To all of you…

Be safe, stay sane, and enjoy the night.  Please don’t drive drunk!

2005 is going to be mighty interesting!  Stay tuned for something cool from Lee, Para and myself.  We’re going to get verbal, so to speak.

You’ll see.  :)

Happy New Year!

Hate Mail Vol. 34, AKA The Soul of the Left

Received: from [216.130.129.25] by web12402.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:43:11 PST
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:43:11 -0800 (PST)
From: John Witte [email protected]
Subject: Donna Kenefick looks like a dirty tramp!
To: jimk

Jimmy the Fat Republican Stooge,

Please stop with your rants about your sick wife. 

Nobody cares! 

She looks healthy to me, although she looks like a
dirty tramp.  Thanks for showing me her tits on the
internet! (And you call yourself a conservative).

By the way, you are every bit as FAT as Michael Moore,
and you’re just as stupid. 

You’re just not as rich!

AHAHAHAHAH!

Welcome to the mind of a Moore-on lefty.  Fucking sickening.  If karma is real...may this puke get a fistful.  Oh, and yes, this is one of the formerly banned fucktards.

Hate Mail

I just received this a few minutes ago.

From: [email protected]
To:  Lee

wow is it me? or is it the fact that everyone on your site cant admit that America is one Fucked up nation?

I smell Bullshit...try soughting out your wars, racism, poverty and Gun crime before you sought out Mr. Moore.

Peace

Classic.

Why Sicko will tank.

That’s right, Moore hasn’t even started promoting his new film Sicko yet and the controversy is already starting. Drug companies are issuing warnings in their newesletters to be on the lookout for a"portly" fellow in a baseball cap, especially if he has a camera crew in tow. They are advising employees to keep their big mouths shut. No doubt Moore will still find his next Lila Lipscomb, and he’ll use some more footage from other sources to complete his next project, but I think the genie is out of the Michael Moore ambush style of film making bottle. People are getting wise to him, and he has nobody to blame but himself.

That being said , Moore will still finish his movie and prepare a place on his mantle for yet another undeserved film award, but this time I think he’s in for a bit if a suprise.

You see, pharmaceutical compaines and HMO’s don’t exactly have the intrigue of Fahrenheit 9/11. F9/11 looked at the worst case of terrorism on US soil in our history, a subject that everyone could relate to, since we were all part of that story.  Had Moore been able to dig up some legitimate smoking guns, the film might have been actually relevant for something other than it’s historic irrelevance. I mean, c’mon! 200 million dollars at the box office, a 60 city slacker tour, and even the Palme D’whatever and he still couldn’t convince a majority of people to dump George Bush?

In Sicko, I actually think Moore will be able to dig up some smoking guns. The problem is, that the smoking guns all belong to the drug companies. Since we don’t vote for drug company presidents, the topic won’t ring and clearly with the public. One sector of people the movie will raise an eyebrow from however, is stockholders. If Moore succeeds is creating some legitimate boogeymen in the drug company business, the stock values will suffer. And just who holds stock in drug companies? Well, about 40% of Americans are stock owners either in common shares, or through mutual funds and 401K programs, and many of us own shares is pharmaceutical companies even if we don’t know it.

If Moore is successful in beating the daylights out of the pharmaceutical industry, a lot of folks stand to lose a lot of money, including their retirements accounts.  Nice , huh?

The thing is, stock ownership knows no political ideology. There are barking moonbat liberals out there with very similar portifolios to the radical right-wing nuts they so despise. I doubt anyone will look at Moore with the same admiration when they start having to recalculate their retirement plans. I predict a new catch phrase from the left when describing this movie: TOO FAR.

I can see it now:

“When Michael went after the gunowners and republicans, I thought it was GREAT, but now, it’s like he’s coming after ME! I think he’s gone too far”.

