Michael Moore is silly

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I bet you aren’t totally absolutely miserably sick and tired of reading Michael Moore-related stuff. Am I right? Well you’re in luck: I bring you Michael Moore’s letter to Bill Timmins, President of Aladdin Casino and Hotel.

Mr. Moore continues to amuse me.

I’m just putting this here for some light hump-day reading. A little Constitutional (Psuedo)-Lesson of the Day, if you will. So please refrain from saying anything Pit-worthy. However if your comments do get this thread sent to the Pit, I’m sure Mr. Moore will be along quickly to defend your right to say whatever you like here in MPSIMS because “we have something called ‘The First Amendment’” which “gives everyone here the right to say whatever they want to say.”

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And everyone has the right to react however they choose, as long as it is within the law.

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Ex-actly. I really do get tired of people complaining that their First Amendment rights are being trampled when a private business decides to not have that person speak politics on their dime, show a particular movie, or whatever.

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Well, maybe he’s right, and he’ll allow me to assert my unassailable First Amendment right to show up at one of his showings of F9/11 and promote Michael Moore Hates America…after all, it would be stupid and UN-American of him to deny me that right!

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I’m sure the Aladin Hotel and Ms. Ronstadt had a contract and I’m willing to bet that the hotel did not spell out that she couldn’t talk about the film.

I’m pretty sure the hotel will probably in violation of that contract.
I’m also shocked at the behavior of the some of the people at the concert who, from what I read, threw a temper tantrum and did some vandalism because they are idiots, I mean they thought Linda was wrong to say what she did.

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The OP is talking about the open letter, not the incident.

Pretty narrow distinction, but a distinction none the less.

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I would argue it’s a fairly important distinction. For one thing, I had no desire to pit anybody over the instigating event. But mainly I just wanted to show people that there was a letter. What they do with that information is up to them. I may write up my own opinions about the letter at some point, but right now I just don’t feel like it. (And by the time I do feel like it, everybody will have long since gotten over it.)

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I read the OP’s second link, about Moore’s threat to sue libelists who are trashing him in the right-wing press. Jack Shafer is not a Moore fan, and I can’t fault him for that, but in fact some people are calling Moore a Nazi. That, and they are accusing him of getting money from Al Qaeda, committing treason, lying, and yada yada yada.
MediaMatters.org
will show some examples. It’s really amazing.

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That should have come out as a link.
http://mediamatters.org/