Serious question:
Did he have any impact?
1)It APPEARS that what he did (and I could be VERY wrong) was alienate, anger and galvanize core voters for Bush…BUT, BUT, BUT…
2)He HELPED stimulate voter registration among the young?
Your thoughts?
Mufasa
If he trips and falls, there would be a big impact, and possibly a couple of buildings knocked down.
The biggest thing he did was motivate the Bush haters, but they were already going to vote. Other then that, he did influence the ignorant, and uninformed.
Ignorance is a dangerous thing.
Whoa…!!!
Pretty tuff stuff, Mage!
I think you’re right on “motivating” the Bush haters…but you just got the IMPRESSION he was doing a little more…
Mufasa
Mufasa –
The Get Out the Vote (GOTV) movements on both sides managed to raise the turnout over 2000 – back up to where it was in 1992. Big impact? Maybe in some close races, but not overall.
Michael Moore – not so much. I think he fired up people who were already fired up – the ABB crowd existed independent of Moore, and I don’t think he added significantly to its ranks (although he has managed to fool some Europeans and Canadians into thinking his movie presented facts).
Perhaps his biggest impact might have been having Osama bin Laden quote his movie.
Actually he should be happy. It will give him plenty of material for his next film, assuming that Bush and his new congress don’t figure out a legal way to shut him up.
Great points, BB…
One sobering fact (that actually James Carvelle brought out…)
The people that the Republicans “gavalnized” and “got out” voted in greater numbers…
Carvelle ALSO stated that the Democrats need to sit back and do a real “gut check”…
Mufasa
I think y’all are giving him way too much credit. RLTW
rangertab75
Michael Moore had an impact on me. His BS made me dig in my heels and do more and more research to uncover the truth. Michael Moore started to stir emotions in me that resembled hate; I didn’t like that. I think there may have been a large portion of Bush backers that may have felt the same way. Perhaps Moore got us, conservatives, to the polls?
I can’t say Moore did/does anything more than piss people off, regardless of your political views. How is that productive? IMHO, he’s just another non-talented hater enjoying the attention without ever providing a solution.
In he way that he wanted to, obviously not, or not enough. Like a very good capitalist, though, he lined his pockets, off of left-wing dupes. Maybe Karl Rove put him up to it…
My enduring view of this moron is him at the Republican National convention saying, “Four more months.”
Have a great day, weenie.
JeffR
He had a major impact on the food line at his favorite buffet.
Trey and Matt blowing his head off in Team America was pretty funny.
I don’t think he had much of an impact, and I don’t think the new senate will do anything to him or filmakers who make controversial false documentaries. Look what F-911 did in the long run… Absolutely nothing.
I do have a craving to watch it, but I just can’t bring myself to rent the thing and have my money eventually go into his pockets.
I’m embarrassed that he’s from Michigan. I have a co-worker who always gives me shit whenever I wear my Detroit Tigers hat, he calls it the “Michael Moore Hat”
I think he won votes for Bush.
I saw Moore in San Diego on Sunday. OK, maybe it was a Halloween costume. But it was absolutely perfect. It reminded me of how much I dislike that piece of shit.
As far as his effect on the vote … I don’t think so. He just served to further polarize already opposing groups. If anything, perhaps he helped the R’s: a lot of peeps didn’t really like either candidate but felt the R’s ran cleaner and were just more respectable.
IMHO, fatf*ck slobby POS Moore’s low-blow propaganda on the residing President only worked to further degrade the already sliding view of liberals and Demoncat politicians (eg. Clinton, Gore, Daschle).
Bastard F*ck [elated] Guy
You guys quit holding back…
Tell me what you REALLY think about Moore…(quit white-washing it all guys!!!)
LOL!
Mufasa
I don’t think Moore had much of an impact for the Left at all. The folks who believed his film were already in agreement with him. He didn’t change any minds.
What he did do is make damn sure the Democratic Party get dressed in extremist clothes for the 2004 Election Ball. Notice how John Kerry never mentioned Moore during his run. And, don’t forget, Moore once quipped that Clinton was one of the best ‘Republican’ Presidents we’d ever had, due to his centrist approach.
But let’s face it - with Bush in office for 4 more years, it’s like Moore just got a contract extension. He is looking to make money peddling conspiracies about the right of center. Moore’s eyes lit up when Bush was declared the winner.
Never forget, with Moore, it’s not the pursuit of truth - it’s about the money and the notoriety.
I hope Bush’s victory drives Michael Moore to put a shotgun in his mouth and pull the fucking trigger. RLTW
rangertab75
I think that Michael Moore’s movie did more harm for the Democrats than good. I think a pseudo-documentary such as his did more to stir the ire of the Republicans and virtually nothing to encourage young voters to agree with his warped point of view.
Last night, NBC reported that 17% of “young voters” such as myself turned out last night to vote which is the exact percentage that voted in 2000.
Moore’s “crock-umentary” is, in it’s own way, a form of terrorism. Michael Moore’s hippocrisy taught only how one can distort the truth and make money by praying on the fears of a scarred nation.
A lot of you guys aren’t going to like this response, but we need people like Michael Moore. The media does not do its job (from a conservative or liberal standpoint) and we need extremist whackos to blow some whistles every once in a while. Sure, they influence weak-minded people who can’t think for themselves but it gets real thinkers out there questioning what’s going on in our government.