Whatever you say about filmmaker Michael Moore, we should consider ourselves blessed to have such a professional agent provocateur running amuck in our national media circus, raising the heartland’s consciousness and making the fat cats furious. We should as well take satisfaction that the corporate system — however pervasive, powerful and profit-mandated — is helpless to stop him. No matter… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesUh ..... nobody much cares about Michael Moore, but we would like to be able to comment on the Bill Ayers article. Why are comments shut off there?
Posted by Natalie on Nov 9, 2008 at 4:46 PM Uh ... Michael Moore has been a successful and patriotic filmmaker of conscience for decades now. Like most visionaries, it takes the masses a while to catch-up. Gee, I still remember the coast to coast booing he got for speaking the truth in front of a presumed ‘librul’ Hollywood audience.
Same for Ayers who says that the lessons of the 60s; wars of aggression and civil rights, have yet to be learned [witness Prop 8 in CA]. Ayers paid for his crimes as a Weatherman, inspired by the black and white, patriotic sense of right and wrong patriotism of his youth, and is now a respected college professor; but we’d never know that either.
The ownership class and their minion-media-myth-makers of American exceptionalism are what keeps the nation from facing it past to address its future.
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