Cowboy Confessional

Few people can stomach Michael Moore, and from his growing girth I suspect there is little he cannot.

That Moore occupies a rather large portion of my latest book, as well as floor space wherever he goes, derives from his indefatigable ability to be simultaneously bombastic, boorish and a blackguard.  Any honest assessment of Bowling for Columbine, one of his earliest “documentaries” (and we must put the word in quotes since his film defies the definition) shows Moore to be both a propagandist and profligate.  Situational distortions in his films have been more than transparent, and over the years have destroyed his credibility with every person to the right of Mao.

What makes Moore an interesting study – in exactly the same sense as dissecting a neurosyphilis victim’s brain – is that he actually believes his own ravings.  Hence when Moore utters something irrational, it comes from the most sincere place in his body, which is immediately south of his neurosyphilitic mind.  When he claims you are un-American for appreciating the work of Navy SEALs in dispatching Osama bin Laden to his 72 virgin sows, Moore honestly thinks you lack standing in the American community.

Unlike you who will grant him his birthright but deny him access to your dinner table, children or farm animals.

While wasting CNN’s bandwidth, Moore opined on the demise of the world’s top terrorist and the leading mass murderer of Americans.  Mooresque madness was in full majesty and provides us an opportunity to delve into his intellect (bring your electron microscope, for we have a tiny area in which to explore).  Taken from the broadcast:

“They killed [bin Laden] not because there was a fire fight or something going on. They went there with the intention to kill him. That’s an execution or an assassination, whatever you want to call it.”

Michael misses the meaning of the word ‘war’.  Perhaps he forgot that Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States in a 1996 fatwah, initiated armed conflict with U.S. embasy bombings, and orchestrated the murder of 3,000 people guilty of nothing aside from showing up to work on time.  It is in the state of war, which bin Laden wrought, that we struck, and war permits the killing of all enemy forces including commanders.  We do not know for certain, but evidence indicates bin Laden included the White House on his list of 9/11 targets, and that flight 93 was destined to kill whomever was there, namely the president (who, oddly, was nowhere near the joint that morning).  Moore confuses the most basic element of war and the legal execution thereof, with committing extralegal actions.

Then again, nobody has ever accused Moore of committing critical thinking.

Michael then meanders a bit, wondering aloud why we did not bring Osama back to stand in court as a handful of Nazis did at the Nuremberg Trials.  A factual tidbit that escaped Moore’s attention, as most salient facts do, is that the captured Nazis either surrendered (which bin Laden did not) or were located after the official end of the war, a time when protocols suggest a cessation of shooting.  Lamenting the lack of a circus court, Moore bollixes the intellectual football by mooing about you:

“Just get rid of [bin Laden]. The second you say that, you’re saying you hate being an American. You hate what we stand for, you hate what our constitution stands for.”

Ignoring the aforementioned essence of war and Moore’s apparent senile dementia, we have to ask what part of the Constitution Moore rests upon, and also ask if even the Constitution is strong enough to hold that much tonnage.  The constitution is silent on the handling of enemy warriors and leaders, though it does grant citizens and legal residents their day in court.  It provides that the Commander in Chief oversees the Army and Navy of the United States, and otherwise leaves him free to use it as Congressional declarations of war, or abdication via the War Powers Act, allow.  Michael seemingly decries as hate mongers those who accept the latitude the Constitution grants the President and the ugly realities of warfare.

You know, hate mongers like you.

Which brings us to the most interesting aspect of Michael Moore’s intellectual postmortem – his hate America mantra.  Conservatives love to bash Moore for being un-American, which does not appear to be entirely unfounded and may well be self-evident.  For Michael to turn those cannons about, rhetorically pointing them at Mister and Missus America, is a Chomsky-like maneuver designed to put opponents on the defensive and pervert their talking points to his advantage.  To wit, Moore was once quoted as saying that America was:

“… a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves.”

Which ignores every other aspect of America’s foundation (immigrants from all over the world and their eclectic collection of skills), a lot of hard work and a relatively free society that encouraged innovation.  That Moore focuses on governmental sins and not the efforts from millions of talented immigrants shows that hatred actually comes from somewhere deep inside of Michael (and we have to assume it is buried deeply therein because all his innards are).  Calling you un-American is merely Moore’s most recent externalization of his own neurosis.

Many folk have rightly said that less is more, and so let us have less of Moore.

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