Social Obloquy - Spoons Editorial

After watching Bowling for Columbine Fred and I played Doom II and evicerated a lot of aliens and zombie guys. At school we (not Fred) have been watching The Awful Truth during lunch (in Byle's room) and have concluded that he only shows the results of his "contests" when the results support what he's trying to say. For intance: in one episode he's hanging around some corporation doing his thing when he gets told to leave. Come to find out, the corporate headquarters has issued a proclamation saying what to do if this "Michael Moore" should show up. He gets ahold of this proclamation, and goes to more places to see if they follow the rules that the headquarters sent them. The thing is he has this little score meter on the screen to assign points to them if they followed the thing etc.. while giving himself points if they didn't. The thing is, we all realized that in order to make it look like he won, (which he did) he probably had to go to like 100 locations of this company, film all the outcomes, and broadcast the 12 where the company messed up. Then he poked fun at media mogul Ted Turner for owning more land than Luxomburg - he even wrote a constitution for "Ted's country" that made Ted out to be a fascist dictator with a trampy wife (Jane Fonda) and then brought it to the UN building on the 59th Street Bridge to get it acredited. He also brought along a group of chorus boys singing a song that made fun of Ted Turner in a satirical "national anthem." The reason Michael Moore went to this extent is because Ted Turner expressed desire to run for the presidency, and Michael Moore doesn't like presidents. (Or at least niether George Bush nor Bill Clinton.) He was trying to show that Turner already owned a country. I've stopped actually forming an opinion on this man. My only goal in life is to one day own a company and have him show up. Then I'd put him in a waiting room within earshot of my office where this guy would come in and say to me, "Sir your private helicopter is ready to take you to the Island Fortress for the fox hunt. If this didn't rile Moore up enough, I'd say something like "Do the temp workers have their fox costumes yet? They'd better..." Mmmmm fox...

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Spoonman @ 04/19/03
"Not like I'd actually hire temp workers...hiring temp workers is the worst idea since "Greedo shoots first""

Fred @ 04/19/03
"You have to realize he needed to make a TV show that was interesting. Nobody wants to watch him go to 100 locations. You always have to take things Michael says with a grain of salt, but overall it's good entertainment. It's obvious that not every location was going to have the rules, and he probably went to more locations than he showed, but that's not the point. The point was there WAS a list out there, and it was just a funny idea that he'd keep score. It's the business of television. Assuming that he showed all the locations would be an uneducated assumption. Anyone who knows his left hand from his right could tell that he set it up so it was interesting to watch. It didn't hurt the point in the least, it just made it more barable to watch."

Fred @ 04/19/03
"And to assume that Michael hates presidents is just you being a bigot, and you know that."

Freaky-B @ 04/19/03
"Michael moores book "stupid white men" is sitting on my floor waiting for me to finish my clancy. when i read it i will form a valid opinion on it. Most likely the one that thinks moore is a total anarchist. (maybe not it sounds good) I think you all need to look at executive orders by tom clancy(you might want to read the ones before that. as well) i think the way he protaganoist is dispklayed is what reakky needs to happen in our givernment"

Spoonman @ 04/20/03
"1) I realize the humor of the show, that's why we watch it at lunch - because it's funny. I'm just saying that his contests don't necessarily set anything in stone. 2)Show me a president Michael Moore likes: (and I don't see how it makes me a bigot) 3)Freakburrito: "reakky givernment" are you drunk?"

Spoonman @ 04/20/03
"Addendum to "2)"Although I do agree that saying he doesn't like presidents in a blatent oversimplification"

Fred @ 04/20/03
"He likes presidential candidates, he just hasn't liked many of the things that most of the recient presidents have done. And you're a bigot, because if he was less liberal, you wouldn't be so against him. (That's bigotry: One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or POLITICS and is intolerant of those who differ.)"

Spoonman @ 04/21/03
"And you're a bigot because if Charleton Heston was less right-wing fascist you wouldn't be against him, by that logic."

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