Moore to Come

This morning, I came across a post on Michael Moore's web site, known to the masses as MichaelMoore.com. It lead with a post that starts with good intentions, that despite referring to Republicans as "sore winners" and such, he offers stats to show optimism in the Democratic party:

*Total members of Move On: More than 2,000,000
*Total Attendance at Vote for Change Concerts: An estimated 280,000
*Total Union Members in U.S.: Around 16,000,000
*Total Number of People Who Have Seen “Fahrenheit 9/11”: Over 50 million
*Total number of you reading this: Perhaps 10 million or more

(Well, no one ever questions Moore's ego.)

Then, it goes in a very strange place.

"We lost a very close election (a one-state difference) by running the #1 liberal in the Senate. Not bad. The country is shifting in our direction, not to the right. But the country was attacked and people were scared. They were manipulated with fear. And America has never thrown a sitting president out during wartime. That’s the facts."

Fact check time:

- Kerry: #1 Liberal in the Senate? Right.

- "The country is shifting in our direction, not to the right." Good. More red state v. blue state. Yeah, we need more of that.

- "And American has never thrown a sitting president out during wartime." Uhh... Lyndon B. Johnson, anybody? Granted, he didn't seek a second term, but a 30 percent approval rating in an election year, and competition from a Kennedy will scare you off... and out of office in a year we were engaged in Vietnam.

I'm not looking to take pot shots at Moore here. I actually admire his work (you can't do much better than Roger & Me as far as his work goes). And I do agree that if you can forgive the liberties he takes, Farenheit 9-11 is a must-see. But, this guy officially frightened me on this one. Why? This post goes here:

"In the meantime, while we reflect on what went wrong, I would like to pass on to you an essay that a friend who works with abuse victims sent to me. It was written by a woman who has spent years working as an advocate for victims of domestic abuse and she sees many parallels between her work and the reaction of many Democrats to last month’s election. Her name is Mel Giles and here is what she had to say…"

Those parallels?

"Watch them awkwardly quote the bible, trying to speak the ‘new’ language of America. Surf the blogs, and read the comments of dismayed, discombobulated, confused individuals trying to figure out what they did wrong. Hear the cacophony of voices, crying out, "Why did they beat me?"

And then ask anyone who has ever worked in a domestic violence shelter if they have heard this before.

They will tell you: Every single day.

The answer is quite simple. They beat us because they are abusers. We can call it hate. We can call it fear. We can say it is unfair. But we are looped into the cycle of violence, and we need to start calling the dominating side what they are: abusive. And we need to recognize that we are the victims of verbal, mental, and even, in the case of Iraq, physical violence."

(I'll give you a second to pick your jaw up off the ground.)

I mean, holy batshit. Democrats as victims of domestic abuse? I mean... I'm still flabbergasted, and I read this post almost 12 hours ago. Isn't the best advice to a victim of domestic abuse to just leave? Get up and go? Get out of the bad situation, as painful as it may be to leave? Should we all up and move to Canada?

I've got more to say on this, but I just wanted to put this out there first.