{"id":132,"date":"2004-10-02T22:35:28","date_gmt":"2004-10-03T02:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=132"},"modified":"2004-10-02T22:42:04","modified_gmt":"2004-10-03T02:42:04","slug":"michael-moore-speaking-engagement-whore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Michael Moore, speaking-engagement whore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that Michael Moore charges $35,000 for a speaking engagement? That’s how much Moore was going to receive as an honorarium for speaking at George Mason University, in Fairfax Virginia just days before the presidential election.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, republicans in that state got wind of the plan, and objected<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n“We just felt it wasn’t the most appropriate use of (public) funds, so we decided the best thing to do was cancel,” school spokesman Daniel Walsch said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Loudoun County Del. Richard L. Black wrote a letter dated Tuesday urging Merten to reconsider the university’s “lavish payment” to Moore, or to cancel the appearance.<\/p>\n

“Tax money is being spent poorly, and for partisan purposes,” wrote Black, who has one of the General Assembly’s most conservative voting records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What’s interesting about this is that I suppose these same folks weren’t as objecting about the innappropriate use of funds when Newt Gingrich<\/a> showed up at William & Mary College for his speaking engagement<\/a>. I guess Newt isn’t as, well, partisan<\/em>, right?<\/p>\n

Now, I agree that 35 grand might be a little much to pay for a guy who can’t even practice what he preaches<\/a> in “Supersize Me,” and whose “facts” are exaggerated sometimes, at best. But Gingrich is just as much a media whore as Moore; no longer a politician, he pretty much makes his living extolling conservative virtues and gaping in horror at liberal agendas. <\/p>\n

With conservatives pulling stunts like this, he’s only gaining credibility when Republicans hold these double standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Micahel Moore speech has been cancelled when Republicans get up in arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}