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Deep Thoughts From Michael Moore

by John Cole|  October 13, 20036:35 pm| 13 Comments

This post is in: General Stupidity

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MOORE: I’d like to ask the question whether September 11 was a terrorist attack, or was it a military attack? We call it a terrorist attack. We keep calling it a terrorist attack.

But it sure has the markings of a military attack. And I’d like to know whose military was involved in this precision, perfectly planned operation. I’m sorry, but my common sense has never allowed me to believe since that day that you can learn how to fly a plane at 500 miles per hour. And you know, when you go up 500 miles an hour, if you’re off by this much, you’re in the Potomac. You don’t hit a five-store building like that.

You don’t learn how to do that at some rinky-dink flight training school in Florida on a little video game with PacMan buttons. I’m sorry. I just don’t buy that.

I don’t believe that Moore is a serious voice of the left. Are they for real?

(For the record- read the transcript- Moore is not suggesting it was our military that did this.)

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  1. 1.

    JPS

    October 13, 2003 at 7:11 pm

    I don’t want to psychoanalyze Moore here, but I’m starting to think that some on the Left are so terrified by 9/11 that they’re delusional. Moore just can’t get his head around the fact that there are people out there who want to kill yes, even him, no matter how harsh a critic of this country he is.

    Hence his very tasteful lament, circa 9/13/01, at how awful the attacks were because the victims were probably majority Democrats. Hence his need to believe that our government is behind it all.

    Because if you can convince yourself that Bush and his advisors really are the most malignant people in the world, well, in a way that’s reassuring: So far, they’ve let you live, and shoot off your mouth without consequences. Lot less scary than living in a world where groups of fanatics just want us dead.

  2. 2.

    drew

    October 13, 2003 at 8:36 pm

    I don;t[sic] believe that Moore is a serious voice of the left. Are they for real?[sic]

    You’re right Mr. Cole, Moore is a nut. He didn’t support the Afrgan war (Nadar would have bombed Afganistan for christs sake). No Moore is not the voice of the left at all, something we can agree on.

  3. 3.

    HH

    October 13, 2003 at 11:44 pm

    The Moores, Deans and Frankens will continue to be the voice for the left until the left rejects them.

  4. 4.

    drew

    October 13, 2003 at 11:48 pm

    HH,

    Moore isn’t in the same ballpark with Dean or Franken.

  5. 5.

    Kimmitt

    October 14, 2003 at 12:01 am

    Moore isn’t playing the same goddamn sport as Dean and Franken.

  6. 6.

    Pootie Tang

    October 14, 2003 at 8:31 am

    All Michael Moore is suggesting is that the pilots on 9/11 were once Saudi Air Force pilots who got a little bit of training on the 757/767’s. There is a certain logic to using already trained pilots, in that they just need to learn how to fly a new type of plane and are not completely overwhelmed by all the controls and dials in the cockpit. Since the Saudi government hasn’t exactly been helping us with obtaining info about the hijackers lives prior to 9/11 it suggests there is something to hide. Maybe it’s true, maybe it isn’t, but the question is why isn’t the Saudi government helping us?

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    Steve Malynn

    October 14, 2003 at 8:39 am

    drew, Kimmitt, the Academy of Motion Pictures, at least Franken’s peers, gave Moore a f*****g Oscar for excellence in “Documentary”. He gets interviewed by the mainstream press and more respect than any evangelical, any Roman Catholic but the Pope, or any conservative christian (pick one, any one from Ashcroft to Mel Gibson to Robertson to any sitting Bishop).

    You want to “dissassociate” liberalism from that Whack, then start rejecting them. While you are at it, march against Mumia.

  8. 8.

    Moe Lane

    October 14, 2003 at 9:17 am

    4 millions copies sold of Stupid White men – according to this, at least (October 13th). Dude, Where’s my Country is 6th currently on Amazon (although it is /not/ on the NYT Bestseller list, which is interesting – no, not on the extended Hardcover Nonfiction list either). /Somebody’s/ taking this guy seriously, and it ain’t my side of the spectrum.

    And, yes, I’ll readily admit that this take on things begs the question about people like Coulter. Fair’s fair… but it works that way for both sides, too.

  9. 9.

    David Perron

    October 14, 2003 at 11:50 am

    “Moore isn’t playing the same goddamn sport as Dean and Franken.”

    It’s a sport? That explains a lot. Sometimes it looks like professional wrestling. Not the actual in-the-ring part, but the pre-match interviews.

  10. 10.

    drew

    October 14, 2003 at 8:34 pm

    I’ve never met a liberal who has has “marched for Mumia.” This liberal thinks he’s a conviced cop-killer who deserves a cold needle in the arm.

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    Kimmitt

    October 15, 2003 at 1:49 pm

    I was about to say.

    Anyway, Bowling for Columbine was Moore’s high point by a long, long shot. Before and since then, he’s concentrated on sensationalism to the exclusion of sense. The downturn began at that very same Academy Awards show you mention, where he was (as you’ll recall) booed off the stage by liberal Hollywood for his comments.

  12. 12.

    drew

    October 15, 2003 at 3:56 pm

    Andrew Sullivan needs to correct his statements regarding this same more quote: link

  13. 13.

    David Perron

    October 15, 2003 at 8:28 pm

    “Bowling for Columbine was Moore’s high point by a long, long shot.”

    Must be what we engineering weenies refer to as a local maximum, seeing as how even the title has been exposed as being completely wrong.

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