Boycott Connecticut?

Just when you thought Ned Lamont Party's absurd rage against Joe Lieberman couldn't get worse -- trying to get his wife fired? "punching the guy out"? -- now Michael Moore wants liberals to boycott Connecticut?

Great. All you liberals in Connecticut, move to Vermont. And then we'll rename Connecticut "Oklahoma."

Schadenfreude

by Smitty (h/t Anorak News)

Apparently, the gravitas of Michael Moore was enough to pull down the ratings for Jay Leno's second show by a hefty 42%.

Michael packs significant inertia, and it fills the screen, toppling the flat panel from the TV stand to lie there, in a pose nearly useless enough to resemble one of Moore's films.

Meanwhile, Aleister at American Glob has your cable ratings carpet bombing report. Shag me.

Couldn't have happend to a more despicable piece of work

by Smitty (h/t Drudge)

(Fixed: Whacky Hermit caught my New Old Math moment.)

A score and six local youths,
Could not at all a difference make.
Judges, wise, acquainted with truths,
Discerned between sirloin and mistake.

Two prominent American pictures were shut out of the festival's official jury awards -- Michael Moore's attack on corporate greed, Capitalism: A Love Story, and The Weinstein Company's The Road, which John Hillcoat adapted from Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel. This will no doubt affect Harvey Weinstein' release plans for it. Moore's pic did receive the Leoncino d'oro Award from 26 local youths selected by the festival, but nothing from the official jury -- even though he personally came to Venice to premiere his documentary (see trailer here).

Previously: Which raging pile of fertilizer will be more fun to ignore?

Which raging pile of fertilizer will be more fun to ignore?

by Smitty

Competition for the "Worst Use of Human Time" expressed in film is rather tough this year.

I can't figure out if some hagiographic portrait of an idiot bent on destroying his country is worse than a movie by some corpulent capitalist about the evils of what made him rich.

A sort of intellectual Scylla and Charybdis, that brace of clowns.

One suspects their fans in Venezuela, North Korea, Myanmar, Syria, etc. would be pleased, if the idiotic ideas presented would lead to enough spare electricity to run the film.

The Blog Prof has an excellent post on Moore's compost.

Update:
Carolyn's Closet has some quotations, which is more moronic Moore than I'd suffer, but she's tougher.

Ace brings the funny

At Big Hollywood, musing on what patriotism in the Obama Age means to Michael Moore.

Michelle Malkin, Michael Moore agree?

Michelle Malkin has been an outspoken critic of the proposed bailout from the start. Now Michael Moore adds his considerable weight to the opposition:

The biggest robbery in the history of this country is taking place as you read this. Though no guns are being used, 300 million hostages are being taken. Make no mistake about it: After stealing a half trillion dollars to line the pockets of their war-profiteering backers for the past five years, after lining the pockets of their fellow oilmen to the tune of over a hundred billion dollars in just the last two years, Bush and his cronies -- who must soon vacate the White House -- are looting the U.S. Treasury of every dollar they can grab. They are swiping as much of the silverware as they can on their way out the door.

This is probably not the kind of "bipartisan consensus" Nancy Pelosi and John McCain had in mind.

VIDEO: Via Hot Air, Democrats in 2004 insist nothing is wrong at Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, accuse Republicans of "lynching" Franklin Raines, oppose GOP efforts to reform mortgage industry.

(Cross-posted at AmSpecBlog.)

Gustav postpones RNC

Just saw the news conference where RNC officials announced that they are canceling all Monday's convention business in St. Paul except a 2-hour meeting to conclude necessary business.

Josh Marshall: "Of course, it's hard not to see this as political posturing." Right. When everything is political, everything is political.

Geez, some people need to get a life.

UPDATE: Ignoring the weather is an old habit of mine. My wife can't sleep at night unless she sees the next day's weather forecast on the news, but my attitude is, "If it rains, it rains." And I particularly ignore forecasts of catastrophic weather. People in the D.C. region tend to freak completely out at the approach of any weather system that might possibly contain a single snowflake. Not me. I take pride in never having missed a day of work because of snow.

All this by way of explaining why I've ignored Hurricane Gustav's approach to the Gulf Coast until a few hours before it is expected to make landfall. If you live in a coastal area of the Southeast, in late summer you will be bothered by the occasional hurricane. Beyond the coastal areas, however, a hurricane just means a day or two of heavy rain. Being from Atlanta, I grew up watching TV news as hurricanes slam Florida every year, with occasional hits on other Gulf states or maybe the Carolinas.

Hurricanes are nothing unusual, and they don't really affect the lives of most Americans. But since Katrina, because Democrats blamed Republican for the destruction of New Orleans, hurricanes have become politicized. And so now we have Michael Moore writing an "open letter to God" about Gustav, and going on TV to make a complete ass of himself:



I object to this, and not merely because I object to anything that gives Michael Moore an excuse to haul his fat ass out of his crumb-strewn Barcalounger and into a TV studio.

In a free society, not everything is political.

When you start politicizing the weather, you really need to rethink your priorities. Despite the Chicken Little "storm of the century" response of Ray Nagin to the approach of Gustav, the overhwhelming likelihood is that Gustav will not hit New Orleans, will not cause wholesale devastation, and will not result in the need for a massive humanitarian relief effort.

This means that Republicans have, in all probability, canceled Monday's prime-time convention activities for no good reason, thus ceding to liberals the argument that even the weather is political. The besetting sins of the GOP are not greed and indifference, but cowardice and stupidity.

UPDATE II: Michelle Malkin: "God is not on your side, gloating sleazeballs."