Michael Moore Is Not God

I usually like to think that liberals are pretty smart. Unfortunately, I have found that this is not the case. I'm sick of rabid liberals acting as if Michael Moore is the personal saviour of American Democracy. Did these people actually read Stupid White Men...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation? The first seven pages were funny. Then his conversational, easily-digestible, gramatically-incorrect writing style got a little, you know, old. Then it turned into a liverjournal rant with CHUNKS OF WRITING IN ALL CAPS.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate what he's doing for the Democratic Party (who, quite frankly, need all the help they can get). I just wish he'd stop being so bombastic and self-aggrandizing. I hate it when people reference themselves in their own movies.

However, I must admit, Fahrenheit 9/11 was a good documentary in that it achieved what it was trying to achieve. The footage of wounded soldiers should strike a chord in the jingoistic hearts in those American "patriots" who think that peace and democracy will come about in the cry of "Bomb All A-rabs!" The footage of charred baby corpses and screaming survivors should strike a chord in anyone who has a heart and a conscience. It portrayed Bush as the bumbling, inarticulate fool he is (which should be fairly obvious by now, but some people are too fucking partisan for their own good or the good of their own goddamn country).

Best of all, it did all these things through a medium accessible to everybody. God knows, nobody in this damn country reads unless the book gets onto the "Oprah's Book Club" list, unless it was written by Tom Clancy, unless it's sold in CVS, or unless it's some sub-par pseudo-intellectual heartwarming drivel (The Lovely Bones was a shitty book, don't let anyone tell you otherwise). Everyone knows that movies are one of the best ways of influencing malleable minds. Why else would Pepsi shell out mucho dinero to have their product ostentatiously shoved in my face during Tomb Raider?

But back to how much Michael Moore sucks. He sucks a lot. Maybe if he toned down his act a bit and wasn't so goddamn annoying, I'd have more respect for him. Luckily, he didn't feature that much in Fahrenheit 9/11, which redeemed the movie quite a bit. I just don't appreciate his pompus, over-the-top attitude. .

Anyway, whatever. Fuck it, if he gets the job done then he has my support, even if he is a chubby nerd with an irritating voice.

Listening to: "Run Through" by Denali