them just because they have a different opinion. At least you didn't use to.

It's a shame though that Al Franken wasn't more popular in Europe. (Comment this)

Written by: indeterminacy at 2007/05/08 - 10:41:28
2 - His movies were great fun to watch :)

And they served the obligatory headshakes of disbelief regarding american values ;) (Comment this)

Written by: Zyme at 2007/05/08 - 10:46:04
3 - I am very much looking forward to this new film so I can make up my own mind on it. I find it already interesting that the filmmakers' examples quoted in Spiegel of Moore's playing fast and loose with the truth make no mention of the main point of, for example, Fahrenheit 911: that the 2000 election was a huge swindle, the strange implications of the Bush - Bin Laden family connection, the evacuation of Bush family members immediately after the attacks, the congressmen who won't send their kids to Iraq, Haliburton's war profiteering, und und und.... I guess because he wanted to save a few bucks by shooting the bank's gun deal all in one place, that automatically discounts the rest of the film. As for comparing Borat to Moore, let's get real. (Comment this)

Written by: letters at 2007/05/08 - 11:49:32
4 - Good to finally see who the author of this blog really is. A Bush-ee!!!!!!!!!! Whooops - I'm outta here. (Comment this)

Written by: Uhu at 2007/05/08 - 12:18:17
5 - Keeping your message when the facts do not back them up is nothing to be proud of. I have no problem with having a message that is unpopular, but telling only half truths does not put a director of docs high in my favor.
All those things you listed(letters) are half truths. (Comment this)

Written by: AmaniS at 2007/05/08 - 12:45:57
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