Raging Kraut

Michael Moore

Posted by Ray on 09/04/04 at 01:44 PM • News Commentary • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink

Let me start by saying that I'm not a Michael Moore supporter (duh) nor am I feeling sorry for him as the tide appears to be turning against him. I mean, bitchslapped by Katie Couric, that's got to be a first.

However, I have to say that I find it troubling that a lot of attacks on Michael Moore are nothing more substantive than "Fat Bastard", "Fat Pig", "Fat and Stupid", and the ever-popular "Fat Fuck."

Well, considering that fat attacks are the last allowable prejudice in the twenty-first century, the authors of these attacks are going for easy points and laughs at Moore's expense, and the result is that I don't listen to those attackers anymore, because a lot of them don't have the smarts to come up with anything other than attacks against his weight.

Newsflash: Michael Moore is fat; but then again so am I, and, if you're like the majority of the population, SO ARE YOU.

If you want to convince me that Moore is a traitor, give me proof, check your facts and present them logically. Leave the fat jokes back in Grade 9. It makes the attacker look like they've got nothing else. Substitute "black" or "queer" for "fat" and see if the statements made have anything to do with the substance of the matter, which is that Michael Moore is a left-wing loony who is more interested in making partisan statements than he is in objectively documenting his subjects.

Maybe the reason it's so hard to shake people out of the conspiracy comas that Fahrenheit 911 induced is because when they hear people attack Michael Moore, all they hear is the rage and the personal attacks about his weight.

I've watched all his stuff since Roger & Me. There's a lot of things to attack other than how he looks.

Raging Kraut

As soon as Michael Moore stops basing his pseudo-documentaries on cheap gimmicks and tired generalizations (i.e., Bush's intelligence, Heston's growing senility), I'll stop making fun of his weight.

However, I do believe you have a point with this. It's not like he's given us more than enough material in which to bash him without resorting to cheap laughs at his physical appearance. I'm glad you brought it up and I'll try to better myself.

Posted by Huck on 09/06 at 10:38 PM

Thanks for the comment Huck. I'm not going to put myself out as the "nice police" - One entry I read on a blog that links to me had an entry which was nothing more than "Michael Moore is a Fat Bastard!" in huge letters repeated 32 times. What that tells me is that this blogger has nothing else to say.

My belief has always been that 80% of people have made up their minds either way on Michael Moore, and that 20% can be swayed one way or the other. With the crap coming out of the pro-Moore camp, the voices of sanity should be able to reach that 20%. But they won't if they have nothing better than "Michael Moore is a Fat Fuck!"

Even if he is...

Posted by Ray on 09/06 at 11:29 PM

Moore IS fat. Maybe he should lose weight, it's his own damn fault people are insulting him. But people make comments like him everyday, he is just the one that's putting it out there, and he's not a traitor or whatever. It's admendment 1!

Posted by Anna Chung on 09/08 at 12:21 AM

He has the right to say what he wants and everyone else has the right to say "Bullshit!" and point out where he's lied, distorted, "creatively edited" and whatever other bullshit device he uses in his so-called "documentaries." That's OUR free speech right.

He twists the truth to fit his agenda, then accuses everyone else of betraying America when they disagree with his skewed viewpoint. At first he was amusing, but the problem is that now he has an audience that believes
EVERYTHING
HE
SAYS
without thought or reflection or question...

That's just as dangerous.

Posted by Ray on 09/08 at 12:42 AM

My rule of thumb is that mean, destructive people get no quarter. If you're a kind, intelligent person with whom I happen to disagree, you won't hear a peep from me about your looks. If you're an abhorrently evil demon-spawned prick, however, everything is fair game - including weight.

Posted by Damian on 09/08 at 10:40 AM

Yeah, but you've got to have more to say, don't you? Call him whatever name you want, but shouldn't there be a substantive point within the shitstorm?

My original point was that what's objectionable about Moore wasn't his fatness; it was the malevolent manipulative things he did in the attempt to sway audiences to his point of view. I still want to convince his victims (ie. his audience) that they should look more critically at his distortion of the facts...

People screaming and yelling without having a point doesn't help the argument. By all means call him whatever name you want, but at least have something else to say or else readers will tune you out.

Posted by Ray on 09/08 at 11:18 AM

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