Anti Michael Moore site gets unlikely donation

RolandTD20Kdrummer

When the founder of the Web’s most popular anti-Michael Moore Web site ran into financial trouble because of medical bills, a very unlikely guardian angel came to the rescue.

Jim Kenefick, owner of http://www.moorewatch.com blog's post where he pleads for money to keep his website MooreWatch.com alive because his wife's medical bills (Kenefick says she has a neurological disorder) have almost bankrupted him.

He is saved at the last minute when a mysterious donor sends a $12,000 check, enough to keep the site going and pay insurance premiums for a year...

Any guesses who the mysterious guardian angel was?? (hint: his initials are M.M.)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113385/site/newsweek/

chopitdown

good for MM for helping.

and I think the quote from the website said it best-
Thank you Michael Moore." Your gift took a huge burden off my shoulders. But I still don’t like your style."

my2hands

good stuff

sweet adeline

$12,000 is the limit for the annual gift tax exclusion.

cincybearcat

I'm not sure if I should say..."wow, very cool"

Or..."Wow, Michael Moore using someone else's illness to pimp himself...what a jackass"

I'm leabing towards "cool"

RolandTD20Kdrummer

sweet adeline wrote:

$12,000 is the limit for the annual gift tax exclusion.

Seems appropriate...the guy hates him and rants about it daily after all...

sweet adeline

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

Seems appropriate...the guy hates him and rants about it daily after all...

its the most he can receive from one individual without having to pay taxes on it.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

sweet adeline wrote:

its the most he can receive from one individual without having to pay taxes on it.

Right, doh...slaps forehead... I knew that.

I wonder if most, or all, of the Anti Moore folks are republicans and/or love Bush? I'm hunching this is the case in most circumstances.

curious...

chopitdown

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

Right, doh...slaps forehead... I knew that.

I wonder if most, or all, of the Anti Moore folks are republicans and/or love Bush? I'm hunching this is the case in most circumstances.

curious...

i'm sure most are. It makes sense though; they generally disagree with his politics. why is it curious?

pjalive21

chopitdown wrote:

i'm sure most are. It makes sense though; they generally disagree with his politics. why is it curious?

i cant stand MM, i think he is a nut job, but that doesnt mean im a republican/bush supporter by any means...i just cant stand how this guy loaths in his own batter of lard and glistens in the sun with pride

chopitdown

pjalive21 wrote:

i cant stand MM, i think he is a nut job, but that doesnt mean im a republican/bush supporter by any means...i just cant stand how this guy loaths in his own batter of lard and glistens in the sun with pride

agreed. YOu don't have to be a republican but by and large MOST anti-moore agenda people are repubs or at least conservative.

onelongsong

chopitdown wrote:

agreed. YOu don't have to be a republican but by and large MOST anti-moore agenda people are repubs or at least conservative.

or educated.

gabers

onelongsong wrote:

or educated.

I don't think I'm going out on a limb to say that the average person that considers themself a big Michael Moore fan is more educated than the average loyal fan of any of the major conservative talking heads.

No two ways about it, that was a cool thing Moore did. I just hope his new movie is as enlightening as it could be and that maybe, just maybe it will inspire the general public to push for reform.

Eliot Rosewater

I don't particularly like Michael Moore, but I say good for him. The reason I don't particularly like him is because I'm on his side. I'm not a bush fan, at all. I want all americans to have health care and I'm against the war. I believe in his message. But the way he presents his message isn't very effective, IMO. It's entertaining, but I'm not looking for entertainment when it comes to politics. I realize that most people are, but I'm not. Either way, he's rich and he's helping someone who's not and that will always be a good thing.

chopitdown

onelongsong wrote:

or educated.

that is a good point.

onelongsong

gabers wrote:

I don't think I'm going out on a limb to say that the average person that considers themself a big Michael Moore fan is more educated than the average loyal fan of any of the major conservative talking heads.

No two ways about it, that was a cool thing Moore did. I just hope his new movie is as enlightening as it could be and that maybe, just maybe it will inspire the general public to push for reform.

i don't mean to be offensive but would an educated person believe that a man sitting in california knew where every government official was at any particular time or what that person was thinking? i know a lot of people that think F9/11 was a true story. not one has more than a high school education.

onelongsong

don't gimme no wrote:

I don't particularly like Michael Moore, but I say good for him. The reason I don't particularly like him is because I'm on his side. I'm not a bush fan, at all. I want all americans to have health care and I'm against the war. I believe in his message. But the way he presents his message isn't very effective, IMO. It's entertaining, but I'm not looking for entertainment when it comes to politics. I realize that most people are, but I'm not. Either way, he's rich and he's helping someone who's not and that will always be a good thing.

don't expect to see his film in the us. it contains contraban MADE IN CUBA. if the movie is allowed in the us we'll all be smoking cuban cigars because you can't change a law for one person.
as far as healthcare; the us cannot have socialized medicine because of the immigration problem. not anything mm can do. healthcare is governed by social security. ie: medicare and medicaid. the extra money needed for policing; prosecution and jailing illegals as well as trying to protect our borders would give every american the best healthcare available.

blackredyellow

onelongsong wrote:

i don't mean to be offensive but would an educated person believe that a man sitting in california knew where every government official was at any particular time or what that person was thinking? i know a lot of people that think F9/11 was a true story. not one has more than a high school education.

There is a big difference between being a Michael Moore fan and believing that F9/11 was a true story. You're not necessarily talking about the same people.

Personally I'm pretty indifferent to Moore... I think that he has the right idea a lot of times, but his approach is a disaster and puts his the good points that he makes a lot less powerful because of all of the other crap that he manufactures.

blackredyellow

onelongsong wrote:

as far as healthcare; the us cannot have socialized medicine because of the immigration problem. not anything mm can do. healthcare is governed by social security. ie: medicare and medicaid. the extra money needed for policing; prosecution and jailing illegals as well as trying to protect our borders would give every american the best healthcare available.

You can also say that the money spent on the war in iraq would give every american the best healthcare available as well. I think it's a cop out to blame the lack health care on illegal immigration or whatever.

Specifics

onelongsong wrote:

i don't mean to be offensive but would an educated person believe that a man sitting in california knew where every government official was at any particular time or what that person was thinking? i know a lot of people that think F9/11 was a true story. not one has more than a high school education.

I debated with a person once who thinks F9/11 is a complete waste of time but who thinks Red Dawn is an instructional video on how to defend a country against invaders. This person believes on one hand that his government would never do this to its people but yet he wants to keep his gun in case he has to defend himself against his own military, and i even saw him trying to put people down for only having a high school education, which im guessing means he is a highly educated dude!! go figure man!

Oh yeah, that was you. Laughable

Abookamongstthemany

Specifics wrote:

I debated with a person once who thinks F9/11 is a complete waste of time but who thinks Red Dawn is an instructional video on how to defend a country against invaders. This person believes on one hand that his government would never do this to its people but yet he wants to keep his gun in case he has to defend himself against his own military, and i even saw him trying to put people down for only having a high school education, which im guessing means he is a highly educated dude!! go figure man!

Oh yeah, that was you. Laughable

LOL