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1. ATTENTION PEOPLE FLOODING MY INBOX: I thanked Moore. Read more about it below before you email me to yell at me.
I thanked him when he was hiding his identity, I thanked him when he made it known, I thanked him again after that. I even did it a few times after the third one. Moore himself has stated that I thanked him.
HW: Did Jim, who runs the ‘anti-Michael Moore’ Web site [Moorewatch.com], ever find out that you were his mysterious donor?
MM: I left him a message recently to let him know that I was the person who sent him the money[to meet his wife’s medical bills], because I wanted him to know before the premiere of my film. I received a very gracious note from him thanking me and wishing the film well. I hope it turns out ok.
You all will have to find another reason to call me names now.
2. NOTE FROM LEE: To the people flooding my inbox, I AM NOT JIM. I am the co-founder of this website. We all know that Michael Moore fans aren’t the brightest group in the world, but if you want to send hate mail to Jim, how about clicking the right goddamned link? Here’s a clue: the one that says “Jim” is the one you want. The one that says “Lee” is the wrong one.
3. In reference to Lee’s note: PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE AUTHOR’S NAME IN EACH POST. It’s in big, bold text at the top of each entry. If you have a complaint or a comment, please make sure you are addressing the person who actually wrote the entry. Lee and I excercise almost no editorial control over anything that is posted by our other writers. We all have our own unique way of writing, our own ideas, our own voices. If you take issue with something posted here, the very least you could do is to look and see who it was that wrote whatever it is that has pissed you off. :)
4. If you feel yourself wanting to use the old chestnuts of “Faux Newz” or screaming to me about Hannity or O’Reilly or Limbaugh, please take a moment before you do and read this. Thank you.
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6. Looking for a discussion on what to do about U.S. health care? Start here and chime in with your suggestions.
7. Oh look, Moore himself saying that this site shouldn’t close and that I shouldn’t stop speaking, as so many Moore fans have been saying (and demanding).
In the film, you mention anonymously helping the man who runs the biggest anti-Michael Moore Web site to pay some medical bills. Now that your assistance is no longer anonymous, have you had any further contact with him?
Yes, I called him before the first time we screened it at the film festival in Cannes and told him it was me. I didn’t want him to be surprised by it.And what did he say?
He was very grateful and thanked me and wished the film well.And then said, “I’m still going to talk smack about you on my Web site tomorrow”?
Ha. Well, he might. That’s my point. His freedom of speech shouldn’t be taken away just because he can’t afford health insurance.
Can we move past this point yet?
8. Before you send an email that includes any variation on “Why does this site exist?” or ‘Why do you talk about Moore when ____is more evil?” I want you to read the answer here.
Comments
Wow,people are even e-mailing me about it.
WTF?!
LOL.
"[email protected]” keeps mailing me.
What a nice mail?
“Negrodiablo”.
Sad Soul, it’s time to go back on the medication. We’re happy to talk to you, but not until you calm down.
Apparently, JIMK is a coward who blocks people’s logins for those who disagree.
Is anyone else finding the existence of this line to be the height of irony?
Sad Soul, I’m not going to urge you to read the other posts on this site, because it sounds like you made up your mind without knowing all the facts. But I will ask you, have you ever told someone to be open-minded?
I’ll gladly give you the other login, and all I get is a system offline error. Yet, I made a new account and it works fine. Go explain that. Magically, the old logic where I criticized this MAN (once again TERM USED LOOSELY) doesn’t work.
Again, the fact that your post is even on this site disproves your assertion that JimK is a censor.
In reference to your statements:
1) Did you not create a login to this site with the intent to bash JimK?
2) To the contrary, the fact that JimK accepted the money, thanked MM, and yet still holds Moore’s feet to the fire proves that JimK is open-minded.
With every post, you’re disproving your own assertion. And you’re increasing your odds of being banned, if all you’re going to do is flame… but then, it would give you the opportunity to call yourself a martyr, and I don’t think you want to do that.
Still, if you’d like to discuss JimK’s morals, we’re happy to discuss.
