2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Michael Moore on Clint Eastwood’s Delusional and Detached from Reality Speech [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)And it isn't just that so many disagree with him, but that he did what he did in a completely illegitimate way.
It was phony bullshit, not even good for what it was. If he had enough respect for his audience, he would have made specific arguments for and against issues and policies, but he didn't even bother to know anything about his topics. If he had wanted to "roast" President Obama, that would have been okay too, if he had actually bothered to study up a bit and use actual traits of the actual man.
If he had to say "Obama has done nothing", it would have been more respectful of his listener's intelligence to frame that statement with his version of WHY "Obama has done nothing", somekind of explanation, not just TTE "saying it makes it so".
And ascribing verbal threats and obscenities to Obama is so far from validity as to have appeared quite paranoid.
It wasn't just that he doesn't approve of the Obama administration, but that he did it so poorly, without even enough respect to know whom he was talking about or how to make rational points for public consumption.
It was pathetic and insulting.