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Tin hat, heh? I didn't think anything about mind altering...
Quite humorous... I like this item though... http://www2.warnerbros.com/madmagazi...ots_437/6.html -- Jim Carlock http://www.microcosmotalk.com/thefacts/bushletsroll.mp3 Post replies to the newsgroup. |
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Tin hat, heh? I didn't think anything about mind altering...
Quite humorous... I like this item though... http://www2.warnerbros.com/madmagazi...ots_437/6.html -- Jim Carlock http://www.microcosmotalk.com/thefacts/bushletsroll.mp3 Post replies to the newsgroup. |
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"Ann" wrote in message I'm no Bush lover, I really don't have anyone to vote for in November. But I have read and read and read, and have come to the conclusion that Michael Moore is a big fat liar, just as bad as any of the rest of them. The hollywood morons are all the same, rich, living in a dream world playing make-believe for money, yet so many in this country listen to them and give them credance. We have no one out there worth voting for, and that idiot Moore is doing nothing to help that, he's just lining his pockets. Ann, I do want you to know that I read Dave Kopel's critique of 9/11 from beginning to end. (I don't want you to go out to the garden believing that no liberal would bother to do so). He did make some valid points about how information in the film had been manipulated. The majority of questionable items were in what I call the "editorialist" segments of the film. However, at least half of Kopel's points themselves come from suspect sources. Just as an example, NO ONE, and I mean no thinking person outside certain fanatic right-wing elements, accepts Stephen Hayes' analysis of CIA thinking about Saddam Hussein and Al Quaeda relationships as outlined in his Weekly Standard as valid -mostly because the CIA and intelligence principals involved in the memos and in the intelligence have told the entire world that Hayes has it all wrong. Yet, Kopel uses him and his articles to claim that Moore was inaccurate in his denial of those relationships without mentioning that most people don't agree with Hayes. That is virtually the same thing that he spends a lot of time criticizing Moore of doing. Again, he quotes Christopher Hitchens saying that everything in Afghanistan is just hunky-dory - which is an assessment that most of the intelligence communities of the world strenuously disagree with - in fact, the British intelligence agency just yesterday announced that Afghanistan was in imminent danger of imploding. I do agree that it's troubling that Moore doesn't acknowledge that the placement and juxtapositions of some of his clips tend to generate some wrong impressions - again, much of this happens in the "editorializing" sections of the film. Quite a few of the "deceits" mentioned by Kopel are actually bits of information from sources other than Moore which themselves might not be accurate, but which do support Moore's view of events - so clearly, he hasn't had the motivation to try to verify those sources and someone who was concerned with the whole truth would have gone to more effort to make all sources "clean". But Moore has never pretended to be anything other than what he is - a VERY angry man. I think it's wonderful that these many websites and sources are doing their best to put Moore's feet to the fire. And it's very healthy that they help us to put his claims in perspective and view the outrageous ones with a good deal of skepticism. But the same energy should also be devoted to putting the claims of government officials to the fire - ALL THE TIME. They are equally guilty of manipulating facts to get what they want accomplished - perhaps more guilty - and, unfortunately, some of what they want accomplished can have very dangerous consequences for all of us - unlike this film, which really has no power to effect world events, other than to encourage us to vote for someone other than Bush, which most of the viewers of the film were going to do anyway. |
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"Ann" wrote in message I'm no Bush lover, I really don't have anyone to vote for in November. But I have read and read and read, and have come to the conclusion that Michael Moore is a big fat liar, just as bad as any of the rest of them. The hollywood morons are all the same, rich, living in a dream world playing make-believe for money, yet so many in this country listen to them and give them credance. We have no one out there worth voting for, and that idiot Moore is doing nothing to help that, he's just lining his pockets. Ann, I do want you to know that I read Dave Kopel's critique of 9/11 from beginning to end. (I don't want you to go out to the garden believing that no liberal would bother to do so). He did make some valid points about how information in the film had been manipulated. The majority of questionable items were in what I call the "editorialist" segments of the film. However, at least half of Kopel's points themselves come from suspect sources. Just as an example, NO ONE, and I mean no thinking person outside certain fanatic right-wing elements, accepts Stephen Hayes' analysis of CIA thinking about Saddam Hussein and Al Quaeda relationships as outlined in his Weekly Standard as valid -mostly because the CIA and intelligence principals involved in the memos and in the intelligence have told the entire world that Hayes has it all wrong. Yet, Kopel uses him and his articles to claim that Moore was inaccurate in his denial of those relationships without mentioning that most people don't agree with Hayes. That is virtually the same thing that he spends a lot of time criticizing Moore of doing. Again, he quotes Christopher Hitchens saying that everything in Afghanistan is just hunky-dory - which is an assessment that most of the intelligence communities of the world strenuously disagree with - in fact, the British intelligence agency just yesterday announced that Afghanistan was in imminent danger of imploding. I do agree that it's troubling that Moore doesn't acknowledge that the placement and