1) My point is that you’re being hypocritical.
2) JimK has ALWAYS - since the beginning of this site - been open to running ads from even political opponents, thereby showing much more of an open mind than you might find on, for example, DU or DailyKos.
3) Let’s try to agree on one point: no one on this site equates Moore to Hitler, no matter how much we hate his methods. (Some might compare him to Goebbels, but that’s fodder for another post.) :) Therefore, your comparison rings a bit hollow.
I’m going back on my original word… You really do need to read the other posts on this blog to get an idea of the timeline of events.
This asshole doesn’t deserve to take up space here, folks. Say good bye.
I shoudl be clear - this fuck was banned the first time for defacing, spamming and being a total asshole.
As you can see, it’s ALL he does. He’s banned again. It;s BLATANTLY OBVIOUS to anyone with a fucking brain that we totally engage in debate here with reasonable people. What I refuse to tolerate are dicks like this.
Oh well. I was hoping to lead him toward the light.
Why does he have to return the money you insufferable moronic waste of flesh?
Moorewatch is getting unreadable. I’ve now been enlightened that there are just as many vitriolic loonies on the left as on the right, but enough is enough. Any chance the enrollment process could be jeririgged so you have to wait 24 hours before you post? Supposedly people might read around the site before they start popping off and distracting the discussion of Moore’s work. Just a thought.
Simple. He hates the man who gave it to him
No he doesn’t. Disagreement doesn’t equal hate you sack of filth.
Anyone with MORALS and INTEGRITY would refuse to take a gift from someone he or she despises.
He does not despise moore, he disagrees with his views and his methods. There’s a difference.
So how about you shut up and learn to read you worthless little shit. Your warped view of reality isn’t even a stick figure representation of what it is.
Folks, I will continue to ban this defacing asshole, and from now on I am also removing every single thing he posts.
I will not tolerate someone flooding the site like this just to hate on me.
esoteric: I might start approving accounts manually if this keeps up.
Any chance the enrollment process could be jeririgged so you have to wait 24 hours before you post? Supposedly people might read around the site before they start popping off and distracting the discussion of Moore’s work. Just a thought
Jim can enable an administrator approval before an account becomes active, and I think because of this moronic little retard he probably will.
It’s a question on the man’s supposedly integrity and morals. Of which, appears to be lacking, if he has no qualms about keeping the money. Therefore, please give me an answer and I’ll be glad to part. One that solves this supposedly mystery of why he is FORCED into keeping these funds.
You don’t know jim, you don’t know his morals. You are the retarded offspring of a mutated fish squirrel. You’re dictating what his morals are and demanding he meet your definition of them, demanding that he return a donation to him, even though his views and opinions do not preclude him from accepting such. He’s not opposed to differing viewpoints as you obviously are you retarded fuck, in fact he even let’s opposing viewpoints advertise on this site if they are willing to pay for the ad space. Hell he’d probably allow an ad from an anti-moorewatch site if they put forth the money for it.
If MM isn’t 100% sure the money Jim gaved him went to his wife healthcare then he shouldnt report that,simple as that.
And then take credit for fixing her health.
Opps meant “the money Moore gaved Jim”.
Esoteric, not a bad idea. You guys are very patient. Continue to rock.
The dumb always seem to have the most children.
Looks like somebody has an issue with Hispanics....
The Post interview with Moore has him asserting that he doesn’t get sued very much for his work. He says he is conscientious about fact checking and had one suit for Bowling for Columbine and one for Fahrenheit 9/11. For Bowling, that would be the James Nichols suit which got dropped and for Fahrenheit it would be the Peter Damon suit which also got tossed. However, there were at least two that he lost with “Roger and Me,” a $6,000 settlement to Larry Steccho, the guy at the party who talks about the Industrial Revolution, and Deputy Fred for an undisclosed out of court settlement. There also was a suit over the sludge episode from the Awful Truth and a restraining order issued by some CEO he was dogging. I’d say Moore’s law team has been pretty active.
