...and good riddance.
Nov. 28th, 2003 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davywavyIn case people hadn't noticed, the UK recently had a rather high profile American visitor to our shores. He's inexplicably popular in certain quarters, despite demonstrably having lied in order to make political points and having issued one-sided propaganda designed to prop up highly debatable standpoints. He sees nothing wrong in publically lambasting and ridiculing people who have shown him nothing but kindness, honesty, and generosity in order to progress his own agenda. He affects to be a man of the people, whilst manipulating the media through personal contacts and pocketing large amounts of cash. However, after carrying out a certain amount of rabble rousing he's now gone, and good riddance.
All of this is a shame, as I used to be quite a big fan of Michael Moore.
TV Nation was a programme of subversive genius, and The Horrible Truth nearly matched it. Sadly since then he's descended into the political demogoguery he affects to despise, with Bowling for Columbine taking potshots are easy targets who won't hit back, and Stupid White Men containing demonstrable untruths from him (when challenged about these, Apparently Michael acknowledged he knew they weren't true when he wrote it but that they 'illustrated wider points'. Nice to see that the straight talking man of the people feels that lying to his audience is a valid way of making political points. One wonders what he would make out of someone like, you know, a politican doing the same thing).
Shame, but as seems to happen so often, he has simply become a mirror to that which he claims to be fighting.
Couple this with Denis Leary quitting smoking and cutting down his meat eating and Bill Hicks dead, it looks now like I'll have to find myself a new comedy hero.
All of this is a shame, as I used to be quite a big fan of Michael Moore.
TV Nation was a programme of subversive genius, and The Horrible Truth nearly matched it. Sadly since then he's descended into the political demogoguery he affects to despise, with Bowling for Columbine taking potshots are easy targets who won't hit back, and Stupid White Men containing demonstrable untruths from him (when challenged about these, Apparently Michael acknowledged he knew they weren't true when he wrote it but that they 'illustrated wider points'. Nice to see that the straight talking man of the people feels that lying to his audience is a valid way of making political points. One wonders what he would make out of someone like, you know, a politican doing the same thing).
Shame, but as seems to happen so often, he has simply become a mirror to that which he claims to be fighting.
Couple this with Denis Leary quitting smoking and cutting down his meat eating and Bill Hicks dead, it looks now like I'll have to find myself a new comedy hero.
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Out of Interest...
Date: 2003-11-29 08:47 pm (UTC)Re: Out of Interest...
Date: 2003-11-30 09:59 am (UTC)