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Michael Moore: Is He Afraid Of Black People?
Written By : John Hawkins

Have you ever noticed that liberals tend to just exempt themselves from the universal criticism that they aim at other people? There are lots of examples of this. How about Al Gore going on and on about global warming while he pumps out greenhouse gasses like there’s no tomorrow with his mansion and lifestyle? What about all the liberals who slam America for being hate filled, violent, or just being a lousy country — without including themselves in the criticism they’re aiming at their countrymen?

The reason that’s worth noting is because of Michael Moore’s latest bizarre rant about guns — courtesy of Newsbusters:

And the majority of these guns, I mean, the vast majority of these guns are owned by people who live in safe parts of town or mostly in suburbs and rural areas, places where there are very few murders. And your sane producer was saying to me backstage here that he was talking to people there (in Tucson), they said everybody’s packing there, I mean, the surgeons there at the hospital, they said they have guns, everybody has a gun, yet they all said we have a very low gun murder rate here in Tucson. So why do you have a gun then? Why do you have a gun? What are you afraid of? What is that thing that we’re afraid of that we want to have a gun in the house?

…I am loathe to bring up what is in our head because we don’t like to talk about it so much. But on this particular day, on Martin Luther King Day, I think this needs to be said. That imaginary person that’s going to break into your home and kill you, who does that person look like? You know, it’s not freckle-faced Jimmy down the street, is it really? I mean, that’s not what really, that’s not what really people, we never really want to talk about the racial or the class part of this, in terms of how it’s the poor or it’s people of color that we imagine that we’re afraid of. Why are we afraid? What is that, and it’s been a fear that has existed for a very, very long time.

Now, this is fascinating on a couple of levels. Of course, it’s yet another example of the Left playing the race card on just about every issue imaginable since Obama got into office. You criticize Obama, you oppose health care, you go to a Tea Party, you vote Republican — you’ve had liberals claiming all those things mean you’re racist. Now, Michael Moore is expanding it out to gun owners. Not a shocker. When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

But here’s the real kicker: Michael Moore has bodyguards and his bodyguards are armed. In other words, we might ask Michael Moore if he has bodyguards because he’s afraid of “people of color?” Put another way, is this projection? Is Michael Moore scared a black man’s going to shoot him; therefore, is he just assuming everyone else has a gun for the same reason? Maybe that might explain this fascinating nugget Peter Schweitzer dug up,

Michael Moore has loudly chastised Hollywood for not hiring enough blacks. Yet Schweitzer’s survey of the 134 people who have worked on his films show a grand total of three black employees.

Oh, what do you know, we’re back where we started, with liberals like Michael Moore exempting himself from the same criticism he hurls at everyone else.

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  • Don_cos

    Oh, what do you know: We’re back where we started, with liberals like Michael Moore exempting himself from the same criticism he hurls at everyone else.

    See you just don’t understand. People like M Moore must stay separate from the unwashed masses so that they can maintain there intellectual superiority. We (the aforementioned unwashed masses) need their superiority to guild us or we as a people will be lost ion a world that we are just not smart enough to understand and deal with.

    /Mbat

  • Anonymous

    Michael is also incapable of connecting the low level of crime in areas he speaks of with the fact that crime goes down when criminals know their potential targets are armed. Common sense is another area where liberals are lacking.

  • Anonymous

    ” everybody has a gun, yet they all said we have a very low gun murder rate here in Tucson. So why do you have a gun then? ”

    A whole lot of stupid in that statement.
    As sensible as: No one has gotten the the flu, so why did everybody get flu shots?

    And then just out of the blue says it’s racist. Just bizarre.

  • Spikey

    “the vast majority of these guns are owned by people who live in safe parts of town or mostly in suburbs and rural areas, places where there are very few murders.”

    Ahahahahaha!

    Many larger cities have gun bans including; DC, Chicago, NYC – there are surely no guns there, registered ones anyway.