You’ve got to wonder what kind of morals someone like Jim’s most recent troll could have if he thinks money can and should buy someone’s silence.
Maybe he can go cry about it on Michael Moore’s forums.
OH WAIT…
Just to be different… gonna have to disagree with restrictions on joining. Though, is IP bans a possible option? So that once someone has proved themselves problematic, they can’t easily come back with a second account?
You know, I was going to write a response to this guy, but…
aside from him being banned, now, I just don’t see the point, anyway. He, and people like him, have obviously got no mechanism for critical thinking, and are driven entirely by hate.
What’s the point of even validating the existence of idiots like this with a response, really?
I’m hardly a proponent for abridgment of speech, but sometimes you just have to marginalize those who are a completely lost cause, anyway. They bring absolutely NOTHING to the discussion, and only serve to distract from those who DO.
Though, is IP bans a possible option?
He keeps using different IP numbers each time.
New Fox Reality Series: When 12 year old Douche Bags Attack!
I couldn’t take one thing this troll said seriously. He was a parody of himself.
He keeps using different IP numbers each time.
Son’s probably on dial-up. We had the same problem over at KoreanPride & AznRaps when we were getting flooded by rival website; people can change their IPs easily if they’re on dial-up, or simply by disconnecting and reconnecting their broadband lines.
JimK is a sad soul. You spend your days harping on a guy who’s trying to make a difference for the people against big business. Your right, he does use a grey hat style of reporting the information, but that’s what needs to be done sometimes to get people to see. Big business uses far dirtier tactics to enslave the world, yet all you can do is make fun of a guy who puts an exclamation point on the disasters they’re causing. I feel confident that you will burn in hell, enjoy.
unitedpeople said:
Big business uses far dirtier tactics to enslave the world
The corporations have enslaved the world? Really? Even the hobos and circus clowns?
Your right, he does use a grey hat style of reporting the information, but that’s what needs to be done sometimes to get people to see.
The wrong thing done for the “right reason” is still the wrong thing. Spreading misinformation does not get people to “see” anything other than the falsehood you have shown them. How do we know what to fix if we are acting on wrong information?
Epoch Flux, Where do you work? What do you do? How much do you get paid? What would you like to do? Your more then likely a modern day slave. The fact the wealth remains in a few percentage of the world population is the proof of concept. We are their slaves.
unitedpeople: JimK is a sad soul. You spend your days harping on a guy who’s trying to make a difference for the people against big business. Your right, he does use a grey hat style of reporting the information, but that’s what needs to be done sometimes to get people to see. Big business uses far dirtier tactics to enslave the world, yet all you can do is make fun of a guy who puts an exclamation point on the disasters they’re causing. I feel confident that you will burn in hell, enjoy.
No, you sad individual, Moore IS Big Business. He is a Media Commodity bought and paid for by George Soros. He is a tool of the establishment and marketed by large, multi-national companies in the hopes folks will pay money for what he is spoon-feeding.
No good can come from the half-truths, whole-lies, spin, and everything else under the “gr[a]y hat” umbrella of tricks Moore uses to engage in the emotional manipulation of individuals like you.
The sad fact is, the only corporations doing the sort of things you claim are the Corporate Media Phenomenons like Michael Moore who package and promote their propaganda product for you to perpetually consume. And even at that, very few have dared go as far as Moore has gone.
And to point out that Moore--whether we even agree with some of the things he promotes [I, for example, would love to see the government step into the health care system somehow] or not--is being deceptive in his media products garners hatred from corporate spoon-fed folks like you.
It’s incredibly sad: You are a disposable tool of a Global Corporate Media Phenomenon and you work your off-time and pay to be one. You do it as to fight off anything that is seen as a threat to your corporate media master.
Even worse, you defend Moore’s tactics--what you called “grey [sic] hat"--of denying people accurate information to make them see things the way Moore wants them to be seen.
That’s fascism you’re defending unitedpeople, and you’re defending it so a millionaire can line his pockets--minus chump-change he tosses out to convince corporate spoon-feds like you that he’s Robin-freakin’-Hood.
