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Yes, Dreier did leave before the end. Yes he did seem to get a slight bit more red-cheeked as the show wore on. Yes Michael Moore showed him NO MERCY. NO MERCY. I hope he tosses and turns over this. It wasn't JUST Michael Moore, either.
It was Kim Campbell, the former Canadian PM, who didn't talk too much but from time to time brought in an insight or an observation that was SO focused and SO clarifying and cut SO swiftly through the BS that she was a valuable addition. An outsider, who, unlike the hapless Dreier, HAD seen "Fahrenheit 9/11," and appreciated it. And she elaborated on her reasons throughout the show.
Furthermore, and MOST Revealing (although this WAS an HBO audience, lots of hip young urbanites, guess how THEY'RE apt to veer, politically) was the audience reaction itself. When that "did you see the movie?" confrontation happened between Moore and Dreier, the audience exploded like a sabotaged ammo dump. The biggest reaction, hands down, of the night. This was CLEARLY a liberal-leaning audience. Even that creepy Mike Curb Congregation-type Colorado governor understood this in the brief segment featuring him. He tried to be game, but still was a little bit on the defensive. It was nice for a change, frankly. The red meat was thrown to us Good Guys, and the Bad Guys were the ones being backed into a corner and shouted down.
For Dreier, who bore the brunt of it since he was there, on the panel, as opposed to a monitor, it was pretty rough. It was EVERYBODY against him. No punch he threw worked. Nothing connected. He scored not once. And with some of his strongest jabs and trickiest tricks. Moore was overbearing. THANK GOD. WUNNNNDERFULLY so. It's about time. Did I feel sorry for Dreier? No. He had it coming. He and everybody else in the hate-tub with him. He was just their representative. Too bad it ONLY happened to him. Probably didn't like it at all. Think he'll stop and ponder it for a moment and realize what OUR side has been through for AT LEAST the length of the bush regime? Think it'll give him pause? Probably not. I'm still delighted to have seen him get a good-sized force-feeding of it.
In fact, one of the loveliest moments for me came when Bill Maher actually asked a question I've been longing to hear somebody ask these people. They were in quite a heated discussion about the 7-minute eternity that bush squandered at that school that day, preferring to listen to "My Pet Goat" being read than rise, wave bye-bye to the kiddies, stroll smilingly to the door and then haul ass down the hall to the quickest vehicle to get him to Air Force One and back to Washington. Moore was really working Dreier over about defending bush for doing nothing. So was Maher. Occasionally, Campbell would add something in that was equally questioning. And Maher asked - what would YOU do, Congressman? Would YOU sit there for seven minutes after you were told that OUR NATION IS UNDER ATTACK? Then, even more beautiful, Maher got to -- what would you say if ANY president sat there for 7 minutes... AND THEN - he cued the angels - "what would you do if President CLINTON had done that? Would you be defending CLINTON for sitting there for 7 minutes? And then Dreier boldly demurred, saying "you can't say what would happen if it were someone else - every situation is different and it might be TOTALLY different..." and blah-blah-blah lame-lamer-lamest - UNBELIEVABLE. Somebody actually hit one of these schmucks with the "what if Clinton had done this?" question. And this schmuck did the only thing he could do: flunk the test miserably. His own version of "Miserable Failure." They had David Dreier on the end of a fork.
This is gonna run all week. YEE HEE!!! Like maybe six more times, I think. I may have to watch it a second time. It was NIRVANA. A thing of BEAUTY. The BITTERSWEET TASTE OF JUST DESSERTS. It's WELL worth seeing.
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