As if the Ayatollah, or anyone else, takes Michael Moore seriously.
Oh, he has an audience among bourgeois types Thomas Sowell called 'the one-uppers'. I think there are those that take him seriously and those that are willing to endorse him to make an affirmation to their peers. Forty-odd years ago, Richard John Neuhaus had a conversation with a prominent leftoid about Alger Hiss. The leftoid in question acknowledged that Hiss was guilty, but said it couldn't be acknowledged publicly or 'they' would have won a round. My suspicion is that Moore is taken seriously by the intelligentsia's dependents and hangers-on, but that the professors and lawyers you see subscribing to his twaddle are just making subcultural affirmations (although the academy isn't free of sectarian mediocrities who likely take it seriously). Cannot help but notice that a clutch of prominent academic historians have been offering public objections to the Sulzbergers' '1619 Project', so when it cuts close enough to the bone, some members of the professoriate are willing to talk back.
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As if the Ayatollah, or anyone else, takes Michael Moore seriously.
Way on Earth is anyone talking about Michael Moore?
Maybe Soleimani will have won a posthumous Nobel Peace prize and TIME magazine will name him Man of the Year before it is all said and done.
As if the Ayatollah, or anyone else, takes Michael Moore seriously.
Oh, he has an audience among bourgeois types Thomas Sowell called 'the one-uppers'. I think there are those that take him seriously and those that are willing to endorse him to make an affirmation to their peers. Forty-odd years ago, Richard John Neuhaus had a conversation with a prominent leftoid about Alger Hiss. The leftoid in question acknowledged that Hiss was guilty, but said it couldn't be acknowledged publicly or 'they' would have won a round. My suspicion is that Moore is taken seriously by the intelligentsia's dependents and hangers-on, but that the professors and lawyers you see subscribing to his twaddle are just making subcultural affirmations (although the academy isn't free of sectarian mediocrities who likely take it seriously). Cannot help but notice that a clutch of prominent academic historians have been offering public objections to the Sulzbergers' '1619 Project', so when it cuts close enough to the bone, some members of the professoriate are willing to talk back.
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