June 28, 2004

The Wisdom of Michael Moore
Posted by Jon Henke

Via WizbangBlog, I find this interview with Michael Moore. The Democratic Party is happily standing beside this guy? Words nearly fail me....

Regarding Jay Leno...

"He's banned me from his show for 10 years," contends Moore, who does a wickedly funny Leno impression. "Then, after my Oscar speech, I thought he went out of his way to incite violence against me by showing 'Michael Moore's house' being blown up. It was a frightening time for me -- my house in Michigan was vandalized. And he'd have James Woods and other guests on and incite them to criticize me."
...says Michael Moore--who once said the insurgents in Iraq were not "'the Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win"--about a late night comedy talk show.

Regarding Bill O'Reilly and Jay Leno...

According to Moore, Leno isn't the only lofty TV icon to freeze him out. He says the last time he was on "The O'Reilly Factor," he cut Bill O'Reilly to ribbons, and "Bill doesn't like that, so I got banned from the show." Of course, says Moore, "now that it will help his ratings, he wants me on."

The story isn't quite so simple, as I learned when I got O'Reilly on the phone. "Moore was never banned, and he's welcome to come on any time," he said. "I guess that's part of his charm. He's going to say bad things about me to get publicity.
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The Leno camp also offered an account at odds with Moore's. They said that far from being banned, Moore was invited to appear after Cannes and was asked to be on the show twice in recent years, most recently after "Bowling for Columbine" won the Oscar for best documentary and Moore gave an inflammatory acceptance speech.

After hearing of Moore's charge about showing his house being blown up, Leno went back and watched the tape, which he said shows not a house but a shack in the desert being hit by a missile. Through his publicist, Leno said, "If the jokes bothered him, I wish Michael would have called. Or he could have come on the show. I was just telling jokes about what made headlines, and that included him."


Regarding oil...
Anyway, the support Bush and the Republicans feign for Israel is because Israel is near our oil. If the oil wasn't there, I bet those same Republicans wouldn't (care) about Israel.
Hard to falsify that agurment, isn't it? Oil there? Then it must be about oil. No oil there? Well, it's not far from oil, so it's all about oil.

Others have shredded Moore more effectively than I will. Fahrenheit 9/11? Clever deception, but probably good movie-making. If I see it, I'll let you know.

Mostly, though, I am simply aghast that honest, serious Democrats and liberals line up beside this fool.

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One of the things I really like about Leno is that he deliberately tries to obfuscate his politics on the show. I remember watching Inside the Actors Studio with him and he talks about his monologue being "jokes so people can guess at my politics". This is unlike a lot of other comedy shows like the Daily Show or Stern that are openly biased.

Posted by: MrAcheson at June 28, 2004 02:01 PM

I dunno about Leno, Mr. Acheson. While he does have a tendency to lampoon people on both sides of the aisle, I did quit watching him for a while because he just wouldn't let up on the "Bush is a lying dumbass" jokes. Night after night he made jokes on this same theme. Normally I just roll my eyes at things like that, but when my eyeballs roll that much, I just have to turn off the TV and let them settle down.

Posted by: Wacky Hermit at June 29, 2004 08:21 PM

Michael Moore is an idiot and his appearance on the Tonight Show just reinforced this!

Posted by: Billie McIntire at July 30, 2004 10:59 AM