'Lifelong Catholic' Michael Moore Bashes Pro-Lifers as 'Really, Really Weird...Uterus Police'
When the Washington Post promoted snippets from Michael Moore's forthcoming book on Sunday, they portrayed Moore as a "lifelong Catholic" -- which is a bit of a strange label when a paragraph later, the Post was bashing the "uterus police" who oppose abortion as "really, really weird."
But then, the "Catholic" blurb the Post picked let Moore imagine himself as a playwright composing an "avant-garde" version of Jesus dying on the cross, where he lectured like a liberal about how nobody else had compassion for the poor, the sick, and the downtrodden:
On Jesus: A lifelong Catholic, Moore penned a play — “a little avant-garde number about Jesus’s crucifixion” — while struggling through his first and only term as the lone hippie on his home town’s school board. “ ‘This is where you people want me?’ Jesus shouted to the audience,” Moore writes. “ ‘Just nailed to a cross? So you don’t have to listen to me anymore about caring for the poor or the sick or the downtrodden?’ ” The school board held a special election to recall Moore, but he prevailed.
On abortion: In 1971, while still in high school, Moore cared for a friend who was almost killed by a botched illegal abortion. “Human life begins when the fetus can survive outside the womb,” he writes in a footnote. “Some people, I guess, just like to be the uterus police, the bossypants of other women’s reproductive parts. And that has always struck me as really, really weird.”
Apparently, neither writer Justin Moyer nor anyone else at the Post can imagine that Jesus might be heartbroken at a woman killing her unborn child, that he might have lamented that kind of savagery from the Cross. Somehow, the unborn child is never the "downtrodden." But they can imagine a "lifelong Catholic" who thinks his Pope and bishops and priests are all serious weirdos.
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He's no Catholic, and he's
Submitted by rbosque on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 3:25pm.
He's no Catholic, and he's certainly no God to decide who lives or dies.
and the devil once was an
Submitted by jkwtrading on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 3:38pm.
and the devil once was an angel in heaven.
catholic democrats
Submitted by kata on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 3:42pm.
another classic case of Doublethink. My mother is a catholic dem and comes from a huge family of catholic dems. I don't get it. I don't think I will ever get it.
Meat-eating vegans
Submitted by Tim Graham on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 3:54pm.
It used to be you could be an Irish Catholic Democrat...and there were many, like Moore's parents, and like my relatives. But not so much since Roe vs. Wade. "Pro-life Democrats" have faded dramatically over time. Dennis Kucinich (Mr. Department of Peace) even decided to support the violence of abortion in his quixotic pursuit of the presidency.
You don't have to be a Republican to be a Catholic. But reporters should know that Catholics are encouraged to support the sanctity of life -- so being an ardent pro-abortion Catholic is like being a meat-eating vegan.
MM joins the ranks of the "devout Catholics"
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 4:05pm.
or those who I call "Kennedy Catholics."
They just think the Church should change its stand on abortion, divorce, and homosexuality.
Other than that, they're cool with it.
Fiction
Submitted by KC Mulville on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 3:50pm.
I love how the observation about abortion begins with showing Moore being compassionate (caring for a friend), as if that lends credence to what he's about to say. That's just a different form of ad hominem argument, by arguing that Moore must be right because he's a compassionate person.
Of course, the story that Moore formed his conviction about abortion based on his compassion for this friend is probably apocryphal. Moore has a track record of inventing and framing stories to advance his agenda, and the truth is his first casualty. Even so, even if true, one has to wonder if Moore has ever questioned a conviction he came to ... in high school.
So many of these guys came to their worldview in high school (Ricky Gervais said he became an atheist at the age of eight), and have never shown any evidence of intellectually advancing beyond that. Maybe that's why their arguments are so ... adolescent.
Was his friend
Submitted by Bodini on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 4:45pm.
Barney Frank? I don't think root surgery to give you a permanent lisp is called an abortion! That is called an abomination.
Let's see the WaPost & M Moore go after Carter & the Dalai Lama
Submitted by Gary Hall on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 3:51pm.
Let's see the WaPost and Michael Moore go after Jimmy Carter & the Dalai Lama like they go after the majority in the US:
Next time that Moore and Carter sit next to each other at a Democrat National Convention, we can only hope that someone holds up a sign calling their attention to this matter - and that Matt Lauer shows the clip on his broadcast.
And
(;~/ gary
I'd like to know
Submitted by Hoosier Conservative on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 3:58pm.
which part of the Bible justifies Moore's beliefs in big government - or even advises that big government is capable of being compassionate to those poor people.
Almost every passage in the Bible that deals with government paints it in a bad light.
Those compassionate poor
Submitted by jkwtrading on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 7:16pm.
Those compassionate poor people killed 7 this weekend in Chicago.
Smorgasbord Catholics...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 4:14pm.
...Just go through the line and pick and choose what you believe in and leave the rest...
We call them 'C & E'
Submitted by Soldat44 on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 5:31pm.
We call them 'C & E' catholics (lower case 'c' on purpose). They only show for Mass on Christmas and Easter.
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln:
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 4:21pm.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
And Jesus said "I knew you
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 4:46pm.
And Jesus said "I knew you not"
Perfect!
Submitted by Soldat44 on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 5:29pm.
Perfect!
Earmuffs!
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 4:52pm.
Michael Moore is a fat fucking pig excuse of human being. Fetch my Louisville Slugger it's time to tenderize his head.
Michael Moore is indeed that, Bill Brasky,---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 5:44pm.
but dropping the F bomb actually takes away from your message rather than enhancing it.
