Michael Moore's ~crushing~ Facebook post back at his critics. WOW!

[underpants]

https://www.facebook.com/mmflint/posts/10152568343941857

"My 12 Years of Support for the Troops "

Well, who would know better about hating our troops than those who supported sending them into a senseless war Iraq in the first place?

And, for 4,482 of them, a senseless, unnecessary and regrettable death.

If you supported that invasion, if you voted for George W. Bush and the Republicans and Democrats who backed this war, then you are the ones who have some 'splainin' to do. Not me. You.

Here's the truth they can't or won't report: I'M the one who has supported these troops - much more than the bloviators on Fox News. To prove it (and I know this is going to crush some of you out there), here's just a partial list of all the things I do and have done for those men and women who serve -- and I guarantee you, you've never heard any of this reported about what the real me does because, frankly, it messes up their little story of the fictional "Michael Moore" they've created for your hate and enjoyment (please feel free to cut, paste and send this to your conservative brother-in-law):

** I allow local veterans support groups to use my theater to meet for PTSD issues, I host quarterly PTSD summits, and I've hosted a conference to start a jobs movement for vets in our town.

** I will NOT do business with vendors who don't have a policy to hire vets.

** From the Dept. of Irony: I only hire Navy SEALS and ex-special forces for when I need security - such as this week, when so-called supporters of those SEALs want me harmed.

** I am currently showing "American Sniper" at my theater that I helped restore and that I program and help run in Manistee, MI. Not because I like it, but because, unlike the other side, I'm not a censor.

[Electric Monk]

1. 94 recs and counting

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026135636

[underpants]

4. Didn't see it

And I did look

[GP6971]

2. Wow is understatement. n/t

[Luminous Animal]

3. It is really worth reading the entire thing.

[underpants]

5. Link in comment #1 has the full text

[LiberalElite]

11. Ah. Thanks. Now up to 126. nt

[BlueStater]

6. Didn't realize there were so many brain-dead, right-wing assholes trolling his Facebook page.

As you would expect, Moore's post went right over their simplistic, pea-sized brains.

[LibDemAlways]

23. It's hopeless. The rightwing

Koolaid drinkers are conditioned to go apeshit over the mere mention of Moore's name. My moron of a sister-in-law saw "American Sniper" yesterday and immediately posted "Fuck Michael Moore" on her Facebook Wall. He coudn't say, do, or write anything to convince her and the rest of the brainwashed masses that he's anything other than a Communist who hates God, stomps on the flag, and kicks soldiers for fun.

[bvar22]

7. Michael Moore...

Patriot & Hero.

[cwydro]

8. Good for him.

Hopefully the critics will shut up now.

[dorkzilla]

9. Don’t hold your breath. n/t

[bulloney]

12. Hopefully his critics will shut up now.

I'll see a herd of unicorns tippy-toeing across my backyard before that happens, cwydro.

As the responses from Moore's supporters on his FB page stated, his critics never bothered reading Moore's explanation of things he's done for veterans. These people are cowards who hide behind their computers and regard warmongering as some sort of glorified sport that we are always going to win. They don't acknowledge the truth and the real consequences of war. USA! USA! USA!

I wrote a LTTE shortly after Poppy Bush's first invasion of Iraq in the early 1990s. Using RW media materials, I explained the U.S. hypocrisy in its invasion of Iraq and the fact that Saddam Hussein's weapons and chemicals that Bush used to justify this invasion were produced by U.S.-based corporations. I received hate mail and "anonymous" phone calls (this was before Caller ID) calling me every name in the book. Never mind I've been vindicated.

This indoctrination of the glory of our warmongering by the RW media has only gotten worse since then. The Faux Snooze and Queer Channel-brainwashed idiots that listen to them are beyond hope in my opinion.

[cwydro]

18. lol!

You're right.

Hell most of them can't read anyway.

Queer Channel?

[bulloney]

25. I often refer to Clear Channel as Queer Channel.

[jmondine]

42. For my Queer brothers and sisters, may I humbly suggest an alternative...

I think Smear Channel has a good ring to it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

47. Are you seriously not aware that is a derogatory term?

Seriously...it is.....

Sheesh.

[bulloney]

54. I'm not sure if you're being serious,

but the word "queer" also means:
strange
unusual
peculiar
bizarre
weird
freakish
eerie

Those adjectives describe the characters on the Clear Channel talk shows.

If we're going to withhold using words because they may have alternative meanings that could offend somebody, we would be a society of mutes.

[WinkyDink]

52. Why is that?

[lunasun]

10. Words vs action thank you Mr Moore for you true support

That hero guy? Read below
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/384176/justice-jesse-ventura-was-right-his-lawsuit-j-delgado/page/0/2

[Bleacher Creature]

13. Is he done making movies?

I haven't seen much of anything from him outside of interviews and social media. That said, this is one hell of a great FB post!

[DallasNE]

14. Wow, Someone Who Walks The Walk

What a concept.

[PatrynXX]

15. can't imagine watching another war film

but hey if you must go ahead. They just don't make good war movies anymore. Like Platoon or Apocalypse Now. I'd liken this movie to Mel Gibson's Passion of The Christ. The anti christian movie that really didn't have much ado about anything.

[el_bryanto]

29. To me it's a bit like westerns and musicals

they've been making war movies for decades and westerns, and there's such a huge catalog and so many good ones (and of course, many more crummy ones), it's hard for any new one to stand out as particularly good.

I liked Inglorious Basterds though.

Bryant

[WillyT]

16. Huge K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[AtheistCrusader]

17. Ok, I generally don't like Michael Moore much, but

that was pretty fuckin' boss, right there.


And I wonder how much of my opinion of him is built on misinformation, under-information, or distortion.

