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Politics : Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Idiot -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (477)	6/16/2004 4:12:52 PM
From: Jagfan	Respond to of 1409

Make sure you keep looking out your window for the black helicopters. They're coming for you.

To: American Spirit who wrote (477)	6/17/2004 9:44:23 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 1409

Who is Michael Moore? And Why Do I Loath Him? by Richard Bushnell Michael Moore is a left wing film maker and author provocateur. He calls Bush, Cheney, and Ashcroft the "real axis of evil." He blamed 9-11 attacks on too many White people and not enough Black men on the planes. He used his Oscar acceptance speech time as a soap box to rail against a "fictitious" President Bush, "fictitious election results," and the War on Iraq, which he claimed was for "fictitious reasons." "We live in fictitious times," he said when picking up the award for best documentary for his anti-gun film "Bowling for Columbine." And Michael Moore should know. Because everything from his "working-class Joe" persona to his so-called documentary, for which he won the award, is largely fictitious. Michael Moore is the master of the truly fictitious. In Bowling for Columbine Michael's main thesis is that America has a culture of violence; that we as a nation do not do enough to care for one another (via free health care, free education, and so on); that we are a gun crazy nation, and as a result we have considerably more deaths due to gun homicides; and that if we rectified these situations that life here would improve. But I do not loath Michael Moore because of his views, nor because he freely expresses them. I loath Michael Moore because he uses crafty tricks and deceit to fool his viewers to make his points. That is not respectable. Everyone has a perfect right to even the most ridiculous or insulting opinions in this free land and it is close minded to despise those who do not think exactly like you. This is not my case against Moore. Moore uses inaccurate data, vicious stereotypes, baseless assertions and double standards in his internet editorials, books and films. I don't condemn Michael Moore because I disagree with his opinions. I condemn Michael Moore because he is an ideological con artist. He tricks people in the nastiest of ways. What he did to Charlton Heston in Bowling for Columbine was just atrociously unforgivable. The lengths he went to demonize, defame and dissect Heston went far beyond the boundaries of dissent and disagreement. He did not respond to Heston or the NRA's messages or ideas. He did not counter argue their actions and policy. He fabricated things to make an honest man look like a liar, an intelligent man look like a buffoon, a civil rights activist into a racist, a man that lobbied for and enforced strict gun laws into an irresponsible gun nut and a good man look very, very bad. Moore props himself up as a truth teller when he is anything but. He had the nerve to say at the Oscars that he was up on stage because him and the other candidates "like non-fiction and we live in fictitious times" when he is a fiction mogul. Webmaster Merkley from threequestionmarks.com (portions of which is featured in various places on this site) puts my own sentiments beautifully: "What really offends me about Moore is that he capitalizes on the wonderful human willingness to trust. I am 50 percent wrong for directing this anger towards his fans. After all he is using all of the tricks of the trade---humor, music (scary when it needs to be) and charm to weave his web of fudged facts. Like me, he was an ugly fat kid (I wasn't fat, I was freckled and too skinny) who surely felt the wrath of the genetically gifted, it is no surprise that he is still to this day wreaking revenge upon the subjects of his jealousy. As any ugly kid who discovers humor as a defense mechanism will tell you, just ask me, the easiest way to get ahead when things seem so stacked against you is ---- identify the folks with the most power and influence and learn how to do a good impersonation of them --- then you can make them look like an ass when they leave the room. Always make them seem incompetent and evil---but in a funny way---you know, so you still look holy---like a good guy. Drawing funny pictures of the boss works well too. His whole gimmick, and such his philosophy, is wrapped up in the scene where he says (while suggesting a sub series called "Corporate Cops") "What American wouldn't love to see his boss chased down and beaten?" this is the core of his gimmick. It is and always has been effective. What really sucks is that, to combat this method is difficult. It is hard enough convincing people to be skeptical when trust is such a necessary element in a civilized society, but when you get clowns like Moore who proclaim that he is the ultimate skeptic, he taps into that last remaining ounce of trust left in the people who consider themselves skeptical.---They don't check his facts because why would he lie when his whole gig is to uncover the real story? He knows very well what he is doing---that is why I get so pissed. To a point, I understand those who trust his figures and theories---we have to trust somebody---but I can't excuse them. People must tune their own bullshit detectors. I can't be everywhere----or can I?" So now I am in a personal feud with Michael Moore. So be warned Michael Moore. You have got several decades of establishment and film making experience on me, but I'm just as funny as you, just as glib as you, just as clever and I've half your age and half your weight. May the truthful win.