It won’t take long for the sentiment surrounding Moore’s next movie as “not-as-good-as-the-last-one-for-whatever-reason” to ricochet throughout the country. Ticket sales will be of dismal proportions. I predict he may not reach 40% of the success of F911. Sure, there are folks out there that would be willing to pay ten bucks to watch Moore make a BM, but for many of us, we would argue that that’s what the last few movies were anyway. It’s just worse when that BM is aimed at you, and our liberal soon-to-be-former-Moore-fan friends will know exactly what we are talking about. 

The bottom line is, for all the things that people claim made F911 successful, Sicko will have very few of those attributes, and Moore is facing an uphill battle in selling something like that to the public.  My guess is Moore will probably throw together the next Fahrenheit movie first, and in his hurry to cash in, he’ll leave folks lamenting that as far as sequels go, it will fall somewhere between The Godfather part III and Weekend at Bernies II. 

Update:

Moore is keeping a lid on the upcoming project. ( thanks anonymous e-mail tipster!)

(Personal) Health care update

Since so many of you came forward to suggest things or wish us well, I thought maybe some people would want to know where Donna and I stood in the great health insurance search.

Thank all of you so much for your support.  It’s humbling to know that people who don’t even know us show so much care when the chips are down.  I’m not surprised, though...we’ve proven time and time again that the Moorewatch crowd is a caring, generous lot.  In short, many of you rule.  Individually and collectively.  :)

This has been an interesting experience, and one that I believe will give me a unique perspective on anything our dear Mr. Moore will have to say about the business of health care.  I’m looking forward to “Sicko” for personal reasons now, not just as a subject of study for this website.  One can hope, although it’s unlikely, that Moore will actually be honest and forthright in exposing the problems in the industry.

Meet the Insurgents

Before I get to the meat and potatoes of this post, I want to preface it with something that came up during an email debate with a left-wing friend of mine.  He is convinced, beyond any doubt, that the insurgency in Iraq is primarily local Iraqis, and that it is simply Iraqi patriots fighting for the right to “self-determination” against their Amerikkkan overlords.  Now, this is not a stupid guy.  He’s got a PhD in a technical field, he’s very, very smart.  But he is also blinded by his left-wing idiocy, and I think that his views are largely representative of mainstream left-wing thought in America.  At any rate, here’s a small snippet of our most recent email.

ME: While I am perfectly willing to stipulate that a lot of the people fighting are of Iraqi origin, the idea that they are fighting for the right to self-determination is just asinine. 

HIM: Why?

ME: What they are fighting for is the right to re-enslave the rest of the Iraqi population, setting themselves up at the head of yet another dictatorship, be it theocratic (Iran) or secular (Ba’athist Syria). 

HIM: This would still be self-determination. Is it so hard for you to believe that people might prefer a locally-grown dictatorship to a foreign-imposed democracy?

Now, call me a crazy idealist, but I’ve always felt that given a choice between freedom and slavery, people will always choose freedom.  What my friend fails to realize is that while the Iraqis undoubtedly do want self-determination, their best chance for that is through the American-sponsored electoral process.  The insurgency simply wants to remove the right to self-determination from the majority of the population.  I bring this up because I think it is quite germane to my comments on this story.

How’d I miss this?

Fark Photoshop thread on Moore.  Some funny stuff, some unfunny, some biting and to the point.

What worries me is I read TotalFark every few hours and I missed this one entirely!  I think my brain is opening presents early and can’t be arsed to pay attention.  :)

Hat tip: Right Wing News

Hate Mail Vol. 33

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:46:36 +1100 (EST)
From: Francisca Assisi [email protected]
Subject: I dare you.
To: johnhawkins, para, lee, jimk

Dear BOYS,

I challenge all of you to write me back. I have read all the books you recommend and read books you don’t recommend. I have studied International modern history for 4 years, I minor in world politics and I have come to my own educated guess about the kind of people you are. I bet all my money that none of you speak any other languages. I bet none of you have ever left America except on a luxury holiday or on assignment with the army or something. I bet none of you know exactly where Georgia is (no not the state, the COUNTRY). I bet none of you has ever read the Koran (the muslim holy book- yes kids, Arabs believe in God too). I bet you all are hopelessly patriotic to the point that you think America is above all countries in the world. The most embarrasing part is none of you has your won opinion.

