The dizzying intellectual heights of liberal punditry in Americaland
by Transmontanus, 30 August 2008
So, tonight the American television windbag Keith Olbermann is chatting with like-minded windbag and serial dissembler Michael Moore, first about Hurricane Gustav, heading just now towards New Orleans, on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. So Moore says, “Gustav is proof that there is a god in heaven.” Which is weird enough, but I think it means, Great, a hurricane, this will be bad for the Republicans because it will be on teevee and everything, and people will have bad memories while the Republican convention is on the teevee.
But could some American possessed of a passing familiarity with the English language please translate for the rest of us the following, so that we might know its meaning?
Moore: “I don’t even want to hear about Iran. I don’t want to hear about weapons of mass destruction or what they’re building or whatever. In fact I’ve got to tell you, and honestly, and if anybody wants to be honest and they asked themselves this question, If the Iranians had invaded Canada and Mexico the way we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, both sides of Iran, if we were under the same situation, I think Keith you and I would join in on building whatever we could to defend ourselves against these two armies that would be on both of our borders. I mean it’s just crazy and I think we’re going to have more of the same.”
Olbermann: “A supreme, a supremely good point.”
Is this about tornadoes?
Saturday 30 August 2008 at 18:20
They are expressing a superior distaste for America, grounded in nothing. Of course, these two have the common trait of such America haters, that they are American Supremecists. The whole purpose of anything on the planet outside of American borders is for use as a rebuke against America. This gives us the philosophy that anything outside of America only has an existence if it’s hating us.
Saturday 30 August 2008 at 18:27
“Gustav is proof that there is a god in heaven.”
Well in that case, god really seems to fucking hate Cubans, Dominicans, Haitians and Jamaicans. What scum Moore is.
Saturday 30 August 2008 at 19:12
“The whole purpose of anything on the planet outside of American borders is for use as a rebuke against America.”
Thank you Mr. Cincinnati. I’ve always wondered about Moore’s weird obsession with Canada, and why he persists in hectoring Americans in all his books and fillums about how Canadians are all such perfectly pacifist, liberal, gun-hating, medicare-enjoying, unlocked-houses-having, so-much-better-than-Yanks-being hobbits.
Being a Canuck myself, I do think Canada is a far better country than Americaland. But I must confess that if there were a Canadian version of Michael Moore, forever traipsing about our country telling us why Americans are so superior to Canadians, he’d be run over by a pickup truck before noon. And I could be the guy behind the wheel.
Moore gets made a rich American celebrity for this sort of behaviour. So perhaps you Yanks are more tolerant and forgiving and “liberal” than we are, after all.
Saturday 30 August 2008 at 19:26
he’d be run over by a pickup truck before noon
Could always run over his flute with a ute. Might get caught in the roo-bars though.
Saturday 30 August 2008 at 19:42
We have no roo bars. Moose grates, though.
Sunday 31 August 2008 at 12:45
More pundidtry here — this time from P Diddy and shit
John McCain is buggin’ the fuck out!!!???
see also
http://simplyjews.blogspot.com/2008/08/tragedy-unveiled-sean-diddy-combs.html
Sunday 31 August 2008 at 13:43
“I don’t want to…” from that fat creep means only one thing: “I have already milked these subjects for all I was able to, and there is no money/fame/notoriety in these subjects anymore”.
As for the rest, one cannot really go deeper into it if one’s sanity is dear to one.
Sunday 31 August 2008 at 16:32
Hak The Meteorologist got it right.
Having left at least 81 people dead in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica, Gustav smashed first across Cuba’s Isle of Youth, with more than 200,000 residents, and then tore across mainland Cuba southwest of Havana.
Michael Moore: “Gustav is proof there is a god in heaven.”
Sunday 31 August 2008 at 19:22
He he: I am already onto this case ;-)
Monday 1 September 2008 at 3:42
What an insightful comment John!
Tuesday 2 September 2008 at 13:13
A letter to God and that…
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080915/moore
Saturday 6 September 2008 at 15:17
Was just watching a wee lass who lost her leg in the recent earthquake performing in the opening ceremony of the Paralympics. Whose prayers were answered when her school fell on her eh Mike? What a pity I’ll never have the opportunity to smash his teeth in with a cricket bat. Just saying like.