On 6/30/04 5:41 PM, in article
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>> From: patch70
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>> Sam wrote:
>>> Moore is a proven liar in every propaganda film he
>>> has made.
>>
>> Then how come nobody has managed to sue, prosecute or
>> penalize him?
>>
> This gives you a search list of Moore stuff at
> Spinsanity. They are as close to completely unbiased as
> it is possible to be.
http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=sp100115c6&sp-
> f=iso-8859-1&sp-q=micha el+moore
>
>
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L656531B8 Read for
> yourself. Bill C
Just a SMALL sample of the Moore ****.........
Dude, Where's My Intellectual Honesty?
By Bryan Keefer
October 16, 2003
In his latest book Dude, Where's My Country? -- a polemic
against President Bush -- liberal gadfly Michael Moore again
demonstrates why he has a reputation as a slipshod
journalist who has trouble getting his facts right.
Moore established his reputation for playing fast and loose
with the truth in his first film, the 1989 documentary
"Roger and Me," centering on General Motors layoffs in his
hometown of Flint, Michigan. As the New Yorker's Pauline
Kael wrote at the time, he manipulated the chronology of
his film, implying that certain events were a response to
GM's large 1986 layoffs when in fact they had occurred
years before.
Moore's best-selling book Stupid White Men was no less
factually challenged. In it, he made a number of mistakes,
ranging from the sloppy (suggesting that the multiyear cost
of a new fighter plane was all being spent in 2001) to the
outright ridiculous (reprinting an outdated list of attacks
on Bush from the Internet virtually unedited). "Bowling for
Columbine," for which Moore was awarded last year's Academy
Award for best documentary feature, continued the pattern.
Critics, including my co-editor Ben Fritz and Dan Lyons of
Forbes, documented how Moore repeated a well-debunked myth
about supposed US aid to the Taliban, falsely portrayed a
scene in a Michigan bank to make it appear as though one
could open an account and walk out with a gun, and altered a
Bush-Quayle '88 campaign ad, among numerous other
distortions.
Moore has generally brushed aside such criticism with
suggestions such as "How can there be inaccuracy in comedy?"
as he put it to Lou Dobbs on CNN's "Moneyline." More
recently, however, he has gone on the offensive, going so
far as to suggest critics of "Bowling for Columbine" are
"committing an act of libel" in an August 19 appearance on
MSNBC. And in a long article posted on his web site, he
denounces criticism of the film as "character assassination"
and "make-believe stories."
Despite repeatedly dismissing his critics, Moore has
recently acknowledged some of his errors. For instance, in
the DVD release of "Bowling for Columbine," he changed the
caption he inserted over a Bush/Quayle '88 campaign ad,
making the text more accurate (although the viewer still is
unlikely to realize that the text wasn't in the original ad
in the first place). One his web site, Moore explicitly
admitted making this correction in the film.
In two places in Dude, Where's My Country?, Moore implicitly
acknowledges mistakes in his earlier works. On several
occasions over the past two years, Moore has asserted that
(as he put it on "Politically Incorrect") "the Bush
Administration gave $43 million in aid to the Taliban in
part to -- give money to the poppy growers for the money
they would lose because they can't grow heroin anymore."
"Bowling for Columbine" continued the canard, asserting that
the US gave $245 million in aid to the Taliban government of
Afghanistan. Both of these are false; the aid, intended to
help relive famine, was given to non-governmental
organizations, not the Taliban. In his latest book, Moore
finally gets it right, noting that the aid "was to be
distributed by international organizations." (page 34)
Moore also implicitly corrects himself about what was
manufactured at a Lockheed plant in Littleton, Colorado. In
"Bowling for Columbine," Moore implies that the plant made
nuclear weapons at or immediately before the time he
visited. Actually, while the plant was involved in nuclear
missile production years before, it now makes rockets that
are used as space-launch vehicles for military and civilian
satellites. In his newest book, Moore sets the record
straight, writing that "Lockheed Martin, the biggest arms
maker in the world, built rockets that carried into space
the special new satellites that guided the missiles fired
into Baghdad" during the recent war in Iraq. (page 74)
