{"id":683,"date":"2009-05-02T01:59:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T06:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/michael-moore-%e2%80%93-asshole-or-douche-bag\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T11:56:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:56:19","slug":"michael-moore-asshole-or-douche-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/michael-moore-asshole-or-douche-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Moore Asshole or Douchebag?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Morewatch <\/a>is one of the most popular anti-Moore sites on the net.\u00a0 A few years ago the wife of one of the guys who runs it got very sick, and didn’t have insurance.\u00a0 They announced they were going to have to shut it down. But then an anonymous check arrived for $12,000, allowing the proprietor to take care of his wife and keep the site running.\u00a0 He was extremely grateful and thanked and praised the anonymous benefactor.<\/p>\n

Shortly thereafter the Sicko came out. It was, like all of Moore’s movies, a slick piece of propaganda<\/a>, full of half-truths, outright lies, and staged events presented as impromptu documentaries.\u00a0 At the end of the movie Moore bragged about being the “anonymous ” donor.<\/p>\n

If that information had been revealed accidentally, or through a reporter’s research, we’d have to admit the possibility that Moore might be a nice guy.\u00a0 Although I’d have suspected he did it because he knows any publicity, even bad publicity, is good for him, I’d also have to admit I couldn’t be sure about his real motives, and maybe he just did it to be decent.\u00a0 But bragging about it in a movie released worldwide made it obvious the only <\/em>reason he did it was to pretend <\/em>to be a good guy.\u00a0 It makes him one of the him one of the top ten douchebags of the decade.<\/p>\n

Now he’s working on a movie about capitalism.\u00a0 The evil, evil capitalism that has made him a multi-millionaire. As part of his preparation his written a Time Magazine article<\/a> about Bernie Madoff.<\/p>\n

Immature child that he is, he first wallows in delight over the Evil Rich getting ripped off: “Yes, he stole $65 billion from some already quite wealthy people. I know that’s upsetting to them because rich guys like Bernie are not supposed to be stealing from their own kind.” This is a typical Moore half truth. Maddof stole from everybody<\/em>.\u00a0 Many of his victims were working stiffs, hard-working middle-class folks who had amassed decent-sized retirement funds and invested all of them with Madoff.\u00a0 So does ignoring that fact make Moore an asshole, or does his glee in seeing the wealthy suffer tip the scales in the douche bag direction?<\/p>\n

He continues: “It would be too easy and the wrong lesson learned to put Bernie on TIME’s list all by himself. If Ponzi schemes are such a bad thing, then why have we allowed all of our top banks to deal in credit default swaps and other make-believe rackets? Why did we allow those same banks to create the scam of a sub-prime mortgage?”\u00a0 Um, Mikey?\u00a0 Sub-prime mortgages were forced <\/em>on the banks by the government.\u00a0 They wouldn’t have existed<\/em> if it weren’t for Carter creating them, Clinton putting the program on steroids, and Bush pumping it up a bit more.\u00a0 I know facts never got in your way before, but at least try to get some of the basics <\/em>correct, OK?\u00a0 Otherwise, you make it too <\/em>easy for people like me.<\/p>\n

He paints Madoff’s fraud as the very definition of capitalism. Therefore, Capitalism = Fraud.\u00a0 He doesn’t come right out and say it in this article; he’s apeing the Chomsky technique of implying something so strongly the intended meaning is unmistakable while leaving an out that allows him to backpedal when called on his ignorance.\u00a0 In other words, his talent for fraud is improving.<\/p>\n

So I’m still not sure if Moore is one of the world’s biggest assholes, or one of the world’s biggest douchebags. He strikes such a good balance between the two, being an asshole one day, a douche the next.\u00a0 It seems unfair for someone to have both <\/em>titles, but isn’t it more unfair to deny them to someone who has worked so diligently to earn them?<\/p>\n

And yet, he continues to have a huge fan base, proving that Lincoln was right – you can fool some of the people all of the time.\u00a0 Whenever anyone tells me they’re a fan of his I immediately adjust my estimate of their IQ by 25 points.\u00a0 Guess which direction?<\/p>\n

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