Dude, Where's Mike's Dignity?

[Guest guest]

I just read most of Michael Moore's book, " Dude Where's my country " .

Most of it I really enjoyed, and even though I already basically knew

what he said, he filled in the details and it was fairly

entertaining. That is, until I get to the chapter " How to talk to

your conservative brother in law " . (which would be more aptly

titled " How to sell out " ) In this chapter he suggests that the best

way for liberal-minded inviduals to convince their moderate to

conservative family and friends to vote Democrat in the next election

is to first acknowledge the instances where liberals have been

wrong.

 

Some of it is silliness and I suppose it is meant to be taken with a

grain of salt. (For example, " Yes, men and women are different. "

Men commit by far more violent crimes and it is usually only women

who seem to care about making beds. In other words, there is no

politically significant between gender which should prevent women

from having the same exact rights as men).

 

But then Michael Moore babbles about how vegetarianism is bullshit.

Vegetarianism is unhealthy, he says, humans need lots of protein and

should be eating t-bones, not alfalfa sprouts. Then he devotes a

paragraph to mocking the idea of animal rights. Now, I didn't expect

Michael Moore to be a vegan or anything, but I thought he could at

least tolerate our views.

 

Why did he feel the need to rant about something he obviously knows

nothing about? (Especially considering most of his readers are

probably liberals, and thus more likely to be vegetarians). In the

majority of his book he cites his sources but in this chapter he just

spouts out his hedonistic opinions with no source. Of course it's

hard to tell when he's being serious. But, I lost a lot of respect

for him. And you think that he would know that the meat industry is

one of the biggest recipients of corporate welfare. Ugh! Well, I

suppose I should have seen this coming. In " The Big one " he

complained how Mc Donald's put vegetables on his fish sandwich.