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Thursday, July 01, 2004
MOORE AFTER THIS. Does
anyone know what Joe Scarborough and Christopher Hitchens were
talking about on MSNBC last night? I tuned in briefly during the
closing moments of another putrid Red Sox-Yankees game. They were
claiming that Michael Moore had posted some outrageous comments on
MichaelMoore.com
- something to the effect that more Americans must die in Iraq in
order to wash away the sins of the Bush White House. Hitchens was of
the opinion that Moore was taking the same line as the jihadi
terrorists.
The transcript
wasn't up this morning, so I don't know exactly what they said. But
when I cruised on over to Moore's website this morning, I could find
nothing remotely resembling what Scarborough and Hitchens were
claiming. What is going on?
We already know that Hitchens
doesn't
like Moore.
Anyway, Media Log seeks
elucidation. If anyone can point to Moore's alleged remarks,
drop
me a line.
IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE MEANING
OF "READ" IS. Jack Shafer finds
that not everyone who's reviewed Bill Clinton's turgid, endless My
Life has actually, well, you know, read it. I have. On the other
hand, I guess that's why my review won't appear until next week.
NEW IN THIS WEEK'S
PHOENIX. The Seventh
Annual Muzzle Awards. Bring
a copy to Governor Mitt Romney - but be sure to tell him the
Phoenix is a newspaper, not a leaflet!
TUNE IN THIS MORNING. I'll
appear on The
Connection, on
WBUR
Radio (90.9 FM), at 11 a.m.
to talk about my book on the culture of dwarfism, Little
People. Appearing with
me will be Laura Zirpolo, who helped organize last year's annual
conference of Little People of America.
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The transcript is up now at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5344115. They tell a couple of lies and distortions here... one is where they take Michael Moore's stance on Osama Bin Laden's guilt or innocence (Moore says that everyone is innocent until proven guilty, even the lowest of scum, or something like that) as somehow meaning that Moore thinks Bin Laden is innocent. What bozos.
The other thing is what Dan was asking about, where they say that Americans must die. Moore was saying something a little different... that many Americans supported the war at first, trusting the president, and now must pay for that trust in blood. Not "should," which would be sick.
Basically, they can't seem to tell the truth about anything in that transcript, from what I can read. Clearly, we can dismiss Scarborough and Hitchens as the hacks that they are, and move on to more important topics.
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