If I don’t get a response I know that I am 100 percent correct about all my assumptions. Stupid iggnorant fools.

Merry Christmas, Moorewatchers.  Have at him/her.  :)

Update

Edited to reflect the possibility that this is from a woman...I just assumed that kind of ignorant vitriol was male and somehow missed the feminine “a” at the end of “Francisca.” Of course, to know the masculine/feminine rules of romance languages, one would have to be other than ignorant, now wouldn’t one?

Fahrenheit 9-11 1/2 preview.

Every time Moore starts repeating himself a lot, you know that that theme of that particular rant will usually show up in his next movie. For those of you who saw the Leno appearance, you notice some of those recurring themes in a speech Moore gave to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.

Take note of the line:

Listen, this is the honest truth and we know it—the Republicans have a story to tell. They had a compelling story to tell the American people. It doesn’t matter if the story was fiction. It was a good story and the people want a good story. And this was Bush’s story: Out of the ashes of September 11 rose one man who stood upon the rubble of Lower Manhattan with bullhorn in hand and said, “I hear you and I will protect you and you will never be attacked again,” and the people were never attacked again and lived happily ever after. That was a good story.

This theme is going to be a big part of any upcoming new project, along with:

Conservatives are organized, dedicated, committed. They get up in the morning and they never stop. They are up at the crack of dawn trying to figure out what core group of people have to suffer more today. You have to admire them.

Read the rest of the speech below. Be prepared, however. Even for a blowhard like Moore, it’s pretty long-winded.

I need a Christmas miracle

*UPDATE*

I should have done this months ago.  The blogosphere always comes through.

Thansk to the suggestions from some peoplearound the ‘net to look at high-risk stuff, I ended up getting a call from a company called IAB Health Group.  They buy group plans and resell to people that Anthem Blue Cross turns down.  The end result?  As of January 1st, we might be covered.  And it’s pretty good insurance, not the best ever but a damn sight better than paying out of pocket.  The benefits list is here.

Now, like in all things that seem too good to be true, I am wary.  I used a credit card that I can dispute should all hell break loose and this turn out to be some scam.  Worst case scenario, I lose $341.80 (the first month plus enrollment fee).  If this turns out to be totally legit, IAB will bcome my new favorite company ever and I’m going to become evangelical in trying to get them new members.

Thank all of you SO much for your help, suggestions, prayers and wishes.  I feel like a three ton weight is off my shoulders...maybe.  :)

Oh, and to the couple of folks that went that extra mile, and you know who you are...I don’t really know what to say except thank you.  I hope your Christmas or Hannukah or whatever you celebrate is the best it can possibly be.

END *UPDATE*

I have been thinking about this for weeks, wondering if posting this is somehow crossing the line.  I know lots of people ask for support and favors in the blogosphere.  I have asked on behalf of others in the past.  This time I’m asking for me.

If you aren’t aware (and unless you’re a long-time reader of my blog, there is no reason you should be), my wife has been pretty ill for nigh on to 5 years now.  Our health insurance was gone a long time ago...she was a law student and the university stopped covering her after the third semester of medical leave.

Last year I was turned down by every carrier I could find.  I fear it may be worse this year because now she has been diagnosed as epileptic.  Pre-existing conditions and all that.  I have tried almost every group or self-employed plan you can find, all to no avail.  Many of them don’t even return multiple requests for information.

So here is my plea...if you work in the health insurance business and you know a way I can get her insured, please tell me.  We would be willing to pay almost anything in premiums.  Anything has to be better than the $12,000 or so we’re shelling out now.

I only have one string: It has to be a PPO.  Any plan that would restrict the doctor or facility choice or force us to apply for permission for treatment isn’t worth having, we may as well pay cash.

There has to be someone out there who can help.  Someone who knows the rules or can make an executive decision to help us out.  Right?  There has to be someone.

