He’s a lying snake, and the sooner people realize it the better
SpongeMike Sweatpants is attempting to lie to you. He had a message up before the elections bragging about what was going to happen.
Dear Friends,
Well, folks, Tuesday is the day! The day that George W. gets taught a long overdue lesson. The day that we, the MAJORITY—the 52% who never elected him—get our chance to reclaim a bit of our former democracy (back when ALL the votes used to be counted).
HA! Ol’ SpongeMike was humiliated by his predictions, and has been on a rampage to erase any trace of the entry on his website. First he removed it from the front page and message section, they removed it from the site altogether and replaced it with something else.
Luckily the Internet is redundant, and Moore is an idiot. Google has it cached and others have screenshots. So...instead of stepping up to the plate and admitting he was wrong, he’s trying to sweep it under the rug, like a good little lefty. If you can’t see it, it’s not happening, right?
I wonder if Moore’s supporters will call him on the carpet for this.
By the way, I see a lot of people throw that “52% didn’t elect him” thing.
Uhh…
52% didn’t elect Gore either. The number, while a cute attempt at a jab, is meaningless. Only 48% of the voter base voted for each candidate. I remember Clinton being elected by a minority as well...anyone out there remember the number?
Oh, it just keeps getting better. Michael Moore, you are BUSTED.
Yesterday I pointed out that the links to Moore’s “Payback Tuesday” article were gone from his site. But you could still view the thing if you followed the link I had in my old rant about it, because he had only eliminated the path to it from his web site, not the article itself.
But apparently, as reader David Hines just told me, the page itself has now been removed.
This is what you see now when you follow the link that just yesterday took you to Moore’s bloviations about how America was going to teach Dubya a lesson on Election Day.
Looks like Moore’s webmaster noticed a lot of hits, or better yet, someone involved with Moore noticed all the attention from Instapundit and Tim Blair (who both kindly gave me a proper shout-out for breaking the story if this can be called a story....first Babs, now Moore - I should win an award or something).
Anyway. What you get now when you go the page that formerly contained Moore’s regrettable and hilarious “letter” about the big ol’ helping of Payback the Republicans were about to receive, is this message: “Sorry this message doesn’t exist!”
Oh, but it does. It very much exists. On my hard drive. It’s a little sumpin’ called a screen shot, which I like to make when liberals say stupid things that they’ll later regret.
You can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape my blog, Mr. Moore.
So here ya go, faithful readers and fellow Moore-watchers. I had to save it in three parts because he really rambled on and on about how you should go knock on strangers’ doors to make them vote - Democrat, of course.
Click on thumbnails to see full view.
UPDATE: Sorry, folks - the Google cache link no longer works. They’ve apparently re-crawled and the old page has been replaced. Hurrah for screen shots!
That’s the page Michael Moore puts his latest “letter to the people.” Until recently, it still contained the one entitled, “Years from now, they’ll call it ‘Payback Tuesday’.” You know, the one written on November 3, in which he said Democrats were about to trounce Republicans in the elections. Refresh your memory. [see update below also]
Well, the link to it is gone now. Not even in the archives. Nowhere to be found unless you know the page it was originally on, which I do and which is provided in the “refresher” rant I mentioned above. (This means if you follow the link I provide in that rant, you’ll see the letter I’m talking about because I saved it with its archive format URL rather than the “newest message” URL. I’m smart like that.) [see update below]
Fascinating. Sounds like a case of realizing one is a pompous, misguided ass and so removing evidence of such. Heck, I’ve done it myself. But “millions” of people supposedly read Mike’s “letters.” He should at least write something to explain himself. Nah, who cares?
UPDATE, 11/15/02: The article is no longer there, even with my link above. See today’s post for screen shots.
A number of other blogs have been quoting this all day, and given my penchant to comment on all things relating to Michael Moore, I’ll do the same. Here’s the Mike’s Message from Sunday, Nov. 3rd.
