"If someone did this [9/11] to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, D.C., and the planes' destination of California -- these were places that voted AGAINST Bush!" -- Michael Moore On 9/12/2001

"There is no terrorist threat in this country. This is a lie. This is the biggest lie we've been told." -- Michael Moore, October 2003

"In terms of marketing (Fahrenheit 9/11), Front Row is getting a boost from organisations related to Hezbollah which have rung up from Lebanon to ask if there is anything they can do to support the film. And although Chacra says he and his company feel strongly that Fahrenheit is not anti-American, but anti-Bush, 'we can’t go against these organisations as they could strongly boycott the film in Lebanon and Syria.'"

"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "The Enemy." They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win."

"I'm sorry, but the majority of Americans supported this war once it began and, sadly, that majority must now sacrifice their children until enough blood has been let that maybe -- just maybe -- God and the Iraqi people will forgive us in the end."

"Unfortunately, Bush and Co. are not through yet. This invasion and conquest will encourage them to do it again elsewhere. The real purpose of this war was to say to the rest of the world, "Don't Mess with Texas - If You Got What We Want, We're Coming to Get It!"

"I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants"

"(Americans) are possibly the dumbest people on the planet ... in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug pr*cks. We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don’t know about anything that’s happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.”

"DO YOU FEEL like you live in a nation of idiots? I used to console myself about the state of stupidity in this country by repeating this to myself: Even if there are two hundred million stone-cold idiots in this country, that leaves at least eighty million who will get what I'm saying..." -- P. 85 of "Stupid White Men"

"(T)he dumbest Brit here is smarter than the smartest American". -- Michael Moore At London’s Roundhouse Theater

"On his North American tour in support of Dude, Where’s My Country, Moore substituted Canadians for Britons, telling audiences that the “dumbest Canadian” in attendance could surely outwit 'the smartest American.'" -- Moorewatch

"Should such an ignorant people (Americans) lead the world?" -- Michael Moore in an open letter to the people of Germany

"There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them."

"I like America to some extent." -- Michael Moore's response after being asked "You do not seem to like the U.S., do you?"

"Moore wrote he'd once been "forced" to listen to my comments on a TV chat show, The McLaughlin Group. I had whined "on and on about the sorry state of American education," Moore said, and wound up by bellowing: "These kids don't even know what The Iliad and The Odyssey are!" Moore's interest was piqued, so the next day he said he called me. "Fred," he quoted himself as saying, "tell me what The Iliad and The Odyssey are." I started "hemming and hawing," Moore wrote. And then I said, according to Moore: "Well, they're . . . uh . . . you know . . . uh . . . okay, fine, you got me--I don't know what they're about. Happy now?" He'd smoked me out as a fraud, or maybe worse. The only problem is none of this is true. It never happened. Moore is a liar. He made it up. It's a fabrication on two levels. One, I've never met Moore or even talked to him on the phone. And, two, I read both The Iliad and The Odyssey in my first year at the University of Virginia. Just for the record, I'd learned what they were about even before college." -- Fred Barnes

"You know in my town the small businesses that everyone wanted to protect? They were the people that supported all the right-wing groups. They were the Republicans in the town, they were in the Kiwanas, the Chamber of Commerce - people that kept the town all white. The small hardware salesman, the small clothing store salespersons, Jesse the Barber who signed his name three different times on three different petitions to recall me from the school board. F*ck all these small businesses - f*ck 'em all! Bring in the chains. The small businesspeople are the rednecks that run the town and suppress the people. F*ck 'em all. That's how I feel."

"White people scare the crap out of me. … I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord … never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, 'We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!'"

"It was when Moore went into a rant about how the passengers on the planes on 11 September were scaredy-cats because they were mostly white. If the passengers had included black men, he claimed, those killers, with their puny bodies and unimpressive small knives, would have been crushed by the dudes, who as we all know take no disrespect from anybody." -- From an article by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown describing a Michael Moore show in London

"Since September 11, the Bush Administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that [with] one or two September 11s martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state."

"The Patriot Act is the first step. "Mein Kampf" -- "Mein Kampf" was written long before Hitler came to power. And if the people of Germany had done something early on to stop these early signs, when the right-wing, when the extremists such as yourself (Bob Novak), decide that this is the way to go, if people don't speak up against this, you end up with something like they had in Germany. I don't want to get to that point."

"The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich."

