A 9/20/04 EMailing List Message from Michael Moore

[Guest guest]

Hello Friends,

I am on Mr. Michael Moore's mailing list and below is what he sent out the other

day!

 

Take a few deep breaths, stretch your legs out, rotate your head gently around,

go get a nice drink of herbal tea or raw milk and sit down to read this message

from Michael! All is not over.

 

Much Love, Pamela

 

 

9/20/04

 

Dear Friends,

 

Enough of the handwringing! Enough of the doomsaying! Do I have to come there

and personally calm you down? Stop with all the defeatism, OK? Bush IS a goner

-- IF we all just quit our whining and bellyaching and stop shaking like a bunch

of nervous ninnies. Geez, this is embarrassing! The Republicans are laughing at

us. Do you ever see them cry, " Oh, it's all over! We are finished! Bush can't

win! Waaaaaa! "

 

Hell no. It's never over for them until the last ballot is shredded. They are

never finished -- they just keeping moving forward like sharks that never sleep,

always pushing, pulling, kicking, blocking, lying.

 

They are relentless and that is why we secretly admire them -- they just simply

never, ever give up. Only 30% of the country calls itself " Republican, " yet the

Republicans own it all -- the White House, both houses of Congress, the Supreme

Court and the majority of the governorships. How do you think they've been able

to pull that off considering they are a minority? It's because they eat you and

me and every other liberal for breakfast and then spend the rest of the day

wreaking havoc on the planet.

 

Look at us -- what a bunch of crybabies. Bush gets a bounce after his convention

and you would have thought the Germans had run through Poland again. The Bushies

are coming, the Bushies are coming! Yes, they caught Kerry asleep on the Swift

Boat thing. Yes, they found the frequency in Dan Rather and ran with it.

Suddenly it's like, " THE END IS NEAR! THE SKY IS FALLING! "

 

No, it is not. If I hear one more person tell me how lousy a candidate Kerry is

and how he can't win... Dammit, of COURSE he's a lousy candidate -- he's a

Democrat, for heavens sake! That party is so pathetic, they even lose the

elections they win! What were you expecting, Bruce Springsteen heading up the

ticket? Bruce would make a helluva president, but guys like him don't run -- and

neither do you or I. People like Kerry run.

 

Yes, OF COURSE any of us would have run a better, smarter, kick-ass campaign. Of

course we would have smacked each and every one of those phony swifty boaty

bastards down. But WE are not running for president -- Kerry is. So quit

complaining and work with what we have. Oprah just gave 300 women a... Pontiac!

Did you see any of them frowning and moaning and screaming, " Oh God, NOT a

friggin' Pontiac! " Of course not, they were happy. The Pontiacs all had four

wheels, an engine and a gas pedal. You want more than that, well, I can't help

you. I had a Pontiac once and it lasted a good year. And it was a VERY good

year.

 

My friends, it is time for a reality check.

 

1. The polls are wrong. They are all over the map like diarrhea. On Friday, one

poll had Bush 13 points ahead -- and another poll had them both tied. There are

three reasons why the polls are b.s.: One, they are polling " likely voters. "

" Likely " means those who have consistently voted in the past few elections. So

that cuts out young people who are voting for the first time and a ton of

non-voters who are definitely going to vote in THIS election. Second, they are

not polling people who use their cell phone as their primary phone. Again, that

means they are not talking to young people. Finally, most of the polls are

weighted with too many Republicans, as pollster John Zogby revealed last week.

You are being snookered if you believe any of these polls.

 

2. Kerry has brought in the Clinton A-team. Instead of shunning Clinton (as Gore

did), Kerry has decided to not make that mistake.

 

3. Traveling around the country, as I've been doing, I gotta tell ya, there is a

hell of a lot of unrest out there. Much of it is not being captured by the

mainstream press. But it is simmering and it is real. Do not let those

well-produced Bush rallies of angry white people scare you. Turn off the TV!

(Except Jon Stewart and Bill Moyers -- everything else is just a sugar-coated

lie).

 

4. Conventional wisdom says if the election is decided on " 9/11 " (the fear of

terrorism), Bush wins. But if it is decided on the job we are doing in Iraq,

then Bush loses. And folks, that " job, " you might have noticed, has descended

into the third level of a hell we used to call Vietnam. There is no way out. It

is a full-blown mess of a quagmire and the body bags will sadly only mount

higher. Regardless of what Kerry meant by his original war vote, he ain't the

one who sent those kids to their deaths -- and Mr. and Mrs. Middle America knows

it. Had Bush bothered to show up when he was in the " service " he might have

somewhat of a clue as to how to recognize an immoral war that cannot be " won. "

All he has delivered to Iraq was that plasticized turkey last Thanksgiving. It

is this failure of monumental proportions that is going to cook his goose come

this November.

 

So, do not despair. All is not over. Far from it. The Bush people need you to

believe that it is over. They need you to slump back into your easy chair and

feel that sick pain in your gut as you contemplate another four years of George

W. Bush. They need you to wish we had a candidate who didn't windsurf and who

was just as smart as we were when WE knew Bush was lying about WMD and Saddam

planning 9/11. It's like Karl Rove is hypnotizing you -- " Kerry voted for the

war...Kerry voted for the war...Kerrrrrryyy vooootted fooooor theeee

warrrrrrrrrr... "

 

Yes...Yes...Yesssss...He did! HE DID! No sense in fighting now...what I need is

sleep...sleeep...sleeeeeeppppp...

 

WAKE UP! The majority are with us! More than half of all Americans are

pro-choice, want stronger environmental laws, are appalled that assault weapons

are back on the street -- and 54% now believe the war is wrong. YOU DON'T EVEN

HAVE TO CONVINCE THEM OF ANY OF THIS -- YOU JUST HAVE TO GIVE THEM A RAY OF HOPE

AND A RIDE TO THE POLLS. CAN YOU DO THAT? WILL YOU DO THAT?

 

Just for me, please? Buck up. The country is almost back in our hands. Not

another negative word until Nov. 3rd! Then you can bitch all you want about how

you wish Kerry was still that long-haired kid who once had the courage to stand

up for something. Personally, I think that kid is still inside him. Instead of

the wailing and gnashing of your teeth, why not hold out a hand to him and help

the inner soldier/protester come out and defeat the forces of evil we now so

desperately face. Do we have any other choice?

 

Yours,

 

Michael Moore

www.michaelmoore.com

mmflint

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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