What's funny and this article failed to point it out is that Moore's
"slacker" tour to get young people to vote didn't even have an impact.
The polls stayed the same, less than 10% of young people voted. I
don't like Bush but I am definitely feeling a great amount of
schadenfreude. Moore reminds me of a crazy religious bum on a street
corner yelling about the end of the world until he is blue in the
face. Everyone watches but they watch out of pure curiosity, kind of
like watching a train wreck.
The funny thing about Moore is he did something so republican it's
almost sickening. He made millions of dollars off other people's
suffering; he pointed out the obvious and made tons of money doing it.
A perfect example is the Mosaic on the front page of his web site. He
made it out of the pictures of servicemen that have died but never
received consent from one family to do it. He has even had many request
letters from the family members of those servicemen to take it down
and he has not responded. Moores constant crying wolf and
manipulations truly prove what a fiend he really is. It's good that he
brought awareness to some of the public but does the cause/end justify the means?
From:
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1271452004
FOR the first time in years, Michael Moore was speechless.
The film-maker and author was keeping quiet yesterday as he digested
the inconceivable: his books, films and campaigns had not even dented
Mr Bush's political lead.
His book, Stupid White Men, and film Fahrenheit 9/11 have sold well in
the United States as they have across the world - radicalising a young
audience which had never before voted.
But yesterday the self-styled "capped crusader" was searching in vain
for any evidence that the shadow he has cast over American politics
for the last three years had touched the polling station.
He had deployed 1,300 cameras to polling stations in Florida and Ohio,
determined to catch on film the dirty tricks which he argues stopped
thousands of black voters from casting their ballot four years ago.
"I'm putting those who intend to suppress the vote on notice: voter
intimidation and suppression will not be tolerated," Mr Moore said in
a statement.
But he gave up on Florida by 3pm on polling day, and headed to Ohio instead.
By yesterday lunchtime, it became clear that George Bush, his nemesis,
had won a fair and unanswerable victory.
Since the 36-day recount drama in Florida four years ago, Mr Moore has
launched three books and a film on the premise that the election was
"stolen" and that the American public was hostile to Mr Bush.
His recent book - Dude, Where's My Country? - was based on the belief
that the average American was against Mr Bush to start with and that
the Republicans only won because turnout was little over 54 per cent.
He has ever since committed himself to defeating Mr Bush, setting
aside part of his personal fortune - the extra he secured from the
president's tax cuts - to beat the Republicans.
At one point during the campaign, Mr Moore dropped to his knees on
national television and pleaded with Ralph Nader, the third
presidential candidate, who was attacking the Democrats from the left,
not to stand.
The latest figures last night suggested Mr Bush would have won a
convincing victory even if all Mr Nader's votes had been cast for Mr
Kerry.
Mr Moore's interventions have made him a fixture of the American
political scene, taking part in chat shows and turning up at the
Republican National Convention in New York to jeers from delegates.
On the campaign trail, opinion polls showed several young voters said
they had been politicised by Fahrenheit 9/11 - a film which features
the Florida recount and accuses Mr Bush of being in cahoots with Saudi
Arabia.
Mr Moore had tried unsuccessfully to have the film shown on US
television networks on the eve of the election, having to settle
instead for a DVD release to coincide with the presidential campaign.
This had become a theme of the Democrats' campaign, with John Kerry
frequently denouncing the Saudis and calling for a resurrection of
Richard Nixon's plan to provide a new US source of energy to end the
need for Saudi imports.
Mr Moore has publicly called for Hillary Clinton to enter the 2008
presidential race, and is now expected to turn his attentions to
supporting her.
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