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The New War
On October 25th, 2004, the famous comedian and stout liberal, Jon Stewart, was the focus
of an interview on the Presidential Election, the Media, and Politics. During this
interview he was quoted as saying "Why not create a news station that is not liberal but
credible?" (Video Link to C-Span.
While I take the term "liberal" here to be interchangeable with conservative because of
the context in which it is spoken, this statement is more than true.
We have millions of people waking up every morning and going to bed every night listening
to news talk radio or watching Dan Rather, or Bill O'Reilly for five minutes
and taking what they hear to be the factual truth. These are the same people
that are voting in our elections. More and more the media is starting to count on
the ignorance of the American people, and politicians and Hollywood are starting to following suit.
One notable person who absolutely relies on it, is Micheal Moore.
Moore's War
Micheal Moore is a distorter of the truth. There are countless websites that point out the inaccuracies of his movies which he claims to be documentaries. In fact they are not documentaries, they are opinionated movies that spin facts to distort the truth. A good reference on the false claim of his movies being documentaries can be found here: The Truth. This website states:
"Bowling is fiction. It makes its points by deceiving and by misleading the viewer. Statements are made which are false. Moore leads the reader to draw inferences which he must have known were wrong. Indeed, even speeches shown on screen are heavily edited, so that sentences are assembled in the speaker's voice, but which were not sentences he uttered. Bowling uses deception as its primary tool of persuasion and effect. A film which does this may be a commercial success. It may be entertaining. But it is not a documentary. One need only consult Rule 12 of the rules for the Academy Award: a documentary is a non-fictional movie. The point is not that Bowling is biased. No, the point is that Bowling is deliberately, seriously, and consistently deceptive."The webpage goes on to point out the mistakes and distortions that Moore used to decieve the viewer.
The real truth of the matter is that Micheal Moore doesnt care. What he cares about is money, and he is making it from you. The Wall Street Journal estimates that Micheal Moore grossed over 15 million dollars from Bowling for Columbine alone. (Wall Street Journal). In this article Micheal Moore is even quoted as calling Bowling for Columbine a "comedy," hardly something that so many consider to be a "documentary." Moore's recent movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, is no different from his previous. There are countless websites pointing out the mistakes and distortions of the truth all over again. This time his topic focuses on President Bush and the war in Iraq. I personally, figure it to be a funny thing that the things that Micheal Moore seems (and I stress seems) to hate so much, the war in Iraq and President Bush, are the two things that are making him so much money. And then we are paying him more to continue these speeches. MooreLies.com points out that Universities are paying this man upwards of 40 thousand dollars to have him speak. But finally, a new movie has been released, that will counter this steamroller of distorted facts that Moore has started. Its name is FahrenHYPE 9/11. While I have not seen the movie I can only imagine that it gives Micheal Moore a needed dose of his own medicine.
