Comments on: Moore: Smarmy Champion of the Feeble-Minded http://www.unretouchedphoto.com/2004/07/04/moore-smarmy-champion-of-the-feeble-minded/ A picture of my life in a thousand words . . . more or less. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:54:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: someone or other http://www.unretouchedphoto.com/2004/07/04/moore-smarmy-champion-of-the-feeble-minded/comment-page-1/#comment-73050 someone or other Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:35:19 +0000 http://www.unretouchedphoto.com/?p=181#comment-73050 I'm afraid your comparison breaks down as much as Gore's metaphor, where you are outraged that Moore showed footage of Iraqi kids but not footage of 9/11 bodies. You see, 9/11 was not engineered by Iraqis. Al Qaeda hated Saddam Hussein and wanted to see him removed from power; they thought he was a socialist and too secular, using Islam only when it was convenient to him for political purposes. So I don't see why Moore was supposed to drum up everyone's bad feelings about That Day when Iraq had nothing to do with That Day to begin with. Moore's not right about everything, but nobody is right about everything--and at least where Moore has been wrong, he hasn't sent over 4000 Americans to their deaths. And one more thing. If you send missiles and big guns into areas containing lots of civilians, by definition you are killing those civilians on purpose because you know darned well what your weapons are going to do. You might as well say the 9/11 terrorists didn't mean to kill people on the ground when they hit the towers. Jeez. I like your blog and I'm sure you're a good person... just think, please. I’m afraid your comparison breaks down as much as Gore’s metaphor, where you are outraged that Moore showed footage of Iraqi kids but not footage of 9/11 bodies. You see, 9/11 was not engineered by Iraqis. Al Qaeda hated Saddam Hussein and wanted to see him removed from power; they thought he was a socialist and too secular, using Islam only when it was convenient to him for political purposes.

So I don’t see why Moore was supposed to drum up everyone’s bad feelings about That Day when Iraq had nothing to do with That Day to begin with.

Moore’s not right about everything, but nobody is right about everything–and at least where Moore has been wrong, he hasn’t sent over 4000 Americans to their deaths.

And one more thing. If you send missiles and big guns into areas containing lots of civilians, by definition you are killing those civilians on purpose because you know darned well what your weapons are going to do. You might as well say the 9/11 terrorists didn’t mean to kill people on the ground when they hit the towers. Jeez.

I like your blog and I’m sure you’re a good person… just think, please.

]]> By: » Commentary on the News - Actual Unretouched Photo http://www.unretouchedphoto.com/2004/07/04/moore-smarmy-champion-of-the-feeble-minded/comment-page-1/#comment-16146 » Commentary on the News - Actual Unretouched Photo Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:31:50 +0000 http://www.unretouchedphoto.com/?p=181#comment-16146 [...] (I haven’t seen “An Inconvenient Truth.”  The last time I saw a movie with an obvious political bias I was not persuaded by the movie’s bias . . . I was just annoyed and wondered how it could be that so many people believed the propaganda.) [...] [...] (I haven’t seen “An Inconvenient Truth.”  The last time I saw a movie with an obvious political bias I was not persuaded by the movie’s bias . . . I was just annoyed and wondered how it could be that so many people believed the propaganda.) [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.unretouchedphoto.com/2004/07/04/moore-smarmy-champion-of-the-feeble-minded/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Anonymous Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:12:00 +0000 http://www.unretouchedphoto.com/?p=181#comment-142 Thankfully there are very few responses to your narrow-minded and bigoted perspective to Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. It gives me hope that I am not alone and you represent the minority. It is outrageous that people can actually be this ignorant after all that has been revealed to support the so-called "satire" exposed by Michael Moore. Shame on you for condemning him for having the respect to not show the charred and mangled remains of the victims of 9/11 for the millionth time. Shame on you for not having the common sense to be disgusted by your own government who inflicted that gruesome death on children in Iraq for their own financial gain. Shame on you for not being able to recognize when you have been duped by a greedy presidency. And shame on you for being so intolerant and insulting to those of us who can only laugh in the face of a president who does not even posses a basic grasp of the English language. Did it ever occur to you that the giggles and laughter you heard where based in sheer humiliation because "that" is our president with the vacant gaze??? The reason the theater was not empty and you were a "Republican Island" is because the rest of us seek the truth that our government seems unable to provide. And from the sounds of your post, you are clearly not smarter than everyone you shared that theater with...just more myopic!!!!! Thankfully there are very few responses to your narrow-minded and bigoted perspective to Michael Moore’s documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. It gives me hope that I am not alone and you represent the minority. It is outrageous that people can actually be this ignorant after all that has been revealed to support the so-called “satire” exposed by Michael Moore.