  • Spikey

    “134 people who have worked on his films show a grand total of three black employee.”

    hmmmmmm 2.2% were black. I thought that black people composed closer to 12% of the US population. He must really be working hard just to exclude black people from participating on his projects.

  • Spikey

    “134 people who have worked on his films show a grand total of three black employee.”

    hmmmmmm 2.2% were black. I thought that black people composed closer to 12% of the US population. He must really be working hard just to exclude black people from participating on his projects.

  • http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

    I know your title question is a rhetoric device, and all – but if you knew the community in which Mr. Moore was raised, his family’s socio-economic circumstances and the broader social context in which that community sat during his formative years, you’d probably be asking that question more seriously.

    He was raised in a lily-white small town which was largely a bedroom community of factory workers and which lay ~10 miles outside a larger metropolitan centre which was ~50% black in the 1950′s and growing steadily more black over time. The adults around him when he was a child were competing with blacks, who were emigrating from the South in large numbers, for the jobs in the local factories. There was an underlying current of racial demonisation, and a fair amount of fear-mongering going on in the white communities which surrounded the metropolitan centre, which was undergoing a serious change in racial demographics. Lot’s of white families were moving to these smaller communities because their old neighbourhoods in the metropolitan centre were “changing”. Mr. Moore grew up in the midst of the ‘white flight’ exodus of the era.

    None of which is to say that he couldn’t have rejected such thinking or overcome his early racist experiences in his transition to adulthood. But knowing where, he’s from and the sort of people he was surrounded with as a child, I’d be willing to bet that he was exposed to a steady undercurrent of racism as a child and that for at least some part of his early life he harboured secret fears about blacks, whether he acted on them or not, whether he vocalised them or not.

    • Joebritton

      If the implication here is that Moore has bodyguards because of a fear of Black (read poverty induced) crime in Detroit, as opposed to having to deal with death threats over his body of work, I couldn’t disagree more.

      • StanW

        So Moore says that we have guns because we fear Blacks, and you fall all over yourself to defend him and tellus all how right he is.

        But if we make the same analogy about why Moore needs armed bodyguards, then you “couldn’t disagree more”?

        Good thing you have double standards, or you’d have no standards at all.

      • http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

        Who’s issuing death threats to Fatty Moore, slowjoe? Got any proof that he’s been targeted?

        • Spikey

          He is a large and slow moving.

      • Anonymous

        Moore’s a joke. I doubt very much that anyone would find any value in harming him. Let’s face it, he is exactly the kind of person we on the right want to represent socialist values.

        He is a hypocrite. he doesn’t allow union labor for working on his movies. He clearly doesn’t take good care of himself. Generally appearance has a lot to do with how accepting people will be of your message. Finally his movies are so over the top in the way he skews things towards his point of view, that nobody (but you perhaps) takes them seriously.

        We love Michael Moore.

      • http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

        You’re funny. I don’t know how Detroit crept into the conversation, other than possibly through your astonishing ignorance of the subject. Mr. Moore was raised in Davison, Michigan outside of Flint, so Detroit was never in the conversation to begin with. More importantly, to your hypothesis that he’s engaged bodyguards to ward off blacks in Detroit stands in complete ignorance of the fact that Mr. Moore no longer lives in Michigan.

        But thanks for projecting your own racist fantasies onto what I wrote so that we all can see them. It’s educational.

        • Joebritton

          Make that Black crime in Flint, if you wish, but if you know anything about Michigan history, then you know that white flight was predominantly a flight from Detroit. That Moore was taught to fear Blackes during his upbringing is a clear implication of your text.

          And I’m sure you can read as well as me.

          • StanW

            Reading is not the issue here, Joe. The issue is being sloppy with your facts and still trying to maintain any credibility. In that area, you fail miserably!

