Posted on 06/26/2004 5:37:38 AM PDT by toaster
"Moore's work is, indeed, quite sloppy. I am scratching my head about Moore's supposed major fact checking of the film. The fact of the matter is that Moore has a major clip smack dab in the middle of the film that doesn't even come from the current Iraq invlovement..."
(Excerpt) Read more at economicbriefing.com ...
ROTF!!!
Verrry interesting...
"It is the clip of a woman crying hysterically in front of a bombed out building. The Iraqi's, at the time, claimed the building bombed was a milk plant. The U. S. said it was a chemical factory."
Fact checking? Got to be KIDDING!
Lumpy goebbels is just following his mentor, josef goebbels.
This is a Michael Moore documentary. Moore would never let a little thing like facts get in the way of what he wants to say.
McCuddy had actually seen the movie and said that he has some question in regard to the accuracy of the movie.
figgers
and welcome to FR!
Better get this one to our conservative friends in the media.
That blogger is just being picky, picky, picky!
Since when have the libs let little things like the truth or facts get in the way of them presenting their agenda?
BUMP!
Those who follow the news regularly and with good memories will recall the clip is actually from a Peter Arnett report during Gulf War I.
The Goebbels of Saddam's regime
by Peter Arnett, Haaretz.com, HaaretzEnglish Edition, 25 February 2003
It all started with the baby-milk plant story. Up to then, the Bush administration had been enthusiastically supportive of CNN's coverage of the 1991 bombing of Baghdad. Our live reports from the ninth floor of the al-Rashid Hotel suggested that the numerous cruise missiles and bombs daily hammering the Iraqi capital were finding their designated targets, namely command and control centers, military barracks and Saddam Hussein's palaces and bunkers. Our reports seemed to confirm Pentagon assessments that civilian casualties were nil.
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/GoebbelsOfSH.html
McCuddy also said the CNN interviewerette starting out by telling Moore that she 'didn't see the movie, but....'
Interesting ping.
The target audience here won't know or care. Sean Hannity on the other hand.......
Good observation. The poster's ('toaster') only goal in life appears to be linking this blog to FR, in an attempt to get viewers that otherwise would not take notice of the blog.
It don't matter though.
Even the major news agencies will periodically use archived footage and add it to a current story.
Red6
Missed the newbie date of registration. Good catch.
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