The scrubbing of a huge number of blacks from the rolls through intentionally substandard felon purgings (never mind it's one of the few states that even do purge felons even when their sentences are complete) was politically motivated disenfranchisement. In no manner whatsoever do I think that was kosher--it was pondscum to do that and a denial of the fundamental right to vote. People who shared common names often got purged even if their records of age, SS#, place of conviction, etc, easily signalled they weren't the same person but shared a name. Heck, black preachers were reporting they got purged as felons and found out only at the voting station.

In fact, Moore did a horrible job connecting the dots that he could have--he merely pointed in ten seconds that it happened and pointed to Katherine Harris and all the Bushes and SCOTUS GOPers as playing a role so it wound up accusational rather than documentary. In fact, he didn't touch on any of the alleged irregularities anywhere, just accused.

Now, ask yourself why he did that--just accuse across the board in conspiracy fashion and not explain. By doing that in drive-by hitjob fashion rather than show, he was looking for shit stirring--getting GOPers to fire back, counterattack, deny, etc, and letting the left and right overstate, obfuscate, etc about who did what...the whole back and forth shebang. That's what sells his movies. Otherwise, it's just another Dateline and PBS documentary.

His hitjob movie motivated the right more than the left because the right used him as the strawman for the left and the dartboard to get even ("I'll show you Micheal Moore! I'm voting for Bush and getting my buddies to do so too!"). The left and anti-Bush disgruntled people were already voting for Kerry.

And none of that goes toward explaining his own role in 2000. Who then and since have been giving funds and other help to Nader? The Dem or GOP funders? He knew that, he knew Nader's effect, and he was a part of it. And it never was in his movie, something that also aggravated the right and motivated them too with its one-sided and half-truthed attack by a guy who had no standing to talk smack about them.

Moore has made a boatload of money because Bush has won twice. Bush is the gift that keeps on giving. Moore knew that. If he really cared about his supposed 'issues' he would never have intentionally sought to spoil Gore. He said directly in 2000 that Bush would be a horrible POTUS, the pits of the pits. And he helped him win, and that's exactly what he's been getting rich capitalising upon.

He isn't going to make as much visibility and money if Obama wins either, which is why I suspect he'll say things like he did here once again to stir shit and motivate the right and get them to use him as a strawman for the left, and leaving right and left fighting and accusing each other.

He's likely already thinking of his next movie with a McCain win "Toilet Bowl II, the Overflow" or something similarly snarky, with all the stirrings once again and cashing in on fame, money, etc.

He sells controversy, and he needs controversy to sell.

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