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"Roger & Me's" popularized scene was him being moved past at the GM shareholder's meeting. "Bowling for Columbine" had the Heston interview where he said dumb, racist things. "Fahrenheit 9/11" is all about "My Pet Goat." "Sicko" had the guy who lost a finger. Admittedly I haven't seen "Capitalism: A Love Story" but apparently the big scene in that is him attempting to citizen's-arrest the directors of AIG.
Where are the salient points? That's a bunch of attention-grabbing nonsensical bullshit, much like claiming that you got Hugo Chavez drunk by chance in the middle of the night and he formulated policy statements based on it. If Moore presents well-reasoned arguments, they're buried under the marketing strategy for his work: be the sociopolitical commentary equivalent of "The Tom Green Show." I have yet to hear policy recommendations in any of his films beyond a lot of wouldn't-it-be-nice hokum about how Canadians leave their doors unlocked and it's ironic to have a museum in Flint where animatronic car-building machines and hard-hatted workers sing together despite a population made redundant by said machines. #michaelmoore
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Thank you.
Of course, the world might a better place if Hugo Chavez knocked a few back, but such decisions are above my pay grade. #michaelmoore
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First, Sicko may not have convinced me that Cuba's or France's healthcare systems are better than ours, but it did convince me that it's idiotic that we don't have universal healthcare. Americans accept "socialism" in other forms (e.g., Social Security, free education); why wouldn't they agree that healthcare is just as important a right as education? The fact is they do, despite the attempts by the insurance industry to change the subject. The film was very persuasive on that point.
Second, in Bowling for Columbine, he made some very simple points about America's gun culture. Again, the fact that he can be misleading doesn't cancel out his point; for example, just because he lied about the timeline between applying for a bank account and getting a free gun, the point remains that IF YOU OPEN A BANK ACCOUNT YOU GET A FREE GUN. That is wack.
I could go on and on.
Fahrenheit 9/11 makes many, many points. I saw it with a Republican friend of mine, who was affected by it very much.
He makes plenty of policy recommendations. Some I agree with, some I don't. But they're there -- in fact he beats you down with them. I'm frankly shocked that you claim to have not heard them. #michaelmoore
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Mickey Rourke? Ate him. Angelina Jolie? Tastes like chicken... #michaelmoore
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The fact is, the two situations are almost exactly the same -- unmarried men who started relationships with underlings, possibly while in relationships with other people.
No one cares that much about Kimmel's highjinks, because a) he's a big dumb galoot who formerly hosted "The Man Show"; b) he hasn't interviewed Clinton or Obama or expressed views that made conservatives angry; and c) no one cares that much about Kimmel, period. But if the media continue to go after Letterman without criticizing Kimmel, that's just hypocritical. Either they're both power-tripping leches who created an unfair work environment, or neither of them did anything worth carping about for weeks on end.
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Unlike Letterman, who was just cold fucking his assistant ON SET during the middle of rehearsals.
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