          • http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

            Mr. Britton, since I was born in SE Michigan and lived there for over 50 years, I’m well aware of the characteristics of white flight. Aware enough to know that it happened in Lansing, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Flint, Pontiac, Midland, Saginaw and Bay City, as well as Detroit.

            Let me suggest that if you’re so good at reading, then you’ll no doubt realise that what I wrote originally was posed as speculation, not as fact. Might I suggest that you focus on the last paragraph – the one beginning with:

            None of which is to say that he couldn’t have rejected such thinking or overcome his early racist experiences in his transition to adulthood.

            I think that sentence pretty well establishes that I left the door wide open for my speculative guess to be wrong.

            But again, it appears that you’ve used my text as a canvas upon which to paint your own projected thoughts about race. That’s getting to be a habit of yours.

          • http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

            Mr. Britton, since I was born in SE Michigan and lived there for over 50 years, I’m well aware of the characteristics of white flight. Aware enough to know that it happened in Lansing, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Flint, Pontiac, Midland, Saginaw and Bay City, as well as Detroit.

            Let me suggest that if you’re so good at reading, then you’ll no doubt realise that what I wrote originally was posed as speculation, not as fact. Might I suggest that you focus on the last paragraph – the one beginning with:

            None of which is to say that he couldn’t have rejected such thinking or overcome his early racist experiences in his transition to adulthood.

            I think that sentence pretty well establishes that I left the door wide open for my speculative guess to be wrong.

            But again, it appears that you’ve used my text as a canvas upon which to paint your own projected thoughts about race. That’s getting to be a habit of yours.

          • Toastrider

            Martin, I was going to ask if you blogged, then noticed your name was ‘linky’. But it appears the site your name links to has been hacked.

        • Mulch

          You seem to be of the stupid type. Moore has stated many times that blacks are impoverished and turned around 2 min later and said poor people are more prone to violence.

          Do you not know your idol? I know my enemies.

          • Anonymous

            I think you meant that reply for someone else.

      • Anonymous

        Typical liberal.

        When conservatives own guns, it’s because they’re afraid of black people. When Michael Moore employs gun-wielding bodyguards, it’s for totally legitimate reasons.

        Rules for thee but not for me.

  • Joebritton

    I think Michael Moore is afraid of loonie right wing gun owners who might take offense of his antiBush, antiWar, or antiCorporate Medicine films. I suspect that he gets more death threats than the president, only he doesn’t have the Secret Service to protect him. As for his employment record, that his films feature crimes that happen to involve white persons, that’s not unusual. On the other hand, we have seen many Black persons in his films, especially in one of his first about General Motors devastation of Flint, Michigan.

    • Joebritton

      Filmmaker Michael Moore receiving death threats

      By Jeannette Walls
      msnbc.com
      6/1/2004

      “Michael Moore’s controversial documentary hasn’t even been seen in the U.S. — but that isn’t stopping Moore-bashers.

      The gadfly filmmaker has been getting death threats over “Fahrenheit 9/11,” says a source. “People have been flaming his Web site,” says a source. “Really ugly stuff.”

      Moore’s reps didn’t return calls for comment, but another Moore source, who knows nothing of the current threats, sighed, “I wouldn’t be surprised. He got threats after ‘Bowling for Columbine.’ ”

      Meanwhile, someone is trying to make a documentary called “Michael Moore Hates America.” That filmmaker, Mike Wilson, is complaining on his Web site that he can’t get Moore to sit down for an interview.”

      • Anonymous

        “Jeannette Walls fabricates stories and eats jelly beans from JoeBritton’s butt cleavage” says a source.

      • http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

        Flaming a website is not a credible death threat, slowjoe. And I notice that the whole of the articles PROOF is an anonymous source! So they and you have no proof that Fatty has received credible death threats. The best you’ve got is 6 year old article with some name calling on Fatty’s website. Pathetic.