As far as folks spiritual destiny goes, I’d take a good long look in the mirror regarding what it is you’re supporting and attaching your destiny to before I started judging the fate of others.
w0rf, I didn’t say the wrong information, basically at most twisted information is all I’m aware of. Maybe there are lyes that you crazy ppl at this site would probably know about, even still you don’t understand the magnitude of what’s going on in our world and how corrupt it really is. Because if you did, you wouldn’t spend your web time at a hate site, you would be at some site trying to support a real cause.
The only one preaching hate is you. Or do you think hoping someone goes to hell is somehow positive.
I think the idiot registered with a new name again.
Stewart Hart, I am not “corporate fed”, my wife and I have our own organic food garden & we are vegeterians. I know Micheal Moore’s movie and lifestyle is pushed by a corporations money, and no I don’t think he’s robin hood. His heart is in the right place and he’s trying to make a difference, he’s making money off it to and he deserves it. Also, the corporations involve with this film aren’t even in the same ballgame as the Health Care, Fast Food, Cigs, or oil industy. I hate to be so blunt, but your stupid for making such comments.
Stewart Hart, I am not “corporate fed”, my wife and I have our own organic food garden & we are vegeterians. I know Micheal Moore’s movie and lifestyle is pushed by a corporations money, and no I don’t think he’s robin hood. His heart is in the right place and he’s trying to make a difference, he’s making money off it to and he deserves it. Also, the corporations involve with this film aren’t even in the same ballgame as the Health Care, Fast Food, Cigs, or oil industy. I hate to be so blunt, but your stupid for making such comments.
No unitedpeople, quite the opposite, you’ve demonstrated my principle to a tee. “Health Care, Fast Food, Cigs, [and the] oil industy [sic]” are what they are to you because big corporate media has portrayed them that way. And rather than think for yourself you slurped it up like a babe and mother’s milk.
Meanwhile, corporations that folks like Moore have no problem with--the Coffee companies, Retailers like Target, the (failing) [so-called] Environmental Technology Companies, Big Media--get away with literally starving hundreds of thousands to millions of people who subsist on slave wages; pushing environmentally-damaging [so-called] “green” technology like the Hybrids (more damaging than a Hummer) or corn-ethonal (more smog than gasoline); and lying to global public.
Which is a perfect lead into:
unitedpeople: ...I didn’t say the wrong information, basically at most twisted information is all I’m aware of. Maybe there are lyes that you crazy ppl at this site would probably know about, even still you don’t understand the magnitude of what’s going on in our world and how corrupt it really is. Because if you did, you wouldn’t spend your web time at a hate site, you would be at some site trying to support a real cause.LOL You ARE the corruption! I cannot believe how completely out of it you Mooreons are. You are a tool of a Corporate Media Machine whose sole purpose is to subdue the democratic exchange of ideas with propaganda to affect change on a democratic government via a side-step of the democratic process.
I understand Soros-types and their big-money corporate buddies wanting a slice of the action, along with every other special interest getting a slice. Plus Moore getting his out of it too.
But here you are, working your off time DEFENDING misinformation--defending old rich white guys lining their pockets at the expense of democracy. And rather than actually try to UNDERSTAND what’s going on, you call names, flame, and attack. If you spent half as much time educating yourself with the facts as you did doing Big Corporate Media’s dirty work, you may actually have a chance of affecting positive change on the planet.
You are a conformist tool, right down to the cliche’d home-grown vegetables. Good for you, in that it’s healthy and a sense of pride. Good for Big Corporate Media, in that you feel like you’re making a difference without doing a thing for the world.
unitedpeople said:
Epoch Flux, Where do you work? What do you do? How much do you get paid? What would you like to do? Your more then likely a modern day slave. The fact the wealth remains in a few percentage of the world population is the proof of concept. We are their slaves.
I’m afraid the specifics of where I work and how I get paid I’ll keep to myself. As for the nature of my work: I’m currently working in the field of intelligent systems and robotics research. I am doing what I like to do, and I am valued for my abilities and the quality of my work. My life defines my work, not the other way around. In short, I am nobody’s slave.
