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

[MADem]

265. No--but the ones who trash an environmental leader in the Democratic Party

in favor of a third party gadfly to my mind, are, and who then come back, twelve years later at the tail end of a critical election, to "educate" us on what we "need" to talk about are, too. Where was he six months ago? In a coma? Playing Barnabus Collins in his lake manor? Don't jump in the game thirty seconds before the buzzer sounds and demand a championship ring for a load of last-minute, useless "coaching"--that's jive.

I hope you clicked on Mike's facebook link--it'll make it easier for him to send you the latest news about his newest book, DVD or movie he's selling! He probably got a ton of names out of that (not so) pointless exercise (from HIS POV, anyway). He's got his target audience all "sharing" his little last-minute graphic, and following him on Twitter in the hopes of landing a thousand dollar prize for their favorite charity. What a cheap and clever way to build a buyer's list while playing on the sincerity of well-meaning people, many of whom actually thought their little click would cause Bob Schieffer to say "Wait a minute--Michael Moore wants ME to ask a QUESTION about the ENVIRONMENT!!!" Like old Bob was scanning MM's FB page in the moments before the debate!

So yeah, he is most certainly craven, but no one can call the guy stupid. He knows how to build a massive client list with one lousy graphic, he knows how to make many, many millions, and with your earnest help and the help of everyone who clicked on that link and "followed" him on Twitter, he'll make many millions more.

If you want to start a discussion about politicians who end up millionaires AFTER they become politicians I'd be pleased to participate in that thread. I find money in politics terribly troubling, and it's a "fox watching the henhouse" problem, really. But MM isn't a politician, now, is he, so why should you compare him to those people? He's a businessman, a filmmaker, a book-writer, owner of a ton of prime real estate in Manhattan, a fellow who sells a specific type of "product" to a "certain" audience, and who has become very, very wealthy indeed by so doing.

He talks a very particular talk, but he doesn't walk the walk. If that doesn't trouble you, you can stand with him if you'd like. I'll hang out over here by old Al "Earth in the Balance," "An Inconvenient Truth," "Nobel Prize" Gore, the guy who talked about the environmental challenges we face before, during and after every election for the last two decades or more, and who didn't try to create his own little pointless "buzzwave" to gather "friends" and "followers" minutes before the last debate began.