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   MILLIONAIRE MARXIST MICHAEL MOORE HATES AMERICA!   
      
      
   Michael Moore: Class Clown   
   By Lowell Ponte   
   December 24, 2003   
      
      
   (Dude, Where’s My Country? By Michael Moore, Warner Books 249 pages,   
   $24.95)   
      
   MILLIONAIRE LEFTIST MICHAEL MOORE lives in an America different from   
   yours and mine, and not just because wealth has given him an insular   
   life of privilege on liberal Manhattan’s Upper West Side.   
      
   In Moore’s myopia, the America he sees in Chapter 9 of his latest   
   bestselling book Dude, Where’s My Country? is populated by Leftists   
   like himself. In this "Liberal Paradise" 57 percent of his fellow   
   citizens   
   believe that abortion should be legal "in all or most cases," 86   
   percent say they agree with the "goals" of the Civil Rights movement   
   and 83 percent agree with the "goals" of the environmental movement,   
   and similar majorities support most other "progressive" ideas.   
      
   To paint this portrait of Americans, Moore uses mostly Left-of-Center   
   pollsters who used heavily colored, fuzzy questions to produce the   
   pink sepia picture of vague agreement they wanted on these and other   
   liberal   
   issues. Heck, who doesn’t favor the most noble "goals" of equality and   
   a clean environment? The public debate on such things has been mostly   
   over means, not ends.   
      
   But during the most recent elections in 2002, the Voter News Service   
   consortium of the nation’s biggest networks and newspapers suppressed   
   and did not report its voter exit polling - until days ago. It’s easy   
   to see why, given the hard Left bias of these media.   
      
   Those un-slanted, suppressed VNS exit polls reveal that America has   
   moved sharply to the Right. The evenly-split electorate of 2000 had by   
   2002 shifted 51-46 Republican. Those calling themselves   
   "conservatives" grew from 30 percent to 34 percent, more than a third   
   of the entire electorate.   
      
   "Even more importantly," wrote John Fund of the Wall Street Journal,   
   "the number of self-identified ‘liberals’ shrank in 2002 despite all   
   the frantic efforts of Michael Moore and Al Franken to whip up the   
   troops."   
      
   Those willing to call themselves "liberals" in these 2002 exit polls   
   shrank to only 17 percent - roughly one voter in six - while   
   conservatives increased to include more than one voter in three.   
      
   Moore’s self-deluded book has spent the past 10 weeks on the liberal   
   New York Times Nonfiction Bestseller List (bumped down to #4 this week   
   by fellow Lefty Al Franken’s competing anti-American screed). But,   
   truth be told, a Politically Correct author can climb this list with   
   only a few thousand book   
   sales in the right (that is, the Left) bookstores. The larger question   
   with this, as with all of Michael Moore’s books and film   
   "documentaries," is whether they should be listed as Nonfiction or as   
   fiction.   
      
   Moore faces what Karl Marx called internal contradictions. If the   
   nation were as Leftist as he claims, his book would be nothing more   
   than a simpleton repetition of common beliefs.   
      
   But Moore knows that his fellow Americans elected Republicans to run   
   the Senate, House and White House and are likely to do so again in   
   2004. The aim of his latest propaganda polemic is to rationalize and   
   then reverse this, to achieve "regime change" in the United States.   
      
   Americans vote Republican, contrary to their own self-interest, writes   
   Moore, because wealthy capitalist oil men have hypnotized them with an   
   illegitimate war in Iraq, fear of terrorists, and a few crumbs from a   
   tax   
   cut (given mostly to the wealthy) that feeds the American Horatio   
   Alger myth that we all can succeed.   
      
   "Horatio Alger Must Die," writes Moore. Americans should stop trying   
   to become rich. Instead they should desert the War on Terror and   
   enlist in the Class War. Our best chance for a halfway pleasant life,   
   he argues, is to tax all wealth away from the rich and redistribute it   
   to ourselves in the form of welfare, government healthcare and other   
   benefits.   
      
   "You are never going to be rich" like Horatio Alger, writes Moore.   
   "The chance of that happening is about one in a million." (This means   
   that in our nation of 293 million people, we have only 293   
   millionaires.…when in fact we have literally millions of citizens with   
   a net worth in excess of a million   
   dollars - and would have millions more if government greed and   
   excessive taxation could be ended…but is it fair to apply logic to an   
   utterly irrational hyper-Leftist ideologue like Moore?)   
      
   The problem with this pudgy messenger born 49 years ago into a working   
   class family in Flint, Michigan, is that Michael Moore IS that one in   
   a million who, in the jargon of Leftspeak, "won life’s lottery."   
      
   This high school dropout and former editor of the Leftist magazine   
   Mother Jones has become very, very wealthy by playing class clown to   
   frustrated Leftist baby boomers.   
      
   In "Dude, Where’s My Country?" he mocks readers by writing about the   
   huge windfall President George W. Bush’s stimulative tax cuts have   
   given him. He has set up a website where readers can help him decide   
   where to spend his tax cut.   
      
   (Actually, he has already decided to spend it "to defeat George W.   
   Bush" and the Republican Party. Those visiting his website are merely   
   given a chance to recommend anti-Republican candidates as recipients   
   of Mike’s largesse…if the new Campaign Finance Law allows such   
   expenditures.)   
      
   But Michael Moore is very secretive about his own private life and how   
   many dollars he makes. The amount of his income might be embarrassing   
   to this foe of capitalism. Somebody might ask how this self-proclaimed   
   champion of the proletariat justifies keeping, after taxes, millions   
   and millions of dollars   
   for himself instead of giving it all to the poor. Or some fellow   
   socialist might ask why Moore takes this tax cut at all instead of   
   telling the big government he loves so much to keep the money,   
   government being so much better at spending our money than we are.   
      
   "Michael Moore would never withstand the scrutiny he lays on other   
   people," says his former manager Douglas Urbanski. "You would think   
   that he’s the ultimate common man. But he’s money-obsessed."   
      
   "He was the most difficult human being I’ve ever met," Urbanski, who   
   today manages stars such as Gary Oldman, continues. "There was no one   
   who even came close."   
      
   "He’s careless with his facts, hysterical in debate and, most   
   basically, a guy trying to make a star out of himself," says famed   
      
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