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| Lumpy Riefenstahl Invades Convention, Brings Heavy Security |
| 2004-08-31 |
| Michael Moore is so threatened by those warlike Republicans that he is hanging out at the GOP convention with a bevy of security guards. Editor & Publisher reported that "the biggest commotion at the Republican National Convention Monday night occurred just before 10 pm with the entrance of anti-Bush filmmaker Michael Moore, who was repeatedly halted by security attempting to reach his reserved press seat in section #340 near the side of the stage. Moore is writing a daily column this week for USA Today." Are Lumpy's goons unarmed? If not, where do they get their guns? Self-defense for me, but not for thee. I resent that, I am only half as thick as Lumpy, if that much (6'2" 194), and proportionally more vulnerable to gunfire. He could have the courage of his convictions, leave the guns, and wear body armor instead. We could strip a couple of surplus M-113s for the material. Moore's timing could not have been better. Soon after arriving, Sen. John McCain mentioned Moore in his speech as the "disingenuous filmmaker who would have us believe that Saddam's Iraq was an oasis of peace." After McCain's remarks, the audience booed — then began chanting, "Four more years!" E&P reported that when Moore left soon after, he was "accompanied by heavy security. He told E&P on the way out that he was not fleeing: He had to speak to a Planned Parenthood gathering at a theater uptown." [No word yet if Moore has agreed to be the organization's poster child.] (That last sardonicism is the source's, not mine) "What a hero!" LLLs will say. "Did Saddam's opponents have the courage to crash a Baathist Convention?" "Do Castro's critics invade the commie conferences?" "NO! Michael is twice the man they are!" |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #27 McCain was just being too diplomatic. If you want to get crude, he should have said that "MM's dad should have dumped that load in the sink." Now that would get the message across with shock value. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-08-31 11:22:51 PM |
| #26 Korora: I don't see any emoticon. I thought Sirrus and Achenar were both crazy, though Achenar is clearly crazier. He looks more like Moore too. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2004-08-31 11:17:27 PM |
| #25 This gesture? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-08-31 9:08:10 PM |
| #24 Angie Schultz: Achenar's the crazy one. That emoticon is supposed to be Sirrus. Steve from Relto: Know thy audience. |
| Posted by: Korora 2004-08-31 9:01:56 PM |
| #23 Actually, he's using the standard European handsign for "Bring me two more burgers with everything."... |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-08-31 12:49:58 PM |
| #22 Notice that USA Today also hired Coulier for the Democratic convention -- refused to publish her articles. Yet Mike Al-Moron get a pass on his obvious pee-yellow 'journalism'? No bias there..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-08-31 12:13:08 PM |
| #21 The gesture is big with the younger crowd-L for "loser". I thought Moore was calling himself a liar. Oh well. OTOH, maybe Moore started something. Maybe all the LLL, self-proclaimed journalists and reporters could use this sort of gesturing from now on, instead of actually saying something worthwhile. The loons that they are... |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-08-31 12:05:54 PM |
| #20 Couple of questions for USA today. First, what's the deal with him covering the convention and then having meetings during the big speeches? Couldn't he meet with Planned Parenthood before, or after? Second, did they read his first piece? I could be wrong but I think he wrote it over the weekend. It has no real details of the convention at all and I can't see how he could have avoided mentioning the way he was dragged into the proceedings. Still, his piece wasn't bad. Wrong conclusions but his world view is so warped I'd be amazed if he ever came to the right conclusions. |
| Posted by: RJ Schwarz 2004-08-31 12:05:31 PM |
| #19 Sen McCain says, "Disingenuous"? McCain the mild, as always is too nice. I have no doubt he'd smack Moore if given the chance, but verbally he pulls back alot. The senator didn't know he was there? That made it all the more rich! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-08-31 11:54:11 AM |
| #18 Steve: You mean Achenar? |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2004-08-31 11:47:52 AM |
| #17 Oops; forgot to note; I'm equating lumpy with this greedy villain from Myst. |
| Posted by: Steve from Relto 2004-08-31 11:16:45 AM |
#16 Michael Moore |
| Posted by: Steve from Relto 2004-08-31 11:15:26 AM |
| #15 The gesture is big with the younger crowd-L for "loser". |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-08-31 11:14:40 AM |
| #14 This photo was in our paper this morning. The caption says "Filmmaker Michael Moore gestures as Senator John McCain of Arizona addresses delegates at Madison Square Garden during the Republican National Convention in New York..." Um, anyone know what that "gesture" means? |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2004-08-31 11:10:58 AM |
| #13 #11-Respectfully, I disagree. Mikey, underneath all the bluster and ego, is very vulnerable to social ostracization and public humiliation. He lives on kudos-he got the opposite last night. |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-08-31 11:07:08 AM |
| #12 If they required registration(which they don't), then the following would be snapped up quickly: Username: utisfishwrap Password: mooresucks |
| Posted by: Steve from Relto 2004-08-31 11:00:24 AM |
| #11 I like the idea of attacking (verbally) lumpy but he gets off on this. The best thing to do would to pretend he was invisible. Make sure he got the SMALLEST table and even smaller chair. Make him a non-entity and that would drive him crazy. McCain just fed that slobs giant ego a huge slice of cake. On the good side MM can’t have long to live, he is as big as a car! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-08-31 10:51:33 AM |
| #10 Hope the RNC had the foresight to provide adequate security at the buffet. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-08-31 10:47:49 AM |
| #9 "Heavy" Security - NewsMax has a sense of humor. |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-08-31 10:15:00 AM |
| #8 "NO! Michael is twice the man they are!" Is that by weight or by volume? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2004-08-31 10:01:49 AM |
| #7 Good point about the gun hyprocracy. Of course Mike Al-moor should be able to have lethal self defense and we, the poor, stupid, ugly, americans should go around unprotected. After all he is smarted then everyone else and we are only lowly uneducated peasants. |
| Posted by: Anonymous6220 2004-08-31 9:29:25 AM |
| #6 USA Today is now lumped in with the New York Times -- trash. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-08-31 9:23:57 AM |
| #5 When Ashkkkroft's jackbooted digital brownshirts finally come for MM in their black helicopters, he'll be a mass grave all by hisself... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-08-31 6:56:06 AM |
| #4 GK - right on. That is his stock-in-trade. We've had our Yellow Journalism period... I believe that someday Moore will go down in history as the poster-child of our Red Journalism period. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-08-31 5:02:36 AM |
| #3 I hope USA Today isn't paying the slob's expenses. He could have concocted this crap at his kitchen table and without ever having to attend the convention. What's this bull about "enemy territory"? Just a straw man for lumpy to knock down. |
| Posted by: GK 2004-08-31 4:55:40 AM |
| #2 He's the USA Today "reporter" for the RNC. A good reason alone for never paying for that rag. Here's what I presume is the first of his "stories" for them. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-08-31 4:10:52 AM |
| #1 Moore, the over stuffed commie schlub at the GOP convention .....for what? |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-08-31 3:48:16 AM |