If you can help, please contact me.  I will be in your debt for all of time.

Bandit

FBI seeks ‘Michael Moore bandit’

ANN ARBOR, MI, Dec. 17 (UPI)—A man who has held up several Michigan banks has been given the nickname “the Michael Moore Bandit” because of his resemblance to the documentary filmmaker.

The Ann Arbor News reports that, like Moore, the robber is tall and on the heavy side. Federal authorities describe him as more than 6 feet in height with a weight topping 200 pounds.

The robber is believed to be responsible for three holdups in October, November and December. FBI agents said that he used a similar note in each holdup, telling bank employees to hand over large bills with no dye packs and threatening to kill them if they did not comply.

Moore, who grew up in Flint, Mich., and still spends part of his time there, has used his home state and its people in his documentaries, especially in his first hit, “Roger and Me.”

You know, at over 6 feet tall, and topping 200 pounds ( well, almost , 195) they could have called the guy the “Paratrooper bandit” just going by that description.  I’d love to know the real physical attributes that make this guy resemble Michael Moore but the newspaper is just too kind to print. Or, maybe it wasn’t physical attributes at all.  Maybe it was his insatiable desire for money? 

Last minute shopping….

......for your favorite lefty?

Perhaps they’d like one of these:

Backlash

Dr. Kelton Rhoads e-mailed me the other day to let me know that the draft of his new Michael Moore article has been posted on his website; WorkingPsychology. With his permission, here’s a link to the draft article concerning the possibility that Moore actually helped George Bush win re-election. Rhoads takes a scholarly look at the cause and boomerang effect of Moore’s movie Fahrenheit 9/11 on the elections. The article is particularly interesting because it is written from the prospective of a social scientist,( who is not even a registered Republican) rather than a “partisan hack” like myself.

He notes:

“ Boomerang effects may occur because the audience is more motivated to argue against extreme messages; or possibly because the audience disparages the messenger as lacking in credibility. Either way, one observer had it right when he wrote, “[Moore] lost it by making unfair attacks on Bush, when he could have made fair attacks.” The difficulty is in determining what precisely constitutes an unfair attack or an extreme message.”

I think you will enjoy the read.

You may remember Dr. Rhoads from his previous article posted here a few months back that looked at the psychological qualities of Moore’s movie. If you missed it, it is also an very interesting article.

Once he is finished with this draft, he plans to publish this article in a major magazine. 

Mikey found another one

Michael has his Scottish Luca Brasi.*

Rose Gentle, the mother of Gordon Gentle, who was killed by a roadside bomb in Basra in June, has been approached by Moore’s team and agreed to be interviewed for Fahrenheit 9/11 1/2.

Gentle has emerged as one of the most trenchant critics of the Iraq war since the death of her 19-year-old son, who served with the Royal Highland Fusiliers.

She told Scotland on Sunday that she had been contacted by a US-based associate of Moore, who had asked her to tell the director about her details and the story of her son, ahead of Moore coming to Scotland to speak to her.

Gentle, who lives with her husband in their terraced council home in Pollok where her only son grew up, said she had been surprised by the approach from the world-famous film-maker.

She said: “It was a bit of a shock, actually. Michael Moore asked [an assistant called] Dante to ask me to send a letter through e-mail to him explaining about Gordon and everything.

“I can’t believe I have been in touch with Michael Moore. Now we’re just waiting to hear about dates and arrangements.

“We don’t know when exactly the filming will take place. Some time next year, is the plan so far. We’ll know about dates after Christmas and the New Year.”

He must have been giddy with glee when he heard about this woman.  Can you imagine being the kind of person who would have your people contact a person and ask to film them for an anti-Bush propaganda piece because their son was killed by a roadside bomb? One wonders how her son would have felt about Moore.  We’ll never know, since he bravely volunteered to serve and was killed by an IED.

I am convinced that Michael Moore has no soul.  At his core, he is nothing but hate and self-loathing, and he’s determined to make the world suffer as much as he does.

