Michael Moore

[Spurminator]

I'm always amazed by how easy it is to rally people into complete hysteria over comments they never would have otherwise heard, made by someone with absolutely no influence on any kind of policy or legislation.

Does Michael Moore even have an audience anymore, besides FOX News producers looking for a story?

Hypothetically, a news organization could pick a random person on Twitter and devote an entire news day to discussing whether a random comment of his was offensive. And people would go for this. They would get angry, voice their opinion on the topic, argue with people about it, and at the end of the day feel they did some part in defending America by slowing the creeping death of patriotism.

It's fascinating.

[baseline bum]

He's the left wing version of Rush Limbaugh; i.e., a partisan hack lightning rod who gets off on saying stupid shit just to get emotional responses out of the other side. Two fat fuck professional trolls who got rich by spewing bullshit.

[Wild Cobra]

Michael Moore-on isn't worthy of another thread.

[Spurminator]

The thread is less about Michael Moore than our obsession with opinions we wouldn't have even been exposed to without media that supposedly opposes those opinions helping to amplify them. I suppose I could have picked a better title.

[FromWayDowntown]

My favorite part is when the masses decide, after having beaten the opinion and its speaker to a proverbial pulp, that nobody should care about what Michael Moore (or whatever other "celebrity" we've chosen to take issue with on a given day) has to say, which raises the salient question this thread poses: why does anyone even pretend to care in the first place?

Isn't there real news to cover without having to manufacture outrage about an opinion that won't change anything?

[ChumpDumper]

Since he got famous he has a pathological need to overplay his hand. Could have been a real voice for the left; just an irrelevant joke now.

[Spurminator]

Since he got famous he has a pathological need to overplay his hand. Could have been a real voice for the left; just an irrelevant joke now.

Yeah he went into troll mode during the W administration... Oh well.

[Oh, Gee!!]

24-hour networks devoted to news will do this because they have to fill time with something. What's funnier to me is when one cable news program does a "story" about the "story" that was run on a different news program earlier in the day on the same network.

[baseline bum]

Yeah he went into troll mode during the W administration... Oh well.

Moore has been a dickhead ever since the interview with Matt Stone in Bowling for Columbine where he did that NRA cartoon in South Park style that came on right after to make it seem like Stone did it. Stone gives a pretty interesting interview in the movie and Moore went and tried to completely misrepresent him with that fucking cartoon.

Zqh6Ap9ldTs

[ElNono]

24-hour networks devoted to news will do this because they have to fill time with something. What's funnier to me is when one cable news program does a "story" about the "story" that was run on a different news program earlier in the day on the same network.

Don't watch much cable news, but I remember them sitting down and interviewing their own journalists about X story... ridiculous.

[ChumpDumper]

Moore has been a dickhead ever since the interview with Matt Stone in Bowling for Columbine where he did that NRA cartoon in South Park style that came on right after to make it seem like Stone did it. Stone gives a pretty interesting interview in the movie and Moore went and tried to completely misrepresent him with that fucking cartoon.

Zqh6Ap9ldTsYep.

Overplaying his hand.

The overall, pretty powerful message of Columbine was lost in the controversies over Moore's stupid editing choices with Heston and, to a lesser extent, Stone.

[Spurminator]

24-hour networks devoted to news will do this because they have to fill time with something. What's funnier to me is when one cable news program does a "story" about the "story" that was run on a different news program earlier in the day on the same network.

... usually accompanied by the Headline of "Controversy over ...etc"

[baseline bum]

... usually accompanied by the Headline of "Controversy over ...etc"

Chomsky called this shit years ago in Manufacturing Consent. The media gives you stupid soundbite stories that evoke emotional responses because they don't want you informed.

[in2deep]

Moore's comments are no different than the drawings of the prophet by Charlie

just fishing for reaction IMO

[hater]

when Charlie Hebdo does it it's ok, but when Moore does it it's all of a sudden a bid deal?

:lol americans

[boutons_deux]

I'm always amazed by how easy it is to rally people into complete hysteriaIt's fascinating.

who are these "people"? examples? esp examples "besides FOX News producers looking for a story", outside of the right-wing hate media?

the right-wing hysteria and outrage are always fabricated, programmed, false, intended to rouse their ignorant rabble.

[MultiTroll]

Two fat fuck professional trolls who got rich by spewing bullshit.
:lol
The Kuuntdashians, etc. These no talents would get no play if they were simply put on ignore.

[TeyshaBlue]

who are these "people"? examples? esp examples "besides FOX News producers looking for a story", outside of the right-wing hate media?

the right-wing hysteria and outrage are always fabricated, programmed, false, intended to rouse their ignorant rabble.

CBS, The Guardian, MSNBC et al. Use Google, idiot.

[Spurminator]

who are these "people"? examples? esp examples "besides FOX News producers looking for a story", outside of the right-wing hate media?

the right-wing hysteria and outrage are always fabricated, programmed, false, intended to rouse their ignorant rabble.

When you have a social life, you are exposed to a variety of different conversations. Often this can serve as a sample of what people in the world are talking about.

Try it some time! It's fun!

[TeyshaBlue]

:lmao:lmao:lmao

[spurraider21]

I'm always amazed by how easy it is to rally people into complete hysteria over comments they never would have otherwise heard, made by someone with absolutely no influence on any kind of policy or legislation.

Does Michael Moore even have an audience anymore, besides FOX News producers looking for a story?

Hypothetically, a news organization could pick a random person on Twitter and devote an entire news day to discussing whether a random comment of his was offensive. And people would go for this. They would get angry, voice their opinion on the topic, argue with people about it, and at the end of the day feel they did some part in defending America by slowing the creeping death of patriotism.

It's fascinating.
was it only fox news that mentioned his tweets, tbh?

[CosmicCowboy]

:lol


Since their initial remarks, Moore and Rogen have said their comments were taken out of context. Moore said he wasn’t directly referring to the film in his comments about snipers.

Rogen said he actually liked the film and wrote a new tweet Monday saying he wasn’t directly comparing “American Sniper” with the propaganda movie in “Inglourious Basterds.” “Big difference between comparing and reminding,” he wrote. “Apples remind me of oranges. Can’t compare them, though.”

[TeyshaBlue]

lol chickenshits

[Spurminator]

was it only fox news that mentioned his tweets, tbh?

I'm sure they weren't. Michael Moore trended on Twitter for two straight days. Fox was the example I used to suggest the only people listening to him might be people who are looking for content to get their audience talking about something.

[boutons_deux]

When you have a social life, you are exposed to a variety of different conversations. Often this can serve as a sample of what people in the world are talking about.

so you have no examples, got it.

[Spurminator]

so you have no examples, got it.

Your posting style is so incomprehensible that I'm never sure what question you're actually asking. Are you asking for examples of Left-leaning media who create hysteria, or examples of people who get hysterical?

For media, Jezebel comes to mind. Example: Justine Sacco. Some nobody that suddenly became Internet infamous because of a racial tweet.

For hysterical people, just fucking look at Twitter for a few minutes.

[TeyshaBlue]

so you have no examples, got it.
So you cant/wont read. Got it.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=243572&p=7792524&viewfull=1#post7792524