The Democrats' Michael Moore Problem

Laura Ingraham's E-Blast | 3-24-03 | Laura Ingraham

[L`enn]

"…[W]e live in fictitious times-a time when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president-a time when a man is sending us to war for fictitious reasons."
--Michael Moore, accepting his Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Don't get suckered into believing that Moore's anti-Bush, anti-war rant is an isolated viewpoint on the far-left of the Democrat party. The dirty little secret is that most Dem-elite intellectuals agree with stupid white man Moore but are afraid to say so publicly.

The truth is that leading Democrat "thinkers" have at one time or another explicitly or implicitly conveyed the same sentiments. Take the "fictitious election" comment. Bill Clinton, still the titular head of the Democrat Party, has made similar cracks. Ditto for recovering politician Al Gore. At a speech in the Dominican Republic in December, Gore asked the crowd, "In your presidential election here, does the candidate who gets the most votes win the election?"

As for Moore's "fictitious reasons" for war comment, Senators Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd have made comparable charges in recent weeks. When Moore refers to Bush as a "fictitious" president, what he really means is that he is a stupid president. When Tom Daschle last week blamed the President's "miserable failure" in diplomacy for forcing war, he too was really saying that Bush is dunce. Tom the Towering Intellect believes President Bush is woefully incapable of maneuvering in our complex, interconnected world. He's no Jacques Chirac.

The Dem-elites in Hollywood and Washington, utterly convinced of their intellectual and moral superiority, are hopelessly out of touch with the public whose welfare they claim to care so much about. Take the Oscars. On a day when we learned that American POWs were being humiliated before Iraqi television cameras, ABC decided the Academy ad revenues were too big to pass up. For the Academy, toning down the red carpet was an adequate sacrifice. Chef mogul Wolfgang Puck, who was catering the big after-party bash for the Academy, wailed that if the awards were cancelled, hundreds of pounds of imported sea bass would go to waste.

Well, Americans spoke last night. Ratings for the broadcast were down 23 percent from last year. Some proudly boycotted the Oscars, others opted to focus on what was happening in the real world. Turns out that the 70+ percent of those stupid Americans who support the President and the war in Iraq were smart enough to tune out Hollywood's ill-timed narcissistic exercise. Actor Tom Hanks was classy enough to bow out, undoubtedly uncomfortable with the spectacle. On this channel, see our brave military men and women in harms way, donning chemical suits. Flip to ABC and see Oscar nominees and presenters air-kissing one another for their artistic sacrifices, clutching their $25,000 "goodie bags," decked out in couture. Their idea of an MRE is a take-out order of capellini with white truffles from the Ivy.

Democrats' confused, muddled foreign policy message isn't playing any better with the American public than the Oscar ceremony played with American television viewers. The reason is that, except maybe for Joe Lieberman and Dick Gephardt, Democrats have made it clear that they believe that France should have veto authority over US national security decisions. Listen to Rep. Nancy Pelosi before for war, and it's clear that if France had agreed to the war, then she would be for it, too.

To heck with the fact that the American president, the intelligence community, the entire Cabinet, believe the war is necessary for our security! To heck with the American people who support President Bush's decision! Guinea and Cameroon aren't on board!

That so many liberals see this as an "illegitimate" or even "illegal" war is why liberalism is on life-support. The Michael Moore sympathizers in the Democrat party actually believe that the French (who helped Iraq build a nuclear plant) and the Russians (who sell unauthorized radar jamming equipment to Iraq) are acting in "good faith," but the President Bush and Vice-President Cheney are not.

The Dem-elites trust the judgment of the "international community" on foreign policy. Americans trust the judgment of their president. The Dem-elites are enamored with the UN. Americans see the UN as a forum for America-bashing. The Dem-elites believe America has become too "arrogant." Americans think France is too arrogant. The Dem-elites don't like the idea of America as a "super-power." Americans are proud to be the strongest, freest country in the world. The Dem-elites think this war is our fault. Americans think that it's Saddam's fault.

It would be refreshing if more in the entertainment industry confronted the idiocy of Michael Moore. Dennis Miller can't do it all. As for the Democrats, their ability to win national elections in the near future will depend on their own willingness to confront their own versions of Michael Moore. Don't hold your breath.

[dc27]

I saw the clip on FNC and none of the hollywood crowd booed, actually a few cheered. It was the lowly serfs in the upper deck that booed.

[potlatch]

How well educated are they??

