Well, after all he IS a big fat idiot. And a liar. The filmmaker is going to be a lot nicer than I would have been. Nicer than I will be when dealing with someone who exploits the deaths of children, lying about them in order to further his political cause.
(But more on that in a minute.)
The site is http://www.michaelmoorehatesamerica.com/ , aptly enough. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like it’s going to be especially ABOUT Moore and his lying any more than Bowling was openly anti-gun.
How about his latest exploitation of a child’s death (suicide in this case), you ask? How did he lie about it?
His website today says: “And sadly, an 11 year old British anti-war activist takes his own life after being tormented in school for his views.” The link takes you to: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1028851,00.html where you learn clearly that this student’s political activity were the only pleasant times in his life, and for which he was not tormented. His school torment in fact had, according to this link, nothing to do with his views. So much for exploitation.
There is also this: "Take what happened during a March 2002 book-tour appearance for Stupid White Men, his 2001 screed against the Bush administration, corrupt corporate power, and (as one chapter title puts it) this “idiot nation.” At 11 PM, Moore was still signing books for a line of fans at a San Diego school, when event organizers announced that the janitors wanted to close up and go home, since the use permit was up. Moore paid little attention and went on signing books, until someone - apparently the janitors - called the police about half an hour later. At this point, according to Kynn Bartlett, a disappointed fan who wrote about the event on his website, two cops walked in with flashlights - Bartlett points out that it was dark in the parking lot outside - and calmly announced: “May I have your attention. The use permit for this event expired at eleven. You have to leave now.” After some grumbling, everyone did.
End of story - until Moore breathlessly posted his version on his website the next day. POLICE RAID, SHUT DOWN MY BOOK SIGNING IN SAN DIEGO. “I am told that we are getting close to the time when we will have to leave the school,” Moore’s fiction begins. “That is not good. Hundreds are still in line.” (Bartlett estimates there were 75.) Moore continues: “The San Diego police [all two of them, Bartlett says] are coming down the aisle, their large flashlights out (the auditorium lights are still on, so we all understand the implied ‘other’ use of the instruments).” People are “visibly frightened,” “bolt[ing]” toward the doors. “I remark that it feels like we’re in some sort of banana republic or East Berlin, secretly meeting so we can have our little book gathering. Sign quick, Mike, here come the police.” There’s not a word about janitors forced to work overtime to please celebrity authors." http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_3_michael_moore.html
Someone tell me WHY Stupid White Men didn’t have his picture on the cover? Anyone?
Lastly for now, but not leastly, we find some of his “humor”, where he blames the passengers for the WTC crashes, because they were white, and thus wimps. Black brothers would never have tolerated the terrorism, he asserts. Poor taste? Yep. Not to mention color envy. Here’s a small piece of the report on that: “What we did not expect was to feel so enraged at one point that we almost walked out. It was when Moore went into a rant about how the passengers on the planes on 11 September were scaredy-cats because they were mostly white. 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. God save us from such stupid white men, especially now, when in the US and the UK, black people’s lives are being ripped to shreds by drugs, lawlessness, fear and frightful violence plus the endless circle of racism, exclusion and incarceration.”
For a complete and highly entertaining “psychological analysis” of this nutpig’s rantings, try
Without people like this, who could felons look down on?