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Politics : Fahrenheit 9/11: Michael Moore's Masterpiece -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (189)	6/23/2004 1:55:56 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 2772

Tell me something major that was a glaring inaccuracy? Gee, you didn't read much, did you? His statements about that plant in Colorado? WRONG! I know that from personal knowledge. I've been there. The Heston speech? Quite a change in timing, don't you think? If we made such a "mistake" about Clinton or Kerry, you'd shove it down our throats for months. Back later. There's plenty Moore. :-) If he'd gotten an award for "Best Work of Fiction", tht might be disputed, but calling that movie a "documentary" is a flat out lie. Not that this is surprising coming from Moore.

To: Rock_nj who wrote (189)	6/23/2004 2:14:05 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 2772

geocities.com spinsanity.org mindprod.com spinsanity.org What is really damaging is when Moore engages in lies and distortions and then falls back to his "how can there be inaccuracy in comedy?" defense. This leads Mattson to complain that those who have pointed out the numerous factual errors in Moore's work tend to be on the Right, These complaints about Moore's work often have more to do with politics than a commitment to factual accuracy. It was Forbes magazine that documented the errors of Bowling for Columbine [which is not really accurate], and I doubt its editors show a similar interest in, say, the errors of Republican Party spokespeople. It amuses me to no end when some Right or Left winger pulls out this nonsequiter. Look, if you don't want your political opponents pointing out errors, then you need to do a better job of that yourself. Conservatives weren't able to force left-liberals into gushing praise for Bowling for Columbine. It wasn't the Vast Right-wing Conspiracy that told The Nation to run a ridiculous defense of another factually challenged gun control advocate, Michael Bellisles, shortly before he was forced to leave Tufts over his invention of facts. It is the truth that matters. Mattson compares Moore's work highly unfavorably to Edward Murrow's classic TV documentary about migrant workers, "Harvest of Shame." Whatever you think of that documentary, it did not simply invent facts wholly out of thin air. Murrow would never have shown a plaque too fuzzy to read and then simply lied about the text. And a political movement that doesn't hold Moore accountable for such nonsense, gets what it deserves. leftwatch.com You want to fight some more?