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Friday, January 10, 2003

Media Moore v. Coulter

The real reason that Moore doesn’t get on television is because Moore isn’t just a liberal. By today's standards, he’s a radical. Moore attacks the power of big corporations, including General Motors, Nike, and Wal-Mart. No, he doesn’t just attack them; he embarrasses them. And that makes people in television uneasy.
Ann Coulter is a Republican; she’s okay with big corporations. (She just thinks they shouldn’t be liberal.) But TV producers never know if Michael Moore will go off the reservation and start talking about, say, how NBC-owner General Electric polluted New York’s Hudson River. (The same phenomenon applies to Ralph Nader.) And so they don’t give him the chance. The irony is, if they did, and he did, it’d make great TV.
· Voices [Tom Paine]