FNC Reveals How Moore Distorted Scene with Bush at Golf Course

MRC ^ | 7/1/04 | Brent Baker

[Billthedrill]

Even some news organizations providing clips to Moore for the film argue Fahrenheit 9/11 is not balanced.

I guess since Fox came around, "balanced" is now a buzzword. But it isn't the issue here. The problem is not that the claims in the film aren't balanced, it's that they're not true.

[freekitty]

All they do is lie, lie and lie. They really have no future. It's all fantasy.

[cripplecreek]

Creative editing is Moore's only true talent. I hear people talk about his great talent for film making and it simply doesn't exist.

The only true Hollywood style film he's made (Canadian bacon) had great actors and great potential but his usual anger killed any potential for the comedy it was supposed to be.

[Frances_Marion]

When F911 comes out on video, I will add it to my collection....right next to 'Triumph of the Will'.

[halosfan2002]

Anyone know or have a web site devoted to a scene by scene debunking of False & lies 9/11.

[dfwgator]

When F911 comes out on video, I will add it to my collection....right next to 'Triumph of the Will'.

...And 'Potemkin'.

[william clark]

And, by the way, anyone who's ever paid to see a movie that included OJ Simpson in it is guilty of conspiracy to commit murder. Right, Mr. Moore?

[lugsoul]

Not to defend Moore, but this seems a bit weak. The position of the President has always seemed pretty clear to me - he doesn't seen to draw fine distinctions between types of terrorists. I haven't seen the movie, so I don't know whether or not Moore claims the President is talking about AQ - or whether that is just inferred by some viewers due to the broad subject matter of the movie. But I don't think the President would create fine gradations among AQ, Hamas, Hezbollah, AAI, etc. So how is this misleading?

[Oldsailor]

I think the whole country is going nutz when some of the Dems and Libs are seen praising a scum like MM.

Shows how far from reality we have traveled.

[paltz]

The TV ads for Michael Moore's "documentary" Fahrenheit 9/11 feature a mocking clip of President Bush on a golf course. Bush declares, "I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorists killers," and then Moore jumps to Bush adding, as he prepares to swing at a golf ball, "now watch this drive." Tuesday night on FNC's Special Report with Brit Hume, Brian Wilson noted how "the viewer is left with the misleading impression Mr. Bush is talking about al-Qaeda terrorists." But Wilson disclosed that "a check of the raw tape reveals the President is talking about an attack against Israel, carried out by a Palestinian suicide bomber."

That one was so obviously cut with a zoom transition between the golf swing and his statement. It was literally 2 different pieces of footage slapped together with a cutesy effect in between.

[paltz]

Creative editing is Moore's only true talent. I hear people talk about his great talent for film making and it simply doesn't exist.

This is basic editing. I coud do this in Final cut pro or I -movie with any 2 pieces of footage. It's hardly a talent.

[pdxer]

I think we better start finding better examples of the lies in the movie if we're going to make our case. One scene in a long movie doesn't really prove the point.

Scratch that I geuss there are two points made, the golf scene and the planes taking off, but that seems pretty weak. Isn't the movie two hours long? I haven't seen it, but if it is full of lies why haven't more examples been given?

[beelzepug]

Mockumentary

[areafiftyone]

That stupid scene is played on all the commercials for FARCEnheit 9/11

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[whattajoke]

Geez, how thin is your veil?

[Ceoman]

I agree we need to get more to refute...theatres have been so crowded..cannot believe it. And people are believing it!

[rabidralph]

What's misleading is the jumpcut from his statement about stopping terror, to the one about watching his drive. It gives the impression that every nation better get busy, stopping terror while I finish my golf game.

[Ramcat]

"I agree we need to get more to refute...theatres have been so crowded..cannot believe it. And people are believing it!"

These are the same people who believe that professional wrestling is real.