"MM" Unplugged! (FUN!) "Harry Reid Leading the Dem Revolution?"

[KoKo]

Do you think a possible good outcome of Bush winning could be that more people, particularly young people, are becoming radicalized?

I'm confident that's what will happen. I hate to think that that's a good thing, because it means over the next four years some people, many people, are going to have to suffer. But, you know, my hope was that young people would get out and vote, and they voted in record numbers. I don't know why that story hasn't been told. It was the largest turnout of eighteen- to twenty-nine-year-olds since eighteen-year-olds were given the vote in '72. And it was the only age group where Kerry got the majority.

(SNIP)

How depressed were you in the days after the election?

I cut the TV off and stayed in the house for about three days. Then, finally, a friend of mine said, "Our daughter is in a fifth-grade play. Do you wanna come watch it?" And I said, "Yeah, that sounds like something I would like to do."


(SNIP)...Moore compares vote to Women's Rights)...


What was the play?

It was about the life of Susan B. Anthony. I sat in the back of the classroom listening to them re-enact her life, and I thought about how women had been trying to get the vote since the 1840s, and those first women never lived to see a voting booth -- and yet they never gave up. They were ostracized, shunned, called un-American, anti-God, anti-family, and they never gave up. And at the same time I started to tear up, thinking, "These poor kids. What have we done to them now with this election?" But it was good to get out of the house .

(SNIP)........Moore responds with "dark humor" about the "Chimp Emperor."

Are you sort of serious about this?

I'm absolutely serious. You see, we think we got to run the guy who can write the legislation and set the policy. But the people who vote for Bush know that he doesn't set the policy and write the laws. They just like him personally. They like what they see, which is the act. They like the character. They like the C student. They like the cowboy and the ranch. There's no ranch. That's a movie set that Karl Rove created, you know? But that's OK. It's a comforting image. And we have to run the wonk.

(SNIP)

The guy who's lecturing you.

Right. You know, "Hey, let's get Evan Bayh! And we can have Harry Reid as the Democratic leader in the Senate. That's right! Harry Reid will lead the revolution." Are you kidding me? Americans love stars. Clinton was a rock star.

Much More of the Moore...interview here.....
http://www.rollingstone.com/poymoore?rnd=1103599396780&has-player=true&version=6.0.11.847