moore and mccarthy
Michael Moore: The Joe McCarthy of the Left??
By Daniel G. Jennings
Michael Moore is the modern day Joseph McCarthy.
For the historically challenged out there Joseph McCarthy was a US Senator from Wisconsin in the 1950s who became a powerful and influential political figure by spreading false charges and ridiculous conspiracy theories. McCarthy's theory was a simple one, Communists had somehow infiltrated the US government and were responsible for the nation's problems. For a few years in the 1950s, McCarthy (who was considered one of the worst Senators of the time by observers) gained fame and a good deal of political influence by making such charges. Eventually McCarthy's actions became so repugnant that he was censured by the US Senate and abandoned by his fellow Republicans.
Michael Moore, the propaganda film maker behind "Fahrenheit 911" has a great deal in common with McCarthy. Like McCarthy, Moore is a fat and lazy slob and something of a bully. Like McCarthy, Moore is rude, crude, arrogant and nasty.
And like Joseph McCarthy, Michael Moore is a miserable failure who has gained a great deal of fame and fortune by spreading ridiculous conspiracy theories. McCarthy was a failure as a US Senator, Moore failed as newspaper publisher and editor, TV producer and movie director. His only success has been with documentaries that pander to political prejudices.
McCarthy promoted the loony idea that the Communists were running the Truman Administration in the 1940s. Moore promotes the ridiculous idea that evil business interests control the US government and are behind George W. Bush and the decision to go to war in Iraq. Like McCarthy, Moore takes advantage of popular prejudice by linking his political opponents with America's enemies. McCarthy accused Democrats of being in league with Communists, Moore accuses Republicans of being in league with Al Qaeda. In particular Moore, claims that business deals involving Bush's family and Bin Laden's family prove a criminal conspiracy that led to Sept. 11. (Moore ignores the facts that Bin Laden's family has disowned him and the Sept. 11 Commission no friend of Bush found no links between Saudi Arabia Sept. 11)
Hopefully, Moore will end up just like McCarthy. McCarthy died a drunken failure who had been humiliated and stripped of his power when people stood up to him and exposed him as the fraud he was. Sooner or later the same thing will happen to Michael Moore, some brave journalist or politician will go after Moore and expose him as the fraud he is. Maybe we'll even have the satisfaction of seeing Moore stripped of his movie awards and unable to distribute his putrid propaganda. Then the left will drop Moore like a hot potato and the toast of Hollywood will probably end up dying in obscurity just like McCarthy did. That would be poetic justice indeed.