Check out what Michael Moore has just posted on his FB page...

[MADem]

67. You missed the entire point.

It's not a question of "trivializing" any person, it's calling a self-aggrandizing opportunist out for what he is.

Why isn't he on the barricades 365 on this, if he cares so much? Where was he last year? The year before? Any "off" election year? Why doesn't he live in a less Bigfoot carbon footprint of a house, instead of in an energy hog stretching down the shore of a massive lake? Why does he need to pose a question as though there's NO daylight between the parties on this matter? Anyone with a brain knows that, even with Big Energy influence, there's only one party that can be moved on this issue, and it's not the GOP. But what MM knows is this--if there's an audience out there for something that has nothing to do with him, he'll make it about him by whatever means possible.

Don't be fooled; he's test-marketing his next documentary topic and he's using the motivated "debate audience" as his test subjects. If his little pic on FB gets any social media play, he'll sketch out a quick documentary, play a gotcha game with a few oil execs, throw it on film with some dire stock/purchased news footage (and there's plenty--oil fields burning in Iraq; Exxon Valdiz--all those cute little birds and so forth covered with goo; the Deep Water Horizon well mess in the Gulf, etc.). slap it up on theater screens, advertise it heavily with a few good "Oh, You Kid" clips of him wandering around in a rumpled sloppy jacket, dirty jeans and a cap (like a poor everyman rather than the multimillionaire that he is) asking people questions, toss in a few interviews with well-meaning people who won't get a dime for their appearance in his opus, overlay the whole thing with stock music and a dire, monotone, narration by "He, himself and him" (one less actor to pay), and rake in a few more million--or tens, even HUNDREDS, of millions, if there's enough "gotcha" in the project, just like his formula has brought him in the past.

Enjoy! Lap it up, pay eight bucks, chew that popcorn, leave the theater feeling virtuous as one of Moore's "clever ones" who "gets it." Play the "I saw it first" game when discussing the film with one's friends. Lather, rinse, repeat.

I don't need a guy who waits to cadge off the audience of others to tell me that there are problems with the environment, least of all that One Trick Pony who benefits personally and pecuniarily when the GOP has the White House. I am old enough to remember clean air and un-fucked with food that didn't taste like bland shit. I GET that there's a problem. I also get that we won't 'get' any help from RMoney on this topic whatsoever. So MM can just step aside. There's an election to win and he's not helping.