Ace of Spades HQ

« I Am the Venerable Bishop Riuozzo of Lucca, and I Approved This Message | Main | Tuesday Timesuck »

December 06, 2004

Husky Huckster Michael Moore: Dems Must Embrace Hollywood

I've got to cite no less an authority than Dean Vernon Wormer for this one:
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."

Apparently intent on wrestling away the nickname "The Stupid Party" from the GOP (which has, to its credit, richly earned the monicker), Moore descends into a maelstrom of insanity where not even Great Cthulhu dares to tread:

Fahrenheit 9/11" director Michael Moore on Monday rejected the idea that Hollywood had hurt John Kerry (news - web sites)'s chances of winning the White House, insisting that he and other entertainers helped spare Democrats an even bigger defeat.
"For the last month, we've had to listen to a lot of conservative pundits talk about how Democrats need to run away from Hollywood," Moore said. "It's actually the opposite. Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story."

They never lose elections because the public disapproves of their ideas-- both the announced ones and the ones they try to keep secret. It's always an uncharismatic candidate, the media refusing to allow them to "get their message out," or -- now -- "failing to tell a story."

Here's a story, Mike: 60,000,000 Americans saw through your barely-disguised contempt for them, and your barely-restrained hatred of this nation and everything it stands for.

How's that for a tag-line? Think that'll pack 'em in in Peoria?

"What 'Fahrenheit 9/11' and Bruce Springsteen (news) and MoveOn and all the other people that were working during this election, what we did was we prevented a Bush landslide," Moore said. "We're all going to continue to do this in the near future. No one's giving up."

The Black Knight always triumphs!

Or so I've heard.

...
"And I think we need to turn to Hollywood, because who wouldn't vote for Tom Hanks or Paul Newman or Robert Redford or Oprah?"

I don't know for certain, but I'm guessing that all three are pretty-far-left-liberals of a Naderite/Haydenite stripe.

This is Moore's problem. I mean, this is one of Moore's problems, apart from the unspeakable vanity and morbid obesity. He watches The West Wing; he believes The West Wing. He honestly believes that what America craves is a blast of 60's progressivism/neo-socialism -- with both barrels, loaded with buckshot -- and that honestly, the only thing keeping America from voting so is the lack of a candidate with a movie-star smile.

I don't believe America is a very conservative country. I think it's actually liberalish in many ways, and that the current conservative-center majority is held together, as many coalitions are, by duct-tape and silly-string.

But Michael Moore hated Bill Clinton's politics. That's not the sort of Democratic standard-bearer he imagines to lead the America he dreams of.

That America never existed, Mike, except for a few months in 1969 in the pot-clouded back offices of Mother Jones magazine.

Put. The Cofee. Down! Coffee is for closers.

posted by Ace at 11:32 PM

Comments

ohhhh what a big man you are, heres a stick a gum i'll help you chew it.

Posted by: mr. R. Roma on December 6, 2004 11:55 PM

And for losers. . . steak knives.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on December 7, 2004 12:05 AM

To create effective left-wing propaganda you have to twist the truth just enough so that it still seems plausible.

Hollywood, the paragon of self-restraint, went way over the top in twisting the truth so the result seemed deranged. It made all Democrats look fat, drunk and stupid.

That is why Hollywood was and will always be a disaster area for the Democrats.

Posted by: Jake on December 7, 2004 12:39 AM

You know what it takes to win elections?

Brass balls.

Posted by: Moonbat_One on December 7, 2004 01:08 AM

The Black Knight always triumphs?

How the hell could you possibly cleave away enough to register an injury as a "flesh wound" on MM? You could hack at him with your +4 Vorpal Sword (gratuitous D&D reference) until you carved out the equivalent of 3 O-Chub's and there would still be so much damn massive girth that his gravitational pull would be uprooting all the shrubbery in the area.

(I win the who can throw in a MM fat joke, Oliver Willis fat joke, D&D reference and Monty Python reference into one comment award!!!! It's comments like this that have you in 1st place, Ace.)

Posted by: senator philabuster on December 7, 2004 01:22 AM

Well played, Senator.

Moonbat,

You call yourself a documentary filmmaker, you son-of-a-bitch?

Posted by: ace on December 7, 2004 01:28 AM

So, this is what MM and HW have been doing for the past month. (Not too quick, are they?) Oh well. I suppose we have room for even more Republican votes in 2006 and 2008. Hugs and kisses HW - I don't think we could rule the world without your continued support of freaks, jerks and douche-bags! Don't you see? Rational people are afraid of you, well, because your f'n scary. You've got me so freaked out with your crazy viewpoints that I will never vote Democratic again for anything. You geniuses MADE me into a full blooded Republican. So keep up the good work Mikey and all you deluded actors and actresses of Hollywood - I can only convert a few but you psychos can convert millions! Just do what MM says - he so has it figured out. (At least the how to get rich part! God, what tools!!)

Posted by: Philip on December 7, 2004 02:24 AM

Put. down. the. Kofi.
Kofi is for losers

Posted by: on December 7, 2004 03:58 AM

I sort of wonder if Michael Moore and all the other Hollywood folk are really just moles sent by the Republican Party to make the Democrats look COMPLETELY FREAKIN' INSANE.

Then I take an Advil and my high fever goes away in about half a day.

But still. You never know.

--Kazmin

Posted by: on December 7, 2004 05:25 AM

Here we go again, folks. Democrats are looking for a salesman to sell a story... and Americans are looking for a LEADER who can be PRESIDENT.

Posted by: on December 7, 2004 07:12 AM

"And I think we need to turn to Hollywood, because who wouldn't vote for Tom Hanks or Paul Newman or Robert Redford or Oprah?"
I don't know for certain, but I'm guessing that all three are pretty-far-left-liberals of a Naderite/Haydenite stripe.

Uh, I count FOUR.

Let every FOLK count!

Posted by: on December 7, 2004 09:32 AM

The best part of hearing from our friends in Hollywood is all the whinging and complaining they do.

Don't get me wrong, complainers are necessary and helpful people. But nobody wants to be led by them.

Ever have to work with somebody like that???

Posted by: on December 7, 2004 12:58 PM

"And I think we need to turn to Hollywood, because who wouldn't vote for Tom Hanks or Paul Newman or Robert Redford or Oprah?"

Um -- me?

Posted by: Andrea Harris on December 8, 2004 12:41 PM

poker me up

Posted by: poker me up on December 29, 2004 02:39 PM

poker me up

Posted by: poker me up on December 29, 2004 02:39 PM

Cum summam patrimoni insculpere saxo!

Posted by: vimax on April 8, 2005 08:53 PM