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

[MADem]

362. I didn't say it had anything to do with the buttons.

I provided that amplifying information to make it quite clear to you that I have a history of opposition to social media data mining (e.g. I would not "share" a DU page on FB--I don't find that to be a savory idea at all), particularly in the context of for-profit enterprises. There are lots of DUers who do not have these sorts of accounts and who are opposed to participating in that whole facebook imbroglio.

I didn't say you were "purposefully misrepresenting" either. Your post did put the graphic out as being "from" Moore--it's right there in YOUR OP subject line "Check out what Michael Moore has just posted on his FB page..." is what you wrote. Not "Check out what MM shared from another site on his FB page." You said he posted it, and I believed you. That could have been an honest mistake or a simple oversight. It's a common error, I'm sure. But you did represent the graphic as Moore's, and you did it quite unambiguously in your subject line.

I am not at all "embarrassed" so you can just stow that assertion. I have a different view from some, not all, here. The ones who should be embarrassed are the ones who used personal insults along the lines of ignorant, insane, on drugs, etc. I think it's a fine thing that they've flown their flags, though--by their words I shall know them, and so shall others.

Transparency is a very good thing.