Michael Moore and the Politics of Warfare.
Base10 caught Michael Moore on This Week on Sunday hawking his new movie. To his credit, Moore was wearing a suit. That is of course the only good thing I can say about him. Usually Moore tries to portray himself as a working class man-of-the-people when in fact he is vastly wealthy and has likely never worked a day of the manual labor his usual couture describes.

In fairness to Moore, he did state that he is partisan. He said he was a liberal and he hopes that his film will unseat George W. Bush. In this respect he characterizes his movie as an op-ed piece. Strangely he became rather shrill when he actually had to defend his cutting of interviews and its subsequent effect on content. This is a practice he has long been accused of and he became quite irate when confronted about it. The other thing that was funny was that he is threatening lawsuits against members of the presumptive "right wing conspiracy" who might dare to criticize him. (Oh, I'm scared)!

Well judge for yourself. Here is the transcript from ABC. And here is a little coherent thought from Mark Goldblatt of the National Review on the matter. Base10 particularly likes the phrase "cognitive spelunking" in describing the intellectual level of Moore's film.

The thing that Base10 finds most disturbing about this is not limited to Moore. Moore became righteously indignant during the course of the interview when he was accused of being unpatriotic. But isn't that really what it is? What is he suggesting, that Bush knew the attack was comming? Maybe he's saying that Bush was in league with al Quaeda? Playing politics with warfare is what will ultimately defeat the Democrats this fall. One may disagree with the president, but the arguments from the left have been limited to banalities like "it's all about the oil, dude." Maybe we should be at war with Iran or Syria and not Iraq. But this is a criticism of means not ends. Base10 for one thinks that a stable middle east cannot be achieved without a democratic Iraq. The upsurge in violence in Iraq is a sign that we are winning. Debasing the war effort in an effort to unseat the President is unpatriotic and betrays out troops.
- posted by Base10 @ 10:34 AM