Posted on 01/21/2015 5:44:30 AM PST by Kaslin
Michael Moore, a guy who has made his whole career about ambushing people and then cutting the film to make them look silly, mean or evil-- and importantly, unable to reply--suddenly looks silly, mean and evil. I mean sillier, meaner and more evil than he normally looks with his oversized clothes and food stained sweatshirts in the 10,000 square foot mansion and the Manhattan condo he apparently doesn’t even use.
Moore was doing his usual sniping on social media, because he believes someone still cares about his opinion. The self-appointed mouthpiece for the 99% with the $50 million bank account wanted us to know that all snipers are bad, even American ones, because his dad said so.
He told the Twitterverse this weekend as the movie American Sniper went big because it is full of conservative themes that Americans like, that he thinks all snipers are cowards because one killed his uncle.
American Sniper is the story of Chris Kyle, one of the most prolific snipers in military lore. The picture paints war accurately, as Churchill pointed out, as “cruel and squalid.” The film does not glorify war, even if it glorifies Kyle-- as it should.
The business of snipers helped win the war in Iraq by increasing the length at which American troops could lethally engage the enemy in urban combat. Simultaneously it also made the civilian population, amongst whom the insurgents hid, safe from incidental fire.
It is impossible to overestimate the contribution guys like Kyle made to securing a free Iraq, and Iraq would be yet free if guys like Moore hadn’t swallowed the truth.
“The reason that a few hundred snipers are so important now is that they,” writes Hans Halberstadt and Jack Coughlin in the book Trigger Men about the impact of snipers in the Iraq War, “almost alone on the unconventional battlefield of today, are effective at killing enemy personnel in meaningful numbers. As one US Navy SEAL officer told me recently, American snipers in the battle of Fallujah (from the SEALs, Marines, Army Special Forces, Deltas, Rangers, and other units) comprised less than 1 percent of the total number of friendly personnel on the battlefield but accounted for roughly 50 percent of enemy kills during the siege. These little sniper teams, with their simple weapons and simple tactics, are slaying the enemy in huge numbers.”
As usual, Moore still thinks this is 1943, and Flint, Michigan’s job is to turn out tanks to beat the Japs and the Nazis.
“My uncle killed by sniper in WW2,” Tweeted Moore. “We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.”
I’m assuming that a sniper in the United States didn’t kill his uncle. Thus he was fighting in one of the dozen countries invaded by the U.S. during World War II when he died.
So Moore must either think his uncle, as an “invader” was worse than the sniper who killed him; or as usual, he crammed facts in his big fat mouth then chewed them up to spit them out for us all to see the product of his gross-out performance art.
Somewhere inside of Michael Moore I keep expecting Andy Kaufman to pop out. At least I’m hoping he will.
In either event, Moore just proves the adage “garbage in, garbage out.”
Time for the garbage to be taken out.
Soldiers won it.
Socialists lost it.
Someone did fact check the uncle. Lots of details were revealed (nothing unsavory about him), stopping just short of exactly how he was killed and by what kind of soldier (not sure they spent time figuring such things out on the battlefield during combat) - and the researcher is tracking down any surviving team members to ask.
(No I don’t have the link handy, but saw it yesterday.)
No, apparently you were not.
He claims to be from Flint...when in fact hes really from Davison. sadly thats not actionable...
Judging all snipers as cowards because ONE sniper killed his uncle seems bigoted and prejudiced.
You can judge an idiot by the size of his ass...? Am I being prejudiced against fat people??
Jabba Moore ‘ 15 minutes is up.
You are correct to judge Michael Moore as an idiot because he, like so many other progressives, are blind to their own hypocrisy. But they seem to see it so clearly in people that don’t agree with their philosophy. It’s as sickening as it is scary. I Say scary because even when logically explained to them, they still refuse to acknowledge it. They simply can’t see how wrong they are. About everything.
Because NOBODY would stand behind him in case he farted!
I still think the way for Jesse Ventura to redeem himself in the eyes of the public, and veterans, would be for him to give Michael Moore a serious professional wrestling type thrashing in public.
No easy task, in that it would be like wrestling a medicine ball full of fermenting, foul-smelling feces.
He has “restored” a theater in my town (which means he actually employs about 1.5 full time person(s), the rest is done by volunteers, he gets crazy tax credits, gets the whole downtown to support his ideas to make it easier for folks to spend their money at his theater). I have been there once, and JabbaTheHut himself was sitting in (on?) the lobby. My friend BEGGED me not to spit on him.
Anyway, I usually only go to the old-fashioned theaters, one room, one movie. But for “American Sniper” I knew his theater would not be showing it-too “true” and in direct contradiction with his liberal beliefs. There are about 4 old-fashioned theaters within 40 miles of me, I would have waited to see if any of them showed it, but grandson wanted to see it on opening day.
I despise him. Although there are plenty of locals who agree with me, nary a bad thing is said about him in the local media. And, this is just a thought...the bigger the target, the easier the shot [this in no way is a suggestion, implied or otherwise, that pot shots should be taken]
Haven’t heard much from this Hutt lately, I’m surprised he’s still alive.
I wonder if he still doesn’t bathe properly. History tells us he could clear a theater quicker than a 5 alarm fire.
It’s too bad his father wasn’t shot by a sniper before the Hindenberg was born.
The evidence says no.
Hey Big Fella, cowardly is cutting me on line at Hungry Howies at the Detroit Airport a few years back.
I just saw ‘American Sniper’ this morning - the theater was packed with geezers like me. It was a pleasant surprise to see the ‘sniper’ as a young boy being taught the analogy of ‘the sheep, the wolf and the shepherd’ by his father at the beginning of the movie. That part is surely lost on progs of Moore’s ilk.
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