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

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267. Climate change is not going to "get in the closet" during election season.

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.

He's allowed to share stuff on facebook. He sometimes tweets and shares items of interest to a certain community of people. I was doing the same stuff yesterday. "We" have been complaining for weeks about climate change being left out of the debates (We = people who do that stuff). It was at least 5 hours before the debate. But we had all been doing it for weeks. But "they" still ignored us (they = the deciders).

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

No Ma'am I've seen it.

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

Yes I clicked it.

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

The deciders ignored our pleas to discuss climate change because we have no power.

... 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...

Inserting himself? You mean he is doing some self-serving publicity stunt. That would not bother me anyway. I hope MM makes a climate movie that exposes the scandal of excluding this issue from the Presidential election campaign. It is a scandal of epic proportions.

--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?

I doubt anybody thinks that. Funny imagery. Every faction has its low info voters From my interactions with environmentalists, they are more informed than most.

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!

Good. More power to him. I hope he gets the biggest email list ever and uses it to promote his movies. Oh and like that's not the same type of practices that political parties engage in.

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.

Good I hope he gets all the money and power and buys a couple Senators.

Guys like MM, who shit on people like Al Gore, aren't my idea of BFF's for the Democratic Party.

Who wants to be it's BFF anyway? It doesn't even talk about climate change in the debates. Anyway despite having not supported the year 2000 version of Al Gore and the Gore-Lieberman ticket, he did support the New and Improved version of Al Gore. Remember Gore grew a beard and then got all progressive? Then he made An Inconvenient Truth and gave that awesome speech about Abu Graib. That really was not the same policy platform we saw running in 2000.

You're free to do likewise with mine, of course, and I'm sure you will.

ok whatevs. I'm not even sure what I'm registered as really. It's not like a major commitment to "be a Democrat" in the US. There's no oath.

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.

Al Gore really wasn't a big environmental standard bearer in 2000. He didn't run on it as a central issue. MM was on the wrong side of that election but so were alot of good people. He has since said that would support Al Gore should he run again (http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=2738) or something close to that.

My points:
It's time to stop diddling on climate change.
Climate change is not going to "get in the closet" during election season. (i know you didn't suggest that)
Michael Moore is a great follow on twitter.