DECONSTRUCTING MICHAEL MOORE

Weird Republic ^ | 3-23-2006 | Thomas Clough

[carolgr]

Mike’s First Efforts

Michael Moore is a man of little imagination. That’s why he stole the scenario for what became Roger & Me from Michael Westfall. During a visit to Flint, Michael Moore was privy to the details of Westfall’s proposal for a documentary on General Motors that would use Ralph Nader’s idea of personalizing the harm done to Flint by focusing on individual GM executives and on Roger Smith in particular. Michael Moore was present at the meeting where Westfall’s friends discussed how to maximize the emotional impact of the film by using humor. It was the intention of the Nader group to use the profits from their documentary to help the people of Flint.

Michael Westfall generously offered Moore hundreds of pages of research on GM. Westfall even got Moore into a GM shareholder’s meeting where Moore interrogated Roger Smith at length as Moore’s camera captured every articulate response. Moore’s film footage also included Michael Westfall and other Nader activists, all of whom assumed that Michael Moore was making a documentary about the conflicted needs of GM and the surrounding Flint community. They were mistaken. Michael Moore was making a flick about Michael Moore; he had hijacked the project away from the altruistic idealists and given it a most appropriate title: Roger & Me. The footage of the activists was tossed into the trash; the footage of Roger Smith candidly answering all of Michael Moore’s questions in thoughtful detail was hidden away. Henceforth, this flick would be about Michael Moore’s fictitious attempts to secure an interview with Roger Smith. It became a one-gag movie that falsely depicted Roger Smith as a heartless, elusive coward and Michael Moore as a proletarian crusader with a camera.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

ping for later

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

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[Paladin2]

How about rendering MM?

[carolgr]

Hi Paladin2

Great idea!

I hear Moore is coming out with another movie called sicko?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Deconstructing?

How many trucks to haul the lard away?

[carolgr]

PBRSTREETGANG,
Moore has done a lot of damage to our nation. It is interesting to read this article which shows where he started.

[dc-zoo]

Deconstructing Michael Moore? That's going to be one heluva greasy slimey mess.

[cricket]

Frustrating to read even half of this. . .some of which had already been reported; albeit, not 'widely'.

It is of little comfort now to read the 'rest of the story'. . .though it is of course, SOME comfort. . .

. . .but MM has bored deep into the fabric of American political lore. . .and while he was drilling. . .Repubs looked the other way while the Demrat spinmeisters sang MM praises; and sold tickets. . .

[Abathar]

"Deconstructing Michael Moore? That's going to be one heluva greasy slimey mess."

If Michael Moore was ever in a car fire and couldn't get out it would be the only time there was more stored energy in the front seat burning than in the full gas tank behind him.

[DarthVader]

Smelly too!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Moore has done a lot of damage to our nation.

I know that Moore is ever-trying to do damage to this nation.

However, I think his "Farenheit 911" may have had the reverse effect to what he intended.

[GOP_Proud]

Evil personified. I urge everyone to take the time to read the entire article. Do a fact search if you have to.

[Jonx6]

ping for later...

[Farmer Dean]

Hey,we can make biodiesel with that lard!Who said MM was worthless?

[Tribune7]

Good article. Bump

[baltodog]

My bother worked for GE Medical Systems and his first "tour of duty" was in Flint.

We visited him often, when my other brother and I were fresh out of the service.

He always made it a point to describe Flint: "There are two kinds of people who live in this town...the downright poor, and those who work at GM...there is no in-between...you are either scrapping for cash on a day-to-day basis, or you work in the GM plant. As soon as the market is saturated with GM trucks, this town goes under."

...and it did...to no one's surprise...

Thankfully, he was re-assigned to Detroit before the crash.

[from occupied ga]

Deconstructing MM is easy

1. 30% lard
2. 30% hypocrisy
3. 20% bull $hit
4. 10% arrogance
5. 8% pomposity
6. 2% miscellaneous annoying traits

[libs_kma]

There were two black people I worked with during the 2004 election campaign that tried all the time to get me to see that MM 911 piece of crap.

One of them you could actually discuss things with (the guy), but the other one (the girl), was an I'm-not-working-for-anything-that-I-can't-shame-someone-into-giving-me-for-free type of person.

Their rationale for me going to see the MM Bravo Sierra was that me, seeing things the way that I do, should at least educate myself on what he was saying so I could refute it's points.

That may have worked with a third grader, but I told them I wasn't spending one dime that would go into his pocket. When they offerred to buy the ticket I told them to buy a ticket for someone who would enjoy going to see crap like that becuase I wasn't their guy.

[carolgr]

I agree. Another good source is the paper is the MICHAEL MOORE CONTROVERSY at http://michaelwestfall.tripod.com/id17.html