[RiverLover]

19. Love MM!

[Iliyah]

20. Corporate media is calling him "Un-Patriotic" ya know, the same people who

are taking away "disability insurance", "Social Security Benefits", "Food Stamps", taking funding from the "VA", et al.

Yea those folks, all the while screaming for boots on the ground.

The same folks who have the nerve to claim love of country all the while effing veterans, soldiers.

Assholes.

[red dog 1]

21. K&R...Thanks for posting

I'm also a huge MM fan.

If any other MM fans have not seen his 2nd film, "The Big One", rent it soon!

[marked50]

22. The shameful thing

The really sorry thing here is that Michael found it necessary to respond to all his cretin critics by having to tell the world about all his honorable activities. Shame on those who would try and destroy others

[McCamy Taylor]

44. Moore made a huge error in judgment in 2000 and will have to live with it forever.

I will never trust his political judgment. He is talented, true, but he allowed himself to be used by the GOP--the same way that Hunter S. Thompson allowed himself to be used in 1972. Proving that the ambition of artists sometimes gets in the way of their good sense.

[marked50]

48. Just curious

What was that 2000 error in judgment?

[Zambero]

51. Not persuading Ralph Nader not to run?

No wait a minute, for obvious reason Ralph Nader himself deserves the 2000 error in judgment award.

[napkinz]

24. K&R

nt

[Quixote1818]

26. Talk about some good shooting. Moore just nailed a lot of ignorant folks with one shot! nt

[Octafish]

27. Michael Moore didn't lie America into war.

His mistake was pointing out those who did.

[Enthusiast]

37. +1

[navarth]

28. always kick for Michael Moore

Go get 'em Mike

[el_bryanto]

30. It's good to have a hero like this

The sad thing is that a) the media won't report it and fox news and other conservatoid media outlets will ignore it and b) those people it's directed to won't hear about it except those crazy jerks who pester him on facebook.

But then again, virtue has rewards beyond recognition.

Bryant

[Cha]

31. This is Good.. thank you, underpants!

[supercats]

32. Nice Comeback Michael Moore....

A brilliant factual way to say "fuck you" to your critics!!! Do it again, harder, harder!!!

[whatchamacallit]

33. That's right

I've said it before, I'll say it again, DU's MM haters are fucking trolls.

[raouldukelives]

36. +1 nt

[certainot]

34. radio sets the tone for fox, does the groundwork

and those chickenhawks, hiding behind call screeners, do the loudest attacks on moore and have been for years. and they were the ones who did the groundwork repetition that sold that war.

people who speak out like moore have been getting hammered and threatened continuously on radio for two decades and the left basically ignores it.

[ChrisG40]

35. As a thinking adult, I don't always agree with you Mr. Moore.

As a thinking adult, I don't always agree with you Mr. Moore. So I cannot say that I fully support your views, BUT I do fully support your right to express those views and I believe in your earnest wish to change the way our society is failing. I appreciate the work you are doing for our veterans, as a veteran myself I've had to rely upon the goodwill of others on some occasions.
To anyone else who reads this post I will say this: ALWAYS investigate what you read, see, or are told! Not everything you are shown is real and very little of what you are told is actually the complete story. Everything, even what I am telling you now, has a bias in it when it comes from another individual. We cannot help but place our own judgments, feelings, and ideas into what we share. It is the nature of human communication and cannot be avoided. You have to think for yourself and come to your own decision regarding the world as it is presented to you. We, as Americans, have become intellectually lazy and if we are going to pass on a world worth having we will have to wake up and act accordingly. I include myself in the last statement but I'm trying to improve.

[riderinthestorm]

38. Welcome to DU! Your post has some excellent advice!

be sure to check out the Latest Breaking News and Good Reads for lots more excellent information.

[niyad]

39. welcome to du.

[niyad]

40. yayyyyy, mm. sad thing is, those cretins to whom you are responding are totally

willingly clueless.

[raven mad]

41. Incredible!

The heads that are exploding have even been heard way up here! Posting to kick this up until all DU'ers get the chance to read this!

[McCamy Taylor]

43. Three words: "Bush equals Gore"

[ananda]

45. :like:

[Orsino]

46. This is why I'll spot him a stupid "snipers are cowards" or two.

Getting one's fee-fees hurt is infinitely preferable to being squandered in war-for-profit adventurism.

[hibbing]

49. Hollywood Liberal Elites

If you haven't seen his acceptance speech for Bowling at Columbine at the Oscars when he ripped on the idiot son and the immoral war that then was just starting it is interesting to look at it today. Very little applause or cheers from all those leftie, communist, elite, arugula eating liberals, and even quite a few boo's. You can see just how uncomfortable they were. Shame on you Mr. Bush!

Unlike when all the liberal elite media laughed at the jokes by the idiot son at the White House correspondents dinner about him looking for WMDS, so so funny..uh...made me want to puke.

Peace

[tclambert]

50. When Republicans say, "Support the troops," they don't mean the people who serve,

they mean "Support the killing they were sent to do," no matter how ill-advised or imaginary the pretext for the war was. When do Republicans ever care about people? I mean, people with a net worth under a billion dollars.

[MrMickeysMom]

53. Kicking...

Not that I need to, but kudos to you, underpants, for reminding some on this very board of what MM has always tried to do. Ever since Roger and Me, I've gotten that message.

His next to last paragraph sums it up…

In the end, the thing I'm most proud of for what I've done for the troops was sticking my neck out 12 years ago to become a leading opponent to Bush and the war. I tried to save more lives than a sniper ever could hope to -- by preventing us from going to war in the first place. Well, I failed at that. But I've done everything else humanly possible to try and make it up to those troops when they return home -- that is, the ones lucky enough to return home.