juxtapositions of some of his clips tend to generate some wrong impressions - again, much of this happens in the "editorializing" sections of the film. Quite a few of the "deceits" mentioned by Kopel are actually bits of information from sources other than Moore which themselves might not be accurate, but which do support Moore's view of events - so clearly, he hasn't had the motivation to try to verify those sources and someone who was concerned with the whole truth would have gone to more effort to make all sources "clean". But Moore has never pretended to be anything other than what he is - a VERY angry man. I think it's wonderful that these many websites and sources are doing their best to put Moore's feet to the fire. And it's very healthy that they help us to put his claims in perspective and view the outrageous ones with a good deal of skepticism. But the same energy should also be devoted to putting the claims of government officials to the fire - ALL THE TIME. They are equally guilty of manipulating facts to get what they want accomplished - perhaps more guilty - and, unfortunately, some of what they want accomplished can have very dangerous consequences for all of us - unlike this film, which really has no power to effect world events, other than to encourage us to vote for someone other than Bush, which most of the viewers of the film were going to do anyway. |
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HEY.........i'm not ' in tune' with much of the rest of this thread......but
i LOVED this little joke.......for some of my more ' conservative' friends....... "Jim Carlock" wrote in message news Tin hat, heh? I didn't think anything about mind altering... Quite humorous... I like this item though... http://www2.warnerbros.com/madmagazi...ots_437/6.html -- Jim Carlock http://www.microcosmotalk.com/thefacts/bushletsroll.mp3 Post replies to the newsgroup. |
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HEY.........i'm not ' in tune' with much of the rest of this thread......but
i LOVED this little joke.......for some of my more ' conservative' friends....... "Jim Carlock" wrote in message news Tin hat, heh? I didn't think anything about mind altering... Quite humorous... I like this item though... http://www2.warnerbros.com/madmagazi...ots_437/6.html -- Jim Carlock http://www.microcosmotalk.com/thefacts/bushletsroll.mp3 Post replies to the newsgroup. |
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On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:48:10 GMT, "eclectic"
wrote: "Ann" wrote in message .. . "gregpresley" expounded: snippety Given the heat and holler that Fahrenheit 9/11 has created, do you think anyone will/could sue? Of course not. This film has been so effective, it continues to resonate. You have to give Moore credit for having the guts to take on substantial targets: General Motors, Gun Lobby, GOP/Bush. His next project was recently announced as "Sicko" to focus in on the American healthcare industry's treatment of mental patients. That I'll look forward to seeing. Your condolences for those who need Hollywood to filter their facts is misplaced as it applies to Fahrenheit 9/11. It provided *new* facts: information and footage which would not have been seen or discussed on national television networks prior to this documentary film. Sliight adendum: "American networks." Most the items that Michael Moore included in his film made news at one time or another in the Canadian media, some as regular news items and some as investigative journalism pieces. Add www.cbc.ca to your outside o' US, alternate news sources, along with http://www.guardian.co.uk/, www.globeandmail.com and http://www.lemonde.fr/ (Le Monde, major Paris french language daily). I went to see it opening night - nothing new there, just all nicely gathered in one neat little package. I really liked both the Democrats Abroad and Republicans Abroad being out in force. Nothing is forcing us to agree with Michael Moore's point of view. Nope. I cheerfully regard him as a court jester figure, who does an execellent job of saying that the emperor's new suit is really his birthday suit. Go, Michael, go! Shirley Hicks Toronto, Ontario "A liberal is a conservative who's been through treatment." - Garrison Keillor |
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On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:48:10 GMT, "eclectic"
wrote: "Ann" wrote in message .. . "gregpresley" expounded: snippety Given the heat and holler that Fahrenheit 9/11 has created, do you think anyone will/could sue? Of course not. This film has been so effective, it continues to resonate. You have to give Moore credit for having the guts to take on substantial targets: General Motors, Gun Lobby, GOP/Bush. His next project was recently announced as "Sicko" to focus in on the American healthcare industry's treatment of mental patients. That I'll look forward to seeing. Your condolences for those who need Hollywood to filter their facts is misplaced as it applies to Fahrenheit 9/11. It provided *new* facts: information and footage which would not have been seen or discussed on national television networks prior to this documentary film. Sliight adendum: "American networks." Most the items that Michael Moore included in his film made news at one time or another in the Canadian media, some as regular news items and some as investigative journalism pieces. Add www.cbc.ca to your outside o' US, alternate news sources, along with http://www.guardian.co.uk/, www.globeandmail.com and http://www.lemonde.fr/ (Le Monde, major Paris french language daily). I went to see it opening night - nothing new there, just all nicely gathered in one neat little package. I really liked both the Democrats Abroad and Republicans Abroad being out in force. Nothing is forcing us to agree with Michael Moore's point of view. Nope. I cheerfully regard him as a court jester figure, who does an execellent job of saying that the emperor's new suit is really his birthday suit. Go, Michael, go! Shirley Hicks Toronto, Ontario "A liberal is a conservative who's been through treatment." - Garrison Keillor |
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