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[Larry Lucido]

"You're supposed to be able to stand up here and say, 'This guy is a schmuck"

And that's exactly what we're doing, Kenny.

[loveitor..]

Burns is now officialy on my sh*t list.

[zarf]

"Of course he's entitled to express his opinion --that's what this country is all about," says Burns, best known for epic documentaries The Civil War, Baseball and Jazz.

Freedom cuts both ways. That includes embracing the bashers right to bash the Fatboy.

[Bogey78O]

Obviously Ken doesn't watch Moore's documentaries or doesn't care.

[midwestmidnight]

Mikhal Moore is allowed to express his opion, but anyone that bashes him is not? How does that work?

[facedown]

Samuel L. Jackson, Billy Bob Thorton and Ed Harris provide narration for the film.

Now there's a trifecta.

[SirLurkedalot]

Only Burns could make jazz boring.Hey Ken, SDASTFU!

[The_Victor]

Those who disagree with Moore have the same right to free speech as Moore.

[evad]

"You're supposed to be able to stand up here and say, 'This guy is a schmuck.' "

That's what we're doing...
This guy Moore is a big, fat, ugly schmuck.

[rhombus]

"Whatever your argument about his methodology, this is a man with a deep, abiding sympathy for the working man,"

I would disagree with Burns. I don't think Moore has "...abiding sympathy for the working man." ... at least the American working man. I think he thinks the American working man is stupid and gullible. And why wouldn't he think that? Look at the ease with which he has been able to promote his propaganda as fact. However, that's my opinion and I'd appreciate it if MY opinions weren't stereotyped by the author of this article as "right wing carping".

[Numbers Guy]

Burns, best known for epic documentaries The Civil War, Baseball and Jazz

I remember Burns' East Coast-centric baseball documentary. Someone said afterwards "maybe PBS can now do a documentary about baseball in cities other than New York and Boston".

[L.N. Smithee]

Burns concedes that Moore has an agenda, but so what? "Whatever your argument about his methodology, this is a man with a deep, abiding sympathy for the working man," he says.

...Burns told a story about meeting Moore two years ago at a film festival where they were joined by European filmmaker Werner Herzog. Herzog sized up all three documentarians this way: He was after the estatic truth, Burns went for emotional truth and Moore was after physical truth. "Just look how he puts his big belly right up on the screen," Herzog said of Moore.

What kinda horse spit is that? "Physical truth" means that Moore isn't ashamed of his girth rather than making sure that his film tells what actually has happened?

Ken Burns' just sacrificed his own credibility to defend Michael Moore. Incredible.

That's a shame. I used to respect Burns. But now, I know that to him "truth" is flexible, bendible. I don't deal with people who think that they are entitled to their own "truth."

[MplsSteve]

Fellow documentarian?!

What is the "fellow documentarian" crap?!

There's a million light years worth of difference between Ken Burns and Michael Moore.

I wish the media would stop calling Fahrenheit 911 a documentary. It's anything BUT a documentary.

[dirtboy]

Of course he's entitled to express his opinion --that's what this country is all about," says Burns, best known for epic documentaries The Civil War, Baseball and Jazz. "You're supposed to be able to stand up here and say, 'This guy is a schmuck.' "

But apparently, we're not allowed to do the same in return. Go suck cheese, Burns.

[Wondervixen]

If Ken Burns had done HIS Documentaries the same way lazy assed Moore does his, we'd have been hearing how Yosemite Sam won the Battle of Gettysburg for the USWA and how Roy Hobbs was the greatest baseball player of all time!

He should be DISTANCING HIMSELF from the jerkface just on accuracy alone!

[j_tull]

. "You're supposed to be able to stand up here and say, 'This guy is a schmuck.' "

Unless, of course, you're saying my butt-buddy is a schmuck, then it's "Hate Speech."

[Dilbert56]

This is not about Michael Moore's opinions. It's about a pile of lies. There are a lot of Bush bashers who contend even if Moore's movies have errors, they raise "important issues" that we should discuss. Bullshit. You don't have serious discussions about lies. That's like saying we need to discuss why the CIA had JFK killed. Or it's an important issue that FDR deliberately permitted the IJN to attack Pearl Harbor.

• Moore believes, and has said publicly, that the American people are both stupid and ignorant.
• He depends on this, knowing the American public will buy tickets to his CF in the first few weeks it's out.
• His movie is a pile of lies. The Saudis did not "give" the Carlyle Group $1.4B. The bought services from a subsidiary that was divested before GHWB even joined the Board. The clip of the President golfing was a lie. He wasn't referring to the 9/11 conspirators, he was talking about PLO terrorists who killed Israelies. And on and on.
• By the time all the lies are exposed, the movie's already made millions.
• He's laughing all the way to the hot dog stand having proven his assertions about the American public.

[Paleo Conservative]

h. With a $70-million U.S. box office and counting, Moore claims Fahrenheit is already the most successful documentary of all time.

Of course, that depends one what the meaning of "documentary" is.

[rmgatto]

Ken Burns has a real talent for playing music while showing still photographs and interviews with academics. His documentaries prove that even the most interesting history doesn't have to be dynamic or interesting. That said, I am suprised that he considers F911 to be a documentary and not propaganda.

[Badeye]

I own Burn's Civil War series, have since it first became available ($140 at the time, in VHS). Its one of the great works on the topic specifically, and is fact based.

Moore's work is not "documentary" its pure unabashed socialist propaganda. Farenheit 9/11 is our generations "Triumph of Will"....only not as well done.

I feel sorry for Burns, to be honest. He will never reach the heights he attained a decade ago, and I think its beginning to bother him.