Anti Michael Moore site gets unlikely donation
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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/
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/
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and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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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."
Or..."Wow, Michael Moore using someone else's illness to pimp himself...what a jackass"
I'm leabing towards "cool"
Seems appropriate...the guy hates him and rants about it daily after all...
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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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...
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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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
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.
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.
that is a good point.
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.
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.
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.
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
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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.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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In other words, I just saw a commercial for it last night. It's being released in the U.S. on June 29th. So break out the cigars.
I can say that i like his style, but you probably know more about him than i do! Anyway, his work is watched outside U.S., giving him a good rason to exist and keep doing what he does!
If it's a personal thing well... small minds think and hate alike apparently
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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I can't see how people hate him (or really anyone that they don't know), but I can see how people can get annoyed and turned off by him.
He does raise issues and provokes thought, but he tends to misleadingly arrange and rearrange statements and images into a convenient context to emphasis his points.
I am/was against the Iraq war, but watching F9/11 frustrated me at how he took the easy way out by pulling at heartstrings. He made a lot of good connections in the first half of the movie and should have just left it at that... after watching the second half, it took a lot of the credibility/impact away for me.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
And then the guy has the gall to ACCEPT the donation and Keep talking shit about MM on his blog.
Only in America are hypocrites so ignorantly proud. And the people who support Moore Watch are too dumb to see the irony of it all.
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It's a severe statement. I think it's a fair fight. MM, upon releasing a film on the toughness of social security gives one of is enemies a large amount of money for medical procedures. I'm sure it saved this guy a lot of anguish and trouble, but you can't accuse him of feeling manipulated. MM just made some advertisement of his back. And you can't help but wonder if his movie hadn't been about social security would he have done that?
I don't even know what moore watch is, and I actually like the MM films I saw, and I actually look up to MM for doing something like that, but still I understand the guy for his stance. And at least he does stand by his point.
From a strictly cynical, business perspective, this gift actually serves Michael Moore just as much as the guy who accepted it. Moore gets to look cool, charitable, and non-partisan - which will likely translate into box-office dollars after Sicko is released. The man gets the money and therefore gets to continue to speak against Moore - further providing "free" advertising for the film and future Moore projects. Plus, without a counter-point, no argument can claim to be a "strong" argument. Perhaps, just as scientists go through a "falsifiable" process - usually by other independent scientists - Moore wants the same for his claims.
military money is just that. if it wasn't for the war the money would go towards building the military stronger. any money possibly diverted (if possible) would go to the over taxed governing body which would not direct it to socialized medicine.
And the American Population is warming up to the idea of universal healthcare - and cooling on the idea of tax breaks.
Then by that logic, your argument below (which my response was to) doesn't make sense. If military money is just that, then border security money is just that too and wouldn't go to healthcare.
Your "immigration problem" is nothing more than a red herring in the health care argument.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln