Friday, August 13, 2004
Michael Moore is a Fat Liar
Just a bit ago I posted an entry saying that I'd not have time for any of my usual tirades... but that turns out not to be the case. I do have time for one little rant, inspired by my favorite subject, that idiot Michael Moore.
According to what he said while discussing his favorite books at Oprah's website, Mike's weight problem isn't his fault. It's the result of economic struggles earlier in his life:
"I grew up in a Midwestern industrial city: Flint, Michigan. If you were to fly there today, get off the plane, and walk out of the airport, you would say to me, "Mike, you're one of the skinniest people here." I wasn't an overweight kid, but in the mid to late 1980s I was collecting unemployment, about $99 a week. When you are on such a low income, you end up eating foods that are cheap, fast and starchy because they fill you up. I put on the bulk of my weight during that time, and it didn't come off."
That's right, Mike... cheap, fast, starchy food is filling... and if you eat it by the metric ton and refuse to exercise, it's filling enough to turn you into a huge, fat lying bastard!
Alright, what I said in the previous paragraph was mean and spiteful, I admit that. And I'm just getting warmed up.
Classic liberal thought: Moore blames his weight problem on having been unemployed, not on his own actions. He readily absolves himself of accountability and shifts blame to that Regan era phantom villain, unemployment. It was supply-side economics that made Mike fat, not the Doritos he was shoveling into his gorge with both fists. And even if it was the Doritos, it damn sure wasn't a result of Mike's personal decision to buy them and eat them! He was poor, after all! He couldn't afford luxuries like lettuce and canned tuna!
The subtext is palpable. Michael Moore blames Ronald Reagan for making him fat.
And besides all that, there's another Michael Moore flat-out lie here. It's a trivial lie by his standards, but a lie nonetheless:
"In the mid to late 1980s I was collecting unemployment ... I put on the bulk of my weight during that time."
OK, Mike bulked up in the mid to late 80's, right? Let's examine that claim briefly. Here's Michael Moore on the poster for Roger & Me, which was released in 1989:
He's not rail thin by any means... nobody is going to mistake him for Kate Moss... but he's no whale, either.
Now, let's look at a picture of him from the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year...
Obviously, in the late 80's, Moore was a shadow of the huge, bloated behemoth he's become since he became wealthy. Michael Moore probably really did put on most of his weight by eating cheap, starchy food... but it was a wealthy film maker who ate the junk, not an unemployed guy in Michigan.
None of this should surprise me. Moore's movies and books are collections of lies and dillusions. I guess he defines himself personally with the same tainted logic that shapes his world view.
Look, my own weight has gone up and down my whole adult life. When I'm lazy and eat junk food I get fat, and when I exercise regularly and eat well, I get thinner and healthier. Nobody gets the blame or the credit but me. I struggled to support myself and my family while working a cruddy service job during the late 90's and at that time I was the skinniest I've been in my adult life. Nowadays I have a secure job that pays well and my weight is up. I've gotten fat. And the reason I've gotten fat is because I've made bad decisions. If I can take the credit and blame for my own actions, why can't a rich dude like Michael Moore do the same thing?
Michael Moore is a fat liar, and that's the straight skinny.
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Oh, yeah...
I got so worked up above that I forgot to mention the first and most obvious lie in Mike's argument about his weight. Michael Moore did not grow up in Flint, Michigan. He grew up in the wealthier, non-industrial suburb of Davidson. Besides, while I can't disprove his claim that he'd be perceived as one of the skinniest people in Flint, it's obvious BS. If the people in Flint have been pounding back so many cheese fries and Slurpies that a man Mike's size is skinny in comparison, then THAT is the story of the year. Not Iraq. If Flint has gotten that fat, Mike needs to do his next movie about THAT subject. Call it Fahrenheit 7-11 .
The image links above weren't working, so I put the pictures on my own server space and changed the layout of the post. Each of the images above is a link to something relevant... Thinner Mike takes you to the IMdB's Roger & Me page. Fatter Mike takes you to the MSNBC article where I found the image.
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Oh, the wonders of living in America: poor unemployed people get fat on junk food and blame it on the evil corporations who sell them the food they choose to eat.
Of course, there is no mention of all the healthy cheap food available.
Hey Michael, for the cost of that box of HoHo's, you could have bought five cans of beans and vegetables.
Oh, no matter. Mike was taken by the seductive nature of junk food. It's not his fault.
In other countries, poor people get vey skinny and some die, but here they get as fat as whales and make movies exploiting their victimhood.
Pathetic.
Of course, there is no mention of all the healthy cheap food available.
Hey Michael, for the cost of that box of HoHo's, you could have bought five cans of beans and vegetables.
Oh, no matter. Mike was taken by the seductive nature of junk food. It's not his fault.
In other countries, poor people get vey skinny and some die, but here they get as fat as whales and make movies exploiting their victimhood.
Pathetic.
To 'The Southern Conservative':
You do realize that you've just ranted about Michale Moore's weight. For crying out loud! You've just called him pathetic for being overweight. That, is pathetic.
Try to remember; Michael is now fifty years old, and the older you get the easier it is to gain weight, and the harder it is to lose it.
And how do you know that he didn't grow up in Flint? what type of proof do you have?
Or are you just hoping that if you say the same thing enough times, even if it's not true, people will believe you? (hey, just like Bush and those Weapons of Mass Destruction, right?)
Please ask yourselves: What have you done to help the people of America? (This does not include yourself)
Michael "the fat rich bastard" gives to numerous charities you most likely do not know exist, and he is fighting for what he believes in while you just rant to the few conservatives left.
By the way... "bastard" is someone who, as a child, does not have a father, impying that the mother is a whore. So you've clearly used that word out of context.
thank you for your time,
-someone who wants to see America lifted into the glory it's always believed it's been in.
