Michael Moore argued during an MSNBC appearance that getting 100,000 voters to cast “uncommitted” ballots in the Michigan Democratic primary was to “save” President Joe Biden “from himself.
Moore helped organize the effort and told MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin over the weekend that originally envisioned the effort nabbing 10,000-15,000 votes. He blasted Biden for not acknowledging the “uncommitted” voters after he won the state primary. The voters refused to back Biden over his support of Israel amid the Israel-Hamas war. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was one of the supporters of the effort.
“Why wouldn’t Biden listen to this? He wouldn’t even acknowledge it when he won the primary and [he was] thanking the people of Michigan. [He] just ignored the 100,000 people,” Moore said.
The filmmaker argued that if Biden loses the state of Michigan, he’ll likely lose the entire election. The Canadian Bacon director knocked the president over a plan to airdrop aid into Gaza, as well his recent talk of a possible ceasefire deal while he enjoyed ice cream with late night host Seth Meyers.
Moore said:
Why would you risk that, President Biden? Why? This is when you need to be a politician. What you should do is the moral thing which is stop the carpet bombing, stop the slaughter, make sure aid comes in — don’t be dropping aid with parachutes like it was some kind of Looney Tunes cartoon. You know, you’ve got two million people starving to death, and you’re dropping a few hundred parachutes? Is that a joke? Is that like the ice cream, announcing we’re going to have a ceasefire by Monday. You know, this is not funny. This is not a joke.
Moore’s rant went from addressing Biden to Israel at one point where he described Gaza as an “open air prison” and said the real “enemies” of Israel are not the Palestinian people, but white European Christians, reaching back to everything from the Holocaust to the Spanish Inquisition.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there will be no stop to his strikes on Gaza until Hamas is completely eliminated. The terror group attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing more than 1,000 and kidnapping hundreds more. Biden and other U.S. officials have back Israel’s right to defend itself, but expressed concerns over the tens of thousands of deaths inside of Gaza, much of them civilian.
According to Moore:
According to my knowledge of history, the enemies of Israel, who have been persecuting the Israelis, the Jewish people of this world who have been persecuted for 5,000 years. But for the last 2,000 years, most of the persecution has come from white European-centric Christians. That’s been your enemy. No Palestinian helped to build Auschwitz. No Palestinian stood on the docks of New York City when boatloads of Jewish refugees tried to escape the Holocaust, came here to be protected by this country and were turned away at the docks of New York and sent back to Germany to die. No Palestinian did that. No Palestinian ran the Spanish Inquisition. Your enemy, your enemy is not the Palestinian people. It is white Christian European people who have been slaughtering Jews for the last 2,000 years.
Moore accused Biden of “gambling” with democracy “by aligning himself with an authoritarian in Tel Aviv.”
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