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Why Didn't We Listen to Michael Moore?

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ceilingFANBOY
06/01/09

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He must have never tried to use mass transit in Baltimore if he thinks that lite rails are good. Sure, they are more expensive, but subways are much better. Lite rails are a hard sell to the average person who only uses mass transit for cost and speed since they take longer to get where you are trying to go than driving. Making the train have to obey speed limits and fight traffic is a bad idea. I would like me some bullet trains, though. The size of our country would really make having one beneficial, much more so than a smaller country like Japan.
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TuxedoUWS
06/01/09

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Where does he get those hats?!
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HiredGoons
06/01/09

@TuxedoUWS: haberdoucheries.
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BxgrlJeri
06/01/09

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A friend of mine took an Environmental Science class in the early 80s and the professor warned of the melting of the polar ice caps and said our dependence on foreign oil was insane for a number of reasons.

The professor was fired.

People don't want to hear shit until it's too fucking late.

That's the problem with people.
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ConAir34
06/01/09

@BxgrlJeri: The ice caps aren't melting. Libs/Dems/Environmentalists are holding up domestic oil production.

That's the problem.
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valet_of_the_dolls
06/01/09

@ConAir34: Got anything to back that statement up with? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
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belltolls
06/01/09

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Do I need to send my address to GM so they know where to deliver my free car or is it like the stimulus check and it will just come in the mail?
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VoxPopuli
06/01/09

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Oh, Michael Moore - we loved you because you were a nobody who demanded answers from the bigshots. Now that you're rich and famous, your formula doesn't work. Rather than financing and helping new documentary filmmakers to carry the torch, you just became a parody of your former self.

If you couldn't foresee how your own success would be your downfall, there's no way that you were predicting GM's misery.
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johnny_carsick
06/01/09

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also, fahrenheit 9/11 got barack obama elected. like, single-handedly.
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scroll_lock
06/01/09

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Just get to work on personal jetpacks already. Make sure there's some kind of thingy to prevent your skirt from getting blowed up.
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BadUncle
06/01/09

@scroll_lock: oh, that was address back in the 19th century with side-saddles.
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scroll_lock
06/01/09

@BadUncle: I'm picturing rocketing through the air "side saddle".
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CaptainFantastic
06/01/09

@scroll_lock: Skorts.
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BadUncle
06/01/09

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I had a prediction for GM's long-term viability. Four words, GM:

Personal hovercraft for dogs.
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Kid Twist
06/01/09

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Michael Moore should stick to writing about stuff he understands, like, um ...
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johnny_carsick
06/01/09

@Kid Twist: messiah complexes?
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Preopsician
06/01/09

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He is so full of it. If the well-educated, well-off bunch that loves his movies would actually have bought American cars, things would be a lot better off. Walk around a neighborhood where these folks live. And no excuses: the US makers have been producing high-quality, innovative cars for more than ten years at least. The big three get blamed for not making small cars. Nobody was buying them until about a year ago! Especially with their onerous contracts (and I mean not just wages but absurd rules, protection for frequent absenteeism), it became impossible for the US makers to make a profit, even a dollar, off the sale of a sedan.
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Astigmatism
06/01/09

@Preopsician: Sorry, but the Big Three produced crap pretty much from the oil shocks in the 70's until about 2005. The Cadillac CTS, Corvette, Fusion Hybrid, Malibu (not hybrid), and the G8 (itself an Aussie import) are damn good cars, but what American car (not truck) from 1995 would you take over the comparable import? The tragedy is that of all the great cars they're making now, most of them are performance models that will probably be killed by the Obama administration anyway. So buy a G8 GXP while you can, park it in your living room, and sell it in 2025 for a million bucks, but don't try to argue that the Dodge Stratus was a world-beater.
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FormerEnglishMajor
06/01/09

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He didn't do the movie as some sort of economic manifesto - he made the movie because he is from Flint and hated what your typical boom-bust does to a place. Not too different from the mining companies; the garment industry, etc. etc. But he was from there, he had a camera, he was outraged, so I get to relive the rabbit lady in my nightmares for another 20 years.
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bluebears
06/01/09

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He's an easy target but JESUS, he contradicts himself with every new paragraph of that article.
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lobstr
06/01/09

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One of my favorite bits from The Onion.. on the heels of Morgan Spurlock's success of Supersize Me: "Michael Moore regrets not documenting his last 600 visits to McDonalds" ..
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HiredGoons
06/01/09

@lobstr: heh
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bluebears
06/01/09

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Plus, wasn't his "point" (as it where) in Roger and Me that GM should keep jobs /factories in Flint? I mean basically? I'm confused as to how doing that would have averted the current crisis.
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