LETTERS
Moore and More
As outrageous as it sounds to anyone who knows me, I love Michael Moore.
I realize the man looks as though he’s unfamiliar with soap and water and has never met an order of french fries he didn’t like. And politically we couldn’t be farther apart.
Moreover, at first glance, it seems like a blow to President Bush when you hear about the long lines of people waiting to see Moore’s movie, “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
Yet, most of the viewers are probably people predisposed to believe anything bad about George W. Bush no matter the truth. Years ago I watched a documentary on President Clinton accusing him of crimes ranging from drug dealing to murder, and because of my disposition at the time, I thoroughly devoured the whole cant. It is one of the least proud moments in my life, when emotion overshadowed the truth.
There is the chance that Moore could change a few minds. But recently, as I was waiting for my son at the airport, I overheard a conversation between two shrill young women about Moore’s movie. You couldn’t miss their assorted piercings and lack of diction and my immediate assumption was that Moore had bagged two inarticulate creatures to his point of view.
But I had misjudged them. As I continued listening, it was obvious they knew the film was filled with half-truths and that they had negative feelings about it and the “liberal loonies” who support the film. I almost approached the girls and hugged them.
So, I love Michael Moore because I think he could be the best thing to happen to the Republican Party and the president. My man Michael represents the far left fringe of the Democratic Party. Moore, Sean Penn and the rest of the Hollywood “in crowd” might just scare average, independent-thinking Americans into Republican arms.
After all, there is a reason Tom Daschle is running around his state denying that he hugged Moore at the preview of his movie.
Barbara Hiller Johnson
Cowan Heights
I’ve read that people in Iraq hate us 15 months after we liberated that country.
Heck, 60 years after we liberated France, people there still hate us.
Howard J. Klein
Irvine
Marriage is no longer a sacred institution in America,and for that you can thank our California senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein.
They had the chance, when voting on the Federal Marriage Amendment, to stand up for traditional matrimony. They opted instead to open the door to cultural chaos.
Jim Shields
Anaheim
Baaa
Judging from the July 19 OC Insider, it sounds like EE RR is enjoying life in Goat Hill, er, Costa Mesa! (My mom lives there, too.)
Ann Romano
Capistrano Beach
