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...but I did trip him up..........

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In Reply to: RE: 2 greatest issues of the past 15 years and Michael Moore has been dead-on for both: posted by tinear on August 30, 2011 at 14:24:02

From 'Bowling for Columbine',

Weapons of mass destruction

Early in the film, Moore links the violent behavior of the Columbine shooters to the presence in Littleton of a large defense establishment, manufacturing rocket technology. It is implied that the presence of this facility within the community, and the acceptance of institutionalized violence as a solution to conflict, contributed to the mindset that led to the massacre.

Moore conducts an interview with Evan McCollum, Director of Communications at a Lockheed Martin plant near Columbine, and asks him:
"So you don't think our kids say to themselves, 'Dad goes off to the factory every day, he builds missiles of mass destruction. What's the difference between that mass destruction and the mass destruction over at Columbine High School?'"

My dear tinear,

Those are his very words, not something someone else put into his mouth.

Here's how I tripped him up.

Besthada? is the city where lockheed martin headquarter is located at. According to Moore's logic, it should have far higher violent crime rate than Maryland overall, at least in per capita, if not in absolute amount.

On the contrary, the violent crime rate is far lower per capita, plus it's the second healthist city for women to live at.

This is just one example of his crack pot theory.

"W's "character"" ......

What do you think is 'wron' with 'W's charater?

"..... and 9/11"......

Moore is being inconsistent on 9/11. He's willing to implicate somehow 'W' is responsible for it, yet he's willing to give benefit of doubt to Bin Laden.

" ; our embarrassment of health care."

What do we have to be emarrassed about the health care?

"He also showed what happens when corporations place profit over people,..."

My dear tinear, that's what corporation is for. They are supposed to place profit over people within legal bounds.

" exclusively, i.e. General Motors and Flint, MI."

That was more due to mismanagement and lack of foresight from Rodger Smith, not because of the nature of coroporations.

Just look at Disney, a lot more profitable, with far greedier CEO, Michael Eisner, why didn't Moore go after Disney and Eisner?

Because if he did, he would be cutting his throat, he would never get another job in Hollywood.

"Moore is flamboyant, over-bearing, loud, obnoxious."

You forgot to mention, he's also deceptive, manipulative, and prone to crack pot theory.

"He's also a genius and a national treasure."

Genius in chain yanking, and a national crack pot theorist.

"Oh, did I mention that fact checkers can't seem to trip him up?"

....but I did, please read the very top of this post.

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