NP Michael Moore

[jbor]

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/09/1089000339554.html?oneclick=true

> he is also a media practitioner who resorts, routinely and fastidiously, to
> distortion, omission and gutter innuendo with a viciousness and ideological
> cartoonishness characteristic of all fundamentalists.

Indeed.

Perhaps there's something in the index of logical fallacies which can
explain the doublethink behind the argument which on the one hand admits
that Moore does pump out propaganda and deceit -- excusing it on the basis
that it's all only a jolly "satire" after all -- and at the same time
demands that that same propaganda and deceit be given credence as reliable
political critique in the context of the forthcoming U.S. election.

> Within two weeks of its
> release in America, all the film's conspiracy theories have either been
> dismantled or rendered questionable by the American media.

If Moore is so transparently full of shit as appears to be the case (59
deceits in the "documentary" is more than 1 every two minutes, by my count),
and thus so easy to discount, I'd say the probability is that Moore's own
failed conspiracy will end up swaying voters towards Bush rather than away
from him. More than even the Bush Administration, Moore and his acolytes are
guilty of exploiting the suffering and ongoing struggle for freedom and
human rights of millions of people in the Middle East for the purpose of
mean political propaganda.

The news here on 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq has been comprehensive in its
coverage of both the government versions and the contestations and critiques
of those versions. Apart from wild conspiracy theories and the innuendo and
ad hominem constantly churned out as "fact" by people like Moore & co, there
has been nothing at all which hasn't already been reported widely in the
mainstream news.

See this one instead:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/moviestory.mpl/ae/movies/reviews/2620788

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