Michael Moore And Alan

Michael Moore was on The Jay Leno Show recently, and FLG realized something about Moore and Alan. No, it's not that they are both wackjob liberals.

FLG saw in Moore's eyes and speech, and he always forgets it until he sees it, a passion for the little guy. FLG assumes it comes from Moore's upbringing in Flint. A sense of that something is just wrong and should be corrected.

FLG sees that same thing in Alan. A sense of -- this just isn't right and we need to roll up our sleeves and do something about it. FLG thinks it might have to do with Alan's upbringing, which was also in an area with declining industry, but he has no idea.

There's a stark contrast though. Alan is, despite his Godless heathenism and insane politics, one of the most patriotic, honest, decent, and compassionate people FLG has ever met. He might even go so far as to call Alan virtuous. Michael Moore is most certainly not. He's so loose with the facts that his films border on unethical, even if they are often good entertainment.

As regular readers will know, means are often just as important as ends to FLG. It seems to him that both Alan and Michael Moore began at the same place -- righting what they see as obvious wrongs and ensuring a sense of fair play, but choose two different paths. Moore's an end justifies the means type of path that has led to international fame and riches. Alan's more honorable means of achieving the same ends led to him writing a blog and lobbying legislators, among other things, in relative obscurity. It's a shitty world.