"I think (Bin Laden is under the protective watch of) the United States, I think our government knows where he is and I don't think we're going to be capturing him or killing him any time soon." -- Michael Moore in an interview with Bob Costas

{sigh}...it's usually the case that the only way a rightwingnut can make a case is to take things 'way out of context. You've done the rightwingnut community proud, you did. People, you need to hear the context of the statements before drawing conclusions about anybody.

First of all, Mike was rebutting some crap that some conspiracy-theorist rightwingnut concocted. That was a rightwingnut idea he was rebutting.

Mike believes that if the proclaimed terrorist threat was what it was claimed to be, there would be more than 8 part-time state troopers keeping the entirety of Oregon safe--it has a shorline open to anybody. We would be protecting our power plants, our chemical plants, our ports. We aren't AND Bush isn't worried about the fact that we're aren't.

As far as marketing Fahrenheit 9/11 goes, Mike shouldn't turn down business in Lebanon et al until the Bush administration mandates that all businesses quit doing business in torture-mongering China. What's moral for Bush is moral enough for Mike.

Mike was rebutting the notion of the rightwing lunatic fringe's jingoistic notion that where ever the U.S. invades, they should automatically always be greeted as liberators. Big Chalabi suckers, those jingo rightwingnuts--delusional. An invader is an invader is an invader, and the U.S. invaded, therefore is the invader. Therefore it should come as no surprise that there's revolt, especially against yet another King George--King George the Dubya.

It would be a miracle of the Iraqi people would forgive us in the end, if there is an end to this insanity. There's better be--the rest of the world isn't going to put up with much more of this "last remaining superpower" megalomaniacal conduct from us.

Mike's certainly right about Bushco not being over yet. Bushco has been rumbling about Lebanon and Syria, and, below the press radar, is the escalations of hostilities with Cuba even as we speak. And there's Iran. But no rumblings about N. Korea, which there SHOULD be rumblings about, again proving that this administration doesn't take REAL terrorist threats seriously, that what Bushco presents as threats are as bogus as the claim that Iraq had WMD that Saddam would deploy against us. He can't be too concerned because of the debacle the Iraq invasion became, with the uncontrolled looting--if there were WMD, it was with administration permission (thanks to lack of a plan to controll this) that whatever was there even in the form of important papers, left the country. IF there were any.

I've never been close enough to Dubya to know what he does or doesn't do in his pants, but I agree with the rest of Mike's deserter charges. Mike has the uncensored documents that prove his case, and the remainder of his charge is history.

Any given country outside the U.S. would verify American ignorance of world affairs. I would, too. Not only do I know where to find New Jersy on a map, but also Guinea-Bissau, Trinidad-Tobago, Sierra Leone, Nepal, and a whole laundry list of nations that typically escape U.S. notice. What other nation do you know of where its citizens vote for their nation's leader based on a collection of a few 30-second ads? The dunbest Brit IS smarter than the average American--when a Brit can find Europe on a map, he's already several steps ahead of the average American. The same COULD be accurately said of the dumbest Canadian. Dumbest Pacific Islander, dumbest Swede, dumbest Icelander, dumbest..............hell, our current commander in chief had no idea who the leader of Pakistan was before 9/11 brought him to Bush's short attention.

And Bush has proved that you can fool all of the people all of the time provided that all of the people are evangelicals. Like every other rightwingnut lunatic, Fred Barnes is as trustable as Dubya. I'll believe Mike before I'll believe Barnes. Least of all, your source for a lot of what you posted here.

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Hans you make me laugh, keep posting this stuff please, I cant get enough.

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Nice post Hans. It's nice to have a library of raving posts by zealots such as Moore. And Clara, you and "Mike", along with the rest of the world, might think you are more intelligent by your tests of geography. However, we, the US majority, have created the strongest economy the world has ever seen within a government structure based upon liberty and a relatively free market. I'd say that should earn us a few bonus points on your test.

I'll keep posting them, just for you!

...if what you say is true. But it isn't. I'll bet you haven't even looked at our trade deficit lately. Even if you can find Canada on a map, most of our kids can't. It's a surprise to a lot of 'em that we even have such a thing as an electoral college. Your kids have Gameboy--Europe's kids have homework.

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can you say, "generalizations"???

what do you think of this quote?
And Moore makes no distinctions as to what kind of Americans he is talking about, he is saying that every American is stupid. What do you think about such nonsense?

Already answered that question, Hans:

I might as well add what Mike himself had to say about Barnes' "wacko attacko".
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/la.../wackoattacko/

Now there's ya a GENUINE Michael quote.

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