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Michael Moore, Michigan Sniper
Townhall.com ^ | January 21, 2015 | John Ransom

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Michigan; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: americansniper; iraq; michaelmoore; michigan; waronterror; yuck
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1 posted on 01/21/2015 5:44:30 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
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.

Honestly, I doubt even that is true.
2 posted on 01/21/2015 5:48:00 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
I wish there was some means of kicking this POS out of Michigan.

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3 posted on 01/21/2015 5:50:18 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: cripplecreek

Can we see the paperwork that his uncle was killed by a sniper?
Marxists are liars.

Pray America is waking


4 posted on 01/21/2015 5:52:05 AM PST by bray (Sharpton is a murderer)
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To: Kaslin

Dean Wormer - “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son”


5 posted on 01/21/2015 5:53:03 AM PST by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: Kaslin
"The business of snipers helped win the war in Iraq by increasing the length at which American troops could lethally engage the enemy..... "

Win the war in Iraq? I obviously wasn't paying attention.

6 posted on 01/21/2015 5:55:07 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: bray

Looks like his uncle was a paratrooper in the Philippines who was killed near the end of the war.


7 posted on 01/21/2015 5:55:08 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Kaslin

He’s a socialist, but his divorce revealed he owns TEN homes.

He hates guns but once hired SEVEN bodyguards.


8 posted on 01/21/2015 5:55:34 AM PST by gaijin
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To: cripplecreek

:: 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. ::

Hmmm, this appears to need some patriotic / conservative corrections....

[requote] As usual, Moore still thinks THAT Flint, Michigan’s job is to AGREE WITH MOORE AND STOP KILLING PEOPLE OF WHICH MOORE IS TERRIFIED...[endquote]

lest he physically lose his head at the hands of the citizens in Dearborn.

OK...cage-match, Dearborn v. Flint! Who loses their head first?


9 posted on 01/21/2015 6:00:08 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: gaijin
He hates guns but once hired SEVEN bodyguards.

That's a strange call, why would they only cover one side? ;-/

10 posted on 01/21/2015 6:02:15 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Kaslin

Someone needs to fact check Moore’s claim the his Uncle was shot by a sniper. Every statement by guys like Moore should be assumed to be a lie.

Who was this “uncle”?

Which theatre was he fighting in?


11 posted on 01/21/2015 6:02:41 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.a)
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To: Kaslin

Michael Who?

Doesn’t he do those diet plan commercials?


12 posted on 01/21/2015 6:07:18 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do)
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To: bray

Yeah I want a fact check on the uncle story . The only uncle who ever gets glory is his uncle “ Laverne” supposedly part of the founders of the UAW, Another one to fact check


13 posted on 01/21/2015 6:07:41 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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"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.

14 posted on 01/21/2015 6:08:02 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: P-Marlowe

and on what side.


15 posted on 01/21/2015 6:08:23 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Kaslin

I bet he keeps himself locked inside that Torch Lake Mansion during Hunting Season in Michigan. Otherwise someone would mistake him for a wild Hog. No tag needed. ;)


16 posted on 01/21/2015 6:10:28 AM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: cripplecreek
I wish there was some means of kicking this POS out of Michigan.

I'm waiting to read of some deer hunters accidentally shooting the windows out of his mansion on Torch Lake......

17 posted on 01/21/2015 6:10:41 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (I'm a man of no-color and proud of it.)
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To: Kaslin

so the left rolls out Jabba the leftest pile of Hut to undo the things the film revealed about fanatics that think nothing about using children as human bombs. That was their spearpoint leading the verbose charge of the dim brigade, all repeating the mantra, America bad, American soldiers , worse.


18 posted on 01/21/2015 6:10:44 AM PST by Boowhoknew
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To: Kaslin

I regret that I stumbled across this article because it caused me to waste a few precious seconds of my time on an insignificant, worthless POS.


19 posted on 01/21/2015 6:39:33 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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To: Kaslin

Well stated. Michael Moore is indeed the sort of Cowardly Sniper which he himself condemns.


20 posted on 01/21/2015 6:51:26 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
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