The new commercial for Michael Moore’s crappy movie shows him conversing with an unidentified woman; he says, “it’s a great country.” She agrees. I wonder what country they were talking about. As David Brooks points out, it couldn’t have been this one.

To the British newspaper The Mirror: “They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet...we Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.”
To an audience in Munich: "That's why we're smiling all the time...we've got that big [expletive] grin on our face all the time because our brains aren't loaded down."
At Cambridge: "You're stuck with being connected to this country of mine, which is known for bringing sadness and misery to places around the globe."
[All quotes come from the Brooks piece. I recently thought of tracking down documentation for these quotes in order to write a post like this one; Mr. Brooks has beaten me to it. I defer to his credibility.]

That said, I now begin my boycott of Moore and his stupid movie. Never again will either be mentioned on this blog, unless I think of a really, really good insult.

- posted by Dactyl @ 10:12 AM