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Hot button documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has come out today on his website and in the media with his blueprint for "losing the most winnable presidential election in American history" taken from his new book, Mike's Election Guide. The Oscar winner says his thesis is based on the Democrats' past losing campaigns. "Just follow each of these steps and you, the Democratic Party establishment, can help elect John Sidney McCain III to a four-year extension of the Bush Era." Here's a brief synopsis of Moore's talking points. No. 6 is especially intriguing:
6. Denounce me! Obama, at some point, might be asked this question: "Michael Moore has endorsed you. But he recently said (fill in the blank with some outrageously offensive line taken out of context). Will you still accept his endorsement, or do you denounce him?" And he better denounce me, or they will tear him to shreds.
He had better back away not only from me but from anyone and everyone who veers a bit too far to the left of where his advisers have told him is the sweet spot for all those red-state voters. I won't take it personally. After all, I'm not the guy who married him or baptized his kids. I'm just the idiot who went to the same terrorist, Muslim school of flag-pin desecrators he went to.
I remember poor John Kerry not even being able to admit, when asked by Larry King, if he had seen Fahrenheit 9/11. "No," he said, "I haven't. . . . I don't plan to, right now." But he had indeed seen it. I sat there watching him say this, and I just felt sorry for him and for the election he was about to lose. We can't take four more years of this madness, Barack. We need you to be a candidate who will fight back every time they attack you. Actually, don't even wait till you have to fight back. Fight first! Show some vision and courage and smoke them out. Keep asking why these lobbyists are McCain's best friends. Let's finally have a Democrat who's got the balls to fire first.
So Barack, by denouncing me, you can help McCain get elected. Because when you denounce me, it's not really me you're distancing yourself from -- it's the millions upon millions of people who feel the same way about things as I do. And many of them are the kind of crazy voters who have no problem voting for a Nader just to prove a point.
Elections have been lost by just 537 votes. I don't want that to happen to you.
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Oh, brother. Sorry, Michael, but it’s not ALL about you.
Michael Moore always seems to gloss over the fact that he was one of “crazy voters who voted for Nader” in 2000.
Okay, Nikki…Now you’re just trolling for traffic!
Yeesh…there go the comment floodgates, let’s get it on, people! And remember to STAY OFF TOPIC! Don’t read the article, why waste your time? It has Michael Moore AND Obama in the title, get them axes grindin’!
Leave it to Moore, that narcissistic fatso, to try to turn the election into a referendum on himself. When are Hollywood liberals going to finally see this modern day Reifenstahl for what he is — a talentless boob who’d be cleaning bathrooms at Dreamworks if he was a conservative filmmaker.
More advice for Obama from celebs. The Mac must be loving this.
Leave it to dems to pick the weakest candidate to go against a war hero.
No worries, No-bama is so venal he’d sell his soul to win. Perhaps already has.
His rather transparent strategy has been to weasel the primary with phony platitudes and a disingenuous platform.
Thereafter, in the general election, he has abandoned belief and pledge one after another, abandoned his supporters and embraced the conservative agenda as needed. He figures ‘what the hey,’ the left has no alternative but to vote for me. And he figures he’ll cater to conservatives who aren’t thrilled with McCain.
How pathetic that even amidst all his maneuvering, with the temerity to still brand himself as a new kind of politician bringing change, he still is only neck in neck with a candidate whose party is in wide disfavor and who has run an incoherent lifeless campaign.
Think about what damage he’d do in office. He won’t be true to his platform. He might be more Bush-alike than McCain.
Vote Clinton.
I’m having a psychic vision…
…Michael Moore will do or say something outrageous that will force Barack Obama’s campaign to denounce him.
Obama will denounce him, McCain’s campaign will hold up that posting, declaring that Obama takes his orders from: “Moore and them Clooney-type liberals in Hollyweird!”
McCain wins the election, ensuring Michael Moore four more years of film funding from Hollywood, large speaking fees from universities and the Daily Kos crowd, and other fame related goodies…
It’s kind of clever when you think about it.
Michael Moore, what a self absorbed piece of shit. Obama’s winning or losing has nothing to do with Moore.
God, I hate the overblown ego’s in this business.
Intrinsically what Moore is claiming is that only “lunatic fringe” can take down “lunatic fringe.” Or, define for me a “lunatic.”
There are many reasons why Kerry lost the election.
Assiduously avoiding the subject of “Fahrenheit 911,” the most infamous Michael Moore HOT POTATO production depositing himself as the center of all things moral and ethical, does not address the blind spot that his celebrity wannabe shades refuse to acknowledge. (If true Kerry should have admitted that he had seen the film and efficiently parsed his own personal interpretation from the substance of the work itself. He sure as hell had the opportunity.)
Like everybody, all Americans know that all politicians have their favorite cookies, whatever they may be, and sometimes break their public “diet.”
It’s lying, or leading them on a wild goose chase, when they’re caught with their hands in the cookie jar, that Americans don’t forgive. Or more importantly forget. (Compare and contrast Elliot Spitzer and John Edwards in this manner. In terms of RESPECT for the intelligence (and the pocketbooks; and the time constraints) of the American people (New York state in Spitzer’s case)tragically flawed but Spitzer wins hands down. (Brief and absolutely correct. He let himself down. He let his family down. He let the people of New York down. On to the criminal trial. With those socks however he did exalt his haberdasher!)
Was Kerry’s response on Larry King symptomatic of larger issues of character? That’s a good argument.
But “denounce me?” Please. Disproportionately almost surreally self-regarding.
“Roger and Me” at the New York Film Festival was unbelievably entertaining. Pauline Kael’s subsequent REVIEW of it was spot on and fascinating and worth seeking out.
