Mike dumps Ralph

[Who'd blame Mike?  The money's probably good when you're a George Soros
donee.]

Friday June 24, 2004
Hey, Michael, Where Were Your Friends?
http://votenader.org/why_ralph/index.php?cid=83

Once upon a time, there was Michael Moore the First. He never forgot his
friends. Come time for the Washington, DC premiere of Bowling for
Columbine a while back, he invited his old buddies in Washington--gave
them good seats and spent the rest of the evening with them. During his
other movie's premiere, he affectionately recognized how much those old
friends helped him and supported him after he was mistreated and let go by
Mother Jones. He was generous with his words and time.

Now there is Michael Moore the Second. Last night he hosted the
Washington, DC premiere of Fahrenheit 9/11, and who was there? The
Democratic political establishment, the same people whom he took to such
mocking task on the road with us in campaign rally after campaign rally in
2000. Who was not there? His old buddies! Not personally invited, not
personally hung out with.

A few weeks ago, Michael, I sent you a message: "Hey, Dude, where's my
Buddy?" [See below]. It has gone without reply. It simply asked you to
come back to your progressive constituency and take on the two-party
monopoly of our rigged election system---to challenge the pro-war,
corporate party with two heads, wearing different makeup when it comes to
playing toady for Big Business. These are the giant multinationals who
have no allegiance to our country or to communities like Flint except to
control, deplete or abandon them. It is not that your views have changed,
with an exception or two. It is that your circles have changed. Too much
Clinton, not enough Camejo.

Your old friends remain committed to blazing paths for a just society and
world. As they helped you years ago, they can help you now. They are also
trim and take care of themselves. Girth they avoid. The more you let them
see you, the less they will see of you. That could be their greatest gift
to Moore the Second--the gift of health. What say you?

Best wishes,

Ralph Nader

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Friday April 16, 2004
Hey Dude Where's My Buddy!!!???
Come Back Home Michael!!!
http://www.votenader.org/why_ralph/index.php?cid=54

Ok Michael, you've had your realpolitik fling with ex-General Wesley
Clark. Your endorsed Presidential candidate in the Democratic Primaries
has withdrawn. It is time for you to come home, to join your buddies and
resume your only genuine role which is that of defiance and resistance.
Compliance and assistance with the Democrats does not accord with your
past, your character, your bold writings and, most memorably, your long
corrosive assaults on the Party that betrayed the working classes and
plunged our country into corporate globalization. Remember, Michael,
you're the flinty man from Flint, Michigan. You've never forgotten your
roots. The heady Hollywood, Manhattan scene with the celebrities and
Academy Awards have never gotten to your head but rather have gotten into
your deserving pockets. How we all recall your standing before one billion
people in Los Angeles at the televised Academy Awards in 2003 and,
breaking the customary cant of the awardees, throwing the gauntlet down to
George W. Bush and his "fictitious" war mongering.

Now the War has become a quagmire, with both Republicans and Democrats
complicit (check the votes in Congress). The Draft may be on the way. So
what are you doing going on the Al Franken Show very nearly breaking down
when Al Gore (he of the pro NAFTA/GATT, anti-worker, regime-change,
Iraq-bombing, lethal sanctions on half a million children Administration)
called and thought you were apologizing. You have nothing to apologize
for, Michael. Gore has a lot to apologize for-blowing the election he won
in Florida and the country as a whole and for blowing, with Bill Clinton,
the many opportunities the rich-booming Nineties and the collapse of the
Soviet Union gave this country to turn a peace dividend into a pro-worker,
pro-environment, pro-consumer and anti-poverty resurgence.

Come back and join our Presidential campaign, Michael. Talk to those
"Reagan Democrats"-those 35% of union members who still vote Republican
and against their own interests-as only you can. Michael, if you go
pumping for the Democratic Party this year, just what are you going to say
to the unemployed steelworkers near Sparrows Point in Maryland? To the
megathousands of laid off textile and furniture workers in North and South
Carolina? To the abandoned auto workers waiting and waiting near their
empty factories that went to repressive countries? To the millions of
blue-collar workers, who fought our wars, only to learn that the two
parties won't fight for their company pensions and health insurance? Are
you going to tell them how the Democratic Party pushed through the WTO,
let their pensions erode or disappear, were too busy collecting checks
from the corporate bosses to pay attention to the corporate crime wave
that looted and drained trillions of dollars from millions of workers,
their retirement and small investments? Will you tell them that the
cowardly Democrats, who couldn't win the fewer elections they are now not
losing without the labor vote, won't even mount a determined drive to
repeal the notorious, union-blocking Taft Hartley Act?

How can you be free to be what you are, or to depress Bush's vote, to jolt
into consciousness the moribund Democratic Party?

Hey Dude, join your real buddies! The ones you may be thinking about just
don't fit either your message, your vision, or our website VoteNader.org.

Come back home Michael. The workers and the youth of America are looking
for you.

Best regards,


Ralph Nader

P.S.Will you put this invitation on your website and see how your fans
react to Michael Moore returning to the Nader 2004 presidential campaign?
Patti Smith will reserve a big singing spot, for you, on the stage for the
customary finale, PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER.
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