You bet your ass we call it that, Mike. It’s payback for Jim Jeffords, and the way the Democrats have conducted their business since 9/11.
Dear Friends,
Well, folks, Tuesday is the day! The day that George W. gets taught a long overdue lesson. The day that we, the MAJORITY—the 52% who never elected him—get our chance to reclaim a bit of our former democracy (back when ALL the votes used to be counted).
Well, it looks like all the votes were counted this time, Mike, and you and your left-wing counterparts got your fat asses handed to you.
What if, on Tuesday, all of us, regardless of our political stripe, and just for the fun of it, decided to serve one big-ass eviction notice that said, you have two years to remove yourself from the premises-and you had better not damage anything on your way out?
An ironic choice of phrase, considering the vandalism that the departing Democrats from the Clinton administration did to the White House. But it looks like the electorate did indeed send this message, Mike, they just sent it to the Democrats in the House and Senate.
I think we can give Bush the Mother of all Shellackings on Tuesday.
It looks like you and your ilk got the “Mother of All Forcible Enemas” on Tuesday, didn’t you Mike?
Moore then goes on with populist get-out-the-vote crap, which isn’t worth a comment. He then makes this brilliantly prescient statement:
We will deny Bush control of the Congress next week, and then we all work to get him out of the White House in 2004. 2004 will NOT and MUST NOT be a repeat of 2000.
God, I would give anything to have been there with this schmuck last night watching the election returns. It would have been poetic.
Less...
I drop that nugget of wisdom for you as though it weren’t empirically obvious from the contents of this website, eh?
You may have read Moore’s last letter, at which I took a shot, Lee took a shot, Rachel took a shot, and many others around the blogosphere also got their $0.02 in.
Well...it seems that the shooter (who, in case you’ve been living under a rock, killed four people in Arizona on Oct. 28th) wanted us to know precisely and exactly why he did what he did. He wanted to misunderstanding, no mystery, no fat, lying hypocrite fat-cat lefties twisting his actions into a pathetic political agenda.
The killer’s 22-page letter details many things about his life, and came with a packet of documents as well. This guy wasn’t leaving anything to chance. I’m reminded of the scene in Full Metal Jacket, when the drill instructor offers up infamous killers who made miraculous shots under difficult conditions, and when he asked where those men received training, the answer, of course, was the Marine Corps. The line that sticks with he is “This goes to show what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do.”
Wow...Beltway sniper reference as well. Anyway, moving on.
This guy was *motivated*. Crazy as a loon? In some ways. Needed killin’? Yep. But, like people (with balls, that is) said after the Columbine kids did their thing, he had his shit together. There was obviously a huge part of this guy that was sick...no one climbs a clock tower and thins out the herd when they’re emotionally healthy. But there was another side to this guy, one that he felt the need to express in a twenty-two page letter.
I never wrote a 22-page anything that didn’t involve HTML and an animated GIF.
So how does this tie in with SpongeMike Sweatpants? Well, for starters, he’s pissed that the NRA is coming to Tuscon to do some last-minute voter campaigning...as though they don’t have the right, nay, the responsibility to counter his radical bastardized liberalism with some common sense. Another way it ties into Mike “Hey, I asked for extra butter flavoring!” Moore is something the killer himself wrote…
Flores recognized the world would soon be questioning his motives, and in his letter he sought to debunk some theories he expected people will float....
...Addressing Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman, he said the gun control debate isn’t relevant. “A waiting period or owner registration would not have stopped me. I have a concealed carry permit but I have never brought a gun to the University, (until now).”
What’s this? You mean a new law outlawing the murder of humans with a device of any kind wouldn’t have prevented you from killin’ folks, Mr. Flores? You already knew it was illegal and you had the guns for a long time? You mean *I* shouldn’t be punished for your insanity and depression creating a completely new and unpredictable situation that feel-good legislation like gun control and “ballistic fingerprinting” wouldn’t solve or prevent?
