Subject: Blame Monica!
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 050137 -0600
From: Roy Beavers
To: guru
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........An interesting commentary on the current Presidential quagmire in
Florida........guru......
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Subject: Fwd [Mike's Message] Blame Monica!
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:35:54 -0600 (CST)
From: DR_00@webtv.net (dana redding)
To: guru@emfguru.com
Blame Monica!
November 17, 2000
Dear friends,
For the past week I have suffered this unbearable guilt that I may have
put George W. Bush in the White House. I thought back to the time I
first met with Ralph Nader and, secretly, we hatched The Plot.
Our goal? To make this country suffer, suffer, SUFFER under George W.
Bush! All we needed to do was convince just 300 people, preferably in a
"swing state," to vote for Nader instead of Gore. Simple! Genius! That
would put Bush in the White House and THAT would lead to mass revolution
and THAT would lead to ... well, something. This stuff ALWAYS leads to
something!
I told Ralph, though, that "running" and hanging out with "celebrities"
would NOT be enough. So I was dispatched to secretly meet with Al Gore.
Using my incredible powers of persuasion, I was the one who persuaded
Gore to ignore not only his traditional Democratic base, but also his
home state of Tennessee in the campaign. He agreed! I then got him to
prevent Clinton from campaigning in Arkansas. He went along with this
also -- and together those two states cost him 16 critical electoral
votes!
So you can see why I have been convinced for the past week that it was
me, all me, the one who is responsible for costing Gore the election.
That is, until I saw the official results from Florida, as confirmed by
Secretary of State/Bush Campaign Chair Katherine Harris:
FLORIDA Presidential Results
Precincts Reporting: 100%
Al Gore, Dem 2,910,192
48.8%
George W. Bush, GOP 2,910,492 48.8%
Pat Buchanan, RP 17,472
0.3%
Ralph Nader, Grn 97,422
1.6%
Harry Browne, Lib 16,401 0.3%
John Hagelin, NLP 2,273
0%
James Harris, SWP 588
0%
David McReynolds, Soc 618 0%
Monica Moorehead, Workers World 1,805 0% Howard Phillips, CST
1,370 0%
As I studied these results, I suddenly saw the true culprit, the one
candidate responsible for putting Bush in the White House. And it was
NOT
Ralph Nader.
It was MONICA MOOREHEAD!
That's right. Monica Moorehead, Presidential Candidate of the Worker's
World Party.
Ms. Moorehead received 1,805 votes in Florida, 1,500 more votes than
what now separates Bush and Gore.
Had Monica not been on the ballot, it is safe to assume that at least
300 of her supporters would have voted for Al Gore! Exit polls confirm
this fact. Al Gore was the second choice of over half of the Moorehead
voters!
The Worker's World Party is a socialist political organization that has
been around for decades.
They are the ones who always have the best-looking banners at any
political demonstration (black italic lettering on a yellow-orange
background). They are for unions, a fair distribution of the wealth, and
are pro-choice, pro-environment and pro-gay. You can see why, if they
had nowhere else to go, Moorehead voters would have held their nose and
voted for Gore.
And we wouldn't be in the mess we're in right now!
I hold Monica Moorehead personally responsible for all the havoc a Bush
presidency will wreak. If women are forced to return to back alley
coathanger abortions, it will be because of Monica. If the Alaskan
wilderness is ravaged by corporate greed, it will be because of Monica.
If we are unable to repel an attack of Martians, it will be because of
Monica.
What kind of weird, sick ego filled this candidate, compelling her to
run and do so much damage? Oh, I get it -- "principle!" She was running
for "principle," not to actually WIN. Hey, get a clue, Monica -- this is
the REAL world the rest of us live in. While you decided to have your
ego party and travel the country with celebrities, the rest of us were
trying to do something practical. Was it simply your greed to get
matching federal funds in the next election? Was that what your
candidacy was all about?
Money for YOU? I read in Salon.com you live in a Park Ave. penthouse!
And they are NEVER wrong!! So while you get rich in the next four years,
selling your pamphlets on "The Dialectic of Political Reform in
Socialist Romania 1951-1984," the rest of us will just have to suffer!
Well, I for one, will not let this drop. I encourage everyone to shun
Monica Moorehead. If she enters a room, just leave. If she speaks to
you, tell her that she is a "non-person" and then leave. When her name
comes up in conversation, change the subject -- and then leave. If she
comes on TV, switch the channel. If they put her name on a candy bar,
don't eat it. If you find yourself in the same restaurant as her, don't
order what she has ordered. And don't ever go back to that restaurant
because you may end up drinking from the same glass she drank from!
Let us all make the name "Monica Moorehead" synonymous with EVIL. Do NOT
return her calls. Delete her name from your Palm Pilot. I have read some
of Monica's latest comments in the past couple days as she has attacked
the vote fraud in Florida. Hey, Monica -- you're a little late, aren't
you? Where were you when you were helping Bush get elected? Why didn't
you drop out of the race when you saw how close it was? All our lives we
have respected you, and now you just went and blew it! Why should we
listen to you from this point on? You say we should "take to the streets
of West Palm Beach!" How the hell do you expect us to do that when we
have to spend time writing you these angry letters?
I am announcing the formation of the "Blame Monica Movement."
Heretofore, whenever anyone wants to know WHO is responsible for putting
Bush in the White House, you just tell them, "IT WAS MONICA!" Blame
Monica!
Yours,
Michael Moore
mmflint@aol.com
www.michaelmoore.com
P.S. This Saturday, November 18, may be the last chance to take to the
streets to stop "The Bush Ballot Theft." Rallies and demonstrations are
being held in cities all over the country at 1pm. Click here to find out
where:
www.geocities.com/countercoup
Let's get thousands out there and make our voices heard. No matter which
candidate each of us voted for, we must insist that the person with the
most votes gets the job. Remember -- if this kind of thievery can take
place amongst the two corporate-controlled parties, just imagine what
they would do to us if we ever got close with a viable third party! If
they get away with this, they will be able to get away with anything.
Take a stand on Saturday. P.P.S. Tonight (Friday) on "The Awful Truth"
(Bravo, 8pm and 11pm ET), we send our
Congressional Pimp to walk the halls of Congress. Don't miss this lesson
in democracy at work! Also, we present our salute to Male Apartheid!
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