Posted by AshFan at 167.136.235.247 on January 21, 2004 at 08:37:56:
In Reply to: He's a liar who profits on the dumb posted by Spider-Man Rules on January 21, 2004 at 03:35:33:
: 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.'"