I’m pleased he has politics. But a celebrity begging to be “denounced” is just self-promoting schtick that’s rooted in inarguable defense of the human condition not necessarily valid politics. (Yes. I get it. It’s tongue in cheek. It’s satire. The question with Moore always is – does he?)
All fine.
But what does all of that that have to do with the facts of contemporary global contingency as it impacts unemployed auto workers stuck in Flint without other skills?
Retailers : file Michael Moore under “Karaoke Documentary.” For now.
Let’s see if his “work,” whatever it is that he deems that to be, holds up.
Additional inference is that “Fahrenheit 911″ is the last word on 911 and Iraq.
OK. Now I’ll see it.
I’ve already got my costume to watch it in my apartment.
Windbreaker and a polyester trucking cap.
John Kerry’s coming over. My cap for him is Extra Large
obviously.
It’s stained with Heinz ketchup. Which perhaps was one of the contributing factors for why he lost the election. It was difficult for the American voter generally to identify with his wife at all.
This makes me think of Bill Clinton.
Will they be raising Moore’s polyester cap to the Cardinal rafters in St. Patrick’s Cathedral figuratively speaking?
Maybe. But only God’s got a lock on that call.
It can hang right next to Madonna’s corset.
Maybe they time capsuled them together to the Vatican after that photo-op Detroit film festival of theirs.
Michael Moore and Madonna – THEY’RE TAKING US HOME!
Gotta run.
My Kaballah string just frayed apart.
That was my little reminder to myself to BECOME FAMOUS!It’s steady work and can pay very well indeed.
I agree, it’s not about you at all Moore but you sure could help. There’s a lot to be done. Vote for Obama! Visit WHYOBAMA08.ORG!
Nothing funnier than hearing a self-hating, multi-millionaire communist hypocrite bleat for his socialist-leaning, black separatist candidate to win an election — by putting himself at the very center of what does or doesn’t matter to the average voter who very likely has never even heard of him.
Obama has been friendly with an unrepentant 60’s socialist terrorist (William Ayers). We all know about his former pastor. Michael Moore is way down on the list of associations Obama has to worry about.
What a bunch of deluded idiots posting here; the kind of Americans who, if McCain wins, get what they deserve.
“fill in the blank with some outrageously offensive line taken out of context”
Oh, hypocrisy is a bitch, ain’t it, Mr. Moore? Isn’t that what you and your editors are best at?
Politics aside, Michael Moore is a self righteous asshole. Bush smears himself all the time, certainly did not need Moore to. For example, Bush holding the flag backwards at the Olympics… OBAMA 08!
Hey, Brandon….At Least President Bush wasn’t pissing on the Flag in a foreign country like most Hollywood Liberals do.
There are two schools of thought about Michael Moore.
The first who think that he’s possibly the sharpest political mind in the country.
Then there’s what everyone who isn’t Michael Moore thinks.
He’s an ass.
Mr. Moore,
What are the political rammifications for a shrug of indifference from Obama?
Michael Moore expended all of his genius in stretching his fifteen minutes of fame to one hour. Time for him to shut up and go away.
@Comment by hepwa — August 13, 2008 @ 5:36 pm
You do realize that McCain was being courted and nearly switched to the Democratic party no less than a year ago, yes? Claiming he is Bush Redux is simply Daily Kos propaganda boilerplate considering Dean desperately wanted him to be the Dem candidate.
Moore did outline what will lose the election for the Democrats: maintaining an ‘it’s all about me, we all know what’s best for you low brow idiots’ elitist attitude Democrats have been fostering for the last 12 years or so.
If any of you were being honest with yourselves, neither candidate is all that exciting nor will either one do anything of note especially so long as a do nothing loser like Pelosi is in charge of the House.
Interesting. Is all the frothing over part 6 meant to hide the complete lack of response in the comments to parts 1-5? Or is it just symptomatic of the short attention span of the commenters so far?
Is Moore trying to get attention for himself?
Eccch, you give yourself too much credit.
So, like…I’m the only unabashed Michael Moore fan here. Awesome.
This proves, once again that, in politics, as in life, it’s your “friends” that you have to watch out for. Obama will do what he needs to do..get the dirt off his shoulder, step over the fat egomaniac screaming to be relevant, and go ‘head on and take the oath of office.
Yes we can.
Yeah, more can be a little over the top, but I’m certainly glad he’s around. The country is better for it.
The writing’s on the wall folks, Obama WILL NOT win this election.
He’ll be lucky to come out of Denver as the nominee.
And I’m no fan of McCain. He’s just the lesser of 2 evils. (Or 3 if you throw in Hillary)
As for Moore, why in the hell are his films in the documentary category when everyone knows they’re nothing more than liberal propaganda?
It’s not right.
Well, looks like it’s pretty obvious who read only the one step Nikki pasted and didn’t click through to read the other five…which have absolutely nothing to do with Moore.
Michael Moore = Emmanuel Goldstein.
Enough already.
Dear Mr. Moore –
I didn’t know that John Kerry was even asked about your documentary, let alone how he responded. Without that vital piece of information, I’m not sure how I was able to make a choice.
Last night on the O’Reilly Factor Bill exclusively aired a clip of American Carol. It’s satire of the American Left with Kevin Farley spoofing Micheal Moore whose in an alternate reality so to speak. David Zucker directed it and it’s real funny. Micheal gets slapped by everyone including Bill.
Although I agree more with Moore than I disagree with him, the way he presents his opinions and presents himself is off-putting.
He’s passionate about politics. That I can understand. But his “I’m right and you’re wrong” mindset just proves he’s an ass. He doesn’t need to point out who we should vote for — that is for the voters to decide for themselves. I’d rather read and decide who to vote for by myself, thanks.
Obama will also lose the election of he doesn’t make sure to note his ‘two thumbs up’ for Moore’s movies while referencing them.