You do realize that you've just ranted about Michale Moore's weight. For crying out loud! You've just called him pathetic for being overweight. That, is pathetic.
Try to remember; Michael is now fifty years old, and the older you get the easier it is to gain weight, and the harder it is to lose it.
And how do you know that he didn't grow up in Flint? what type of proof do you have?
Or are you just hoping that if you say the same thing enough times, even if it's not true, people will believe you? (hey, just like Bush and those Weapons of Mass Destruction, right?)
Please ask yourselves: What have you done to help the people of America? (This does not include yourself)
Michael "the fat rich bastard" gives to numerous charities you most likely do not know exist, and he is fighting for what he believes in while you just rant to the few conservatives left.
By the way... "bastard" is someone who, as a child, does not have a father, impying that the mother is a whore. So you've clearly used that word out of context.
thank you for your time,
-someone who wants to see America lifted into the glory it's always believed it's been in.
# posted by 
: 12:19 PM
: 12:19 PM
I started not to respond to the above comment, feeling that the author had done my work for me, but I can't resist.. I'll just let 'er fly:
You do realize that you've just ranted about Michale Moore's weight. For crying out loud! You've just called him pathetic for being overweight. That, is pathetic. ....................................................................................No, I ranted about Michael Moore's lying about his weight problem. Go back and actually read what I wrote. He won't hold himself accountable for his own weight problem. I, on the other hand, do hold myself accountable for my weight problem. The issue is taking responsibility for your own mistakes. It's a good idea to read blog comments before you post about them.
Please ask yourselves: What have you done to help the people of America? ..........................................................................Hey, if you want to get in a pissing contest, I'm game. What have YOU done to help anyone? You e-mail to me a verifiable list of your charitable contributions and volunteer time and I'll e-mail mine to you. But I won't settle for just a rambling list. Offer evidence. Make it, as CBS would say, unimpeachable. Then I'll send you my list.
By the way... "bastard" is someone who, as a child, does not have a father, impying that the mother is a whore. So you've clearly used that word out of context. .................................................................................And you, gentle reader, have managed to take the word "context" out of context. Bastard is a common euphemism used when referring to someone dislikable.
By the way, there are a number of free spell checkers available on the web. I rely spell checkers myself. Look into it.
You do realize that you've just ranted about Michale Moore's weight. For crying out loud! You've just called him pathetic for being overweight. That, is pathetic. ....................................................................................No, I ranted about Michael Moore's lying about his weight problem. Go back and actually read what I wrote. He won't hold himself accountable for his own weight problem. I, on the other hand, do hold myself accountable for my weight problem. The issue is taking responsibility for your own mistakes. It's a good idea to read blog comments before you post about them.
Please ask yourselves: What have you done to help the people of America? ..........................................................................Hey, if you want to get in a pissing contest, I'm game. What have YOU done to help anyone? You e-mail to me a verifiable list of your charitable contributions and volunteer time and I'll e-mail mine to you. But I won't settle for just a rambling list. Offer evidence. Make it, as CBS would say, unimpeachable. Then I'll send you my list.
By the way... "bastard" is someone who, as a child, does not have a father, impying that the mother is a whore. So you've clearly used that word out of context. .................................................................................And you, gentle reader, have managed to take the word "context" out of context. Bastard is a common euphemism used when referring to someone dislikable.
By the way, there are a number of free spell checkers available on the web. I rely spell checkers myself. Look into it.
You make several great points Moore has used his psuedo blue -colllar guy image for years while he has lived in manhattan, sends his kid to a prestigous private school, and traveling the country in limos and private jets.
I don't resent Mr Moore(ons) success but I sure as hell resent him appearing like a blue collar working man and putting down the country that gave even a brain dead, oxygen-deprived lard ass like him the opprotunity to be a success.
If Mr Moore wants to help this country he should take a bath and shut his mouth that would put an end to the stench and the noise.
I don't resent Mr Moore(ons) success but I sure as hell resent him appearing like a blue collar working man and putting down the country that gave even a brain dead, oxygen-deprived lard ass like him the opprotunity to be a success.
If Mr Moore wants to help this country he should take a bath and shut his mouth that would put an end to the stench and the noise.
# posted by : 6:54 PM
: 6:54 PM
Where is your evidence of Moore's LIES? We now know Bush lied about going to war in Iraq. (google SECRET BRITISH MEMO) for the TRUTH! To use a Jack Nicholson movie quote"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"
# posted by : 2:02 AM
: 2:02 AM
Anonymous said: Where is your evidence of Moore's LIES?
Check my sidebar, it's a gray box called "Targeting Michael Moore." You can't miss it.
We now know Bush lied about going to war in Iraq.
Who is "we?" "We" obviously has better intelligence than the US, British, Polish, and Russian intelligence agencies. "We" should handle all the worlds problems, since "we" knows so much.
google SECRET BRITISH MEMO
Oooh, Oooh, is it the Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe?? I can't wait!
To use a Jack Nicholson movie quote"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"
And to use another Jack Nicholson movie quote, "I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman."
This is fun! Can we do Al Pacino next?
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Check my sidebar, it's a gray box called "Targeting Michael Moore." You can't miss it.
We now know Bush lied about going to war in Iraq.
Who is "we?" "We" obviously has better intelligence than the US, British, Polish, and Russian intelligence agencies. "We" should handle all the worlds problems, since "we" knows so much.
google SECRET BRITISH MEMO
Oooh, Oooh, is it the Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe?? I can't wait!
To use a Jack Nicholson movie quote"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"
And to use another Jack Nicholson movie quote, "I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman."
This is fun! Can we do Al Pacino next?
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