Michael Moore is loathsome [#2]

Michael Moore and September 11.

"The first hint I had that all was not well with Michael Moore occurred the day after September 11, 2001. Moore scribbled and posted on his website Michael Moore.com a commentary about that day's awful events titled "Death, Downtown." In an act of extreme cowardice, he later removed from the original his offensive suggestion that had the terrorists attacked cities where pro-Bush supporters were a majority, the carnage would have been less disturbing. "If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, DC, and the planes' destination of California -- these were places that voted AGAINST Bush! ..." If you have ever been doused with a bucket of ice cold water, then you know the feeling I had internally after reading those words. Suddenly, the working-class funnyman and underdog hero of mine came across as a heartless, ideological, and seditious thug. During the days immediately after the September 11 act of war, estimates of the dead ranged from 7,000 to as high as 12,000. That the number of dead in New York City eventually came down to about 2,800 in no way minimized the horror. Yet for Michael Moore, with the number of dead still estimated in the highest range, the true horror of 9-11 was the violent elimination by "unknown suspects" of registered, anti-Bush Democratic voters from the surrounding precincts. He made matters worse when he entertained conspiracy theories, or at the very least, added to the various Internet-based anti-Semitic urban legends, that somebody other than Osama bin Laden or Arab Islamists carried out the evil deed. Since that fateful September day, Moore has continued on a virulently anti-American, malevolent magical mystery tour de force. As late as December 2002, in a televised debate [5] with Christopher Hitchens held at the Telluride Film Festival, Michael Moore used the word "if" (as in "If indeed bin Laden and Al-Qaeda were behind the attacks of 9-11"") when the matter of bin Laden's complicity in the 9-11 attacks was discussed. He has become the anti-American, part-time expatriate par excellence, frequently visiting Cannes, France, his true home away from home. Sometime this summer, his anti-American, conspiracy-mongering flick, Fahrenheit 9-11, will be distributed throughout a Middle East where discourse is polluted with anti-Jewish, anti-Western, and anti-American conspiracy theories."

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