Saturday, July 21, 2007
Iran: According to the Michael Moore test, even more despised than Cuba
The Islamic Republic of Iran has invited Michael Moore to participate in a Tehran film festival (CWCID: Michael Rubin). Meghan O'Hara, the producer of Sicko who apparently doubles as Moore's flack, has issued an angry denial that Moore would ever even dream of going to Iran:
There is absolutely no truth to the right wing promoted rumor that Michael is going to Iran -- none, zero, zip. This inaccurate rumor is an urban myth right up there with alligators in the sewers of New York City, and it is getting pushed around out there by conservative opponents of Michael who would rather make up stories out of whole cloth than actually engage in a debate on the merits of our broken health care system or why it is that George W. Bush took us to war in Iraq. These right wingers should be spending their time defending why it is that George W. Bush is commuting the sentence of a convicted felon, rather than propagating this right wing trash.
Well, guilty as charged. But still, surely a man who would happily travel to Cuba and extoll the merits of its dictatorship -- at least in the sense that people used to admire Mussolini for making the Italian trains run on time -- does not have a moral objection to going to Iran. Rather, Moore has judged that Iran is so unpopular that a trip there would risk alienating even his audience. I therefore conclude that Iran is more unpopular than Cuba, even among Michael Moore's fans.
I don't know what to make of that, but the "Moore test" does suggest that an American president with some credibility on the left will have the political space to take hard action against Iran if the circumstances warrant.
10 Comments:
By 
, at
Sat Jul 21, 09:13:00 PM:
MMoore also hangs with the likes of Jimmy Carter, thus going to Iran is not that far fetched. Birds of a feather do flock together. That he would never dream of going to Iran might be the only good thing I have heard about this guy. Unless he is simply making money from moonbats with his "documentaries" but I doubt it, he seems to be the real thing, a bonafide moonbat himself. But I admit making a lot of money from moonbats would he awesome.
Al has that game down.
SEW
By 
Purple Avenger, at
Sat Jul 21, 09:16:00 PM:
Last time I heard such a vehement denial was an IBM executive saying all the rumors that IBM was going to shutdown the Boca Raton FL lab were false and that IBM intended to be here for the long haul.
Of course the lab closing was announced 6 months later ;->
By , at
Sat Jul 21, 11:40:00 PM:
Moore will be interested in visiting Iran soon enough, when he makes Tricko, a schlockumentary on the superiority of the theocratic Islamist conservative terrorist-exporting repressive regime led by anti-American, anti-semitic true believer Ahmadinejad allied with righteous Yankee-hating heroes Castro, Chavez, Putin, Hu, Jong-il and Bin Laden that explores the promise of state-sponsored and transnational anti-liberal democracy and anti-Bushism through better hidden IEDs and enriching facilities, with the help of slippery, silly, sodden socialist EU/UN soft power diplomacy to which America should submit and of course emulate and which the Islamic Republic of Iran dominates at will.
Featuring Bill Clinton's and Gore's speaking (fees) on behalf of beleaguered-by-America Arabs and Persians and Pelosi's transcultural affair and meeting of the minds with Iran's eye doctor Assad.
By , at
Sun Jul 22, 12:05:00 AM:
I'd second what Purple Avenger said.
Just because he's saying it, it won't prevent him a few months from now from doing it.
We're dealing with a guy who spent an entire movie arguing both that Republicans were asleep at the switch when it came to terrorists and the Middle East...and that they had been plotting fighting those guys for months prior to 9/11.
He's the same guy who claims to fight for the working man, but is a notoriously c****y boss towards his staff (low wages, late wages, opposes unionization among is employees, etc.).
He's also the same guy whose breakout movie was entirely premised on a lie (While making "Roger and Me" he actually did get to question the CEO of GM, but decided to leave it on the cutting-room floor because it would make a better story).
There's no reason to take Moore at his word or assume he'll feel a need to be consistent.
By , at
Sun Jul 22, 12:35:00 AM:
there are no McDonald's in Tehran
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Sun Jul 22, 12:39:00 AM:
I also liked O'Hara's claim that the right wing won't debate our health care system or why George Bush got us into Iraq. Come on over any time, Meghan, Michael. I don't recall seeing either of you in any debate.
I think the term "debate" in this context, and for much of the left, means "accepting what your betters tell you without complaining."
By , at
Sun Jul 22, 01:18:00 AM:
Mikie Muttonhead should go to iran and stay we dont want him or his gasly troop of work your wicked will on american shore at all
By , at
Sun Jul 22, 10:47:00 AM:
The administration needs to leak out the fact that while Plame was NOT a secret agent, Michael Moore is a tool of the US gov't, doing secret research on the Cubans and he's done so well that we've concocted a clear scheme to get him into Iran to help us plan our next move in the war on terror.
That'll get him out of circulation awhile.
By Dawnfire82, at
Sun Jul 22, 01:13:00 PM:
Hah! Give him the Presidential Medal of Freedom and thank him for doing such a bang up job infiltrating and reporting on enemies of the state.
By , at
Mon Jul 23, 12:14:00 AM:
Is the arabic word for CAMEL POOP the same one they will give the MIKIE MUTTONHEAD?
