What I admire about your trolling, Ogged, is the way you carefully tend the fire after you start it.
Moore's about the only high profile liberal with the guts to pull stunts like this.
Oh for the days when even Democrats had the sense to vote against Gulf War 1.
No one's more Joe Sixpack than Ahmadinejad.
I just hope he doesn't try to interview any potentially senile old rightwing cranks over there. That's when the howls will start.
potentially senile old rightwing cranks
Iran does have it's share of these, does it not?
Not only that but a user, to my shame, of inappropriate apostrophes.
Writer, producer and director, Michael Moore is to come to Iran for the screening of his new production SICKO in the first international documentary film festival held here.
Seriously, good for him. Why shouldn't Americans show their support for Iranian filmmakers?
3: In factories, everyone wants to be Ahmameenimexican.
Iran's holding an international film festival? Cool.
Ogged is associating with Moore again.
Iran's holding an international film festival?
Iran has been making some of the best movies around (in an artsy/alternative sort of way) for the past 15 years or so, not surprising they'd have a festival or two.
Actually, this will probably lead to an upsurge in right-wing pressure to bomb Iran. If they do it in October, they get a twofer -- strike a blow at Islamofacism *and* eliminate Michael Moore.
What I hear about Iran from Iranians, even in the worst days of the hostage crisis, has always been far different from anything I've seen in the media. The exceptions have been the few diehard supporters of the Shah, who have tended to be very unpleasant, murderous, frat-boy types.
Gosh, I can't wait to read what Tim Burke has to say about this needless provocation by Moore. I'm sure it will be very deep - or if not deep, at least very long.
I think Moore has a pretty good response: "hey, I'm the one over there supporting independent cinema and free expression-- you know, things that might actually overthrow the mullahs. Meanwhile, you bomb Iran and these people will hate you even more than they hate their own government. Dicks. Also, John Podhoretz is fat."
So that's why Fred Thompson wants to blockade Iran. ("Look. I'm not old yet. I can make a fist," says Fred.)
Remind me how the "so's your mother" algebra works here. Does this mean Friedman is off the hook for Pinochet?
Oh, now you're a big fan of Michael Moore, Ogged.
14:Civil war on civil liberals! Procedure is our least important product! It's Burn-the-Ivy Day in the Committee Room!
17: Not so much. Reworking a country's economic system at the behest of a malevolent dictator involves a little more culpability than bringing a documentary to a film festival in a country with a nasty government.
I'll throw in an absolution for Jane Fonda!
Civil war on civil liberals!
For what it's worth, I am a milquetoast liberal by temperment, and seldom pass up on a chance to knock (say) Chomsky, for instance, but if Michael Moore is what passes for an unreasonable provocateur nowadays, then I guess I've thrown in with the radicals.
I didn't leave procedural liberalism, procedural liberalism left me.
The "Michael Moore is going to Iran" story has been debunked, and was merely a smear attack on him. Please print a retraction. More info on that hoax story can be found here.