Michael Moore is being hailed by the media as a latter day muck raker who is exposing the hypocracy and insidiousness of the Republican party. The facts that he does not advertise is that he is in fact a hippocrit and a LIAR, and what drives me nuts is that no one seems to be challenging Moore's hyperbolic and often completely fictitious claims.
Hippocracy you say? Yes, Michael Moore wears jeans and flannels and directed a video by Rage Against the Machine in which a homeless man refused his winnings from a gameshow, but this is all a very calculated part of his public image.
The fact is that Michael Moore lives in an apartment in New York that cost well over 1 MILLION DOLLARS. Hmm, you would think with all of his self righteousness he would practice as he preaches, right? Guess not.
Lies Lies Lies. In Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore references a Lockheed Martin plant near Columbine High School that makes missiles for the US military, and even insinuates that it helped cause the violence that took place there. Now if that weren't enough of a stretch, the FACT is that
the Lockheed Martin plant he referenced does not make military missiles. It makes rockets for satellite launches. Once again, the truth never stopped Moore from pushing his agenda.
There are many more examples of his yellowest of yellow "journalism", but I won't reference them here. If you are interested you can visit the following sites:
http://www.moorewatch.com
http://bowlingfortruth.com/moore/online/patriotact.htm
Now there may be some truth in what Michael Moore spouts off in the propoganda he calls "documentaries", but the question becomes "how can I tell the difference?" When he blatantly lies again and again to force his agenda on the unsuspecting populace, how can we believe anything he says when half of it is exaggerration of out and out lies? In the end he only hurts the cause that he pretends to champion.
Be warned that moorewatch is a pretty right wing site that becomes a victim of its own passion at times, much like Moore, but many of the points are quite valid and can shed some light on Moore's "facts"
Bowling for Truth is an excellent site (from what I saw) and the link will take you to a fantastic article by Jonah Goldberg, who I am becoming a big fan of, debunking the negative theories about the Patriot Act. He's even been a guest on the popular and very left wing Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He's the kind of conservative that I wish the Republican party would endorse, then maybe I would actually become a Republican.
Big Fat Liar: Debunking Michael Moore
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