* Godfather reference, when Michale Corleone gets Albert Neri, a devoted hitman on par with the one that served his father so loyally.  When Neri does his thing especially well one night, one of the capos says to another “Michael has his Luca Brasi.”

How low can he go?

I have often be appalled at the depths to which Moore will sink.

But this? Pimping some lunatic who is belittling victims of domestic violence in order to further his political agenda?

Does this pile of shit have no soul?

Watch Dan Rather apologize for not getting his facts straight, humiliated before the eyes of America, voluntarily undermining his credibility and career of over thirty years. Observe Donna Brazille squirm as she is ridiculed by Bay Buchanan, and pronounced irrelevant and nearly non-existent. Listen as Donna and Nancy Pelosi and Senator Charles Schumer take to the airwaves saying that they have to go back to the drawing board and learn from their mistakes and try to be better, more likable, more appealing, have a stronger message, speak to morality. Watch them awkwardly quote the bible, trying to speak the ‘new’ language of America. Surf the blogs, and read the comments of dismayed, discombobulated, confused individuals trying to figure out what they did wrong. Hear the cacophony of voices, crying out, “Why did they beat me?”

And then ask anyone who has ever worked in a domestic violence shelter if they have heard this before.

They will tell you: Every single day.

Unbelievable.  How any Moore fan can support this lowlife is beyond me.

Christmas shopping

You may already know that we have love in our hearts here at Moorewatch for Overstock.com, thanks to the amazing efforts they went to in order to get copies of FahrenHYPE 9/11 in the hands of deployed troops.  Before I move on, let me just re-thank them, and most of all let me thank Paratrooper, who put the whole thing together by himself and barely acknowledged his pivotal role.

Anyway, I’m posting this cool deal for a few reasons.  One, Overstock rules and they deserve our business.  Two, the small referral fee we’ll get helps to keep the site running and you don’t have to do anything except shop, and three, this is one hell of a deal.

I’m talking about the
Family Classics 50 DVD Movie Megapack.  Check out some of the classics you get:

Enjoy endless hours of family fun with fifty full length classic movies digitally re-mastered on 12 DVDs. Step back in time with these cinema classics including:

Til Clouds Roll By: Judy Garland / The Medicine Man: Jack Benny / Life with Father: William Powell / The Three Stooges Festival / Jack and the Beanstalk: Abbott Costello / Lets Get Tough: The East Side Kids / The Last Time I Saw Paris: Elizabeth Taylor / Jane Eyre: Virginia Bruce / A Star is Born: Janet Gaynor / The Racketeer: Carole Lombard / The Jungle Book: Sabu / Gullivers Travels (Animated): Jessica Dragonette / The General: Buster Keaton / The Kid: Charlie Chaplin / Long John Silver: Robert Newton / The Scarlet Letter: Colleen Moore / The Inspector General: Danny Kaye / The Paleface: Buster Keaton / That Gang of Mine: The East Side Kids / Son of Monte Cristo: Louis Hayward / Captain Kidd: Charles Laughton / The Time of Your Life: James Cagney / A Farewell to Arms: Gary Cooper / The Scarlet Pimpernel: Leslie Howard / The Black Pirate: Douglas Fairbanks Sr. / Little Lord Fauntelroy: Mickey Rooney / The Eagle: Rudolph Valentino / The Great Dan Patch: Dennis OKeefe / My Dear Secretary: Kirk Douglas / Royal Wedding: Fred Astaire / At War with the Army: Jerry Lewis / Our Town: William Holden / The Little Princess: Shirley Temple / My Favorite Brunette: Bob Hope / The Pied Piper of Hamelin: Van Johnson / The Big Trees: Kirk Douglas / Beyond Tomorrow: Harry Carey / The Flying Scotsman: Ray Milland / Flying Deuces: Laurel Hardy / The Blacksmith: Buster Keaton / Africa Screams: Abbott and Costello / The Magic Sword: Basil Rathbone / Fathers Little Dividend: Spencer Tracy / Utopia: Laurel Hardy / The BigThe Big Chance: Mickey Roone / Kid Dynamite: The East Side Kids / The Iron Mask: Douglas Fairbanks Sr. / The Lost World: Wallace Beery W C Fields Festival: WC Fields / The Road to Hollywood: Bing Crosby

Even if half of those movies end up stinkers in your opinion, this is a deal worth getting.  If you’re a movie buff, it’s a heck of a way to build up your collection.  If you have a family to entertain, these are good films in front of which you can plop the whole family. 