I don't like coming across as a language police type because I am the last person who should quibble about insensitive words; but consider that we have many contributors here who find that particular word or derivations of it to be highly offensive.
Please consider my post as friendly advice rather than as a combative stance.
MD
does anyone moderate this website?
Submitted by Hoosier Conservative on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 6:05pm.
seriously?
I'd have to agree with MD,
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 6:17pm.
you sound no different than those that inhabit Kos or DU. The sentiment is spot on, the F-bomb not necessary to make that point.
Bill...I agree with the
Submitted by celator on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 6:33pm.
Bill...I agree with the comments about your foul language. We don't like it. You can make your point and be more focused, clear and spot on without dropping words bombs.
I use this a lot:
http://dictionary.reference.com/
Bishops
Submitted by kiwikit on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 4:53pm.
are neglecting their duty to excommunicate these anti-life, pretend Catholics. They are a scandal to those who follow the tenets of the Church.
In Mooron's case
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 5:03pm.
I'd make an exception and look into real late term abortion. Just think of the carbon footprint alone.
I am sick and tired of
Submitted by talkradio55 on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 5:16pm.
I am sick and tired of Democrats pretending to be Catholic or any kind of Christian. Moore is just another in a long life of Democrats who fake Catholicism to curry favor with people they hate anyway (Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, the Kennedys (except for Eunice Shriver), John Kerry, et. al.). The Left wants to carry the name of Christian, but they don't want to actually live by any of God's commands. They want to rewrite Jesus' teachings so that he was a Communist who lived in a commune, redistributed wealth, hated people with money, and despised self-interest. Social justice is the ruse by which they use the Bible to undermine Christianity and with it, any pretense of a moral society.
And a fat turd like Moore is
Submitted by Martin2717 on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 5:44pm.
And a fat turd like Moore is nothing but a no-good, baby-killing scumbag.
Spare Us The Histrionics, Puhleeese!
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 6:09pm.
This fat fag's sperm will never meet up with an ovum. Thank God he will not procreate.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
So what you're saying is, he's short and fat....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 8:30pm.
...and also not very tall...
I recognize Moore.
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 6:12pm.
I do believe I saw him get his butt kicked, on the playground by one of the younger kids he hung out with, on several occasions. I might be mistaken, but I don't think so..
I wonder why the good people, other than the artsy crowd, in Traverse City tolerate his presence.
Easy to say
Submitted by Bob K on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 6:38pm.
you're a Catholic Mikey. I am sure you were last able to squeeze into a confessional quite a few pounds ago.
"Uterus police"? I guess it's
Submitted by ant on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 6:45pm.
"Uterus police"? I guess it's okay if something like Obamacare makes Government the "entire body police" or California passes a law requiring Gardasil innoculations to pre-teens based on the suggestion of Merck Pharmacueticals. Does that make the Dems in CA 'cervix police'?
I wonder how he feels about the "Let's Move!" campaign?
Submitted by kata on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 9:09pm.
I am thinking he would have a serious contention with anyone resembling the food police.
LOL
Submitted by ant on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 10:23pm.
Now THAT's funny, katainkent.
"Keep your laws off my fried 'taters!"
Let's not forget the other
Submitted by stratman on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 7:12pm.
Let's not forget the other punk in this story - the so-called "journalist" Justin Moyer. Tim Graham outed this feces throwing Progressive zoo inhabitant almost two years to this very day.
uterus police
Submitted by stage9 on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 9:03pm.
...as opposed to what? A mass murderer who believes in the indiscriminate annihilation of the unborn?
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." — Malcolm Muggeridge
What's REALLY Wierd: Is that
Submitted by okie-pastor on Mon, 09/05/2011 - 10:53pm.
What's REALLY Wierd:
Is that you can get large fines and jail time for breaking an Eagles egg (embryo)
But any woman can have an abortion!
Why should a child pay the death penalty whose only crime in life was being conceived?
Moore has demonstrated time
Submitted by rbosque on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 2:32am.
Moore has demonstrated time after time that he has a mental disorder.
Hey Moore: Go seek professional help you pig.
OXYMORON
Submitted by LaVallette on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 3:33am.
A pro abortion Catholic.
So El Gordo is a walking example of an oxymoron with the accent on the last two syllables.
But, Oh how the world cheers?
Just goes to prove a saying a freind uses...
Submitted by c5then on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 8:24am.
Standing in a church once a week doesn't make you a Catholic anymore than standing in a garage once a week makes you a Toyota.
Funny how the MSM never investigates this angle of the argument. That a belief maintained in opposition to the core tennents of your chosen faith negates that faith. They never question a person who believes as they themselves do as to whether ot not it causes a dissonance in their thinking. How can killing an innocent person be a sin, except for a baby? There can be no more innocent individual. If their religious leaders all condemn a particular practice yet they themselves condone it, how can they maintain that they are still followers of that same religion?
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Abort the fetus, but spare the foreskin!
Submitted by Immortal Fish on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 12:17pm.
For the life of me, I will never understand modern day liberalism.
Michael Moore is an idiot
Submitted by Mary De Voe on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 6:00pm.
“Human life begins when the fetus can survive outside the womb,” he writes in a footnote. “Some people, I guess, just like to be the uterus police, the bossypants of other women’s reproductive parts. And that has always struck me as really, really weird.”
Created equal (not born equal as Roe v. Wade) and endowed with unalienable rights: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. According to Michael Moore , Thomas Jefferson and our Founding Fathers were really, really weird.
How come Mr. Cut and Paste
Submitted by telecaster on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 8:57pm.
How come Mr. Cut and Paste looks like my friend Joey Smutz from 6th grade? Hey Joey!