        • StanW

          But this shows the abject cowardise of the Left. They scream and rant and name-call and vent their spleens about anything that want. “Bush is a terroris and a mass murderer. Assassinate him, throw him in jail, strap him to an electric chair”.

          But when you criticize them, disagree with them, or offer an opposing opinion (also know as DEBATE), then cry like little girls and say “You’re so meeeeeeeean. I am threatned by your hate speech. make them go away!”

      • StanW

        Flaming a web site = Death Threats? WOW! Well I’ll bet you two little princesses REALLY wet your panties when you read movie reviews? Some of those can be so MEAN!

        And someone is making a film criticizing Michael Moore? Good for them, free speech and all. Sorry it is not the cutting-edge politically neutral films like Moore makes, or like the calm and reasoned “Death of a President” Bush-assassination film. But I’d probably give it a look.

        • Anonymous

          “Flaming a web site = Death Threats?”

          Does that mean Joe is sending death threats to everyone here?

          Look out, he has a keyboard and the caps-lock is on!

        • TheMartha

          stan do luv his wet panties.

      • Anonymous

        epic failure, nice try. BTW, does the name JoeSteele mean anything to you? He was a poor excuse for a troll over at GatewyPUndit that typed a awful lot like you.

      • Anonymous

        Sarah Palin receives death threats daily. She doesn’t have armed body guards.

        • Anonymous

          She probably carries…and Todd certainly looks like a carryin’ man.

        • Anonymous

          Sarah Palin receives death threats daily. She doesn’t have armed body guards.

          Of course not. No doubt she arms herself.

          Even women have more balls than Michael Moore does.

      • Don_cos

        Any proof other than a lefty opinion piece?

      • Don_cos

        Any proof other than a lefty opinion piece?

      • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

        Dude. I’ve gotten death threats, and I’m nobody.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YWXM6Q6QGELGTT334IQMWB774Q David

        If someone was serious about killing Moore, he’d be kind of hard of miss.

    • StanW

      I ‘suspect’ that you have no idea what you are talking about, that you know NOTHING about Michael Moore, and are simply acting on the Conservative=Bad, Liberal=Good mantra!

    • http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

      Yeah their are so many conservatives who have actually take their guns and take out movie producers/stars. /sarc

      Next you’ll claim liberals don’t you violent rhetoric in their ranting!

    • Anonymous

      flagged for blatant trolling and threadjacking

    • Anonymous

      But guns are useless for self defense, so why employ armed body guards? According to statistics that are usually just made up on the spot you are 8000% more likely to be killed by a legally owned gun used for self protection than you are to use it successfully to save your own life.

    • Anonymous

      Michael Moore is a liar of the first order. He lies by implication, leading you to a conclusion he never actually states. That “Bowling for Columbine” shot with him walking out of the bank with a rifle? Set up, since they were stored in a vault 30 miles away and a 7-day waiting period was in place to do a background check. The rifles on the wall in the bank? Display only, not functional.

      So don’t sit there and try and prove Michael Moore is some modern-day champion. He is a liar and a fraud.

      • Mediumheadboy

        But leftists love liars. From Algore claiming he invented the Internet (among MANY other whoppers) to the Hildebeast and the non-existent sniper fire in Bosnia to perjurer-in-chief Billy Jeff and the list goes on and on. And on and on and…

      • Mediumheadboy

        But leftists love liars. From Algore claiming he invented the Internet (among MANY other whoppers) to the Hildebeast and the non-existent sniper fire in Bosnia to perjurer-in-chief Billy Jeff and the list goes on and on. And on and on and…

    • http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

      Would that be the film that claimed he couldn’t ever get in to talk to the GM execs when he actually did get an interview with them and deliberately cut it out? That film?

  • StanW

    A highway patrol officer stopped a man driving through Texas for speeding. The driver gave the patrolman his driver’s license, proof of insurance, and his Conceal Carry permit (as required by state law). The partolman asked the man to declare any weapons he had.

