MOORE PUTS THE MOVEON
The fascists of Spain and Germany and the Marxist-Leninists in the
Soviet Union used propaganda and propagandistic imagery to great
effect, so it’s no surprise that special-effects fabulist
Michael Moore and the walking advertisement for
anti-depressants, Al Gore, have both found homes
with George Soros and his MoveOn.org outfit.
Moore, not satisfied with his $21.8 million haul from the first
weekend box office of his anti-Bush home movie, joined a national
conference call and webcast on Monday sponsored by MoveOn to
promote the film. The group claimed more than 30,000 friends and
supporters dialed in.
Moore, according to a spy who joined in on the call, pleaded
with his fans to vote for Kerry, and added, “The election is
Kerry’s to lose. I’ve never spoken to the man. I’ve never spoken to
anybody in his campaign.”
Yet almost immediately after stating that, Moore told his fan
base that he had been speaking with Alexandra
Kerry, who has been spending months working on media
outreach for the Kerry campaign and is considered one of her
father’s closest advisers.
As well, Moore spent a great deal of time campaigning for
Wesley Clark, some of whose staff have signed on
with Kerry and with whom Moore and his associates have kept in
touch.
According to a Kerry campaign source, employees of Moore have
been attempting to get Kerry to agree to a private screening of
Moore’s film, but the candidate had been balking out of fear of
being used by Moore for publicity, or that an appearance with Moore
would prove embarrassing. Other intermediaries, from Moore’s
distributors, have also been in contact with the campaign.
“Moore or his people have been all over us,” laughs a Kerry
campaign staffer in Washington. “We were getting free passes to the
premiere. It’s obvious that when we beat the Republicans, they want
to get the credit for it.”
HILLARY AT BAY
The Kerry campaign heard and approved the remarks made by Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton in San Francisco on
Tuesday. There, in a speech that almost certainly will come back to
haunt the Democrats, Clinton stated to the Democratic audience
gathered in support of Sen. Barbara Boxer, “Many
of you are well enough off that … the tax cuts may have helped
you. We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re
probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re
going to take things away from you on behalf of the common
good.”
Clinton did not have prepared remarks for the event, though a
Clinton aide did discuss the gist of the remarks with a Kerry
campaign adviser in Washington prior to Clinton’s arrival in San
Francisco. “Everything Senator Clinton says has national import, so
we try to stay on top of things and communicate with her and her
staff as much as possible,” says the Kerry aide. “This is her
opinion, it’s not the opinion of the Kerry campaign. My guess is
she was speaking of the Senate, not a Kerry administration.”
But did the Kerry campaign disavow the remarks? The Kerry
adviser couldn’t or wouldn’t say: “It’s not like Senator Clinton is
a surrogate for the campaign. No one should presume that. She is
more important than a mere surrogate.”
Senator Clinton’s remarks were made on the same day that hubby
Bill was signing his book in the foggy city. They were not
traveling as a couple. Hillary left San Fran almost immediately for
a fundraiser in Monterey with Leon Panetta, while
Bill was to stay in San Francisco overnight after attending a
fundraiser for a charity run by Sen. Dianne
Feinstein and her husband. The group is called the
American Himalayan Foundation, and no doubt Bill was to regale the
gathering with more stories about how his dear wife got her name
after Sir Edmund Hillary mounted the tallest
Himalayan peak of them all.
