The Official Michael Moore thread: whether you hate him or love him

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  1. ElJefe

    ElJefe Moderator
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    And if Michael Moore had bought a GM, it more than likely would've been built in Mexico or Texas or somewhere other than Flint.

    Something tells me that the anti-Moore brigade wouldn't have let that slide. Just call it a hunch.
     
  2. Sneever Flion

    Sneever Flion New Member

    Oct 29, 2002
    Detroit, MI
    I remember my dad, the staunch Republican, loving Micheal Moore when Roger and Me came out. He has worked for GM for over thirty years as a line worker. I remember seeing pictures of then CEO Roger Smith all carved up with darts sticking out of them all over the plant my dad worked in. He was a popular target at the time for his policies regarding the auto workers. He made it easy for a guy like Moore to make a name for himself.

    Now, my dad absolutely hates the guy. Not because his message has changed all that much, but because his targets include the right wing.

    Side note: Jaguars did suck until Ford bought them. Also, the main driving force that has kept the American auto manufacturers from automating their lines as much as foreign competition is the UAW.
     
  3. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
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    Jun 16, 1999
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    Re: Farenheit 9/11 makes box office history

    Fair point but nevertheless, I don't think it would have taken a medical degree to realize that the guy wasn't exactly "all there."
     
  4. SoFla Metro

    SoFla Metro Member

    Jul 21, 2000
    Ft. Lauderdale, FL
    Re: Farenheit 9/11 makes box office history

    Interestingly, I've read all 9 pages of this thread and nowhere has anybody documented a bona fide Michael Moore "lie." Plenty of people have called him a liar, but there is no documented evidence of it (at least on this thread).

    And the moorelies.com site is hilarious. I've seen more meat on a Tofurkey.
     
  5. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
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    He may be telling the truth, but Connery was a better Bond. ;)
     
  6. BenReilly

    BenReilly New Member

    Apr 8, 2002
    I said "more American labor." If you spend $x on a US car, a much higher % of the cost (on average) will be traced to American labor than if you buy a foreign car. I don't have any problems with Americans buying Japanese or European cars since the comparative advantage is not based on mistreatment of labor.
     
  7. BenReilly

    BenReilly New Member

    Apr 8, 2002
    The Saint was pretty good, though.
     
  8. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    I had to go out today to see some property. Just happened that 9/11 was showing near there!!!

    It is pretty powerful at times but nothing was a surprise to me.
    The only thing that does surprise me is the gullibility of the people who follow Bush and his party line.
    I mean the real republicans who follow the party line right or wrong but don’t want to hear if it’s wrong. The people who won’t really ‘read’ the news or read or watch anything that’s reportedly controversial to the party line.
    These are good people who are afraid that their leaders, their country, could be wrong.

    This is a great country, I choose to live here, I’m just saddened by what is going on.

    I’m not a religious person but I say “God Damn George Bush” and the cronies who are pulling his and the countries strings.
     
  9. Dave Brother

    Dave Brother New Member

    Jun 10, 2001
    Alexandria
    I haven't read a single post to this thread, but I wanted to post my thought.




















    ******** Moore and all he floats for!!!!!! ******** that FAT BASTARD!!! ******** HIM IN THE ASS!!!
     
  10. obie

    obie New Member

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    Re: Farenheit 9/11 makes box office history

    If true, then what was the NRA doing re-electing him to a new term as President of their organization?

    I think Moore's sin here isn't that he sat down and interviewed Heston and just watched as Heston talked himself into a corner. It's that Moore still used a lengthy part of the interview -- and thought enough of it to make it the final major scene in the film -- after it was learned that Heston was losing his mind. If the i-view had been spliced throughout the film, it would have blunted the fact that Heston was likely not the best possible speaker for the NRA. But my guess is that Wayne LaPierre would never have sat down with Moore in the first place. Hence, we got Moore vs. Heston, the intellectual equivalent of Tyson - Spinks '88.
     
  11. Richie

    Richie Red Card

    May 6, 1999
    Brooklyn, NY, United
    Ray Bradbury author of 'Fahrenheit 451' thinks Moore is a fat ass thief.
     
  12. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
    Orygun coast
    And this is your average Republican, one of the people who put bush in the White house.
     
  13. Ian McCracken

    Ian McCracken Member

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    Re: Farenheit 9/11 makes box office history

    My guess is that Moore ends up like Tyson, too

    I'm a street bum, says broke Tyson
     
  14. superdave

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    Thaaaat's a good little brownshirt.
     
  15. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
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    I just want to say...this is just silly. What exactly did he steal? The concept of temperature?
     
  16. Richie

    Richie Red Card

    May 6, 1999
    Brooklyn, NY, United
    He seems to think that fat Bastard stole the name from his book. Incidently, Moore never bothered to ask permission to use the name. So the old gentlemen thinks the fat bastard is a theif.
     
  17. NSlander

    NSlander Member

    Feb 28, 2000
    LA CA
    Translation: "Despite my self-admitted abject ignorance, I feel so passionately about this subject that I am compelled to corn-hole a fat man."

    You give legions of chubby-chasing Log Cabin Republicans a bad name.
     
  18. superdave

    superdave Member+

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    Why in hell should he have? That's my point. Bradbury is nuts.
     
  19. irishFS1921

    irishFS1921 New Member

    Aug 2, 2002
    WB05 Compound
    one thing that will always bother me about michael moore is when he acts like a stupid little kid when he asks people questions/interviews them.

    and he's a patronizing ********.
     
  20. bitter leftie

    bitter leftie New Member

    Apr 30, 2004
    Western mass
    anyone seen any of his appearences on the morning news shows???
    there was a pretty funny clip of him w/hannah storm on cbs morning news that was shown on the daily show last night
     
  21. yossarian

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    Link?
     
  22. DJPoopypants

    DJPoopypants New Member

    Or he received $50,000 from Moore's distributors to "complain".

    Whatever puts it on the front-pages...
     
  23. -cman-

    -cman- New Member

    Apr 2, 2001
    Clinton, Iowa
    That was priceless! Stewart: Oh my God! Did he just ambush her on her own show?
     
  24. bitter leftie

    bitter leftie New Member

    Apr 30, 2004
    Western mass
    that was unreal, my gf and i were rolling on the floor, the cbs lady was pretty damn flustered, and she deserved every second of it, considering how she began the interview.
    I have seen a bit of his rounds on the other networks morning shows and he's faced pretty much the same thing from matt lauer (sp?) etc. He keeps responding by asking them why didn't they ask the administration the same kind of questions in the run up to the invasion...and how if they had, he probably never would have even had the opportunity to do this film.... :) :)
     
  25. obie

    obie New Member

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    Tack on another $4.45 million to the liberal till. The $5,127 per screen average for Monday was five times the haul of any other movie tracked.
     

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