Michael Moore an antisemite?

[Semsem]

In case anyone is fooled by Michael Moore.

Michael Moore's Radical Views


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Friday, July 9, 2004
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Michael Moore on Israel:
- Quotes from Michael Moore’s book, “Dude Where’s My Country?” (Warner Books, 2003) regarding the United States support for Israel:
• Moore dedicated his book, “Dude Where’s My Country?” to Rachel Corrie, an International Solidarity Movement volunteer who was killed March 16 when she climbed in front of a Caterpillar bulldozer that was destroying tunnels used by Palestinian terrorists to illegally smuggle weapons from Egypt into Gaza
• “Of course many Israeli children had died too, at the hands of the Palestinians. You would think that would make every Israeli want to wipe out the Arab world, but the average Israeli does not have that response. Why? Because IN THEIR HEARTS, THEY KNOW THEY ARE WRONG, AND THEY KNOW THEY WOULD BE DOING JUST WHAT THE PALESTINIANS ARE DOING IF THE SANDAL WERE ON THE OTHER FOOT.”

• “Hey, here’s a way to stop suicide bombings – give the Palestinians a bunch of missile-firing Apache helicopters and let them and the Israelis go at each other head to head. Four billion dollars a year to Israel – four billion dollars a year to the Palestinians – they can just blow each other up and leave the rest of us the hell alone.”

• “Now I’m not just talking about your everyday anti-Semites. No, I’m talking about a perceived notion that we Americans are supporting Israel in its oppression of the Palestinian people. Now where did those Arabs come up with an idea like that? Maybe it was when the Palestinian child looked up in the air and saw and American Apache helicopter firing a missile into his baby sister’s bedroom just before she was blown into a hundred bits.”

- In 1987, Moore was honored by the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee for his “courageous efforts in journalism.” (ADC Times, January 1990, page 4)
- In 1990, speaking before the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Moore announced that he would refuse to attend a screening of his movie, “Roger and Me,” which was being held in Jerusalem. He was quoted as saying that he would not attend until Israel ceased to occupy the West Bank and Gaza. (Arab American News, 1990)

- Moore attended and spoke at a June 5, 1990 demonstration protesting the continued Israeli occupation at the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C. (Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, July, 2001)

- In October 2003, Moore was honored by the Muslim American Public Affairs Council (MPAC) with a media award. (www.mpac.org)

- In his book, “Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation,” Moore proposed that Congress give Israel 30 days to end the bloodshed taking place in its name, and if Israel does not do so, funding to Israel should be cut. He also noted that while individual terrorism is bad, state sponsored terrorism is truly evil. Moore also proposed that the Palestinians be given their statehood and receive twice as much economic assistance from the United States as Israel receives.

- “In Liverpool, [Moore] paused to contemplate the epicenters of evil in the modern world: “It’s all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.” (David Brooks in the New York Times, June 26. 2004)

- Recently Moore had no comment when questioned about the rumor that members of Hezbollah had been involved in the distribution of Fahrenheit 9/11. (http://www.moorewatch.com)

- Moore tried to prevent Fahrenheit 9/11 from being shown in Israel. (New Yorker Magazine, February 16, 2004)

- Moore stated: “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. " (Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2004)

Michael Moore on America:
- While promoting his book, “Dude Where’s My Country,” in Germany, Moore gave a speech in which he asserted that, “Americans are possibly the dumbest people on the planet….in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug s. We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don’t know about anything that’s happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.” (The Washington Dispatch, June 26, 2004)
- “I want Bush paraded in handcuffs outside of a police house as a common criminal because I don’t know if there’s a greater crime than taking people to war based on a lie. I’ve never seen anything like Bush and his people. They truly hate our Constitution, our rights and our liberties. They have no shame in fighting for their corporate sponsors.” (Quote from Moore in The Mirror, November 3, 2003)

- In his book, “Dude Where’s My Country,” Moore proposed that the Patriot Act is as un-American as “Mein Kampf.” He wrote, “The Patriot Act is the first step. ‘Mein Kampf’… ‘Mein Kampf’ was written long before Hitler came to power. And if the people of Germany had done something early on to stop these early signs, when the right-wing, when the extremists such as yourself, decide that this is the way to go, if people don’t speak up against this, you end up with something like what they had in Germany. I don’t want to get to that point.”

- In October of 2003, Moore was quoted in the University of Michigan’s student newspaper, The Michigan Daily, as saying “there is no terrorist threat in this country. This is a lie. This is the biggest lie we’ve been told.”

- On his book tour to promote, “Dude Where’s My Country,” Moore stopped off in Cambridge, England, where he lamented before a large audience that, ‘You’re stuck with being connected to this country of mine, which is known for bringing sadness and misery to places around the globe.” (Newsmax.com, June 6, 2004)

- While on his recent book tour, Moore told a crowd in Berlin, “Don’t be like us. You’ve got to stand up, right? You’ve got to be brave.” (David Brooks in the New York Times, June 29, 2004)

- In an open letter to the German people in Die Zeit, Moore asked, “Should such an ignorant people [as the United States] lead the world? Don’t go the American way when it comes to economics, jobs and services for the poor and immigrants. It is the wrong way.” (David Brooks in the New York Times, June 30, 2004)


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[Semsem]

Michael Moore seems to me to be an ignorant jerk.

