RNC, You've Got Less Class Than Michael Moore

Last night, the Republican Convention showed a video which could be described as nothing less than "9/11 Porn" -- a video so demeaning, so craven, and so exploitative of the dead and those who survived the September 11 attacks, only by the grace of God, that it makes you question whether John McCain and Sarah Palin's campaign even has a soul, that they wouldn't reject the showing of the video.

It included, among other things, slow-motion video of the second plane flying into the tower, and explosion, as well as the towers falling (again adjusted to slow-mo for dramatic effect), the moment thousands died. For politics, they showed this.

Politics.

As some of you may know, at the time, I worked for the Congressman who represented the WTC and the surrounding area. I saw and heard stories from our constituents and friends that, to this day, still make my eyes well up and stomach drop when I think of them.

The video made me shake with anger. Republicans, apparently with the blessing of McCain and Palin, whored out the video of the moment of death of thousands of Americans for political gain. Senator McCain, I thought you said you were "change". This disgusting display was merely you taking the hand-off from Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, and gleefully running with it, with your "Pit Bull with lipstick" at your side.

Another thing -- the title of my post. Michael Moore -- the man Republicans so deride as "classless" and "un-American" - had the decency in Fahrenheit 9/11 to go to black when recalling that moment, not using the video of the planes hitting or towers falling. He did so out of respect for the dead, those who survived them, and those who made it out alive.

So, congratulations RNC, John McCain, and Sarah Palin. You've now, if you didn't think so before, got less class than Michael Moore.

Comments

[AlphaMom]

Let's hope that the caustic, mean-spirited venom was enough to energize people to get out and campaign for Obama. If these people take control, I really believe we are doomed. It took Bush just 8 short years to plunge us into this awful economic situation. Can you even imagine what they will do? More of the same if not worse. She's a radical and a liar. Over and over and over again, she has been caught lying and trying to cover up her lies.

PLEASE TAKE ACTION. NOW!! Do whatever you can to get out there and register Democrats, offer to drive people to the polls, hand out absentee ballots, and do it soon. We don't have much time to keep these crazy people from getting elected.

[bicoastal]

How is this race even close??

Never has the divide between the parties been this vast. The nation has become so polarized along cultural, geographic, religious, and, yes, racial lines, that sane, thoughtful debate and discussion on the ISSUES seems impossible...

I watched this video on youtube and was appalled and frightened; I had just taught 1984 to a group of high school sophomores this summer and it seemed like it could have been a part of the Two Minutes Hate.

But... there are those who watched this, were moved, and felt motivated to rally around their man, McCain. Who are these people?

We need to educate our children and teach them to think for themselves rather than consume, ingest, and digest whatever is offered up to them as if it were truth.

From an Obama supporter who fears the worst.

[StaceyP]

I agree. I feel sick everytime I see these images played--it still seems surreal. I remember where I was and what I was doing and how scared I was that what I knew as my life may not be the same anymore.

How do you claim "Country First" when time after time you exploit your country for political gain, Senator McCain? This duo has exploited their children, his captivity, our desire to believe and the truth too many times to count. If I hear that Track is leaving on 9/11 one more time I will scream!!

I will not vote for this caustic pair in the Fall. I was never going to anyway (to be honest)!

I love Michael Moore. He is sincerely trying to make a difference --honestly.
Stacey

[wolfi101]

I think, the Republican convention as a whole was very insulting to most of America. Palin is becoming the poster child for insensitivity and oppression.

[realityczech4u]

Precisely whom is Sarah Palin "oppressing" , wolfie?

[jhNY]

Rove's infamous dictum is in play here: You may feel that your late-graf explanation of that headline will suffice to defuse its effect, but like Mr. Rove put it, "politics is television with the sound turned down." Headlines are what casual skimmers read when they don't wish to take on the article, and now we've got a HuffPo article headline that says Michael Moore hasn't much class , but Republican have less. Mayber a better headling would read: Republicans Have Little Or No Class.

Of course, on the other hand, the headline made me read the article. I am a New York City resident, saw the towers go down in real life, heard all the fire engine and police sirens as real people raced to their deaths, and I am sick of any and all Republican attachments beyond culpability regarding 9/11.

[LSUdabest]

Is it the fact that during the aftermath of 9/11 GWB was the man most Americans turned to for strength and he delivered? YES

Is your concern based on the fear the election is slipping away from your side and anything that shows Republicans in a positive light could tip the scales? YES

Are you finally realizing this election is not over? YES

Were you as indignate when a succession of movies about the horrors of Iraq War were released? NO

When the dinosaur media showed footage of supposed torture at Abu Grahb did you cry for them to stop because it was demeaning and exploitive? NO

Did it bother you when the Leader of The Senate Reid (D-NV) declared "This war is lost" while brave men and woman were fighting and dying in The Middle east? NO

How about when Murtha (D-OH)...what ever happend to him....wrongly accused several US Marines of murder at Haditha. Did you cry foul? NO

Did it bother you when The Huffington Post accused Sarah Palin's Downs Syndrome baby of actually being her daughters? NO


You may want to ask yourself why?

[Neemni]

The word is "indignant." The Daily Kos ran the baby story, not the Huffington Post. But at least we flushed out the pregnant teenager. You know, like when you berate parents whose teenage daughters get pregnant as being "bad parents," but there when one of your own ilk shows feet of clay, it is a personal matter.
Abu Ghraib was the work of a classless bunch of yahoos who demeaned the finest institutions and traditions of the armed forces, The photos underscored the depravity of these so-called "soldiers."

[Nancyok]

NO (much as he's lied and sold out since then....the glue that held us together was Guiliani...GWB stopped relief efforts to show up and say "The Loss of life is Irreplaceable")

NO...the fear is that there are far too many people in this country that are stupid enough to fall for the failing former Maverick who has lost all integrity and his most shining example of his willingness to Screw this country to Win An Election, Palin.

YES, (Sadly; see above)

NO, of course not....completely different.

YES, as a matter of fact

NO, because we should have never been there.

Murtha who?

I don't care about any of the personal bull, but I don't recall HuffPo saying that...I do recall the Republican party has been confirmed as the source of all baby stories. they used this on purpose to media bait and distract. What I do care about is her repeated abuses of power, bribes from oil industry, lies about bridge to nowhere, ebay, etc., her radical views on rapist/Molesters' rights supersceding that of women, creationism in schools, her utter lack of understanding of the world, lack of intellectual curiousity, lack of concern for the environment, AND, arrogance in thinking that she can waltz into office without ever answering the public's questions without benefit of speech writer, teleprompter and 24/7 tutoring.

Why? because I love this country and don't want to see it sold by the radical right highest bidder.

[JohnKelly]

I agree with everything you said, but I don't see why you have to imply that Michael Moore has a lack of class to bolster your position. Let the right wing do that. They are, after all, better at it than you : ) Moore has a lot of class as far as I'm concerned.

John

[Eric Schmeltzer - Huffpost Blogger]

just accepting their premise for the sake of argument. if he's as low as they claim he is, then they're now officially lower than that.

[ESerafina42]

I agree with you, John, but unfortunately, Democrats have always treated Moore the way Republicans SHOULD treat Ann Coulter, even though he doesn't deserve it. They run as fast and as far away from him as possible.

[Incredulous]

Less class than Ann Coulter! Less class than George Bush! Less class than Rush Limbaugh! Less class than Larry Craig! The current Republican Party has less class than a dung heap! Leave Michael Moore out of it. At least he's a real patriot who loves America and fights for it's values!