Posted by Spider-Man Rules at cpe-066-061-160-180.indy.rr.com on January 21, 2004 at 03:35:33:
In Reply to: What is everyones views on Michael Moore? posted by broken_nootch on January 21, 2004 at 01:03:20:
We live in fictitious times," ...And Michael Moore should know. ...Everything from his "working-class Joe" persona to his so-called documentary...is largely fictitious."
"His public persona is working-class,...Flint, Michigan...But the real Michael Moore rides in limos and lives in a swanky $1.2 million Manhattan apartment."
"According to Detroit Free Press film critic Terry Lawson, Moore's first documentary, 'Roger and Me' featured manipulated facts and the breaking of established documentary rules."
"Documentary might not be the best word for [Bowling for Columbine]. 'Fictitious,' Moore's current term of choice, would be more accurate. "
"He stages an event at North Country Bank and Trust ... claiming that opening an account would entitle one to walk out of the bank with a gun in hand. The film shows him doing just that. But the key word is 'staged.' In reality, the bank does not provide guns for opening accounts."
"The worst fiction in Moore's documentary is ...[when] Moore confronts [American Bandstand's]Clark, trying ... accusing him of responsibility for the fatal shooting in 2000 of 6-year-old Kayla Rowland of Mount Morris Township, Michigan, by her classmate....
"Moore blames the shooting on Michigan's work-to-welfare program, which he claims prevented the shooter's mother, Tamarla Owens, from spending time with him. And he blames Clark, because Owens work-to-welfare job was at his "American Bandstand" restaurant at an area mall.
"But Clark and the work-to-welfare program had nothing to do with it. Owens, who had three children with three different fathers and was once charged as a drug dealer, married a convicted drug dealer. Before the shooting, she abandoned her son, turning him over to her brother, who lived in a flophouse." rife with stolen guns and ammunition, where drug deals went on at all hours. Michigan's Family Independence Agency reported that she was a poor mother, and she later lost custody of all three children, two of them permanently."
"As Brian Rohrbough, whose son Daniel died at Columbine, said, 'This is just a guy trying to capitalize on the tragedy of others.'"