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This deconstruction of Bowling for Columbine is fascinating. (I haven't checked it for accuracy, though.)

via [livejournal.com profile] flashfire, posted in [livejournal.com profile] pjammer's journal

Date: 5 Jul 2003 12:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cha.livejournal.com
I think it's interesting - but I think ALL documentaries have a slant - I don't know how a director could film one without a slant.

Date: 5 Jul 2003 03:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mamatiger.livejournal.com
But there's a large difference between slant and bias and lies, distortions, and fabrications. He *made shit up* for this "documentary," and Hollywood doesn't seem to care.

However, there are people who're agitating to get Moore's Oscar revoked. (http://www.revoketheoscar.com/)

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Date: 5 Jul 2003 09:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cha.livejournal.com
I think it's all sour grapes ;)

Date: 5 Jul 2003 09:57 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] cheshyre
No need to apologize for the rant. I feel similarly about Michael Moore.

IMO, lying like this inevitably hurts the side that the lie is told on behalf of. Because when the truth is exposed, people will suspect the rest of the argument, thus discrediting everything else one says.

If one can't make one's argument without resorting to lies, then maybe one ought to choose a different argument...

Date: 5 Jul 2003 12:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rmjwell.livejournal.com
IMO, lying like this

Nitpick: [livejournal.com profile] firecat says in the original post that she hadn't confirmed the site's calims for accuracy. So, it wouldn't be "lying" but rather "alleged lying" unless you have done the fact-checking.

Date: 5 Jul 2003 08:57 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] cheshyre
True, I haven't confirmed that site either. Maybe I should've said "Lying like Moore is accused of" Then again, I've read enough reports of similar lies and unverified claims perpetrated by Michael Moore in Angry White Men (reported in Salon.com -- hardly a right-wing site upset with his ideology) that I find such accusatons against Bowling for Columbine wholly plausible. That's another problem with telling lies; the boy who cries wolf analogy makes it that much harder to believe his veracity.

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