Michael Moore -- The American Cassandra

What really drives CONs crazy (crazier) is how Michael Moore is always right.

"Roger and Me" told us about the clusterfux who were ruining General Motors.

He took the profits from that documentary ("profits" is a word never before used in describing the documentary-making process) to finance his next film.

To make his message fair-and-balanced, Moore gave the president of the NRA an opportunity to respond in "Bowling for Columbine." That, according to the NRA, was "unfair."

Move on to "Fahrenheit 911," which pointed out how Shrub/Cheney leveraged a tragedy into an unprovoked, personal vendetta against a nation that had nothing to do with 9/11.

"Sicko" kick-started health coverage reform in the United States. Only 64% of Americans now advocate reforming national health coverage procedures in America.

And here's what's happened along the way:

"Roger and Me" was made on a shoestring, with maxed-out credit cards and Moore making sandwiches for the crew. Making a film is expensive and he put his money where his mouth (and those of the crew) is.

And by eking out a profit with "Roger and Me," Moore made the next film. Then took those profits and made the next, and the next, and the next.

Sean Hannity, on the other hand, sucks Rupert Murdoch's dick and spits out GOP talking points.

Someone with better Google Image skills than mine should be able to find links so we can compare Moore's house and car with Hannity's. Anyone up for the challenge?

Hannity gets about a Hundred Million a year, hires brigades of accountants to take every imaginable deduction (especially for his church donations), and still whines he has to muddle through life with only $48 Million dollars left for walking-around money.

Moore makes far less, even from his most successful films, and takes that money to make another documentary about how illogical America operates.

And the truth -- about GM, about guns and violence, about Iraq, about health care, about Wall Street -- drives CONs nuts.

So their arguments soon turn into, "Michael Moore is fat!" (I'm not sure, but I think that's a Rush Limbaugh quote.)

Anyway.

According to Greek Mythology, Apollo gave Cassandra the gift of prophecy. But when she did not return his love, he placed a curse on her so that no one would believe her predictions.

Moore has become America's Cassandra.

CONs hate that.