A Poll! Is It Really Michael Moore?
While browsing through the dustier shelves at the YouTubz, I ran into this awesome year-old clip. The uploader entitled it “Milton Friedman Puts A Young Michael Moore In His Place.”
Indeed, in this clip a young college student argues with Mr. Friedman at length over the question of Ford’s culpability in failing to install a cheap part that would have made the Pinto safer. Me, I can’t decide whether that young college kid really aged into the feller pictured below.
Feb. 24, 2008 (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, file)
Back in July, folks at Big Hollywood spotted the video and debated this very question. The conclusion was, well, inconclusive. What do you think?
First, watch the video clip. Then, take my very first ever poll. If you don’t want to watch the whole seven minutes, let me share my favorite quote from Mr. Friedman (at about 5 minutes in):
“You can’t get easy answers along this line, because your way of putting it doesn’t really get at the fundamental principle. The real fundamental principle is that people individually ought to be free to decide how much they are willing to pay for reducing the chances of their death. . . . If you want to berate Ford, you ought to berate it on those terms, not on the grounds that you don’t think they used the right numbers.”
Hollywoodland also makes a brilliant point:
“The debate is an interesting time capsule of a time when the Left pretended to be worried about auto safety. Today Moore and his liberal friends want us all driving one of these deathtraps [a "smart car"] down the freeway amongst semi-trucks and all the big limos transporting environmentalists like Al Gore to Earth Day ceremonies. We’ll take the Ford Pinto with or without the $13 gizmo any day.”
The video:
The poll:
Definitely him. It’s in his mannerisms and from looking at his eyes. Back then, he was just another idiotic, underfed, over partying college student who thought he knew more than this old fart.
Mike
The next video up was interesting, too: Ron Paul versus Michael Moore on healthcare. Paul is right, of course, and demonstrates a good grasp of capitalism.
But later, Paul offers a fairly naive concept of foreign policy. He suggests, in the eighth minute, that if we just stop sanctioning Iran, they wouldn’t be a problem.
Moore, on the other hand, seems to think that al Qaida are the only bad guys, and the rest of the Muslim Brotherhood franchises (like the Taliban, of course) are just fine.
I often wish that I were there to pose questions in response to statements like this. There are such large logical holes in their positions that they should be asked to have to address in front of the same audience.
Incidentally, that does appear to be Mr. Moore in your video. While I was never his size, as of this morning I weigh 52% of what I weighed in 1997.
If you were to track comments from the left about Moore’s weight versus that of Rush Limbaugh, you would have to conclude that Limbaugh weighed 7.5 times what Moore does.
===|==============/ Level Head
I don’t think it’s humanly possible to gain that much weight in a course of a couple of decades. On the other hand, there is a lot of annoying pretentious half-wits running around.
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!
Steve
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It’s him. The eyes and the idiocy haven’t changed. But a fat socialist can’t possibly practice what he preaches.
That’s a good point that he raised, put that fool in his place.