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

[MADem]

257. "LOL Wrong again" right back atcha.

You need to read more carefully. The post is a cut and paste of MM's facebook graphic, with a lame ass last-minute exhortation at the bottom to "persuade" the unthinking masses to believe that "sharing" MM's little tout would make a damn bit of difference, MOMENTS before the debate started. Pssst--in case you're unclear, all the clicking in the world would have ZERO effect on the questions the moderator asked.

Perhaps you missed the line in the OP that said: Click SHARE to help end the silence at the final debate, tonight!

Did you do your little bit and eagerly click "share?" Did you encourage your buddies to do likewise?

Was that silence ended last night? No? Oh, dear. What happened? Why didn't it work?

The race is tightening. I would not be at all surprised if Mister One Percenter looks for advantage. He certainly didn't help the cause of environmental activism with that halfassed little graphic, but he certainly managed to insert himself into the orbit of facebookers who both lean left and watch the debates--pity the ones who clicked, many of them, are so low-info that they probably think Bob Schieffer was checking MM's FB page moments before he took the stage with the President and the Pretender. WHY, oh why did Bob ignore our mighty roar?

And now, since so many have eagerly "shared" MM's lame little graphic, he's got their names. He's in their orbit, and they are in his. They aren't necessarily MM "supporters"--but they lean left and care about the environment--so they very well could be his "customers." What are movie tickets going for these days? And those DVD sales, those are moneymakers too. He knows now just where to go to make that sale, to tout the latest "product!" It'll save him a bundle in future advertising costs!

And hey, there's always money to be made "speaking truth to power" and "tilting at windmills" and "getting up in 'the man's' face"--which are practices MM excels at, and, lucky him, he knows how to target his advertising for his next big opus--he's got the NAMES.


Also--a few hundred million is never enough, ask Mittsy!

Guys like MM, who shit on people like Al Gore, aren't my idea of BFF's for the Democratic Party. Since you're not a member of the party, you can have any opinion you like, but given your lack of commitment, I'll give your views the weight (or lack of same) I think they merit. You're free to do likewise with mine, of course, and I'm sure you will.

Finally, since you plainly don't "get" my POV, I will once again state that I think a conversation on climate change would have been very helpful in the course of this campaign. I just don't want to hear a load of "too little/too late" datamining from the likes of the guy who fucked over the Democratic Party's standard bearer on environmental issues in the 2000 election. It's quite craven from my perspective, because I'm not drinking MM's Koolaid and see him for what he is--a guy who has some admirably liberal views on one hand, and the fingers of his other hand very firmly on his own bottom line.

BTW, I learned a lot of what I know about "basic politics" from Tip O'Neill. I worked on the Hill for a few years, too. I think I "get" a bit more than you realize, but thanks for trying to help an old fart out, because I know you meant all that sincerely...!