Ultra-left wing filmmaker Michael Moore appeared on ABC’s The View Monday, where he promoted his new film, Michael Moore in TrumpLand. But, as the hosts pointed out, the film really was more about Hillary Clinton then it was about Donald Trump. Moore expressed shock that any reasonable person could not vote for Clinton, gushing that she was not just a great leader but also a great Christian. The best part of Clinton’s faith, Moore stressed, was that she was silent about it.
Moore revealed from the start of the interview that he had no real issues with Hillary Clinton and didn’t see why more people weren’t enthusiastic supporters.
MOORE: [I] can give you all the political reasons that I disagree with her on. But to think of her in the Oval Office, representing this country, come on!
He then made a dig at Margaret Thatcher and Clarence Thomas as people much more detestable than Hillary Clinton:
MOORE: First of all, I say this to Bernie people: We're not being asked to vote for Margaret Thatcher! (light audience laughter) or Clarence Thomas or, you know.
Moore then argued that Hillary Clinton’s faith was genuine because she never talked about it.
MOORE:I mean, she really went the extra mile to try and bring everyone into the tent, and I think her behavior during the debates, I was in a place where actually you were there watching it and we were hoping she would get out the club and just -- you know. (hitting motion)
BEHAR: But she didn't.
MOORE: No, she didn't. And I think that's because honestly, when she says that she's a Christian, I think she means it and I think she lives it.
BEHAR: She never works the Christian angle, I noticed. She doesn't do the religion thing.
MOORE: Because the people who talk about it, ‘I'm a Christian,’ oftentimes aren't.The idea of being a Christian is to just behave that way.
Adding,
“My point is that's what's great about it. She doesn't talk about it, she lives it. She acts it.”
The only Christian on the panel, Candace Cameron-Bure pushed back at what Moore was saying, arguing that “some of her positions” don’t reveal a Christian life. Moore brought up abortion then, stating that the “majority of this country are pro-choice,” and “believe women should behave the same as men” and “have clean air and drink clean water,” as if conservatives didn’t also believe in equal rights for women and access to clean air and drinking water.
BURE: But with some of her positions I don't believe that she lives it. I understand that she's giving everybody a choice but for some of those people that really look to the Bible --
MOORE: She's pro choice, so some people don't like that. What I say to people who are against abortion is, if you are against it, don't have one. If you are against gay marriage, don't get gay married, you won't like it. [Applause] It's not for you, you know. But live and let live. You live your faith the way you believe you should live it and let other people. And the majority of this country are pro choice. They believe women should behave the same as men. They believe we should have clean air and drink clean water. We agree on so many things, and the few things we disagree on, like say those issues, let's just agree to disagree and let's have the great debate and whoever wins, wins.
