“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.” – Michael Moore*
“Michael Moore makes a substantial living going into peoples’ private lives. Sneaking up on them,” Urbanski said. So Urbanski feels no compunction in talking about the only client he ever fired. In fact, he fired Moore with a 10- page letter.
“A more dishonest and demented person I have never met,” Urbanski wrote me in an e-mail, “and I have known a few! And he is more money obsessed than any I have known, and that’s saying a lot.”
Urbanski believes that Moore hates America, hates capitalism and hates any normal concept of freedom and democracy. This seems odd, considering that if it weren’t for America, freedom and capitalism Moore’s brand of expression and capitalistic success would be impossible, if not illegal.
“Michael Moore could not withstand Michael Moore’s scrutiny for more than 15 seconds,” Urbanski said.
Has Hollywood figured out what Moore is really about? Was that why he was snubbed?
Urbanski has given some thought to Moore’s methods. “Moore has an interesting racket. A Jesse Jackson-like shakedown. He figured out he could shake down his own type of thinker, his own constituency, for his own enrichment.”
And to think, nobody suspected a thing!
Well, I supected. I just got distracted by the peanut butter oil oozing out of his nipples.
“A more dishonest and demented person I have never met,”
That guy has a great way with words. I’m surprised to see an anti-moore article our of SF tho.
Oh. just great. Another food product ruined for me.
You mean all this time you’ve been eating it you didn;t know where it came from?
Moore is right about one thing, though: he who has the best story wins the public debate. (He’s wrong about where to get the best story.) The Liberals’ story is, We Really, Really, Care (About You) and The Conservatives Don’t. The Conservatives don’t have a coherent public story. They ought to go with (This) Is The Right Thing To Do, which trumps We Really, Really Care, especially since so much of what the Liberals do shows they really, really don’t care about you.
In the aftermath of the US Presidential election, James Carville was being interviewed by Tim Russert about why the Democrats lost. He said,”… our message has been we can manage problems, while the Republicans, although they say we can solve problems, they produce a narrative. We produce a litany. They say, ‘I’m going to protect you from the terrorists in Tehran and the homos in Hollywood.’ [Remember, this is James Carville talking.] We say, ‘We’re for clean air, better schools, more health care.’ And so there’s a Republican narrative, a story, and there’s a Democratic litany. And, at a point . . . you say, ‘We have to rethink this thing.’ I really believe that.”
I wish just once, Stephen Harper would stand up and say something like, Freedom isn’t America’s gift to Iraq, it’s God’s gift to mankind. Now that’s a story. Much better than We Really, Really Care.
It’s not just the message, it’s the messenger: the political party that views the Drunken Murderer, the Serial Sexual Predator, Mister Great Malaise, and the Ku Klux Klan Recruiter as its acknowledged moral and ethical guiding lights and senior statesmen has very little room to criticize anyone else’s ethics or beliefs.
Of course, tone matters too: most ex-Democrats I know got roundly turned off not just by the blatant support of ‘Hate-America’ politics that their old party has embraced, but also by the smug condescention Democratic spokescritters tend to employ when running their own country down and claiming primacy of Party agendas over national concerns.
From:
http://www.moorelies.com/news/archives/display.cfm?newsID=252
“You can also see him [Moore] in a documentary first released in Canada in 2003, which came out in the U.S. in late June of 2004 — The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, based on the book of the same name by Joel Bakan. Throughout much of May, its poster could be seen on the bottom of Moore’s home page next to that of Super Size Me.
“[T]he single funniest line belongs to Michael Moore. In the closing moments of the film, the man who brought Roger & Me to movie fans muses about the paradoxical decision of large corporations to distribute his anti-corporate films and TV shows. He paraphrases the (possibly apocryphal) saying attributed to V.I. Lenin about how “the capitalists are so hungry for profits that they will sell us the rope to hang them with.” The implication is that corporations want to make money off Moore’s creations, even if distributing those creations may inspire hostility to capitalism. Moore then looks into the camera and says, “I’m the rope.”