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Today’s Gazette had a nearly full-page opinion piece by Michael “Bush shure is stoopid” Moore. Here’s the original link from the Los Angeles Times.

In the lengthy, self-serving drivel, Moore claims that his “mistake” (yeah, right!) was caused because he went to church the morning before the Oscars, causing him to want to cleanse his soul by saying what he truly believes, about how wrong the war truly is because people die in war, yadda yadda yadda. He went on to exhaustively try to explain why he chose to come out with his anti-American rantings at the Oscar ceremony.

We already know why he said it! I mean, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Moore craves attention possibly more than anyone I know. This doesn’t exactly make him unique in Hollywood, but it’s fairly clear that his book and movie sales and popularity are at an all-time high thanks to the media attention he got with his speech. And he’s not exactly humble about it either:

My book “Stupid White Men” still sits at No. 1 on the bestseller list (it’s been on that list now for 53 weeks and is the largest-selling nonfiction book of the year). “Bowling for Columbine” has broken all box-office records for a documentary. My Web site is now getting up to 20 million hits a day (more than the White House’s site).

The trouble with people like Moore is that they crave fame so much that they’ll say or do just about anything to get in the spotlight. Moore isn’t following the dictates of his conscience, he’s following the dictates of the media who are looking for a juicy story. If he’d thought that making a pro-war speech at the Oscars would have made him more famous, he’d have done that, too.

My favourite part was this:

We are continually bombarded with one fictitious story after another from the Bush White House. And that is why it is important that filmmakers make nonfiction, so that all the little lies can be exposed and the public informed. An uninformed public in a democracy is a sure-fire way to end up with little or no democracy at all.

Yeah, I guess that’s why your films are so “factual”, right Mikey?

Apparently, the rantings of first-class idiotarian Michael Moore were too much even for the anti-war Hollywood crowd:

“We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president,” Moore said. “We live in a time where we have a man who’s sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it’s the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts.

Applause gave way to some boos, as the orchestra began playing to cue the filmmaker to leave the stage.

“We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush. Shame on you,” Moore shouted.

At least some had the courage to boo. I wonder about those who applauded and gave Moore a standing ovation, though. “Fictitious” code orange? “Fictitious” duct tape? I wonder if he thinks September 11th was fictitious too. I wonder what the families and friends of those who died on September 11th would think about that?