I find it odd that you equate personal wealth with freedom. You’d be surprised just how many people could be wealthy if they just weren’t so damn stupid with their money.
Incidentally, does the fact that all of the doctorate degrees are held by a tiny percentage of the world population mean the world is enslaved by the medical specialists and university professors, too?
Stewart Hart, are you a lobbyist or something? You have put words in my month, I never said these were ok: “The Coffee companies, Retailers like Target, the (failing) [so-called] Environmental Technology Companies, Big Media.” You are beating to my same drum: “get away with literally starving hundreds of thousands to millions of people who subsist on slave wages”. Where I disagree with you is I think exposer does make a difference. I started my own small business because of the exposer and I have never been happier in my whole life. But as far as this comment goes, I believe you are far to lost to help, I’m sorry but there is nothing I can do for you:
“I cannot believe how completely out of it you Mooreons are. You are a tool of a Corporate Media Machine whose sole purpose is to subdue the democratic exchange of ideas with propaganda to affect change on a democratic government via a side-step of the democratic process.”
Gah!
*specifics of where I work and how much I get paid*
Stupid disappearing adverbs!
Epoch Flux, good for you, I find myself in the same position as you, very happy. But I’m not happy about all the people that aren’t happy, and yes, wealth goes hand-in-hand with happiness when you don’t have any food to eat or you can’t get medical help. What you guys don’t understand is to me this is way bigger then a certain corporation or some documentary, I feel for the millions of starving people, the women being raped around the world, the kids being thrown to the curb. I want to funnel this big business money that sits in executives offshore bank accounts and funnel that back to the people they stole it from. Many of the resources big companies use come from these third world nations.
w0rf, I didn’t say the wrong information, basically at most twisted information is all I’m aware of.
I never claimed you said it. I said it. And I stand by it.
Because if you did, you wouldn’t spend your web time at a hate site, you would be at some site trying to support a real cause.
You got me. This is the only site I ever visit. I don’t spend any time elsewhere doing anything beneficial. Aaarrrrrgh.
What a tired argument.
Posted by unitedpeople on 06/16 at 10:56 AM (Link to this comment)
“Stewart Hart, I am not “corporate fed”, my wife and I have our own organic food garden & we are vegeterians.”
Sure pal. I’ve got an orchard, gardens, and fruiting plants in every formerly open spot around my house and I only probably get 1 months worth of food out of it a year (for one person, not even the whole family could go a month). :)
Unless you have a farm (vs. a garden) I doubt your not living off corporate food at all.
w0rf, do I really have to reword that for you? Because if you did, you wouldn’t spend ANY of your web time at a hate site, you would be at some site trying to support a real cause. I’m here because I just found out about you people, you all have a lot of passion, let’s redirect that to something positive.
sl0re, Your right, but we sure don’t buy Kraft (philip morris). I live in BC, one of the highest concentrations of organic/vegeterian food in the world, the extra food that we do buy comes from local businesses that produce great natural products.
yes, wealth goes hand-in-hand with happiness
This completely flies in the face of what my mother said, “Money can’t buy happiness.” Ironically, unitedpeople, you sound very materialistic in your vow of immaterialism.
Posted by esoteric on 06/15 at 07:50 PM (Link to this comment)
The Post interview with Moore has him asserting that he doesn’t get sued very much for his work. He says he is conscientious about fact checking and had one suit for Bowling for Columbine and one for Fahrenheit 9/11.
False causation / typical Moore-esq spin. Moore is hardly sued because libel law in the US is heavily slanted to towards the author in order to protect free speech…
Ann Coulter, Bill Oreilly, et all are also hardly ever sued… not because they’re accurate, just because there is no point in suing authors, commentators, or even news people in the US because you can’t win.
Ah, but you forget, Moore has taught them the valuable ability of forming their first opinion from whatever influence they come across (IE his work) and refusing to acknowledge anything that contradicts it (IE reality).