Michael Moore and his lies

Since I didn't have any meetings today I decided to go see Farenheit 911. I had read a pamphlet from my church group which described how Moore was a satanic figure who is pathologically incapable of telling the truth and is interested in burning alive all the Christians on the planet. I was glad to have read this, so I could go into the movie and view it from a non-biased open-minded perspective. It was interesting to see the reaction of the audience members. People were actually laughing when President Bush made his 'fool me once' speech, like he was getting it wrong or something. I've heard that expression before and while he may have not gotten it word for word, the essence and the meaning was still there, and he is clearly an intelligent man.

I found the following glaring oversights in the movie:

1. My Pet Goat was referred to as a 'children's book.' That this fine work of allegorical fiction should be referred to as a 'children's book' is absolutely ridiculous. It is a modern day morality play with something to offer the reader of any age. I would suggest that people of all ages go out and buy this book tomorrow. I have both hardcover and paperback copies of the book, I loved it so much. (Warning: I once came across the opportunity to purchase a video called My Pet Goat and it was not a dramatization of the book as I had hoped. It was a grainy Swedish film shot in the 70's, of which the less said about the better.)

2. Moore claims that being the son of the President helped George W. Bush get elected. That is totally untrue. I voted for him and I had never heard of his father. The first President Bush ran a very low-key Presidency and over 99% of Americans when asked had not heard of him. In fact, in 1991, I was considered more famous than President Bush.

3. Moore claims that the U.S. invaded Iraq. Again, totally untrue. Our soldiers were merely hanging out in Iraq minding their own business and were forced into combat by the actions of terrorists on the ground. If the Iraqis had just had the simple manners to kill themselves as soon as the Americans arrived, the war could totally have been preventable.

4. Michael Moore claims that a guy named Ben Laden was behind the destruction of the World Trade Center. Another insane fabrication. The day of the bombings, Jerry Falwell went on TV and said explicitly that the ACLU and liberal groups were behinfd the bombings. What greater authority do you need?

There were other things that bothered me about the movie, especiallly the way Republicans were made to look like stupid war mongers, just because they have low IQ's and like to attack other countries. Michael Moore is the idiot because he thinks that things have to be logical and make sense but sometimes life doesn't work out like that. All in all, this was the worst movie I've seen since Spiderman 2.

Sorry for that political outburst, but the film really angered me, not as much as Spiderman 2 (a bunch of liberal nonsense), but it angered me.

From now on I'll keep the politics at home.

God bless us all.l

Stanley

Comments

[Bill Oreilly]

Finally, a perfect ripost to Moore's bombastic film. I couldn't come up with any real arguments against the movie except that it would greatly affect my tax cut, so I'm pleased to see that you were able to come up with some really creative arguments.

[Jeff Capes]

You spelled 'riposte' wrong, dumbass.

[ken]

Best commentary I've seen on the film so far. If your project has even a quarter of the insight of this post ... well, you'll take Broadway by storm.

[Me]

Stanley, you're being extremely sarcastic, right? It boggles my mind how any decent human being could support that maniac Bush.. just go outside of your precious USA to see what the world concensus is in Bush...