11/11/2004 05:28:15 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

Michael Moore seems to have dropped the sackcloth and emerged from mourning this week. Among many gems of commentary, Moore came out with this cryptic analysis

In the day after the election, the pundits were spewing their hot air about how the youth vote didn't matter this year. I wonder, even though they have the same facts available to them as I do -- the ones I've cited above -- do they just chose to ignore them because it doesn't fit into their tired old routine they call "conventional wisdom." I guess it is easier to simply repeat the same broken down clichés than it is to find out what the truth really is.

No one said the youth vote didn't matter, of course. Just that it didn't make a lick of difference. The mythical legions of slackers did not materialize. Well, if they did, they did so for the president. But that conclusion would send the Michael Moore cult into an irretrievable tail-spin. Then there's this

From the beginning, I believed that young adults and "slackers" would rise up in this election. As we began our slacker tour in Syracuse's football stadium on September 20, we could tell that this election would be like no other. It was no longer uncool to talk politics like it was five or ten years ago. Now, you were considered a loser if you didn't know what was going on in the world.

Yes, the legions of the informed had Michael Moore's brand on their activist buttocks. Please. Michael Moore has shown his marginal influence, as well as that of his celebrity cohorts. Let's move on to more serious things - like defending this nation from real terrorist threats.

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