Is Michael Moore going to hurt the Democrats this time around?, page 1
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Topic started on 7-11-2004 @ 05:24 PM by Esoterica
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Look at the map on his front page. From the looks of it, he's not going to confine his work just to politicians, but he's going to go right after the American people who voted for Bush. Which, of course, is going to drive them even further against liberals.

During the previous few years, Moore basically confined himself to exposing politicians, and attacked a few well-known citizens. This would really have the effect of pushing those who agreed with him farther away from politicians, while those who did not agree with him further towards them, with really a net of zero change in the actual voting results. This time around, if he opens on on heartland America, he's going to be upsetting the people themselves. It's one thing to attack someone's politician, it's another to attack them personally.

I think that if Moore doesn't want to shoot himself in the foot, he's going to have to pull himself back. Or, instead of being a semi-respectable film maker with strong views, he's going to get the label 'whackjob' by the majority of people once he goes on the offensive.

I don't know, just my thoughts on the issue.

[edit on 11-7-2004 by Esoterica]


reply posted on 8-11-2004 @ 12:53 AM by ThunderCloud
Originally posted by Esoterica
www.michaelmoore.com...

Look at the map on his front page. From the looks of it, he's not going to confine his work just to politicians, but he's going to go right after the American people who voted for Bush. Which, of course, is going to drive them even further against liberals.


"United States of Canada"? "JesusLand?" Wow. I've seen that picture floating around on the Internet in the last few days, but I'm shocked he'd put it up on his website. Could this picture be considered advocating the dissolution of the United States? Could it be considered sedition?

Originally posted by para
Seriously though, I think if you give Moore enough time he will self-destruct. I watched one of his older films and thought that most of what he did was pretty one-sided and taken out of context. It seems to me that he doesn’t know where to draw the line, and will continue to push gradually more extreme views until nobody will take him seriously.


If his website is any indication, he's already in the early stages of self-destructing. Maybe he had a nervous breakdown on Wednesday night? He's starting to sound more like Alex Jones every day...

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