Michael
Moore is up to his old tricks
By Gerry Wachovisky
Summer On-line Forty-Niner It
seems that all is finally well in the world.
The Palestinians seem to be coming to terms
with the Israelis, the heat wave is back
in Southern California, and film maker Michael
Moore has posted his latest open letter
to President George W. Bush on his Web site,
www.michaelmoore.com.
Typically, since Michael Moore is the author,
it is chock-full of lies and blatant exaggerations,
common staples of any essay by this scumbag.
Prepare to laugh, as this essay might just
be one of his funniest.
Starting
off with a cheap shot at Bush (well, now
that I think of it, the whole essay is a
cheap shot at Bush). Moore says, "Dear Lt.
George W. Bush,
I
hope you don't mind me referring to you
by the only true military rank you ever
achieved, that being the one from your on-again,
off-again ‘days’ in the, um, Texas Air National
Guard." Apparently it has slipped
Moore’s forgetful mind that the president
is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces
of the United States of America, hardly
a lieutenant. Perhaps we should refer to
Moore from now on by his true ranking, which
would be tough, however, since Moore holds
two official titles simultaneously: "Tubby
Hater Of Everything American" and "Liar
Of The Century." Let us move on.
Commenting
on the nuclear plans that were recently
found in an Iraqi scientist’s backyard under
his rose garden, Moore asks President Bush,
"Do you really think we (Americans) are
as dumb as we look?" I don’t know,
Moore, are you as dumb as you look?
That would be pretty dumb, that’s for sure!
Anyway, Moore continues his diatribe, still
clinging on to the theory that the President
and the government lied to us about why
we were fighting the recent war in Iraq.
Call me crazy here, but did we not give
Iraq weapons during the Iraq-Iran war of
the 1980s? I mean, we did give them
weapons capable of causing some moderate
destruction, if not mass destruction.
Furthermore, what happened to the nuclear
weapons that went missing after the Cold
War? I’m not saying that Iraq has
them, but I would not be surprised to learn
if it was Iraq (or any other Middle Eastern
country with mass anti-U.S. sentiment).
The bottom line here is preventive measures.
Are we supposed to wait until "9/11: Part
Two" before something is done to eradicate
terrorism? I should hope not.
Moore
goes on to say that President Bush should
have at least "dug a few silo holes in the
last month outside Tikrit, or spread some
anthrax around those Winnebagos near Basra."
Oh, I get it: if President Bush planted
evidence to cover up his "lies," as Moore
calls them, that would be OK. Wow, Mikey
never ceases to amaze me. I do find it infinitely
funny, though, how Moore is so quick to
point the finger at Bush, yet Moore will
not even admit the fallacies and inaccuracies
in what he passes along as truth. With that
thought, I present to you Exhibit A: "Bowling
For Columbine." Enough said.
Michael
Moore finishes his latest piece with a wrap-up
of the current state of Iraq, where he says,
among other things, "Anarchy still reigns"
and "movie theaters showing ‘immoral’ Hollywood
movies have been forced to shut down."
I’m sorry Michael, but I do not see any
"anarchy" reigning in Iraq, and any movie
theater that showed "Bowling For Columbine"
deserved to be shut down. You know it as
well as I, so please, just give up the act
already.
Gerry
Wachovsky is a journalism major at Cal State
Long Beach. He can be reached by e-mail
at SenorBucho@aol.com
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