It's the fact that he wasted that time reading the book rather than immediately doing something after learning two planes had hit the WTC.QUOTE]
Do what? What, exactly, is a president uniquely qualified to do in such an emergency? Issue an executive order prohibiting any further terrorist attacks? The firerfighters/police/etc. aren't idiots. They caan take care of themselves without the president micromanaging.
The Fool:
Have you ever watched any of Moore's work? Ranting doesn't really seem to be his style.
Here are some samples of his writing (everything in brackets is mine). Sure sounds like ranting to me. I can almost see the foam coming out of his mouth. Come on, be honest. If you came across someone on the street claiming that the president has sent men after him, and the NRA, CNN, late night talk show hosts, and Fox News are out get him, you'd think he's crazy.
When you hear the wackos on Fox News and elsewhere refer to this prize as coming from “the French,” please know that of the nine members of the Festival jury, only ONE was French. Nearly half the jury (four) were Americans and the President of the jury was an American (Quentin Tarantino). But this fact won’t stop the O’Reillys or the Lenos or the Limbaughs from attacking the French and me because, well, that’s how their simple minds function. [Apparently now the vast right wing conspiracy has managed to recruit Leno and Letterman.]
Look, I accept the fact that, if I go after the Thief-in-Chief – and more people buy my book than any other nonfiction book last year – then that is naturally going to send a few of his henchmen after me.
So, what do you do when the nutcases [apparently contributing editors of <u>Gun Week Magazine</u> are, by definition, “nutcases”] succeed in getting on CNN? Do you just keep ignoring them? How do you handle people who say the Holocaust never happened or that monkeys fly? Ignore them and they'll go away? If you give them any attention, all the nuts will come out of the woodwork.
Well, I figured I better deal with this because the nutters [i.e. people who disagree with Michael Moore] were now being turned into "respectable critics" by a media that either had an agenda or were just plain lazy.
All the proceeds will go to The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence to fight all these lying gun nuts who have attacked my film and make it possible on a daily basis for America's gun epidemic to rage on.
Far from deliberately editing the film to make Heston look worse, I chose to leave most of this out and not make Heston look as evil as he actually was. [and how does the speach make Heston look evil?]
Are they now embarrassed by this sick, repulsive image and the words that accompany it? [hoisting the rifle overhead as he makes his proclamation, "from my cold dead hands."]
The sheer power and threat of the NRA is reason enough to strike fear in any movie studio or theater chain. The NRA will go after you without mercy if they think there's half a chance of destroying you. That's why we don't have better gun laws in this country – every member of Congress is scared to death of them.
Well, guess what. Total number of lawsuits to date against me or my film by the NRA? NONE. That's right, zero. And don't forget for a second that if they could have shut this film down on a technicality they would have.
So, faced with a thoroughly truthful and honest film, those who object to the film's political points are left with the choice of debating us on the issues in the film – or resorting to character assassination. They have chosen the latter. What a sad place to be.
