Dude, Where's My Country_ - Michael Moore [106]
You can find estimates on illegal drug use in the American population through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
America’s green, environmentally friendly underbelly is revealed in: Riley E. Dunlap, “Americans Have Positive Image of the Environmental Movement,” Gallup News Service, April 18, 2000; Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/Washington Post/Harvard University, June 23, 2002; Gallup Poll, March 18, 2002; Gallup Poll, April 21, 2003; Gallup Poll, March 13, 2003; Pew Global Attitudes Project Poll, June 3, 2003; and Zogby International for National Environmental Trust, “A poll of likely Republican primary or caucus voters in California, Iowa, New Hampshire, New York, and South Carolina,” August 1999.
For the numbers on the true American attitude toward guns, see National Opinion Research Center, “2001 National Gun Policy Survey of the National Opinion Research Center: Research Findings,” December 2001; Violence Policy Center, “New Survey Reveals More Americans Favor Handgun Ban Than Own Handguns,” March 15, 2000; Michigan Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence, “Public Opinion: Opening the Door to Public Policy Change,” conducted by market research and analysis firm EPIC-MRA, October 2000.
Aside from Will & Grace, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the sudden renewed popularity of musical theater, you can find even more proof of America’s love affair with homosexuality to be found in these sources: Human Rights Campaign, “HRC Hails New Gallup Poll Showing Continuing Positive Trend in U.S. Public Opinion On Some Gay Issues,” press release, June 4, 2001; Los Angeles Times poll, June 18, 2000; Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, November 2001; Gallup Poll, May 15, 2003; and Newsweek, April 27, 2002.
America’s widespread support for unions, and distrust of corporations can be seen in the following: ABC News/Washington Post Poll, July 15, 2002; Gallup Poll, August 30, 2002; AFL-CIO Labor Day Survey, August 29, 2002; Fox News poll, October 25, 2002; Kent Hoover, “Labor unions aim to capitalize on public anti-corporate attitude,” Houston Business Journal, September 9, 2002; Program on International Policy Attitudes, “Americans on globalization survey,” November 16, 1999; Harris Poll, July 27, 2002; and the Democratic Leadership Council, “America’s changing political geography survey,” October 2002 (conducted by Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates). For more on union membership statistics nationwide, and to see how union members are paid better than non-union members, check out the Bureau of Labor Statistics at www.bls.gov.
Michael Savage expressed his charming view of sodomites, and his love of eating sausages, on his now-cancelled (because of this very comment) MSNBC show Savage Nation on July 5, 2003. Savage (whose real last name is Weiner) diagnosed the left with a mental disorder (and an unhealthy love of—OH NO!—Islam) on his MSNBC show on April 19, 2003. Our good friend Ann Coulter conveyed the message from God that we should “rape” the Earth on Fox News’ Hannity and Colmes, on June 22, 2001. Coulter, who has in the past been identified by Fox News as a “constitutional scholar,” suggested liberals should be killed at the 2002 Conservative Political Action Conference. Her profound understanding of the political, social, economic, and religious environment of Afghanistan, and her advice on what America should do there was posted on the Web site of the conservative magazine, the National Review, shortly after September 11. Pointing out the fact that George W. Bush is an illegitimate president at the Oscars spurred Bill O’Reilly to denounce me