Thursday, October 07, 2004


Yahoo! News - GOP Probes Moore's Underwear
The GOP is hoping to put Michael Moore behind bars for some supposedly dirty laundry.

Michigan's Republican Party has sent letters to district attorneys in four counties asking them to bring bribery charges against the controversial filmmaker, claiming he tried to get college students to vote by offering them clean underwear and ramen noodles.

"Michael Moore is offering things of value in order to get people to vote illegally," Michigan Republican Party spokesman Chris Paolino told E! Online.

To help energize his audiences, made up mostly of first-time and nonvoters, Moore has been handing out gag gifts, usually 12-packs of Hanes briefs and ramen instant noodles, to students at each tour stop in an effort to get them to cast their vote.

Apparently, state conservatives weren't laughing however.

"You need to make a stand on the small things lest Michael Moore starts something bigger," added Paolino. "It's the same thing as offering people cigarettes or booze to get them to vote."

Once again, Michigan's GOP proves that it has it's collective head up it's ass. Between this and their recent attacks on the radio on Granholm's "failed record" (she will take away your pickup trucks!), I have to wonder what planet they are living on, because it certainly isn't this one.