Barbra Streisand : Completed high school Career: Singing and acting
Cher: Dropped out of school in 9th grade. Career: Singing and acting
Martin Sheen: Flunked exam to enter University of Dayton. Career: Acting

Jessica Lange: Dropped out college mid-freshman year. Career: Acting
Alec Baldwin: Dropped out of George Washington U. after scandal. Career: Acting
Julia Roberts: Completed high school. Career: Acting

Sean Penn: Completed High school. Career: Acting
Susan Sarandon: Degree in Drama from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Career: Acting
Ed Asner; Completed High school. Career: Acting

George Clooney: Dropped out of University of Kentucky. Career: Acting
Michael Moore: Dropped out first year University of Michigan. Career: Movie Director
Sarah Jessica Parker: Completed High School. Career: Acting

Jennifer Anniston: Completed High School. Career: Acting
Mike Farrell: Completed High school. Career: Acting
Janeane Garofelo: Dropped out of College. Career: Stand up comedienne
Larry Hagman: Attended Bard College for one year. Career: Acting

While comparing the education and experience of these two groups, we should also remember that President Bush and his cabinet are briefed daily, even hourly, on the War on Terror and threats to our security. They are privy to information gathered around the world concerning the Middle East, the threats to America, the intentions of terrorists and terrorist-supporting governments. They are in constant communication with the CIA, the FBI, Interpol, NATO, The United Nations, our own military, and that of our allies around the world. We cannot simply believe that we have full knowledge of the threats because we watch CNN!! We cannot believe that we are in any way as informed as our leaders.

These celebrities have no intelligence-gathering agents, no fact-finding groups, no insight into the minds of those who would destroy our country. They only have a deep seated hatred for all things Republican.

[Mo1]

The dirty little secret is that most Dem-elite intellectuals agree with stupid white man Moore but are afraid to say so publicly

One thing I couldn't help but notice at last nights Oscar's

Yes it was good that the Hollywood idiots didn't cheer Moore's comment's .. but they also didn't boo his comments .. they just sat there and did NOTHING!

It seems to me that it was the crowd in the balcony that booed Moore

[Palladin]

I bet that right about now some shrewd and aware citizen at the IRS is going over Michael Moore's tax returns of the past ten years looking for "fictitious" figures.

[Slings and Arrows]

I don't know what Martin's politics are, but his professionalism is unparalleled. Here's Dave Barry on the story behind the monologue.

P.S. If you can find that flash movie, please FReepmail me.

[softengine]

Any hope that Condoleezza might be persuaded to run against that flat @ssed Marxist with the sleazy narcissistic conman *husband* from Arkansas in '08?

[EternalVigilance]

Kudoes to Tom Hanks for having the sense not to show up at this celebration of ego and self-gratification.

It is more than unseemly for these people to go on about their tawdry and ostentatious lives (if you can call them that), while our men and women are dying in the field.

Those who have compared this to the Wellstone Rally/Funeral hit it on the head. Only this is worse. He was just a communist/Democrat Senator who was about ready to get ousted---a remnant of America's fast-fading flirtation with socialism.

These young men and women who are fighting are our best and our brightest---the future of our country. They deserve respect and honor, of which they have received not one iota from this Hollyweird crowd. I used to consider them a joke; but now I hate them.

If these people loved America, their little annual soirree would have had our young men and women front and center for honor and recognition.

[nutmeg]

bump for later reading

[EternalVigilance]

I went and read that---Dave Barry just may be the funniest man alive. :-)

[Igraine]

Steve Martin seems to be smart enough to keep his politics to himself, but I do know that during the first Gulf War he went to the Mid-East to entertain the troops and that he and his wife took with them many messages to forward to soldiers' families when they returned to the States.

[oyez]

If Moore is considered top of the heap in Hollywood, evolution is a flawed theroy. Does a species go backward in development?

Michael Moore is the future of the Democratic Party of America. National Lampoon's Animal House is no longer fiction but a reality on a grand scale. What was the deans quote? "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go though life."

[Slings and Arrows]

Dave Barry just may be the funniest man alive.

That's a fact. When he's on, he's on.

On a tangent inspired by that article, I saw Rita Rudner in Las Vegas a few years ago. Very funny, and one of the few comediennes who doesn't work blue.

[Golden Gate]

Did someone say 'Democrats'? Well here is a Dem invite, please Visit:
Democrats Need to Fully Support the Bush Administration in WARNING Turkey and the Kurds!

[jagrmeister]

This is a very good piece to send to all those who are fed up with the Hollywood Halfwits. There is an education gap between the high school drop-outs in Hollywood and the well-educated people running our country. Should we entrust our fate to our well-educated statesmen in Washington or to the uninformed rantings of some uneducated court jesters.

[laredo44]

Americans are proud to be the strongest, freest country in the world.

Proving yet again, that "right makes might," not the other way around.

[FreedomPoster]

>>Now she singles out Michael Moore, two hundred pounds of rotting sea bass.

Sir:

You have unfairly impugned rotting sea bass, by comparing same with Michael Moore. At least at one time, the sea bass was good for something (before the rot). As far as I can tell, this is *not* true for Mr. Moore (always rotten).

Please do not denigrate a fine fish like this in the future.

[Jimmy Valentine]

I believe that he was in student government and was caught up in a vote rigging scandal as well as an embezzlement scandal.

[Claire Voyant]

BTTT.

[Claire Voyant]

It's more like EFFETE than ELITE. Most of these Dem-elites are smelly un-educated robots.

[Knuckle Sandwich Combo]