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Originally posted by Faceman:
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Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric:
I also don't remember Mr. Moore asking Clinton any "probing questions" about Monica Lewinsky, White Water, or any number of other issues which caused controversy during Clinton's 8 years in office.
If he really wants to earn my respect, then let's see him subject liberals to the same satirical microscope he uses for conservatives.
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I remember MM bashing the Clinton administration for the Kosovo war and their welfare-to-work program in "Bowling for Columbine" as well as in "The Awful Truth".
I also remember him making fun of "The man from Hope" in TV Nation, because he claimed that Clinton spend far more of his youth in a nearby "party-town".
I remember him picking on Clinton's secretary of Defense for being a wuss (and he was a heart-bleeding liberal).
And I remember him using equally ridiculing wording in describing the Presidential candidates during the last election in his famous "Moshpit" episode.
MM is not a comedian, he's a political activist. And as such it's perfectly understandable that as a lefty he's picking on the "righties" more often. Yet he has shown that when he disagrees with the stuff "his" left-wingers pull, he's there to give it to them too. [/QUOTE]
Then perhaps I was too hasty in my judgement. Who knows, if I ever have the time to look at his self-serving drivel and find out that he does slam the left almost as hard as the right (only not as often), I may even have to upgrade his status from "intolerable" to "somewhat tolerable buffoon". [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]
In case you can't tell, I have a hard time giving Michael Moore credit for anything other than being able to tie his own shoes. And I don't have irrefutable proof that he can do that. But he has rubbed me the wrong way ever since he came into the public spotlight in the early 80's. He has always struck me as something of a whiner that likes to ridicule the policies and decisions of others, but doesn't offer any viable alternatives to those policies or decisions himself.
The cold hard fact is that I cannot give Michael Moore a fair evaluation because I have never liked his sarcastic satirism or his eternal whining and I really doubt I ever would - even if he were actually making a legitimate argument.
The same holds true with Rush Limbaugh. He actually has some good points in his commentary from time to time - or at least I assume he does - but he can't say "Good Morning" without spewing some hateful, vitriolic remark about the Democrats in the same breath. So his personal antics negate any valid points his commentary might actually contain.