An Race-Gender Traitor Discusses Michael Moore

Posted on June 18, 2003 in Encounters

I went to a singles group discussion of
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore. (I’m such a heartbreaker!)

After shocking one conservative matron enough to make her get up and leave before the conversation was over (gotta love that open-mindedness!), we talked about whether or not it was the right thing for Michael Moore to “disrupt” the Academy Awards with his little anti-Bush speech.

Me: Normally I don’t go along with such things except when all other channels are blocked.

Person A: Well, he’s free to talk at the universities. He can get the word out there.

Me: How many of you have been to a speaker event at a university in the last year?

[Two hands go up.]

Person B: Well there’s the newspapers.

Person C: (sarcastically) Yeah, like the Register. [The Register is known for a perspective so slanted they have to nail the furniture to the floor so that it doesn’t fall out of the building. Think Fox News printed on dead trees.]

Me: OK, who read the newspaper this morning?

Person C: (chuckling): I read the Register. Does that count?

[No one else raises her or his hands.]

Everyone watched television. And I informed them of what we have lost: first, the right to air dissenting opinions against the likes of Bill O’Reilly and Mike Savage. Second, as of two weeks ago, Clear Channel can buy up all the radio stations in an area and broadcast just one thing.

Even Person A and B agreed that that wasn’t a good thing. They’re not here yet, but they are thinking.