    DRIVER: I have a .380 in my pocket, a 9mm under the seat. There is a .40 S&W in the glove compartment. In the trunk there is a 12 gauge pump shotgun and a .30-06 hunting rifle.
    PATROLMAN: Are any of them loaded?
    DRIVER: All of them are loaded, with extra ammunition in the trunk for each.
    PATROLMAN: That is a lot of firepower, sir. What are you afraid of?
    DRIVER: Not a thing!

    • TheMartha

      The poor dolt is afaid of everything. What a sad way to live.

      • StanW

        Hey, RealPolitik, there’s a Christian behind you, and I think he’s holding a Bible.

        …made you look!

        • TheMartha

          That was my reflection in the mirror, stan.

          • http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

            Then he wouldn’t be behind you dipshit, he’d be IN FRONT OF YOU. You’re dumber than a box of rocks(all apologies to rocks everywhere.)

      • Toastrider

        Or alternately, he could be returning from a sport-shooting match. Some matches do use multiple weapons.

  • StanW

    A highway patrol officer stopped a man driving through Texas for speeding. The driver gave the patrolman his driver’s license, proof of insurance, and his Conceal Carry permit (as required by state law). The partolman asked the man to declare any weapons he had.

    DRIVER: I have a .380 in my pocket, a 9mm under the seat. There is a .40 S&W in the glove compartment. In the trunk there is a 12 gauge pump shotgun and a .30-06 hunting rifle.
    PATROLMAN: Are any of them loaded?
    DRIVER: All of them are loaded, with extra ammunition in the trunk for each.
    PATROLMAN: That is a lot of firepower, sir. What are you afraid of?
    DRIVER: Not a thing!

  • Anonymous

    Of course Michael, like all liberals, looks down on people of other colors and races. From the “icky brown people” in Iraq, to blacks in the US, he feels superior to all of them.

    Armed bodygaurds. Even the Palin’s don’t have that. Michael is also a vagina apparently, like Joebritton.

  • Anonymous

    So to sum up his logic: low crime rates correlate with high rates of gun ownership because guns don’t prevent crime and all black people are violent criminals.

  • Anonymous

    Like saying: hey you states that put a lot of money in to education and infrastructure development, why do you bother? You’re already wealthy, why do you feel the need to spend money on those things?

    I don’t think he’s very bright. Whiny sure. And able to tap in to leftwing angst for a profit (he’s quite exploitative the capitalist). Clearly able to put back a few burgers. But when it comes to basic reasoning I don’t think he has much going on.

    • Anonymous

      Yeah, like how he used to have a TV show devoted to exposing corporate welfare, then exultantly backed the auto bailouts. He’s very clever at exploiting the emotions of his audience, but there’s zero intellectual consistency in any of his work or public statements.

      • Anonymous

        And by all accounts he treats his employees like garbage. Refuses them even modest pay raises and of course does what he can to avoid using union labor at all.

        Essentially he got rich by behaving at least as bad, if not worse, than the people he attacks in his docuganda movies.

      • Toastrider

        Funny thing: Right after September 11, just as he was wrapping up Bowling for Columbine, he had a horrifying epiphany. All the gun control on Earth wouldn’t have stopped those madmen; they were armed with box cutters. He could’ve taken the lesson to heart, but never did.

        Moore’s career pretty much consists of missed opportunities like that. He persistently avoids asking real questions in favor of cheap tricks and easy pablum to cater to an equally liberal (and dim) audience.

  • kingofsiam

    Psycological projection at it’s finest. Look it up. “Everyone is scared of black people”? No Mr. Moore, just because you are doesn’t mean everyone else is.

  • Spikey

    The new Moore’s laws:
    Guns for me not thee.
    I never met a hamburger that I didn’t devour.
    When I go to the doctor it is in the USA.
    Elevators and escalator are dearest friends.
    Yes! I will be doubling in size every 10 years, but I will not have more power or speed.

