Wrong, Mikey

Mikey is all butthurt because his boy Sanders got beat. Left men are bigger sexists than those on the right. He is not "afraid" Trump is going to win--he WANTS Trump to win because he is one of these Sanders dolts like Susan Sarandon who want to bring on the "revolution." This GOP convention should tell the public that those in the know, like Cruz, Kasich, Bush, and the other regulars, have written 2016 off. No, we shouldn't be overconfident, but Moore has an ax to grind.
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Harvey, the Remake

In case readers didn't see the bizarre performance by Clint Eastwood last night:



At least it took people's minds off of Mitt's tax returns.

To be fair, Clint never could act even with a script, and he of all people was aware of it; that is why he turned to directing with huge success. But for the Romney campaign to have asked him, at 82 years of age, to get up on the podium in front of a national and international audience without any kind of script is an act of elder abuse.

I am sure somebody pointed out to Eastwood after the speech that Romney has a law degree from Harvard, just like Obama.

Eastwood appeared to be channeling Jimmy Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd with his rambling, befuddled performance.

Some sixty years of show business experience, including Oscars, went down the drain. So did his reputation as a Hollywood icon. Nobody will ever remember Eastwood for his very real achievements. Everybody will remember the unspeakable act at the Republican National Convention.

Michael Moore, who had opined earlier that it was a real possibility Mitt Romney would be elected president in November:

The footage of Eastwood rambling and mumbling to his "Harvey" - President Obama - will be played to audiences a hundred years from now as the Most Bizarre Convention Moment Ever. The people of the future will know nothing about Dirty Harry or Josey Wales or a Million Dollar Baby. They WILL know about the night a crazy old man hijacked a national party's most important gathering so he could tell the President to literally go do something to himself (i.e. fuck himself). In those few moments (and these days, it only takes a few moments—see Anthony Weiner), he completely upended and redefined how he'll be remembered by younger and future generations.

I am not buying the claim being made by Eastwood fans and people on discussion boards and the like that he was putting over a "brilliant satire" or that his befuddled and rambling manner was just a clever act in order to promote his latest film. Eastwood isn't a good enough actor to pull that off, even if he were thirty years younger. He's clearly in mental decline. I don't care how many times one watches that, the performance doesn't get better. He is a sad, doddering old man.

Michael Moore

was very good on Lawrence O'Donnell's show last night talking about the Wall Street protests and where it goes from here:

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Michael Moore Gives His Opinion on the

health care "reform" legislation Obama will sign:




For people with health insurance, it won't be worse for them, but it isn't good for those of us out here without health insurance who will be forced to purchase it or face a fine.

And then it doesn't begin to go far enough.

But of course we will NEVER have single payer health insurance as long as industry can buy off Congress.

I Just Returned

from Ashland, Oregon, watching Michael Moore's newest documentary Capitalism: A Love Story. Naturally it was a movie describing how we got into this current economic mess, focusing on foreclosures, "dead peasant" clauses by employers wanting to cash in on employees' deaths, and especially the crooks on Wall Street who control the economy and Congress and how they screwed it the hell up.

Yes, the average people need to take action because there are far more of everybody else than there are of the itty-bitty numbers of rich who have profited from the rest of the people. The main problem as I see it is apathy, although it may not last that much longer.

The lack of jobs may be the catalyst for people taking to the streets--finally.

Michael Moore

should just shut up:

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Dear God,

The other night, the Rev. James Dobson’s ministry asked all believers to pray for a storm on Thursday night so that the Obama acceptance speech outdoors in Denver would have to be cancelled.

I see that You have answered Rev. Dobson’s prayers — except the storm You have sent to earth is not over Denver, but on its way to New Orleans! In fact, You have scheduled it to hit Louisiana at exactly the moment that George W. Bush is to deliver his speech at the Republican National Convention.

Now, heavenly Father, we all know You have a great sense of humor and impeccable timing. To send a hurricane on the third anniversary of the Katrina disaster AND right at the beginning of the Republican Convention was, at first blush, a stroke of divine irony. I don’t blame You, I know You’re angry that the Republicans tried to blame YOU for Katrina by calling it an “Act of God” — when the truth was that the hurricane itself caused few casualties in New Orleans. Over a thousand people died because of the mistakes and neglect caused by humans, not You.

Some of us tried to help after Katrina hit, while Bush ate cake with McCain and twiddled his thumbs. I closed my office in New York and sent my entire staff down to New Orleans to help. I asked people on my website to contribute to the relief effort I organized — and I ended up sending over two million dollars in donations, food, water, and supplies (collected from thousands of fans) to New Orleans while Bush’s FEMA ice trucks were still driving around Maine three weeks later.

But this past Thursday night, the Washington Post reported that the Republicans had begun making plans to possibly postpone the convention. The AP had reported that there were no shelters set up in New Orleans for this storm, and that the levee repairs have not been adequate. In other words, as the great Ronald Reagan would say, “There you go again!”

So the last thing John McCain and the Republicans needed was to have a split-screen on TVs across America: one side with Bush and McCain partying in St. Paul, and on the other side of the screen, live footage of their Republican administration screwing up once again while New Orleans drowns.

So, yes, You have scared the Jesus, Mary and Joseph out of them, and more than a few million of your followers tip their hats to You.

But now it appears that You haven’t been having just a little fun with Bush & Co. It appears that Hurricane Gustav is truly heading to New Orleans and the Gulf coast. We hear You, O Lord, loud and clear, just as we did when Rev. Falwell said You made 9/11 happen because of all those gays and abortions. We beseech You, O Merciful One, not to punish us again as Pat Robertson said You did by giving us Katrina because of America’s “wholesale slaughter of unborn children.” His sentiments were echoed by other Republicans in 2005.

So this is my plea to you: Don’t do this to Louisiana again. The Republicans got your message. They are scrambling and doing the best they can to get planes, trains and buses to New Orleans so that everyone can get out. They haven’t sent the entire Louisiana National Guard to Iraq this time — they are already patrolling the city streets. And, in a nod to I don’t know what, Bush’s head of FEMA has named a man to help manage the federal government’s response. His name is W. Michael Moore. I kid you not, heavenly Father. They have sent a man with both my name AND W’s to help save the Gulf Coast.

So please God, let the storm die out at sea. It’s done enough damage already. If you do this one favor for me, I promise not to invoke your name again. I’ll leave that to the followers of Rev. Dobson and to those gathering this week in St. Paul.

Your faithful servant and former seminarian,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com

P.S. To all of God’s fellow children who are reading this, the city New Orleans has not yet recovered from Katrina. Please click here for a list of things you can do to help our brothers and sisters on the Gulf Coast. And, if you do live along the Gulf Coast, please take all necessary safety precautions immediately.

There is nothing funny about this, and the PS doesn't absolve the outrageous previous screed.

Michael Moore

has a few words about last night's show, and has some good things to say about Edwards:

John Edwards was supposed to have come in third. He had been written off. He was outspent by the other front-runners six to one. But somewhere along the road he threw off the old politico hack jacket and turned into a real person, a fighter for the poor, for the uninsured, for peace. And for that, he came in a surprise second, ending up with just one less delegate than the man who was against the war from the beginning. But, as Joshua Holland of AlterNet pointed out earlier today, Edwards is still the only front-runner who will pull out all the troops and do it as quickly as possible. His speech tonight was brilliant and moving.

I Will Be

sure that when Sicko comes out on June 29 that I see it.

I suspect, however, Moore will insert himself into the documentary again. He has that habit, and it is irritating.