That page also has other megapacks, like Westerns and Sci-Fi.  All for great prices.

Thus endeth the commercial.  Go in peace to shop and save a buck.  :)

Update

Duh...I forgot to mention the price.  Thanks Nethicus!  It’s $24.99 and $1.40 for shipping.  Not bad!

Strategery.

Moore has a new strategy for the left:

Michael Moore Urges Democrats to Embrace Hollywood

“Fahrenheit 9/11” director Michael Moore on Monday rejected the idea that Hollywood had hurt John Kerry’s chances of winning the White House, insisting that he and other entertainers helped spare Democrats an even bigger defeat.

“For the last month, we’ve had to listen to a lot of conservative pundits talk about how Democrats need to run away from Hollywood,” Moore said. “It’s actually the opposite. Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.”

In the final analysis, Moore said, Democratic presidential nominee Kerry was “not the best candidate.” President Bush “had a more compelling story to tell and the Democrats didn’t, and that has to change.”

Moore, making a string of public appearances in the weeks leading up to the Oscar nominations, for which “Fahrenheit 9/11” is seen as a potential contender, spoke to reporters before addressing the Los Angeles World Affairs Council on the impact of filmmaking on politics.

Before the election, many Democrats and liberal activists in groups like MoveOn.org hailed “Fahrenheit 9/11” for its scathing critique of Bush and the U.S.-led war in Iraq and saw the film as a tool for rallying opposition.

After Bush’s re-election last month, some analysts suggested that Moore and other outspoken celebrities on the left had had become polarizing figures who alienated Middle America as much as they galvanized the Democratic faithful.

But Moore said he and liberal activists, including show business figures, had helped turn out millions of new voters who backed the Democrats on Election Day.

“What ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and Bruce Springsteen and MoveOn and all the other people that were working during this election, what we did was we prevented a Bush landslide,” Moore said. “We’re all going to continue to do this in the near future. No one’s giving up.”

Citing California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former President Ronald Reagan, Moore said, “America loves Hollywood. America loves the people in the movies and on TV. And the thing that the Republicans have already figured out is that America likes to vote for Hollywood…

“And I think we need to turn to Hollywood, because who wouldn’t vote for Tom Hanks or Paul Newman or Robert Redford or Oprah?”

That’s right Michael. Hollywierd has all of the answers and us stupid Americans are powerless to resist.  Why don’t you convince Susan Sarandon to run. That would be funnier to watch than another Howard Dean run. Yeeeeargh!!!!

I can agree with Moore on one thing. Kerry was a weak candidate. Of course, when I said that months ago, the lefties wanted to kick my teeth in. I won’t hold my breath for an apology.

An E-mail from Moore.

So I just got this e-mail from Michael Moore:

(Okay, I’m on his mailing list.)

Camo Pants on Fire

You just can’t trust anyone these days.

When Army Sergeant Dennis Edwards spoke at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School last month, 100 students listened in rapt silence as he told chilling tales of battlefield horror in Iraq and criticized President Bush’s motives for going to war.

Edwards, 23, a Barnstable High School graduate, said he and two other soldiers shot and killed a 10-year-old boy in Iraq who pretended to be wounded and suddenly fired an AK-47 rifle. The boy was found to have explosives attached to his body, Edwards told the stunned audience.

Now, Edwards has admitted to his superiors in the elite 82d Airborne Division that the story about the shooting was a lie, Army officials yesterday. As a result, the veteran of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan could be charged with making false statements, face a court-martial, and be stripped of his rank.

