[lbo-talk] Americas Vichy Left vs. Michael Moore

[Stephen E Philion]

Another LA Weekly leftie, an old hippie named Marc Cooper, is even more
openly hostile in his March 5th piece " Cooper literally hates Moore, so
much so that he's willing to openly admit his deeper allegiance to the
Right rather than support one of his own who's made it: "Call me a
nostalgic or even a stupid, white man, but when I hear the bellowing of
Michael Moore I achingly long for the days of Mort Sahl. Or even, yes,
it's true, William F. Buckley."

exile.ru's article wrote: It's strange, but even though Leftists have
always criticized America's militarism when it was at its worst, for
some reason, when Moore criticizes it, the masks come off and the Left
is outraged, moving in to crush him at all costs for daring to suggest
that America shouldn't be invading other countries. Maybe that's because
they're envious that for once, someone's being listened to

--Cooper delcared that the only people who would like the movie would be

 seals clapping in the audience. But on his blog comment section, a good
number of positive reviews of the film came from commenters who were not
on the left at all.  very interesting.  also the film is being reported
around the country as having a good reception by vets, repubs., etc.