Michael Moore Hates Everybody

Of course Michael Moore hates America. And as I pointed out yesterday, he also hates Israel. But in all fairness, I don't think Moore discriminates against Israel and America. He is an equal opportunity hater. He hates everybody.

"Combustible Boy" of the mothballed Sound and Fury blog sent me some snapshots of pages from Moore's 1997 book Downsize This. Here are pages 88-89 and 90-91 from chapter 10 "Germany Still Hasn't Paid for Its Sins and I Intend to Collect". After starting out by saying that Germany didn't do enough to compensate the world for the Holocaust, he launches into a thoroughly insane bit of historical analysis:

I know some of you are saying, "Hey, Mike, the survivors got to move to Israel after the war. Didn't giving them that land make it up to them?" Well, I don't think Israel was actually "given" to them. The British were ruling the place (then called Palestine), and suddenly all these Holocaust survivors with nowhere else to go started arriving and the Brits didn't like that one bit. But they didn't have the energy to fight the Jewish guerrillas after having just lost most of their British empire. so they just bagged the place and said, "Fine, you want this, it's yours." Most Arab residents were not considered in the deal.

I have never understood why giving the Holocaust survivors Palestine/Israel was such a great gift. Have you ever been there? It's a friggin' desert! There's nothing there! Israelis like to tell you, "We've made the desert bloom!" Talk about rationalizing something ... I'm telling you, it's 100 percent sand, rock, and more sand. Why did we think we were making it up to them by placing them in a horrible environment that has cost them even more lives in more wars? Because the Bible said so? When did the world start going by *that* book?

If we had really wanted to do what was right -- and punish the Germans -- we should have given the survivors the state of Bavaria. Now, that's one beautiful piece of real estate! And it would have cost the Germans plenty. Turning Palestine into Israel didn't hurt the Germans one single bit. But losing Bavaria to the Jews would have really kicked those bastards where it counted. Israel has only 10,840 square miles; Bavaria has over 28,000! Israel has few, if any, natural resources; Bavaria is rich in minerals, forests, and water. Since the war, the Israelis have been surrounded by hostile enemies who want them dead; Bavaria is surrounded by the beautiful Alps containing a few goats and those three guys in the Ricola commercial. I guess it's probably too late to correct this mistake by moving Tel Aviv to Munich and forcing the Germans to go and try to make the desert bloom.

Then he froths at the mouth about the many Germans who have emigrated to Florida, or who simply visit the state:

I am of two minds regarding this German invasion of Florida. On the one hand, I hate Florida. It's full of bugs, humidity, and stupid people running around with guns. And it's got those nutty Cuban exiles. If there were a pair of scissors big enough, I wish we could just snip the state where it hangs off the rest of the country.

There is part of me that likes the fact that all these ex-Nazis are moving there to terrorize the people of Florida. Serves them right. The Right-Wing Cubans versus the Geriatric SS in a fight to the finish! I'd pay money to watch that one on Pay-Per-View.

For those who don't yet realize that Fahrenheit 9/11 is little more than Michael Moore's private pathological delusion, the above passages from Downsize This should put everything in perspective.

Michael Moore was the personal guest of Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter at this year's Democratic Convention.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 08, 2004 05:00 PM