# What will happen to Mr. Moore... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 1, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112 "2004-07-01T21:06:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![New\_Iskander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/db5fbb/32.png) [@New\_Iskander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Iskander)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/1 "2004-07-01T21:06:36Z")
…if Bush is _not_ re-elected? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/2 "2004-07-01T21:09:44Z")
Sounds like an opinion poll, but okay: The answer is “nothing”. Michael Moore is an equal-opportunity attack dog. He has equal distaste for Republicans and Democrats, and voted for Nader in the last election. He will continue to do what he does best, which is to skewer the ideals and hypocrisy of both political parties. ---
**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/3 "2004-07-01T21:14:29Z")
Um, I would assume that he’ll continue making left-leaning political documentaries, just as he was doing well before Bush (or even Clinton) was elected. According to the IMDB he’s planning to release one on the American healthcare system in 2005. Why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/4 "2004-07-01T21:16:10Z")
Yep; I’d say he’ll keep making films and writing books, just as he did during the Clinton administration. I’m not optimist enough to think that Bush losing is going to bring about an immediate utopia, providing no targets for a muckraking filmmaker. ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/5 "2004-07-01T21:57:04Z")
I dunno what will happen to Moore, but I hope that [Yaphet Kotto will finally catch his taxicab.](http://www.go2share.net/showasin/Cat_video_En_tv_nation_vol_1-0800199103.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/6 "2004-07-01T22:20:42Z")
He will marry Hillary Clinton, and support her campaign for President in a few years. This campaign will end in a landslide victory due, in no small part, to every Republican voter in the USA having their brains explode at the thought of both Hillary and Moore in the White House - leaving little in the way of opposition. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/7 "2004-07-01T22:58:49Z")
> [@New Iskander](#): > > …if Bush is _not_ re-elected? Your question is based upon a false premise. In order to be re-elected, a president must first be-elected. ---
**Author:** ![Entropy\_at\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Entropy\_at\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Entropy_at_Work)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/8 "2004-07-01T23:01:57Z")
He’ll continue to twist the truth. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/9 "2004-07-01T23:13:37Z")
…and MY opinion is, this one needs to go to IMHO. **samclem** GQ moderator ---
**Author:** ![New\_Iskander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/db5fbb/32.png) [@New\_Iskander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Iskander)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/10 "2004-07-02T00:02:40Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > …and MY opinion is, this one needs to go to IMHO. > > **samclem** GQ moderator Funny, I don’t recall expressing an opinion. My opinion about **samclem** remains unchanged, however. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/11 "2004-07-02T00:19:11Z")
He’ll hail Bush’s defeat as a victory of the Common Man over the Lying Elites, piss off Republicans even further than before, then go on to make his next movie. The notion that liberal rabble-rousers won’t have anything to say or do if Bush loses in November is a silly one. Al Franken and Air America Radio have an entire Congress full of targets to go after, for heaven’s sake. ---
**Author:** ![Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Live_Better_Electrically)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/12 "2004-07-02T00:52:47Z")
I seem to recall people wondering what Limbaugh would do after Clinton was gone. ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/13 "2004-07-02T01:20:27Z")
Well, he’d claim a lot of credit, of course. He’d get it too. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/14 "2004-07-02T01:42:01Z")
I always get the impression from Moore’s behavior that he’ll burn out in about five years or so. He’s goin’ pretty hot 'n heavy (I swear on my mother’s grave, no pun intended). I anticipate that he’ll spend the latter part of his film career making purely fictional movies, _a la_ Canadian Bacon, instead of the documentaries/satires/whatever he says his movies are these days. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/15 "2004-07-02T02:54:50Z")
He might actually be good at making the fictional movies (yes, some say he’s already made them, ha ha). I saw F911 today, and one thing that struck me was that the 9/11 scenes were done very well. There was the blank screen, with just the audio of the planes crashing and screaming, and there was no video for a while. Then he showed the people around the event, dust falling like snow, and debris on the streets, but never the buildings themselves.I thought it was a very effective and powerful technique, with no politics to get in the way. It demonstrated, IMO, strong filmaking skills that could translate well into fiction. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/16 "2004-07-02T04:50:26Z")
He did _TV Nation_ and _The Awful Truth_ during the Clinton years. He’d be doing much the same during the Kerry years. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/17 "2004-07-02T05:09:40Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > He did _TV Nation_ and _The Awful Truth_ during the Clinton years. He’d be doing much the same during the Kerry years. I was going to say “pestering large corporations and plutocrats,” but it amounts to basically the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/18 "2004-07-02T07:21:24Z")
> [@](#): > > I always get the impression from Moore’s behavior that he’ll burn out in about five years or so. Considering his career so far has lasted fifteen years and his commercial success is increasing, is there any reason to think Moore’s suddenly going to fade away? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/19 "2004-07-02T10:56:24Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > He might actually be good at making the fictional movies (yes, some say he’s already made them, ha ha). > > . He’s already good at making bad fictional movies like [Canadian Bacon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109370/). ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112/20 "2004-07-02T11:14:43Z")
> [@New Iskander](#): > > Funny, I don’t recall expressing an opinion. My opinion about **samclem** remains unchanged, however. Perhaps not, but your question required others to express theirs, thus IMHO is the place. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-happen-to-mr-moore/253112.md?page=2)