Hijexx wrote:
] "The Michael Moore production Bowling for Columbine just
] won the Oscar for best documentary. Unfortunately, it is not a
] documentary.
]
] Bowling fails the first requirement of a documentary: some
] foundation in the truth. In his earlier works, Moore shifted
] dates and sequences for the sake of drama, but at least the
] events depicted did occur. Most of the time. Bowling breaks
] that last link with factual reality. It makes its points by
] deceiving and by misleading the viewer. Statements are made
] which are false. Moore invites the reader to draw inferences
] which he must have known were wrong. Dates are transposed and
] video carefully edited to create whatever effect is desired.
] Indeed, even speeches shown on screen are heavily edited, so
] that sentences are assembled in the speaker's voice, but which
] he never uttered."
]
] ...

] Shame on *you* Michael.

News Flash: Michael Moore is an idiot. Take it from someone who grew up in Southeast MI during the time he shot Roger and Me. Yes, GM is/was an evil corporation. But no, a lot of what he portrayed was not based in reality. Now he's made a career of sticking his finger in the eye of anyone that Joe Sixpack might hate. It's a formula and it's just as repugnant as the things he claims to rail against. Although I thought his TeeVee show was clever when it was on.

RE: Stupid Academy Award