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Friday, September 03, 2004
Katie Couric
Katie Couric is my hero. This just gets better and better. It is the punchline that makes the piece so I won't give it away before you read it yourself (via Rantburg).
In perhaps the most stunning morning news show interview I've ever seen, Katie Couric just got through thoroughly trashing Michael Moore.
She began by criticizing the scenes in Fahrenheit 911 depicting a pre-war Iraq of children peacefully playing and weddings taking place. "Wasn't that misleading?" Moore claimed he only used the footage to show the kinds of people killed by US bombing, not to suggest Saddam's Iraq was a "utopia." Next, Katie said that "many people say the Dems don't want you to be the face of the party."
"Who said that?" demanded Moore. "Well, Tim Russert for one," answered Katie.
She added: "let's face it, many people think you're a jerk."
Cross-posted to the Flea.
Posted by Ghost of a flea on September 3, 2004 | Permalink
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Andrea Harris weighs in on the issue:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040902/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_watching_moore_s_weight
Posted by: Ghost of a flea | 2004-09-03 10:49:49 AM
But Ann Coulter called her 'the affable Eva Braun of daytime tv'. Who to believe?!
Posted by: Kathy Shaidle | 2004-09-03 11:02:45 AM
Moore's excuse for his weight (from the article) reminds me of the old story about Soviet propaganda films of the Watts riots.
The government wanted the population to see a poor, downtrodden proletariat rioting against their evil imperalist capitalist oppressors. The people instead saw:
* lots of cars parked along the streets of the poor neighborhoods
* poor families watching their own color televisions -- at home -- to learn about the riots
* those same people apparently had too much to eat, instead of having to stand in line for meager rations of bread, butter and cabbage.
Posted by: Josh Crockett | 2004-09-03 11:08:33 AM
Moore says here he got fat eating cheap starchy foods in the 1980s, while he was on unemployment. And I'll be we've all been there: you've only got a couple of bucks on you. Why not grab the pizza and pop combo, even though you could buy 12 apples with the same dough.
But er, what year is it again?
Moore calls himself a practising Catholic. Last I heard, gluttony is still on the 7 Deadlies.
Posted by: Kathy Shaidle | 2004-09-03 11:08:55 AM
PS, Josh that was a "riot"! Thanks for the great anecdote. How does my favourite Elton John song go again? "Times have changed and now the poor get fat..."
Posted by: Kathy Shaidle | 2004-09-03 11:11:33 AM
C'mon folks, be reasonable.
Isn't it about time we grew up and got past the issue of Moore's weight?
And simply dislike him for being a hypocritical, lying, twat?
Posted by: JonT | 2004-09-03 2:08:44 PM
I just purchased the new book, "Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man". Even though it's a new release, it was practically hidden in my local Chapters (although Moore books are all over the place, prominently displayed). Although the book's title is an immature insult, the book, so far is good. It goes through each of Moore's projects (films, books) and refutes the most significant deceptions.
I also encourage everyone to stay posted for the new feature film documentary hitting theaters soon called "Michael Moore Hates America". Website is www.michaelmoorehatesamerica.com. Should be interesting.
Posted by: Joel | 2004-09-03 2:40:17 PM
I don't think it is a question of Moore's weight per se. But it may be correlated with the obvious, and justified, self-loathing that motivates his work.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea | 2004-09-03 3:00:56 PM
"Moore calls himself a practising Catholic. Last I heard, gluttony is still on the 7 Deadlies."
You can sin and be a practising Catholic.
My guess is that you're mixing up "deadly sins" with "mortal sins". Saint Thomas Aquinas says that "the capital vices [i.e. 'deadly sins'] are those which give rise to others, especially by way of final cause." See the rest of his explanation here:
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/208404.htm
Posted by: Hamilcar | 2004-09-06 3:43:36 AM
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