Forgiving Michael Moore: It's Ass Kicking Time in America

I think maybe now I can forgive Michael Moore for his support of Ralph "Jackass" Nader in the 2000 election: his latest movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, is a wonderful piece of film making and is LONG overdue. True it's slanted, but I've got news for you all: everything is slanted. 100% full objectivity is a myth. So what if his film is slanted, and definitely goes over the top - not in his much needed and very welcome battering of Bush the pretender but in his insistence on indulgent displays of maudlin emotion (the poor woman who lost her son in Iraq).

Nevertheless, in this day and age we NEED someone like Moore who has the balls to take on the radical, lying, obnoxious, religious Right wing of this country. It's high time people with a conscience and respect for realilty and the constitution left their goddamn therapy groups and new age politics of love and inclusion and rational discourse and started fighting back. And this is what Moore does with his new film. Right wing media (radio fucks like Limbaugh and Hannity, TV a-holes like O'Reilly) has long used lies and ridicule and bullying and ad hominem attacks as their tactic - so too should the left and middle of the road liberals take their fucking gloves off and start taking shots. This ain't no time for tea and cakes and ices, naw, it's time to force the moment to its crisis.

All I've been seeing in reviews of Moore's film is how unobjective it is, how slanted, how biased, how juvenile he is in taking pot shots at Bush's character. You're damn straight it's slanted. It's beautifully slanted! I love this slanted piece of film making! It's time to get slanted, baby! These are just the tactics that have worked so well for the Republican party. It's time we smartened up and got slanted. When you are up against fanatics and liars, you have to stoop down to their level, just low enough to get a good smack in.

All these calls for objectitivity by Right wingers is a little late. When Clinton was being impeached, the republicans cried immoral, he's a bad man, he's evil and should be fired, waahhhh, when only later it was found some of the strongest opponents of Clinton themselves had had affairs. This ain't no time for the Right to cry foul. This is a level and method of discourse you chose, you used, and now it's time for a taste of your own medicine. We're going to get slanted on your asses!

So, I forgive Michael Moore and now can fully get behind him. Keep up the good work, big guy. This film kicks some much needed ass and is a wake up call to every fluffy, calm, and reasonable Liberal to start hitting below the belt. It's time to fight fire with fire.

Perhaps one of the great things about this film, in addition to it's skilled use of satire, humor, and montage, is that is reaches and connects with its audience on an emotional level. The reason the Right wing of this country does not want people to see this film is because it is hitting a wide ranging audience, an audience that may not read the latest books or news stories, and his film affects people. Effective affectual affectation - hitting us on the level of emotions, like religion or myth does. When we hear a well reasoned, rational argument, we nod and agree and admire the logical rhetoric, but we are not moved like we are from music or image. Image hits us on a different level. And Michael Moore's use of the image, along with music and humor, hits our hearts and wakes up deep rage and feeling and concern. It's very important that we do this if we want Bush and his clan to leave our country alone.