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MisiaGIOcita, l�ase lo que dice de la conv. dem. en Florida y lo de
Nader. ...Verrry interrresting...
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Subject: [strategies] Fwd: Re Stupid White Men
> >
> > Copied from:
> > I woke up in Tampa, Florida, yesterday, picked up the
> Sunday newspaper, and there it was: the New York Times
> today had declared that, for the fourth week in a row,
> "Stupid White Men" is the #1 book in the country.
> > I am out of explanations at this point as to how this
> thing has stayed atop on the Times bestseller list for a
> month.
> > All this has occurred in spite of a virtual press
> blackout on the book.
> > Or maybe because of it. The more the book is ignored by
> the media, the better it does. So, if you are a newspaper
> editor or a TV producer, PLEASE do NOT pay any attention to
> this book! Just because more Americans are reading it than
> any other book in the country for the past month should
> NOT persuade you to ask crazy questions of yourselves
> like, "How can this be happening when the 'President' has
> the highest approval ratings ever?" Just concern yourselves
> with repeating your mantra of the past 7 months - "America
> Loves Bush! America Loves Bush!" It's a comforting mantra,
> one that seems to bring you solace at a time of
> journalistic confusion. It's also simple and easy to repeat
> - and it means that you don't have to go out and do the
> work you are supposed to do (like rooting out the
> Enron-backed criminals in the White House or finding out
> what really happened before and after September 11th ).
> >
> > The front page of the Tampa Tribune yesterday was all
> ablaze with the news about the convention of Florida's
> Democrats on Saturday in Orlando. There was a color photo
> of a smiling, waving Al Gore. Lieberman was there and so
> was Kerry and a host of other stars of the Democratic
> Party. About 2,500 Floridians were in attendance.
> >
> > But in Tampa, on that same night, I was looking out from
> the stage at the Sun Dome at a crowd of nearly 7,000 people
> who had come to the "Democracy Rising" rally organized by
> Ralph Nader. Tampa has now produced the largest crowd of
> the book tour (I signed the 2000th book of the evening
> somewhere around 2am). This is 3 times the crowd that the
> Democrats got and, again, there is virtually no coverage.
> >
> >
> > But remember - it NO LONGER MATTERS that most of the
> media ignores the real news. It no longer matters because
> much of the media has chosen to make itself irrelevant
> through its lazy reporting, sleazy presentation, its
> obedience to the corporate agenda, and all the blowhard
> pundits who scream out their useless opinions. A political
> shift has occurred in the country and the media has
> completely missed it. We have become a nation where the
> majority of citizens are very liberal and progressive on
> the issues. The majority of Americans now call themselves
> pro- environment, pro-choice, pro-labor, and anti-Big
> Business. 154 millio out of the 200 million voters in this
> country did NOT cast a vote fo George W. Bush. That is the
> America in which we now live. Liberal progressive, and sick
> of the stupid white men who run the country.
> >
> > Hey, here's something that you haven't seen on the Fox
> Nuisance Channel - there are now over 140 college campuses
> in the U.S. with an active student Green organization. The
> Green kids in Florida are everywhere and their numbers are
> among the largest. You wouldn't think so, not after the
> blame that was heaped on the Greens for causing Gore to
> "lose" Florida. But they are building a mass movement, and
> the turnout I saw in Tampa was proof to me that there is a
> ruckus afoot in America, and if it's rockin' in a place
> like central Florida, then it's happening just down the
> street from where you live.
> >
> > The Democrats could have stopped this. They could have
> spent the past two years fighting to raise the minimum wage
> or to lower the amount of pollutants spewed into the air or
> to call for a Special Prosecutor to investigate Bush and
> Enron.
> >
> > But, no. The Democrats have spent their time trying to
> act like Republicans, thinking that's how they will win
> back the House this November. Note to Democrats: You will
> not win the House by being your usual weak, lame-o selves.
> The Greens will deny you the chance you have had to take
> charge. Until you get a clue, the Greens will thrive and
> grow. You want to avoid a repeat of 2000? Fight for the
> working people of this country! You want to stop the
> Greens? Act like a real Democrat!
> > Stand up for something! Do the math: A couple of thousand
> in Orlando come to see the stars of the Democratic Party,
> while, at the same exact moment, nearly three times that
> number is in Tampa to cheer on a progressive agenda - which
> is greater? If the Democrats can't add 2+2, then they are
> doomed.
> >
> > I should also mention that Tampa is the command
> headquarters for the war on Afghanistan. It's all done via
> remote control from the comfort of Florida's beautiful Gulf
> coast. How many civilians have we killed now? I believe the
> last number I read, it was more than the civilians who died
> on September 11th. Oh, I know the Bush boys over at Macdill
> Air Force Base have their rationalization as to why, in
> wartime, sometimes civilians have to die. The terrorists of
> 9-11 had their rationalizations, too. Everybody's got
> their rationalizations. Well, here's mine - there is NO
> rationalization for the killing of other human beings
> except in the rare and extreme cases of true self-defense.
> >
> > Today is the beginning of National Library Week. As many
> of you know by now, it was a single librarian who saved my
> book from the corporate shredder. In the next day or so, I
> will send you another letter telling you about what she
> did and what you can do to support the libraries of this
> country.
> >
> > Thanks again to everyone for your support. I'm in
> Oklahoma City and Norman, Oklahoma, tonight (4/15). I head
> to Canada to the University of Toronto tomorrow night
> (Tuesday), and I'll be in the Northwest later in the week.
> Hope to see many of you there.
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > Michael Moore
> > Author
> > Filmmaker
> > Detroit Tigers fan
> >
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