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Well, yes, he is a director, by job definition. You can argue that

he's a "liar and a polemist", but that's like saying you're not a biped, you're a dishwasher and cat burglar.

As for the 'lying', I'll agree there's a certain amount of, umm, "artistic license" involved. Some of which is dependent on a point of view as to it's veracity. But any sane person would admit that any deceit in '9-11', say, is a thimble full compared to the reservoir of lies that the Bush administration perpetuated to get us into this dumb-ass war. Or that the business decisions of GM (Roger and Me) turned a large part of Flint into an urban wasteland. So, taken as a whole, his films express an opinion (his)but one which is generally factual.

And then of course there are the lies spouted to the conservative sheep, mindlessly taken as gospel even though they can be verified or disproved by something as simple as watching the damn movie (see 37th vs. 39th below, which somehow, for some mystifying reason, has become the cornerstone of the conservative's issues with this film)

Oddly, Michael Moore is certainly no film or ideological hero of mine. His attack interview, in 'Columbine', of Charlton Heston (who at that point was a doddering, pants-up-to-his-nipples old man, gracious enough to invite Moore and his crew into his house unannounced) was just creepy, like beating up on a homeless person. And does he really think he can embarrass someone like Phil Knight, who has apparently modeled his business career on Gordon Geko? Just ludicrous grandstanding.

Note, though, that my criticisms are with his film making. I'm not trying to pick apart every word for some misrepresentation that will somehow, if allowed to remain unchecked, send the Republic into a Death Spiral from which we'll never recover. Is the conservative ideology really so weak? Maybe so....

vaya con dios


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