Well, it is a matter of public record that Hess always claimed he spent the night before the 1923 Big Putsch in Munich teaching the funny little führer all the choruses to the Beer Hall Polka. #michaelmoore
What legitimate points? Aren't his documentaries mostly "gotcha" pieces?
"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
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
Maybe he just meant that he was drinking tequila, alone, in the vicinity of Hugo Chavez. In which case, he isn't a liar, just an alcoholic. #michaelmoore
@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: The first two times I read this I thought you said the following: "I can say, with conscience 99% clear, that I have eaten and slept with dozens of celebrities." That one percent was still holding strong. #michaelmoore
I say more Tucker
I say more Julia
I say more John Kennedy Page, (or whatever that 3 named touchwipe was called)
The more Gawker builds them up, the more precipitous their fall(s).
@pmarble: spiegelman unload a classic on denton and gawker on some comment thread a few months back. can't remember which. there is or was bad blood there.
@ian spiegelman: Because I've been pretty mean to Nick, and frankly accusatory toward him in terms of NY State employment law, which he's brazen about violating and has yet to offer a single defense. Though I think Denton would overlook that for the small excitement of having me come in and do a thing or two.
BUT, Gabe, his palsied hand at Gawker, could never ever deal with it. I've been nastier to him than to Nick, because I've always thought of Nick as somehow acceptably amoral. But Gabe used to be a writer. Now he's just managerial sludge. The stuff that remains in the dust after the baddies from Raiders of the Lost Ark get melted.
Even if Gabe could cope with some kind of return by me for a weekend or a day, I would never submit to being edited by him. I'd rather have a goat spit at my copy and cut whatever lines the spit landed on.
@Mount_Prion: Yeah, I think that pretty much sums it all up. He may not respond every time but he sure as hell cares enough to go so far as to specifically target gawker in freaking ads.
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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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I say more Julia
I say more John Kennedy Page, (or whatever that 3 named touchwipe was called)
The more Gawker builds them up, the more precipitous their fall(s).
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BUT, Gabe, his palsied hand at Gawker, could never ever deal with it. I've been nastier to him than to Nick, because I've always thought of Nick as somehow acceptably amoral. But Gabe used to be a writer. Now he's just managerial sludge. The stuff that remains in the dust after the baddies from Raiders of the Lost Ark get melted.
Even if Gabe could cope with some kind of return by me for a weekend or a day, I would never submit to being edited by him. I'd rather have a goat spit at my copy and cut whatever lines the spit landed on.
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Like I'd know who this dude was, that he had a book, a blog and a movie, if it weren't for this site?
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