Posted on 06/22/2007 8:21:05 AM PDT by GMMAC
They forced him to watch some ugly fat guy tell lies on TV?
Moore probably is the most financially successful documentarian in history, if you choose money as your criterion of success.
Truth never mattered to communists.
Wow! Obviously this urinal-ist thinks all docuemntaries are about politics?
What I don't understand is why no one ever challenges the basic assumption that he IS a documentarian. I mean isn't there a difference between the "documentary" and "propaganda" genres? I can see that a film could be both. But doesn't it have to be factual? What percentage of "error" or "untruth" is permissable in a documentary?
Michael Moore fans, AKA Moorons ...
I took them to mean that while they would have presented opposing points of view about MM, they, like liberals do, assumed he was a good guy and would have presented him as such. When he blew them off, they had a content hole, started a more concerted effort to dig for facts, and found what they eventually put in the movie. So their story isn’t that they were going to cover for the guy, then vindictively decided to out him because he ignored them. They liked him and thought they were telling the truth until forced to dig for more facts. At least that’s their story, but they’re liberals, so you have to allow for, um, creativity.
bump
I believe that should read, "...who put the 'Big Mac' in Machiavelli."
Unless, s/he is a [gasp]...hypocrite!!!!!
ROTFL!
“perhaps guilty of making fictitious docs”
Perhaps??
All of these lib presentations deserve their facts be “analyzed”.
My kids insisted that I watch the Daily Show last week.
Stewart was showing how Tony Snow contradicted himself using clips of Tony. One clip showed the original statement back in March and the other showed the contradicting clip supposedly 2-3 months later. Stewart ran the clips more than once emphasizing that they were 2-3 months apart.
But what a coinky-dink, Tony was wearing the exact same suit and tie in both clips. I mean geez if you’re going to throw around accusations, at least use a clip of him dressed differently. Unless - could it be that the ‘contradiction’ was made on the same day and taken out of context?
Another oh, so clever put down of GWB showed a very banal statement by GWB from what I call a Chamber of Commerce or Trade Show speech and then compared it to clips of FDR saying “the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself” and a clip of JFK’s “ask not what your country can do for you”.
Probably their two best speeches.
Did Stewart and company even consider comparing their best to Bush’s speech to the nation on 9/20/2001? Of course not, that would be comparing apples to apples and their audience apparently doesn’t recognize the difference anyway.
I thought this thing was already released several months ago?
"The concept of propaganda has undergone a fundamental transformation, particularly as the result of political practice in Germany. Throughout the world today, people are beginning to see that a modern state, whether democratic or authoritarian, cannot withstand the subterranean forces of anarchy and chaos without propaganda. It is not only a matter of doing the right thing; the people must understand that the right thing is the right thing. Propaganda includes everything that helps the people to realize this.
As such Michael Moore is simply an enemy of the modern democratic republic which the United States represents. The reason is that Moore does ALL he can to misinform the public, thereby preventing the rational decision making process that a democratic republic cannot survive without.
So I say to Moore: "FU" and the horse you rode in on.
In spades.
The Right is just terrible at this propaganda business. Totally outclassed by the heirs of Hermann Goering.
These Left Michael Moore critics are not mad about his making propaganda. They seem surprised that Moore has been lying all along, hah, hah.
Of course, really effective, really good, propaganda rarely claims a lie to be the truth. Notice that the mass media almost never utter lies as truth without “plausible deniability” and some “local photographer” to blame for clumsy PhotoShop work.
The Nation has been ruled by conscious control of mass opinion through mass media for over a century. Check it out for yourself.
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