[I am David]

He's an incredible idiot. Some of these statement's are also incredibly sick. But he's fun to laugh at.

[rhodescholar]

I consider him to be a fat tub of sh-t.

The WSJ has posted items that he either said out of sheer stupidity, or did. He has nothing to offer, just the knee-jerk liberal anger bereft of thought or reason. He is a bore.

[tandem]

i don't think he's an anti-semite but he is an ignorant idiot. i don't have a problem with people who have different viewpoints and beliefs than mine. as long as you can make a compelling and realistic argument. michael moore is different. he's an extreme leftist but in his documentaries and books none the things he talks about make sense. he only looks at things that satisfy his beliefs yet he never bothers to look at the whole picture. in other words, he only covers what he sees as the story, which is tied to his way of thinking, and not the entire story from a fair perspective. that's why i never pay any attention to his stuff. i really don't. and if anyone was smart enough, regardless of whether they're liberal or conservative or whatever, they'd do the same thing. his documentaries and books are neither compelling or realistic.

[Macc]

Moore is not a jew hater but he sure is a virgin.

[WissNX01]

Moore is not only a jew hater but he sure is a virgin.

As fat as he is, your damn right. Thing with Fat Ass is he hates everybody. But he is a waste of human flesh, and its too bad the US doesnt exile people, cause hed be perfect in downtown Paris

[minusthejihad]

Yes! Yes! Yes!

[Mediocrates]

It's certainly vogue and a career enhancer to appear that way though isn't it? I mean isn't it clear that Moore really doesn't have strong feelings or opinions about anything except Michael Moore?

Michael Moore has done us all a great service in tearing down the last vestige of any difference between documentary and Op-Ed. As of now there is officially no truth available from anyone. Now everyone can retreat to their caves making love noises to their own reflections.

[frizzer1]

Ran into my neighbour the other day.She was on the way to see Farenheit 9/11..said she loved Michael Moore and he tells the truth about Bush.She is jewish and not stupid either.
It's astonishing to me that so many people can't see Michael Moore for what he is.
When I first heard of him I thought he was a clever guy who had something worthwhile to say.After looking more carefully at his work, I found him to be dishonest and a cheap propagandist,willing to manipulate facts and scenes in order to score political points.
But he is so popular..so immensley popular...I have to wonder why?What is it with him? Has he become a folk hero....fighting for the little guy against the corrupt establishment.....? What exactly is his appeal? Why are his faults so completely overlooked by so many?
I just don't get it.

[minusthejihad]

What I don't get is how the Wiensteins can work with a person that hates Israel. They;ve had to of read his quotes before. Them, and the multitude of other Jews who came to the premier???

[rhodescholar]

Ran into my neighbour the other day.She was on the way to see Farenheit 9/11..said she loved Michael Moore and he tells the truth about Bush.She is jewish and not stupid either.
It's astonishing to me that so many people can't see Michael Moore for what he is.
When I first heard of him I thought he was a clever guy who had something worthwhile to say.After looking more carefully at his work, I found him to be dishonest and a cheap propagandist,willing to manipulate facts and scenes in order to score political points.
But he is so popular..so immensley popular...I have to wonder why?What is it with him? Has he become a folk hero....fighting for the little guy against the corrupt establishment.....? What exactly is his appeal? Why are his faults so completely overlooked by so many?
I just don't get it.

For the same reason many right-wingers flock to arch conservative republican positions - they are simple, straightforward, and aim to solve complex problems with easy solutions.

Want to help the economy? Just lower taxes on cxorporations.

Fix the public schools? Add vouchers.

I am not agreeing or disagreeing with these points, just trying to explain that those who come along - sometimes in the form of religious cult leaders, for instance - and offer simplistic solutions to difficult problems will always have an audience.

The media portrayal of this human feces, much like their manipulation of the arab-israeli conflict, is painfully one-sided. B/c so much of the media is excessively leftist, they provide him with plenty of breathless fawning coverage.

Since most of those in journalism (and universities) are simply frustrated that people on wall street and business endeavors make so much more than they do, the leftist path that rails against bush and the business world is their wayof getting even.

If you ask most people on wall street they will say they are republican, as many of them worked their a--es off to get where they are in very unpleasant jobs for very unpleasant people. They werent given anything, they strived and paid their dues to get to their $500,000/year bond sales jobs. The people who make up the media will never come close to those types of salaries, so out of resentment they will attack the repub party as it stands behind the wealthy/strivers.

Moore gives another voice to those who havent succeeded, a place to blame - its bush and his minions "holding them down." We have all seen and heard it before, whatever whining group claiming they have been victimised somehow.

Moore is a passing flavor of the minute, and when he does vanish i will be happy. But there will always be someone to take his place, if not able to completely fill his extremely fat frame.

[RichardP]

Michael Moore is everything, but, what he appears to be. Like most that ‘rabbit-on’ about they’re for the everyday person, they do it under false-pretences… pretence; falls between their vanities which has no bounds and their bank account/portfolio.
He, too, in my opinion, is in the same league as Goebbles and film-maker Leni Riefenstahl; the latter being held in high-esteem, to this day, by the same leftists, whom canonize Moore.
Moore is a toady, who, as a charlatan has duped the left, into believing, that, he, is the new visionary…
Once again proving, fools suffer gladly, and moreover, Moore is no more, or less, a Carnie-man…as P.T. Barnum said: “A sucker is born every minute.”