Michael Moore Is Bored, Mad At Cuban Exiles
Michael Moore hasn’t been getting a lot of attention lately, and he’d like to change that. Let’s see, what would be something to get worked up about? The government? It’s been done. Healthcare? Nah, boring. America’s growing obesity epidemic that might be putting a strain on said healthcare system? Um. Quick, think of something. Ah! Cubans:
“Florida’s Cubans” writes Moore in his book, “Downsize This,” are responsible for “sleaze and influence-peddling in American politics. In every incident of national torment that has deflated our country for the past three decades — Cuban exiles are always present and involved.”
Honey, please. The only people who actually believe Cubans are responsible for everything are Cubans.
Moore himself denounces Republicans as “people who hate … people who get up at 6 in the morning trying to figure out which minority group they’re going to screw today.”
But in “Downsize This,” Moore was insulting Cuban-Americans (80 percent Republicans), you see. So all is forgiven. So instead of being pummeled as a bigot by the usual media sniffers and snouters, Moore was feted as the guest of honor at the last Democratic National Convention, squatting his gargantuan gluteus in the very president’s box alongside Jimmy Carter.
Then waddling onto the stage at Boston’s Fleet Center to a whooping, hollering ovation rivaling even the one that deafened Fidel Castro when he addressed Harvard Law School and Washington’s National Press Club in 1959, though it was close.
“These Cuban exiles, for all their chest-thumping and terrorism, are really just a bunch of wimps — that’s right, Wimps!” Moore continues in his book. His smear refers to all Cubans who left Cuba but singles out the Bay of Pigs freedom-fighters for particular scorn. “Ex-Cubans with a yellow stripe down their backs,” he calls them, on top of “crybabies.”
Ex-Cubans? So… not Cubans? So… who are you angry against? Are Cubans who are against Castro’s regime automatically renouncing their Cubanness? Hm, Like, say.Americans who don’t blindly follow their President? Would they be “UnAmerican,” Michael? Yeah, slow down on that food for thought, babycakes.
Michael Moore Sneers at Cuban Americans [Newsmax]
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This is not something new. The author of that excerpt was taking quotes from Moore’s book, “Downsize This.” And while a lot of people like Michael Moore, a lot more acknowledge how ranty he can be with his opinions. He doesn’t only go after Cubans in his book. Which if you read, he refers to “some” Cubans who like to keep the “issue of Cuba” fresh on the U.S. International Policy.
Also. The author of that excerpt is a noted conservative, right up there with the likes of Glenn Beck & your fav. anti-immigrant supporter Lou Dobbs. He’s made guest spots on such conservative shows.
Posted by laura.s.d. | May 16, 2008
This article mentions its an except right at the beginning. Also, even if the source writer s a conservative, it doesn’t really alter the content of Moore’s writing which is xenophobic and misinformed and, yes, ranty and dumb.
Posted by piruli | May 16, 2008
No suprise there, Moore has always been fat disgusting raving idiot. He’s the kind of person that makes me feel ashamed to be liberal.
I’m the first to lament the fact that old-guard Cubans are mostly Republican, but that’s mostly due to Kennedy having screwed them in the Bay - Moore’s comments show that he just another ignorant xenophobic American with no historical perspective.
And he’s fat and ugly.
Posted by dlab | May 16, 2008
@Piruli, oh yeah, you’re right. I didn’t notice that they cited the entire article. The commentary by Guanabee makes it appear fresh however.
I think Michael Moore has a lot of worthwhile opinions, though they don’t always come across in the best form. Besides, the liberal left has the right to have as many crazy nuts as the right wing conservatives have.
Posted by laura.s.d. | May 16, 2008
Ah, Michael Moore, proof that being fat, ugly and disgusting really does trump everything else in terms of desirability. Yes, he is a crazy liberal nut. I am a very liberal liberal, but I rarely agree with anything he says. Again,his words have nothing to do with being a liberal and everything to do with the very American tendency to demonize people who are not like themselves. He has some visceral hatred for everyone who does not share his veiwpoint, and will attack them on every point he can get at, in this case being Cubanness and Americanness. Hilarious, really, since most old guard Cubans refer to themselves as “White”, a classification that seems to only fly in places where Cubans are the majority eg, some parts of Florida, but is often met with confusion everywhere else. But I digress…
I thik the first quote from Moore refers to the couple of Cuban immigrants who were involved in the Watergate break-in way back when. Maybe. Anyway, blaming a specific nationality or immigrant group for all the ills of your country is not a very liberal talking point, but apparently it’s ok because they’re mostly republican!!! And by “mostly republican”, they mean that a sizeable segment of the Cuban-American population within a specific age group in a very specific area of the country tends to historically skew conservative and Republican when it comes to political matters, Gosh, if that’s not generalizing than I don’t know what is.
Posted by yuk | May 18, 2008