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Old 03-07-2004, 11:22   #6
Graham
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Re: Bowling for Columbine

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Originally Posted by punky
You shouldn't believe anything Michael Moore says. It is up to you, but you should really check out the other side before you decide wether to believe him or not.
ITYM "you shouldn't believe it unquestioningly"

But there again...

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And here are 3 of the best ones:

www.moorewatch.com
www.moorelies.com
Two sites with a *blatant* Pro-Bush, Republican bias ("Let's make a Ronald Regan dollar coin", "Click here to thank Tony Blair (for his help in Iraq)" etc etc. Not exactly what I would call "impartial comment"

A page that criticises Moore for " In producing his Oscar-winner, Moore altered history, misled his viewers, and edited the footage and audio in such a way as to reverse the meaning. In one case, he took a speech of a person he desired to target; the problem was that the speech was in fact conciliatory and mild. So he spliced in footage from another speech, cut out paragraphs, and spliced the beginning of one sentence to the ending of another. "

And then goes on to say "[in] -Dude, Where's My Country, (page still under construction.) In this tome we learn "There is no terrorist threat," (p. 95) and Richard Nixon was the last liberal President, (p. 193). (Even more amusingly, in chapter 8 Moore pledges to contribute the limit to whichever Democrat has the best chance of winning (p. 162) and then in chapter 11 tells the reader that the Democrats are "professional losers," that "Democratic Party leaders have told me something they will not admit in public -- that they have basically written off 2004; that they see little chance of defeating George W. Bush" (p. 204) and that they might as well run Oprah Winfrey. (p. 206).)

Now *what* was that again about splicing together sentences and cutting out paragraphs?!

Please note that I'm not saying that Moore is necessarily *right*. But I don't think he's necessarily *wrong* either!!
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