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In reply to the discussion: Check out what Michael Moore has just posted on his FB page... [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)and internet and newspapers to tout a movie could spare a bit of his "publicity effort" to press the point. No one has come up with any decent links about his long-term "environmental activism" and I'd love to see 'em.
And don't use the "Aren't we better than this" argument about the guy who fucked us out of President Al Gore. Now there's an environmental activist. He got the Nobel Prize a few years back, too. I have no trouble finding links to HIS efforts on behalf of environmental issues--funny how that works.
Everyone but me is talking about MM's weight here, I notice--so get off that high horse (can I say horse, or will you equate that with his being large?). Please. He'd be a One Percenter fatcat if he weighed ninety pounds soaking wet.
Don't be surprised if the number of recs has some basis in the "Perverse Thread Trainwreck Enjoyment" that DU engenders on occasion.
Unlike Michael Moore, I'm a Democrat--I guess I'm in the minority in a few corners of "Democratic" Underground, this being one. Unlike some, though, I am proud to be associated with the party. I think they do more good than not, and they can be moved to do better, still--but not by last-minute scolds bloviating on their facebook accounts moments before a debate and trying to rile up a cadre of low info leftists, many of whom apparently don't even realize that the guy is NOT a Dem...