Shame on you for condemning him for having the respect to not show the charred and mangled remains of the victims of 9/11 for the millionth time. Shame on you for not having the common sense to be disgusted by your own government who inflicted that gruesome death on children in Iraq for their own financial gain. Shame on you for not being able to recognize when you have been duped by a greedy presidency. And shame on you for being so intolerant and insulting to those of us who can only laugh in the face of a president who does not even posses a basic grasp of the English language. Did it ever occur to you that the giggles and laughter you heard where based in sheer humiliation because “that” is our president with the vacant gaze???

The reason the theater was not empty and you were a “Republican Island” is because the rest of us seek the truth that our government seems unable to provide. And from the sounds of your post, you are clearly not smarter than everyone you shared that theater with…just more myopic!!!!!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.unretouchedphoto.com/2004/07/04/moore-smarmy-champion-of-the-feeble-minded/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Anonymous Wed, 07 Jul 2004 21:44:00 +0000 http://www.unretouchedphoto.com/?p=181#comment-141 I probably would have been SCREAMING at the screen! I have wanted to see that movie, too but my husband is like "don't give him any money by buying a ticket!!!" So maybe I can wait until someone I know buys it and I can borrow it. But, I know it'll just make me mad! :) Cindy I probably would have been SCREAMING at the screen! I have wanted to see that movie, too but my husband is like “don’t give him any money by buying a ticket!!!” So maybe I can wait until someone I know buys it and I can borrow it. But, I know it’ll just make me mad! :)

Cindy

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.unretouchedphoto.com/2004/07/04/moore-smarmy-champion-of-the-feeble-minded/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Anonymous Mon, 05 Jul 2004 19:32:00 +0000 http://www.unretouchedphoto.com/?p=181#comment-140 I'm so glad that someone else who feels as I do broke down and went to see this movie. I also saw "Bowling for Columbine" as I am an educator and felt I should see what he had to say about kids and guns in schools; and accordingly feel that parents need to take more responsibility as to what their kids have access to and not rely solely on the government. What I thought would be truly ironic, Melodee, is at the end when he posted how many people had been killed in the terrorists attacks would be to also show how many babies were killed last year due to abortion. Wouldn't that be an interesting comparison? How can the same people who say they are anti-war, because it kills innocent individuals, support prochoice, as is often the case? Anyway, I appreciate your post and now don't feel so bad that I paid money to see it. This is Aimee at commtcher@aol.com. I didn't mean for it to be anonymous. I’m so glad that someone else who feels as I do broke down and went to see this movie. I also saw “Bowling for Columbine” as I am an educator and felt I should see what he had to say about kids and guns in schools; and accordingly feel that parents need to take more responsibility as to what their kids have access to and not rely solely on the government. What I thought would be truly ironic, Melodee, is at the end when he posted how many people had been killed in the terrorists attacks would be to also show how many babies were killed last year due to abortion. Wouldn’t that be an interesting comparison? How can the same people who say they are anti-war, because it kills innocent individuals, support prochoice, as is often the case? Anyway, I appreciate your post and now don’t feel so bad that I paid money to see it. This is Aimee at commtcher@aol.com. I didn’t mean for it to be anonymous.

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