  • TheMartha

    The answer is (of course) no.

    • StanW

      Your ignorant opinion is noted and dismissed for the pile of crap that it is!

      • TheMartha

        Made ya look.

        • StanW

          Not even able to come up with your own replies? I guess I was wrong, you CAN be even more pathetic and impotent than I thought.

        • StanW

          Not even able to come up with your own replies? I guess I was wrong, you CAN be even more pathetic and impotent than I thought.

          • TheMartha

            Made ya look – twice. Now that’s funny.

  • StanW

    RealPolitik, if you were to even enter the same building as a Bible, you would burst into flames.

    You are no more a Christian than you are a Conservative.

    • TheMartha

      I am indeed a follower of the true sayings of The Christ. By the many statements you post here, stan, you are not.

      • StanW

        You are in favor of killing children and do not even consider them to be alive in the womb, nor human.

        You are no Christian, by any stretch, RealPolitik.

        • The Martha

          stan – The Christ does not appreciate your lies. Repent thy ways.

          • StanW

            You cannot stand up and say that the child in a woman’s womb is not a child, not human, and not even alive; and then try to claim Christianity.

            By their fruits, you shall know them. And you are a road apple, RealPolitik!

          • http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

            You’re as Christian as Allah was. You’re the one who needs to repent, troll.

      • StanW

        You are in favor of killing children and do not even consider them to be alive in the womb, nor human.

        You are no Christian, by any stretch, RealPolitik.

  • Rickvid in Seattle

    Why all the food in America? I mean, there is a very low starvation rate in America, so what do they need all the food for?

    • Anonymous

      Clearly Mr. Moore has been doing his part to reduce our food stockpiles.

  • Joebritton

    One thing you can say after observing all of the interest Michael Moore creates here at RWN, is that his work must certainly on the right track.

    • http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

      yeah lies and half-truths always attract the best and brightest, because no one could possibly see through Moore’s bull shit.

    • Anonymous

      Wow. Attention equals correctness. What a brilliant and insightful argument.

      I guess by your logic, George Bush must have been the greatest President ever. Just look at all the interest he generates on every left-wing blog on the planet.

    • Anonymous

      Wow. Attention equals correctness. What a brilliant and insightful argument.

      I guess by your logic, George Bush must have been the greatest President ever. Just look at all the interest he generates on every left-wing blog on the planet.

  • Wiff O’Grapeshot

    What does the imaginary person who’s going to break into my home look like?

    An obeste white guy wearing dorky glasses and a ballcap.

  • http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

    @Toastrider

    Sorry to have to put this in a separate comment, but Disqus has imposed its “thread depth limit” on the previous thread.

    Yes, I have a site, and yes it’s been hacked. Time pressures at work have kept me from rebuilding it. I will get around to it one of these weekends, but our organisation (at least at my level) has been in chaos over deciding what direction to take regarding health care since the passage of ACA and since it’s my area of responsibility, I’m the one who is doing all the research, proposals and leading the debate. It’s been very time consuming.

  • Anonymous

    And the majority of these guns, I mean, the vast majority of these guns are owned by people who live in safe parts of town or mostly in suburbs and rural areas, places where there are very few murders.

    A reasonable person might posit that there’s a connection between those two factors…

    So why do you have a gun then? Why do you have a gun? What are you afraid of? What is that thing that we’re afraid of that we want to have a gun in the house?

    Let me turn that around on you, Mr. Moore. What are YOU afraid of? What is it about law-abiding Americans owning legal firearms that scares you so much you feel the need to go on tv to rant about it?

  • Anonymous

    BTW, Moore is hardly “expanding” the left-wing gun control argument to include race. Liberals have always considered gun ownership to be race-related in some way shape or form. Moore himself prominently played the race card years ago in Bowling for Columbine.

    The point is, this isn’t new. Like every other liberal argument it’s the same warmed-over retread of decades past.

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