Posted on 07/29/2007 6:30:11 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
C-Span's Sunday night hour of "Q&A" today involved an interview with Kevin Leffler, a Michigan CPA who is sinking about $100k of his own money into a documentary which he calls "Shooting Michael Moore". Leffler knew and worked with Moore and says that the public persona Moore touts is nothing like the Moore he knew. His film, from which numerous clips are presented during Q&A, is a takeoff on Moore's "Roger and Me" and portrays Leffler trying to track down and question Moore about many inaccuracies and outright lies he says Moore includes in his various films. The picture Leffler presents is of a lying, opportunistic and exceptionally vindinctive man (at one point Moore sends a henchman to threaten Leffler's daughter, an on air reporter for a Michigan TV station, with firing if she takes any pictures of him during a local film festival). This is a must see when it's repeated on C-Span at 11:00 P.M. tonight and 6:00 A.M. tomorrow (EDT).
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You must have missed the fat jokes. Anyway, the guy’s point seems to be that Moore is a limousine lib/ hypocrite. Ok, fine. I don’t have a problem with that. I just thought he did a weak job of establishing that. So the guy doesn’t live in Flint. Who f-ing cares? It’s a bit ironic of you to accuse me of shooting the messenger. That’s what this poorly made movie was apparantly all about. I’d be much more supportive of work that attacked Moore’s assertion, rather than his personal lifestyle. It’s no wonder the movie hasn’t been picked up.
Anyone know where I can purchase this film?
I checked Amazon & unless I did something wrong in my search it appears they
don’t have it~ suggestions?
Go and see the movie, it is will worth the time and money. I am just amazed at the things that Michael Moore says and what he does to his “raw footage.” He will edit the video so he can make people say things that are really not being said. In his movie, Kevin Leffler goes back an re-interviews the people in Mr. Moore’s movie and gets the truth! Mr. Moore’s movie are garabage!
Thanks for the post - I had forgotten about this and had to go back to refresh my memory on Leffler and his movie - he wasn’t too optimistic about how he was going to get it made during his original interview, but if you’ve seen it apparently he’s had some success - in fact a Yahoo search shows a number of online references to “Shooting Michael Moore” including one web page from last month listing several commercial movie houses now showing it, all apparently in Michigan - did you see it in that area or is it more widely distributed (let’s hope)? - I haven’t seen it advertised as showing anywhere in or around Philly so I don’t know if I’ll have a chance to catch it on the big screen, but I recall Leffler saying he was going to try to put it out on DVD, and maybe I’ll be able to get a copy that way if and when it becomes available - nice to have the follow-up.....
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