As I have said before, Michael Moore is a capitalist entertainer posing as a Leftist, and this letter does nothing to change my opinion of him.
Here is my question to Mr. Moore: Mr. Moore, Would you donate all the proceeds from Farenheit 9/11 to help the people you claim the Republicans have abandoned? If you are so concerned about the poor, why not take a vow of poverty and give the wealth you have now and the wealth you will see from all those phony agit-prop "documentaries" you will make to those less fortunate than you? Oh, I'm sure you give money to charity- heck you probably have a charity of your own. After all, a rich guy like you needs plenty of tax breaks. > To All My Fellow Americans Who Voted for George W. Bush: > > On this, the fourth anniversary of 9/11, I'm just curious, how does it > feel? > > How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we > were attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main > qualification was that he ran horse shows? > > That's right. Horse shows. > > I really want to know -- and I ask you this in all sincerity and with > all due respect -- how do you feel about the utter contempt Mr. Bush > has shown for your safety? C'mon, give me just a moment of honesty. > Don't start ranting on about how this disaster in New Orleans was the > fault of one of the poorest cities in America. Put aside your hatred > of Democrats and liberals and anyone with the last name of Clinton. > Just look me in the eye and tell me our President did the right thing > after 9/11 by naming a horse show runner as the top man to protect us > in case of an emergency or catastrophe. > > I want you to put aside your self-affixed label of > Republican/conservative/born-again/capitalist/ditto-head/right-winger > and just talk to me as an American, on the common ground we both call > America. > > Are we safer now than before 9/11? When you learn that behind the > horse show runner, the #2 and #3 men in charge of emergency > preparedness have zero experience in emergency preparedness, do you > think we are safer? > > When you look at Michael Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security, a > man with little experience in national security, do you feel secure? > > When men who never served in the military and have never seen young > men die in battle send our young people off to war, do you think they > know how to conduct a war? Do they know what it means to have your > legs blown off for a threat that was never there? > > Do you really believe that turning over important government services > to private corporations has resulted in better services for the > people? > > Why do you hate our federal government so much? You have voted for > politicians for the past 25 years whose main goal has been to de-fund > the federal government. Do you think that cutting federal programs > like FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers has been good or bad for > America? GOOD OR BAD? > > With the nation's debt at an all-time high, do you think tax cuts for > the rich are still a good idea? Will you give yours back so hundreds > of thousands of homeless in New Orleans can have a home? > > Do you believe in Jesus? Really? Didn't he say that we would be judged > by how we treat the least among us? Hurricane Katrina came in and blew > off the facade that we were a nation with liberty and justice for all. > The wind howled and the water rose and what was revealed was that the > poor in America shall be left to suffer and die while the President of > the United States fiddles and tells them to eat cake. > > That's not a joke. The day the hurricane hit and the levees broke, Mr. > Bush, John McCain and their rich pals were stuffing themselves with > cake. A full day after the levees broke (the same levees whose repair > funding he had cut), Mr. Bush was playing a guitar some country singer > gave him. All this while New Orleans sank under water. > > It would take ANOTHER day before the President would do a flyover in > his jumbo jet, peeking out the window at the misery 2500 feet below > him as he flew back to his second home in DC. It would then be TWO > MORE DAYS before a trickle of federal aid and troops would arrive. > This was no seven minutes in a sitting trance while children read "My > Pet Goat" to him. This was FOUR DAYS of doing nothing other than > saying "Brownie (FEMA director Michael Brown), you're doing a heck of > a job!" > > My Republican friends, does it bother you that we are the laughing > stock of the world? > > And on this sacred day of remembrance, do you think we honor or shame > those who died on 9/11/01? If we learned nothing and find ourselves > today every bit as vulnerable and unprepared as we were on that bright > sunny morning, then did the 3,000 die in vain? > > Our vulnerability is not just about dealing with terrorists or natural > disasters. We are vulnerable and unsafe because we allow one in eight > Americans to live in horrible poverty. We accept an education system > where one in six children never graduate and most of those who do > can't string a coherent sentence together. The middle class can't pay > the mortgage or the hospital bills and 45 million have no health > coverage whatsoever. > > Are we safe? Do you really feel safe? You can only move so far out and > build so many gated communities before the fruit of what you've sown > will be crashing through your walls and demanding retribution. Do you > really want to wait until that happens? Or is it your hope that if > they are left alone long enough to soil themselves and shoot > themselves and drown in the filth that fills the street that maybe the > problem will somehow go away? > > I know you know better. You gave the country and the world a man who > wasn't up for the job and all he does is hire people who aren't up for > the job. You did this to us, to the world, to the people of New > Orleans. Please fix it. Bush is yours. And you know, for our peace and > safety and security, this has to be fixed. What do you propose? > > I have an idea, and it isn't a horse show. > > Yours, > Michael Moore > www.michaelmoore.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:173747 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
