What's wrong is that Michael Moore was LAMPOONING.
Bowling for Columbine. LAMPOONING (satirizing) the situation to make a buck.
Fahrenheit 9/11. LAMPOONING (satirizing) to situation to make a buck.
BUT, the DEM PARTY leaders saw a tool that could be used, and they used it. RELABELLED it a DOCUMENTARY.
Michael Moore doesn't care. He just wants a buck, and fame.
I hope he wallows in it.
It knowingly, calculatingly offers up lies -- demonstrable lies; lies beyond all hope of honest and rational rebuttal -- and insists that they are truths.
And does so either for mere, mean profit (best case scenario)... or else simply to help bring about the destruction of the West (most likely motivation, based upon his own poisonous public belchings).
Other than that, however...? S'allright, I guess. :)
Excellent article! Thank you for bringing it to our attention. Below I post another excerpt from the article that I think really pegs what Moore has done:
"No one has challenged Michael Moore’s right to “reveal” the consequences of President Bush’s decisions as brutally as he wants. But this is not what he does. He seeks to embarrass Bush by culling choice footage from hundreds of hours of recording, cutting-and-pasting them in unflattering ways, and then spicing it with wild innuendo and cinematic manipulation. If any one of us were on camera on a daily basis, speaking on record about a half-dozen issues, we’d have quite a blooper reel as well. Fahrenheit 9/11’s unforgiving character assassination is corrosive to civil democratic culture. If everyone behaved this way towards their political opponents, and if every important issue were simplified to the point of absurdity, normal political processes would break down. Fahrenheit 9/11 thus resorts to the oldest, nastiest trick in the book: attack Bush’s character, not his policies; impugn his motives, not his arguments. It’s hard to ignore how relentlessly personal this movie is. All this, even as there remain few matters more in demand of partisan discretion and common decency than terrorism and war."
I read with interest XXXXX XXXXXXXXX's plea for everyone to watch Mike Moore's propaganda film, "Fahrenheit 911." ("That Movie' should be a must-see for everyone.") Perhaps Ms. Sheridan is vying for a position as an editorial page writer for the New York Times? Nowhere else has Mr. Moore's op-ed hit piece been taken quite so seriously, except maybe in France. I will point out just a few of the myriad lies or distortions laid out in Moore's movie.
The now-famous film clip of President Bush making a comment about terrorism, while golfing, is completely misleading and taken out of context. The viewer is left with the impression Mr. Bush is talking about al-Qaida terrorists. A check of the entire tape, however, reveals the truth that Moore left on the cutting room floor. The president was talking about an all-too-common suicide bombing in Israel.
Moore claims in his movie that President Bush arranged special flights to get the bin Laden family out of America following 911. The truth is, former terrorism czar and Bush critic Richard Clarke admits the decision was his and his alone, and the 9/11 Commission report supports his claim. You could look it up.
Moore also claims the only reason the United States invaded Afghanistan was to build a pipeline. Trouble is, the pipeline has not been built, and there are no plans for one.
For a variety of reviews and information on Moore's film, go to centigrade911.com. Here's a Michael Moore quote, from April of this year, to keep in mind if you do go to see his film: "The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "the enemy." They are the revolution, the minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win."
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By the way, the timing on the "Berger release" (being just before the convention) seems to have worked-out well for 'ol sandy boy; the story seems to have already been forgotten by the major players...
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Here in New Zealand, a TV movie reviewer said that this movie made him "laugh, but most of all it made (him) angry."
Boy, did he check the facts? My own politics aren't exactly in line with Bush, but libel is libel. And he sure gets angry easily about stuff that's none of his business.
Doubtful. At $7 a ticket, that would mean $210M in sales. Since the movie's at around $110M and unlikely to go a great deal higher, that would mean only about 5% of the population.
Some have undoubtedly seen it more than once, so the real percentage is lower.