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"Michael Moore lost the election"

Jeff Jarvis argues (pretty effectively) that Michael Moore was responsible for the Dems' loss:

...Michael Moore lost it for Kerry. He lost it by starting the mudslinging over military service when he accused Bush of being a deserter; this opened the door for the Swiftie mudmen and cut short the ability to condemn them for it.

He lost it by making unfair attacks on Bush (when he could have made fair attacks), helping Bush to rally his fans around him.

But mainly, Moore lost the race for Kerry and the Democrats by turning them, by association, into a bunch of rabid seething fringie liberal loonies, all angry and extreme and too quick to forget what the real war is and who the real enemy is.

The right-wing is usually the side that is portrayed as fringie and rabid and extreme and, Lord knows, many of them are.

But Moore made the left seem just as extreme if not more so.

jon posted this at 11:21 AM
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That is so lame. And if Kerry would have won, I suppose he would have credited MM? Yes, Bush won, but many many people voted for Kerry. Yes, the country is divided and some would credit the religious right for that fact.

Posted by: Liz | November 7, 2004 4:38 PM