March 24, 2003
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:A Song for Michael
The Oscars are on my list of "things about which I could give a ****." I did hear the now-famous Michael Moore speech this morning (all 58 seconds), and I started humming an old tune and adding some new words.
With apologies to my favorite songsters, Flanders & Swann.
If you glimpse a large tush
And hear screaming of Bush
Then an animal comes to the fore,
Who is basically pig
But more sweaty and big
You will know you have met with a Moore.
You are glued to the spot;
Will he squash you or not?
No need to have fears about that.
For a friend you beseech,
But for you he does reach,
All he wants is to try out his speech.
But don't be misled;
Soon you'll wish you were dead,
That instead you had married Al Gore,
For Oh, Oh what a Moore he is, what a thundering thumping Moore!
In falsified grunts he will tell you of hunts
Of trickery in celluloid
He will tell you that one can just pick out a gun
In a bank for the race paranoid.
He responds to their terror, that they made an error
By striking our pure Eastern coast,
And suggest that instead target not blue but red
And turn all those rednecks to toast.
Then a joke he will try as you stifle a sigh
And deny that you've heard it before,
Thinking Oh, Oh what a bore he is, what a thundering thumping Moore!
As you laugh at his jokes (Ha ha ha ha ha ha)
'I'm a popular bloke', he will think.
When you're ready to burst,
Then 'Hello there!' he'll cry
To each poor passer-by
The ones that have not seen him first.
For on sight of the beast they will run to the east,
And the north and the west and the south,
And long for the day when his head's on a tray,
With a lemon to stop up his mouth.
They shout as they run;
'He's an excellent son,
An a wonderful fellow, We're sure!'
But Oh, Oh what a Moore he is, what a falsificating,
Pre-var-i-cating
(Grunt grunt grunt grunt)
Grating Moore!
It has come to me that Michael Moore is really the Rush Limbaugh of the left.
If the only answer the Left can come up with for Limbaugh is Moore, then they are in sad shape indeed.
Tom Wolfe's commencement speech at Boston University a
couple of years ago:
" One of the things that I find really makes it worth watching all the Academy Awards, all the Emmys, all those awards ceremonies, is to see the fact that today actors and television performers have discovered the fact that, if you become indignant this elevates you to the plane of "intellectual." It is a fact, incontrovertible. It's never been contradicted by experience or history, and watch these awards ceremonies from now on with this in mind:
that when an actor or a television performer rises up to the microphone at one of
these awards ceremonies and expresses moral indignation over something, he is
illustrating Marshall McLuhan's dictum that moral indignation is the standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity."
No, Larry. As abrasive as Rush may be, his screeds usually have some basis in fact. When Rush gets the fact wrong, he is quick to make a correction on the air. You may disagree about his interpretation of the facts and he will often be outrageous in the way he voices his interpretation, but he does get the facts mostly right.
Moore just makes stuff up and is equally abrasive (depending on your point of view).
I don't find it true that Rush, when he makes a mistake, he admits it. He interprets facts incorrectly in a shameless attempt to make his own view palitable. Moore does the same thing. Lets be honest here, both guys say what they want, and imply they are right, irrespective of the truth.
oh puleeze. michael moore had his 15 minutes of fame with his documentary about flint.
What's truly amazing is how Moore has the gall to get up there and base his rant on the distinction between "documentarians" who like "non fiction" and all the "fictitious" things he doesn't like. As one offended documentarian has pointed out, if there is a distinction between "documentary" and "fiction", then Moore's work is clearly in the latter camp.
Everything depends on the definition of a "fact", doesn't it? ;-)
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