Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer, left, and radical leftist filmmaker Michael Moore, right.
Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer ripped Michael Moore for a Twitter post he made Sunday amid weekend release of the movie “American Sniper.” The movie depicts the life, service, and death of former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle.
My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) January 18, 2015
Meyer responded to the tweet in a post on Scout.
“I’m sure that his grandfather, who died serving this country, is rolling over in his grave knowing that his grandson is using him to justify him calling U.S. servicemen cowards,” he wrote. “I’d be willing to bet that at some point during his grandfather’s service, he was watched over by U.S. snipers, and probably had his life saved more than once by U.S. snipers during the war.”
The movie was a target for liberal Hollywood elites this week, despite making over $100 million during the weekend release and breaking multiple records for the month of January. Seth Rogen, the Hollywood actor who co-wrote and starred in “The Interview,” said the movie reminded him of a Nazi propaganda movie that played at the conclusion of “Inglorious Bastards.”
American Sniper kind of reminds me of the movie that's showing in the third act of Inglorious Basterds.
— Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) January 18, 2015
Both Moore and Rogen have tried to walk back their comments, but taking specific aim at Moore, Meyer gave him his own definition of a coward.
“A sniper’s primary goal is to eliminate ground threats for U.S. guys on the ground. Is that what a coward is? A person whose goal is to save the lives of his warrior brothers?” Meyer added. “No, cowards are people who didn’t have the guts to serve, and are happy to sit back in a free and protected country and call our service members cowards. I find it funny that this Moore guy would only say this after Chris Kyle was killed. I’d have loved to see him say that to Chris’s face.”
Meyer went on to suggest a boycott of Moore’s films, which he has freely and profitably made in a capitalist system he professes to hate so much.
“Look, I’ve never seen a Michael Moore movie and sure don’t plan to. I’d call on everyone to boycott this idiot’s films. Don’t embrace or support his ignorance,” Meyer suggested. “What would I do if I owned a Michael Moore DVD? I’d set it up out back and set my cowardly sniper skill on it.”