His confession has also saddened Dennis-Yarmouth teachers and students, who said they felt honored and captivated by his appearance.

‘’We need to use this as a teachable moment,” Superintendent Tony Pierantozzi said yesterday. ‘’We need to make sure our students . . . clearly understand that sometimes individuals might elaborate stories or examples for their own benefit.”

Without knowing it, the superintendent just gave probably the best thumbnail description of Michael Moore’s entire career that I’ve ever heard.

Well, Michael?

The following letter was penned by Michael Graham.  I found the link over at Sgt. Hook’s website, one of those soldiers who was actually in a war zone and who has a gift for a turn of phrase.  You know, the kind that would never speak to Moore and the kind to whom Moore would never dare try to speak.

Moore-baiting aside, it would be great if people took it upon themselves to support The Fisher House, which is the really important part of this entire piece.

DEAR MICHAEL MOORE…

The following is the text of a letter received by Michael Moore’s office yesterday. When I hear back from him, you’ll hear about it right here:

December 7, 2004

Mr. Michael Moore
XXXXX
New York, NY 10XXX

Dear Mr. Moore,

No doubt about it: The American soldier has done a lot for Michael Moore.

Hundreds of thousands of them are serving right now in Afghanistan and Iraq--two wars you opposed--defending you from a terrorist threat you claim does not exist. As you frequently point out, more than 1,000 of these soldiers and Marines have died, and thousands more of them have been injured.

These soldiers have also made you quite a bit of money. The most powerful scenes in your film Fahrenheit 9/11 feature soldiers and their families, specifically those servicemen who were wounded or killed in battle. Your new book, Will They Ever Trust Us Again--a collection of letters you’ve received from members of the military who served in Iraq-- will likely gross hundreds of thousands of dollars for you and your publisher.

As I said, America’s soldiers have been very good to you. Most of them don’t like you, but they’re prepared to die attempting to protect you from terrorism so that you can continue to crank out your profitable propaganda.

They’ve done all this for you. I’m writing to give you the opportunity to do something for them.

My radio station, 630 WMAL, is leading a fundraising effort on behalf of the Fisher Houses here in the Washington, DC area and the Fisher House Foundation. Given your obsession with the costs of the War on Terror, you are no doubt familiar with the magnificent work done by the Fisher House on behalf of wounded soldiers and their families.

These families are struggling with the emotional consequences of a battlefield injury and its treatment. Fisher House helps solve some of the short-term financial and logistical challenges for the wives, children and parents who have wounded loved ones receiving treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Bethesda Naval Hospital or Malcolm Grow Medical at Andrews Air Force base.

The message of your books and films is that the American soldier is a victim. The soldiers I’ve spoken with at Fisher House vehemently disagree with you, as do the majority of my active-duty military listeners. However, we all agree that the soldiers who have been the victims of Iraqi terrorist violence (I think you call them “the true patriots, the Minute Men”) deserve our support.

Therefore, I am writing to challenge you to give back just a small portion of the money you have earned as a critic of their mission. Your film Fahrenheit 9/11 has grossed around $150 million. Our entire goal for the Fisher House this holiday season is a tiny percentage of that amount.

Though I am a confirmed right-winger, I believe there should be no partisan divide when it comes to standing by our troops. My fellow WMAL employees and I are dedicating our time, efforts and money to that proposition. The question, Mr. Moore, is whether or not you will do the same.

Many Americans feel that you have exploited the injuries of our soldiers for partisan purposes but have no real concern for them or their families. On behalf of the Fisher House, I would be thrilled to receive your generous donation as evidence that we are wrong.

If you feel, however, that the money can be better spent on yet another trip to France, nobody will be surprised.

You can send your check made out to the Fisher House Foundation, care of 630 WMAL, 4400 Jenifer Street NW, Washington, DC 20015.

Thank you for your time.

Michael Graham
630 WMAL
Washington, DC