C-Span Q&A Does "Shooting Michael Moore"

C-Span | 29 July, 2007 | C-Span

[Intolerant in NJ]

The guy seemed like a hack, and the incessant fat jokes didn’t help his credibility either. I clicked away...I watched it twice and actually can't remember one fat joke - if you hadn't clicked away you would have seen real people talking in real words about how they felt used and deceived by Moore - the guy who wasn't really being evicted from his apartment, the guy who was really wounded in an accident and not in combat, the recruiting sargeant who was persuaded to go on camera because he was told Moore was doing a show for the Discovery Channel, the woman who was duped out of her rights to any interest in his movie because she couldn't read the paper she was asked to sign ("He says he's working for the little guy, but he's really working for the big guy, Michael Moore") - pretty good stuff for a hack......

[Intolerant in NJ]

The man, Kevin, who did this, is really to be admired...hate to agree, but I do - he described himself as a Democrat who voted for Kerry and doesn't like President Bush; as Brian Lamb pointed out, his antipathy to the war, big corporations and the current medical system is surely in agreement with Moore's, but he is nevertheless going after the real negative facts on Michael - if all 'rats were interested in the truth wherever it fell instead of holding on to power and protecting their own, what a wonderful world it would be....

[lowbridge]

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[Tribune7]

OK thanks.

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[Huck]

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.

[Cindy_Cin]

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?

[sle2790]

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!

[Intolerant in NJ]

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.....

[Electric Graffiti]