Oscar winning Michael Moore reacts today to President Obama's comment to the effect that he feels uncomfortable releasing the detainee abuse photos requested by the ACLU:

Moore visualizes the President's discomfort.



This is accompanied by the following comment: "President Obama does 'not feel comfortable' with following law and releasing more prisoner abuse pictures"

Found in the front page of http://www.michaelmoore.com/ as we speak.

Just because he disagrees with some of Obama's decisions doesn't mean he's against Obama.
He just disagrees, which is healthy.

Are you fricken nuts?

... and probably will be again in future.

But THIS pairing of photos, and what it is meant to imply, is truly despicable.

It's a pure ad hom, and it reminds me why I find Moore is best enjoyed in small doses.

Seems to me to reflect an (un)comfortable truth about what went on....

The juxtaposition of those photos is implying that while people are being tortured, Obama is lounging around enjoying himself, completely oblivious to their suffering.

Had Moore used a photo of the Chimp and Cheney yukkin' it up, while people were being tortured at their DIRECTION, that would have been reflective of the truth.

One thing you can't accuse this President of....being lazy, or chilling out. Moore is wrong on this one.

I could be wrong, but I believe he does have the legal authority to withhold the photographs for the time being. Which is not to say I approve of him doing so, of course, but I think the implication of "does not feel comfortable with following law" is false.

I had friends who voted for Obama in a swing state precisely because he promised "transparency".

Apparently, now, "transparency" means, "Throw up brick walls, hide any wrongdoing, fight investigations of wrongdoing."

Some transparency.

They have the right to challenge a ruling.

Honoring our soldiers who had nothing to do with this would do a great service to them and to the world!

I mean, we can always watch a snuff film afterwards, just to cap off the memorial in the evening!

After all, Shock and Awe is still In!

he is insinuating that while Obama leans back, prisoners are being abused on his watch. Really no need for this type of crap.

To understand Moore's point it suffices to know that the photos Moore refers to are photos of prisoner abuse that occurred during the Bush administration.

What is the point of that? It's not there by coincidence.

And some of us have had quite enough of that sort of deal- no matter whose "team" we might be on.

and the courts will decide what is right.

He didn't do anything unlawful, although he did flip flop on an earlier decision.

I cannot stomach the responses on this thread. This has just gone too far.

This is ridiculous, petty and a cheap shot. If you disagree over the photos being released Moore, fine. But to link those photos that have nothing to do with each other, really proves what an ass you are.

juxstaposition. Don't like it? Who cares? You are the target audience for this piece. It upset you by design. It worked like a charm.

i have no use for torture porn.

...is that a kick in the butt from MM!

for transparency, real human beings were (and possibly still ARE) being tortured.

While President Obama has the freedom to lean back, where are the men in those photographs? Are they in small cells? Are they even still alive? Are they suffering from physical after affects caused by their torture? How about emotional damage?

Let me explain this Very Slowly:

Justice Delayed is Justice Denied.

And those who can not face the juxtaposition of images, or those identical quotes about the photos from the Bush administration and the administration of change are simply uncomfortable themselves with the horrific crap they are defending.
Justice delayed is justice denied. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

I figured the photos would surface sooner or later regardless of what Obama says or does. But it seems too soon for them to be leaked.

There are more that haven't been released.

There's video footage, too.

...with following law" ~ I hope we find that's not actually the case.

Obama is not lazy, that was Bush. And he was not President when these tortures took place. So Moore is kind of off here. Sometimes I like Moore, sometimes he is over the top.

while the prisoners, the pictures of whom are being hidden, don't have that luxury. I'd say that Obama's discomfort vis a vi these pictures are not paramount on Michael Moore's mind and frankly it's not paramount on mine either. Release the pictures as per the judge and let's move to prosecute these bastards.

Regards

I still don't get the logic, its just incendiary. And I think the photos should be released. But this is kind a stupid use of pics.

And I think most--or at least a lot-- of the time, he gets it right. But I think he's off-base here. This seems to imply that either President Obama is responsible for the torture and/or is lazy and not at least trying to be up to the task of the Presidency and what he was elected to do, which I don't think is fair. Even if you don't agree with everything he's done so far, I don't think anyone can fairly say the man isn't at least trying to be an effective leader who gets things done. Whereas, this little collage is reminiscent of something we'd seen from Michael during the Bush years (which was warranted then). I just don't think it's deserved or the best way to make the point.

:thumbsup:

"Let them see what they have done."