Moore Lies

Center/-left journal The New Republic has shown Michael Moore in yet another bold – and easily exposed – lie. He recently told Time magazine that at the Washington premiere Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle – who was bashed in Fahrenheit 9/11 “gave me a hug and said he felt bad and that we were all gonna fight [Bush] from now on. I thanked him for being a good sport.” TNR though, reports that when questioned about it Daschle responded “I know we senators all tend to look alike, but I arrived late to the film and had to leave early for Senate votes. I didn't meet Mr. Moore.”

This week Moore has been receiving princely treatment at the Dem's convention, with a prime seat in Jimmy Carter's box. He is not speaking before the convention but he did address an overflow group of Democrats on Tuesday. Despite Kerry's attempt to cover up his staunchly liberal voting record and keep the Bush-bashing to a minimum, Moore got his two cents in:

“The right wing is not where America is at,” Moore said. “Most Americans, in their heart, are liberal and progressive. It's just a small minority of people who hate. They hate. They exist in the politics of hate.”

“They're not patriots,” Moore said. “They're hate-triots, and they believe in the politics of hate-triotism. Hate-triotism is where they stand, and patriotism is where real Americans stand.

The Dem's in attendance ate it up. And why not? The real Dem's, hidden from the television cameras believe all this stuff. Despite the 9/11 Commission Report and the Butler Report they still believe their president lied when he spoke of the intelligence reports on Iraq. Just as there were wacko Clinton haters, blaming him for everything under the sun, we now have masses of Bush-bashing Dems who see politics in black and white. One side is right, the other is hegemonic, arrogant, greedy, bigoted, stupid, ugly, etc...

These are the people who will never engage in a discussion of issues for deep rooted fears of opening their mind, and having to face the possibility that their world was a self created lie. They roll their eyes at opposing points of view, marching blindly for one side. Anyone else would be repulsed by Moore's vitriol and abuse of the language; “hate-triotism” is such a childish concoction Don King wouldn't touch it. Anyone else, with hopes for the party of FDR must, as The New Republic wrote, hope that the exposure of the premiere tall-tale can “shake the faith of Daschle and his fellow Democrats in Moore's other stories.” Do not hold your breath. If Clinton or Reagan haters are any gage to go by, the faith will be kept for many years. The toughest lie to see through is the one that supports our own perspective.