Excuse the artsy-sounding title, but it popped into my head and is suitable—read on…
One of my favorite writers, David Frum, wrote this couple of paragraphs a few days ago about a TV interview he was doing in Miami recently.
I arrived home late last night after a day in Miami doing a panel for BBC’s “Question Time” with Sidney Blumenthal, a Miami area lawyer who specializes in voting issues, the British columnist and TV personality Richard Littlejohn, and the notorious Michael Moore.
Moore arrived late in his trademark jeans, shirt, working man’s jacket, and baseball cap. One of the BBC producers made a joke about the contrast between his outfit and my own Washington-standard-issue blue suit and red tie. I replied that I’d noticed that Moore was wearing a watch that cost at least fifteen times as much as every article of clothing on my body. I learned later that he’d arrived by private jet. Ave et salute, tribune of the plebs!
“No blood for oil”, indeed. Michael Moore better pray America goes to war for oil, not just to refill his jet, but so there’ll be enough left for us here in the peanut gallery…
But really I was simply struck once again by the flagrant hypocrisy and phoniness of many in the liberal-left—as exemplified by Michael Moore. I believe Moore is emblematic of the liberal-left—I’ve said before that Michael Moore is the new liberal King. I suspect Moore has a walk-in closet jam-packed with identical, slightly filthy, disgusting-looking jeans and baseball caps numbering in the order of 350 of each, and countless pairs of ratty filthy sneakers (never Nike, duh).
It’s as if he thinks of life as a little theater production and he lives his daily life in his little costume—the role he’s playing is a portrayal of the poor hard-done-by worker being “dissed by da man”. But the production is so cheap and poorly produced that the wardrobe-meister forgot to tell him to wear a cheap piece-of-junk watch, too, and like a poor TV sit-com, once you clue-in and focus on the annoying inconsistencies, the laugh track and countless other inadequacies come to light and all sorts of other things rear their phony and hideous heads and you simply can’t look anymore.
Here’s a man who will fly around in his private jet after having left his million-dollar abode each morning, campaigning for John Kerry, pretending to be an “average guy”. He deplanes from his private jet in campaign stops around the country (which nobody sees, luckily for him), only to load his bulk into a Toyota Prius in order to appear average and environmentally conscious, which everybody sees. It wouldn’t surprise me to catch him purposely applying one of his strangely well-worn (yet new) sneakers to the side of his rented Priuses at airports around the country, just to make them appear “not new”.
But you have to be paying attention to see some of this, unfortunately. His acting ability does seem to be Hollywood quality, and many frankly seem to be entranced—buying all this as if it’s real. I know, I’ve been caught-up in moments too, only to be slightly embarrassed a little later when I realize how dumb I was being. But, you know, therein lies the clue: you do have to wake up.
If I were a liberal, I’d be a little embarrassed by this new liberal King. But I’m not sure there’s a huge difference between him and the others they’ve got to choose from. When one lacks absolute values and convictions as so many liberals do, one tends to be this way by necessity—flailing around, dithering, flip-flopping, and play-acting.
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