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Michael Moore: Hurricane Coming During GOP Convention 'Proof There Is a God in Heaven

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  1. Faos

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    http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080830000004.aspx

    He's a class act.


    Michael Moore: Hurricane Coming During GOP Convention 'Proof There Is a God in Heaven'

    Controversial filmmaker admits he's delighted to see a natural disaster potentially interfere with the Republican event.

    By Jeff Poor
    Business & Media Institute
    8/30/2008 12:13:18 AM

    Sometime you really have wonder at what cost some are willing to see their political ideology advanced.

    To liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, the bounds are seemingly endless. Moore has made a recent career out of attacking President George W. Bush, bashing conservatives and criticizing business. His latest outrage occurred on MSNBC’s August 29 “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” and when he commented about the coincidental timing of an unfortunate disaster – the potential for Hurricane Gustav to make landfall at the beginning of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.

    “I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven,” Moore said, laughing. “To have it planned at the same time – that it would actually be on its way to New Orleans for day one of the Republican Convention, up in the Twin Cities – at the top of the Mississippi River.”

    After that comment, Moore backed off a bit and did say he hoped nobody got hurt and he hoped everybody is taking cover. However, he failed to make note of the $43.625 billion in damage the last hurricane to strike New Orleans caused – Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – and the billions of dollars the storm cost taxpayers.

    Moore also took the opportunity to take a dig at President George W. Bush and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain.

    “I can’t see what you showed,” Moore said to “Countdown” host Keith Olbermann about a video clip including Bush and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. celebrating McCain’s birthday. “I don’t know if you showed the cake there that they had there, three years ago today – with McCain and Bush. When Marie Antoinette – when she said, ‘Let them eat cake,’ I think she was speaking figuratively. They literally were while New Orleans was drowning – eating cake. So, it’s, um, I don’t know – let’s hope things get better.”

    Olbermann, whose opinions tend to fall on the same far left end of the ideological spectrum as Moore, said it was even weirder than Moore observed. Olbermann said “one of” Focus on the Family preachers connected to Chairman Dr. James Dobson’s was allegedly calling for everyone to pray for rain during Sen. Barack Obama’s Democratic convention speech.

    Moore told Olbermann he feared McCain would continue the wars that we are in and would start a new one with Iran. He defended Iran’s aggressive tactic with nuclear weapons by suggesting that if Iran invaded Mexico and Canada, as we had with Iraq and Afghanistan, even he and Olbermann would “build whatever we could do defend ourselves.”

    Both Olbermann and Moore were full of praise for Obama’s speech and Moore chalked McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to cynicism on part of the Republican Party.

    Moore has been a crusader for socialized health care in the United States, especially with his 2007 documentary “SiCKO.” Moore depicted the health care systems used in Canada, France, the United Kingdom and the communist nation of Cuba as what the United States should have – an expensive taxpayer-funded health care system.
     
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  2. Lil Pun

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    Yeah, in general there are extreme statements on both sides. I haven't seen Moore in the press a lot lately. May be a move to get him some more press.
     
    #2 Lil Pun, Aug 30, 2008
  3. Refman

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    If I were a Democrat, I would be embarrassed by that guy.
     
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  4. rocketanalyist

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    I consider myself an independant who is leaning Democratic this year for sure, but that statement by Mr. Moore was damn right awful! :mad: It's even worse than the guy praying for rain, just terrible. I'm glad he's only a film maker and not a politician.
     
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  5. Rocketball

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    That guy is a joke and always been a joke and needs to go back under the rock he came from..................

    There is no justification for comments like that even in jest, especially when millions of AMERICAN lives are going to be effected, some for the 2nd time in 3 years.

    However, what do you expect from someone who is Anti-American........
     
    #5 Rocketball, Aug 30, 2008
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    There is no justification, but there is qualification in that he said that he hopes no one is hurt.

    That part isn't important... right?
     
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    It is amazing how people will spin things and give them justification.......unbelievable.

    In case you didn't get it, the answer to your question.......NO!!!!
     
    #7 Rocketball, Aug 30, 2008
  8. DonnyMost

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    mike is a smart guy, but he's no politician.

    poor word choice.

    (but yeah, it is a worst case scenario for a major hurricane to hit nawlins and dredge up memories of katrina while the GOP is trying to hold a rally)
     
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    Spin? That's what he said!

    Check your reading comprehension....


     
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    Blow that tired, weak-minded crap out your ear.

    2003 called, it wants it's paranoia back.
     
    #10 DonnyMost, Aug 30, 2008
  11. Refman

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    No. Only a complete and total moron would expect a strong category 3 or weak category 4 hurricane to hit the Gulf Coast and nobody gets hurt.

    That is like saying I hope that a passenger van full of people gets hit by a train but nobody gets hurt.

    The only way that part of his statement is important is in how intellectually dishonest it is.
     
    #11 Refman, Aug 30, 2008
  12. B-Bob

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    Agree entirely. As someone who leans left, I have wanted Moore to eat one hotdog too many for a long, long time now. And yes, that's hoping he hurts himself. No qualifiers!

    I know it's like shark's teeth here. I know that if Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Moore, Jim Hightower (argh! shut up!) all retired tomorrow, the day after tomorrow would see a new row of destructive rhetorical terrorists ruining our national discussion.
     
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    You know exactly what the purpose of his post was for.........
     
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  14. Faos

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    My hope is if there is a God in Heaven he will silence Michael Mooree. Wait, that makes me a scum like him. Strike that.
     
    #14 Faos, Aug 30, 2008
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    The intellectual dishonesty is in believing he's wishing for a van full of people gets hit by a train. That's not what he's trying to say and you know it.
     
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    So, repubs can pray for God to rain out Obama's speech, but Michael Moore noting the storm at the time of the RNC proves there is a God is a great crime?


    HO HO HO

    something
     
    #16 BigBenito, Aug 30, 2008
  17. Rocket River

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    YEA . .this is horrible

    I just remember folx commenting on
    How KATRINA did i days what they had been trying to do for years,. . . .'clean up the 9th ward'

    Yea. . .this statement is just so much worse than that *****
    :rolleyes:

    Rocket River
     
    #17 Rocket River, Aug 30, 2008
  18. B-Bob

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    It is amazing that it's projected to hit somewhere over night between Monday and Tuesday. The timing is awful.
     
    #18 B-Bob, Aug 30, 2008
  19. Deckard

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    I am and I am. (insert Popeye voice here!) Like Nadir in 2000 (and more recently), Moore typically ignores the negative impact he has on electing the people who could put in place policies promoting issues he agrees with. Too bad. He has had some good moments in some of his films, yet his "over the top" way of highlighting some of the things wrong in this country pushes a lot of people away from his message, which can be a good one, if someone bothers to pick and chose the nuggets from the dross in his films.
     
    #19 Deckard, Aug 30, 2008
  20. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    You hit on Moore's biggest problem as a film-maker/activist. He generally has a few valid points in his films, but they get lost in the shuffle of hyperbole.
     
    #20 bobrek, Aug 30, 2008
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