"Michael Moore, You Used to Be My Hero"

[NV1962]

http://michnews.com/artman/publish/article_2673.shtml

Let's hear it for the white poor widdie blue-collar males... *cough*

Michael Moore, You Used to Be My Hero

By Glenn Sacks
February 17, 2004

Back in the days of your pro-worker documentary Roger & Me (1989), I was working construction at a power plant in the South, and you were the one public figure who seemed to speak for working men. You questioned the right of a business to take what it wants from a community and then pull out in search of cheaper labor, leaving a trail of unemployment and broken lives behind. You were the one who opposed union busting and corporate plunder.

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Michael, you more than anybody articulated the feelings and views of these working class men -- the men who put their bodies on the line on construction sites and in factories, mines, and refineries so their wives and children can live in safety and comfort; the men whose special contributions and sacrifices are almost never part of our public discourse.

But Michael, you have betrayed those whose cause you once championed. Once the voice of the unappreciated working man, I have watched in amazement and dismay as you have degenerated into one of the all too common scourges of our society -- the low rent man-basher who pours derision upon the last remaining politically correct target of bigotry: men. <NV1962 sez no bubba, that's the Stupid White Men that should be evolutionary expedited!>

In Dude, Where's My Country? you criticize the Democratic Party for "watering down their beliefs to appeal to all of the dumb white guys out there." I guess you mean the guys at the power plant? And you imply that the Democrats should simply write them off in 2004.

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Michael, of course few women have created factories which have polluted the environment, just as few women have created factories which have produced the staples of modern civilization. You vilify men for the price of progress but give them no credit for progress itself.

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And when the Democrats get trounced among male voters in 2004, I know what explanation you'll give. In fact, you've already written it in Stupid White Men : "Men are just not as smart as women."

(Glenn Sacks is a men's and fathers' issues columnist and radio talk show host.)

[bigwillq]

1. Who will Moore support now? n/t

[NV1962]

3. "the Democrat"

He's ABB as can get this year, but I doubt he'll follow Clark's footsteps (i.e., openly endorse Kerry) Besides, he's working his tail off together with Ben Cohen to keep a certain R. Nader from running in these elections; wouldn't help much if MM did that as a public Kerry supporter...

[Burma Jones]

2. Jesus, does nobody understand satire anymore

Probably not, since the truth is just too hard to satire anymore....

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Do you mean Sacks' piece is satire?

If so, it's too subtle for me. If Sacks is a real person, then this looks very much like what I'd except from someone describing themselves as "men's and fathers' issues columnist". Can you show us the pointers to it being satirical?

[Burma Jones]

6. Moore talking about White Men is satire

Glen doesn't get it

[lolly]

4. Someone tell Glen

How many of those blue-collar men have lost jobs under AWOL and his let's-ship-all-the-jobs-overseas cronies.

[mistertrickster]

7. Agreed, men lose their jobs, their authority is undermined by the

"marketplace," their physical strength is literally devalued by technology, their courage made a mockery of in futile wars and a "men's advocate's" response is to strike back at Michael Moore?

How long does somebody have to hit you over the head before you realize who's hitting you? (Harry Truman)

Just because W swaggers around like a macho man doesn't mean that every factory rat (and I WAS one for many years, so no flames please) has to identify with the dumb$hit.