I hate to sound like I admire the guy...he’s slime, and I’m very glad he’s dead, but c’mon here, people, this guy is fisking Michael Moore from beyond the grave, and in my book that’s worth an raised eyebrow before I spit on his memory.
If you read the letter, as I have, it paints a picture of a very aggressive, unbalanced guy who, through a series of aggressive (and perhaps threatening) episodes designed to regain his sense of manhood that being a male nursing student seems to have robbed him of, he was washed out of the program. In his letter he attempts to paint himself as a victim, and I don;t buy it. He was a jerk, and I get that from his own words.
I also get that nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, any lawmaker, politician or blowhard movie maker could say or do would have stopped him in any way.
The University of Arizona is a gun-free zone. Perhaps if it were not, things may have been different. Perhaps not. The fact is, this guy was going to “settle accounts,” as he put it...he was going to “have his day of reckoning.” We need accept it and start looking at ways to prevent this kind of activity. Yes, I believe this guy was an aggressive, abrasive jerk, but he also clearly asked for help. Did he come straight out and say ‘I need help?” No...and depression doesn’t work like that. You would think a school designed to train medical professionals could recognize the signs.
Like I said, we need to get to the root of why a nursing school failed to see a person crying out for help with a serious medical condition. We need to find out how to spot and *treat* these people before they snap and kill. We need to accept that fact that this time, society (specifically the college of Nursing in this case) *does* bear some of the burden. Robert Stewart Flores Jr. was obviously chemically depressed, and not in the “oh, I hate my life, I’m an angst-ridden teen” kind of way. He had a serious medical illness that could have been treated with medication. He didn’t see it, but medication and a few letters of apology, perhaps a hearing or two and he might have been right back in the driver’s seat, controlling his fate and getting his degree. Instead, an insular group of people who train the next generation of medical professionals ignored the signs, instead focusing on his aggressive outbursts and playing the ‘We’re scared of the man” card. UofA bears some responsibility for creating the atmosphere in which Flores thrived as a psycho...we can accept that and strive to repair it, or we can blame the gun, the NRA and Charlton Heston.
Because we all know there’s nothing Moses likes better than a good bloodbath.
I kinda hope he has a heart attack, but doesn’t die.
SpongeMike Sweatpants is at it again. He’s yelling at Heston and the NRA for going to Tuscon to support the Republican candidates that are running for Tuesday’s elections.
Here’s what Mikey has to say:
I am asking that you not go to Tucson today. Do not cause any more grief, any more pain. Let the relatives and friends of the deceased mourn. Why show up to play the role of the bully, kicking these good people when they are down, just so you can prove that you have a right to your big, bad guns? These are not the actions of a once brave and decent man. They are the acts of a coward, as no man of courage would think of picking on his fellow citizens when they are so consumed with tragedy.
See, they aren’t going there to rub things in anyone’s face. Moore is transferring his own behaviors onto Heston and the NRA. He likes to gleefully rub any minute failure in everyone’s face, and he’s the one raising the specter of a school shooting. The NRA is going for a get out the vote campaign.
Is Moore suggesting that the NRA should not be allowed to be politically active because some fucking nutbag shot someone? Of course, this plays right into the Democratic concept that no one is responsible for their own behavior...we’re all at fault for one person’s actions, and guns, the “gun culture,” and the NRA have driven people to commit murder because they want to encourage people to vote.
I saw another article that pertains to this situation...and I liked what Wayne LaPierre had to say:
NRA Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre defended the get-out-the-vote event for Arizona Republican candidates, saying it had long been planned and that there was no connection between the gunman’s actions and what the NRA stands for.
“I honestly think that if a madman had driven a car into a crowd and if there was a car convention scheduled, they wouldn’t cancel the convention,” LaPierre said.
Exactly, Wayne...exactly. And it’s stuff like this that shows me why Moore wouldn’t face you with his camera.
David Brudnoy has a frank and honest review/editorial commentary on Moore’s “Bowling for Columbine.” He discusses the connection race has to gun violence in America. (Link via Instapundit)
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