I'm sorry, but the lack of direct quotes in your essay doesn't help its credibility. For all your average reader knows, you could be making one straw man argument after another and from the looks of it, that's exactly what you're doing.
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Second, he probably based it on the fact that the NAACP filed a lawsuit claiming disenfranchisement. However, race couldn’t have been a factor in putting names on the list of because the people denied their voting rights, in many cases, did not match the race of the felon that DBT was targeting in the purge.
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You are missing the whole point. Innocent people were purged because their names were the same as those of felons on the list. The fact that 49% of felons were black makes it a race issue because innocent blacks with the same name would be disproportionately purged. A good overview Florida’s 2000 purge lists can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida...al_Voting_File
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Michael most likely based his claim that the people improperly purged would have voted for Gore from a study conducted by the American Sociological Review, (American Sociological Review, 2003) that 68.9% of felons vote Democrat. Therefore Moore draws his conclusion from a weak combination of sources.
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Why the hell do you even need to ask this question? Moore provides all of his sources for the movie on his website so there is no reason to question which he used. It is truly amazing to me you can try to debunk a movie without first consulting the movie's own specified sources!
http://www.michaelmoore.com/warroom/index.php?id=16
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Moore also attacks the President by saying that, according to an article published in the Washington Post shortly before September 11, 2001, Bush spent 42% of his first eight months in office on vacation.
[insert someone else's opinion of Bush's vacation time here]
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Moore merely cites a statistic given by the Washington Post. Shouldn't you be criticizing
them for publishing this statistic and not Moore?
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According to Byron York, (York, 2002) an ensuing SEC investigation revealed that “In light of the facts uncovered, it would be difficult to establish that, even assuming Bush possessed material nonpublic information, he acted with…intent to defraud.” They also concluded that most of the information that would have indicated such a monumental loss was not revealed to Bush until after he sold the stock. Bush had sold the stock to a broker who contacted Bush with the intent to buy the stock, and Bush conferred with company personnel to ensure that the sale could be completed. Moore probably tells the audience that Bush evaded the SEC because Bush submitted some papers to them late. So, Bush neither took insider tips nor did he “dodge” the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Here's what Moore cites as evidence on his website:
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FAHRENHEIT 9/11: Bush was investigated by the S.E.C. The James Baker law partner who helped Bush beat the rap from the SEC was a man by the name of Robert Jordon, who, when George W. became president was appointed ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
• “A week before George W. Bush's 1990 sale of stock in Harken Energy Co., the firm's outside lawyers cautioned Bush and other directors against selling shares if they had significant negative information about the company's prospects. The sale came a few months before Harken reported significant losses, leading to an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The June 15, 1990, letter from the Haynes and Boone law firm wasn't sent to the SEC by Bush's attorney Robert W. Jordan until Aug. 22, 1991, according to a letter by Jordan. That was one day after SEC staff members investigating the stock sale concluded there was insufficient evidence to recommend an enforcement action against Bush for insider trading.” Peter Behr, “Bush Sold Stock After Lawyers’ Warning,” Washington Post, November 1, 2002.
• “President Bush has chosen as ambassador to Saudi Arabia a Dallas attorney who represented him against … allegations arising from his sale of stock in Harken Energy Co. 11 years ago.” G. Robert Hillman, “Bush Taps Dallas Attorney to be Ambassador to Saudi Arabia,” The Dallas Morning News, July 21, 2001.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/warroom/index.php?id=18
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The film claims that Bush tried to close veteran hospitals, and that he attempted to double the cost of prescription drugs for veterans. If you only listen to those two facts, and don’t look any deeper into it, you will find that Moore is correct on both points. He supported closing Veterans Affairs hospitals, as outlined in his Department of Veteran’s Affairs’ CARES Decision (Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 2004). However, this document also says that the hospitals being closed were in places where the veteran population was decreasing, VA facilities were under-utilized, and where veterans could be served by another hospital, which Moore failed to mention.
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The important thing is he got his facts
right. You can rationalize and debate Bush's reasoning ad infinitum, but it won't get you anywhere. Moore provides extensive sourcing for this claim on his web site allowing people to decide for themselves.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/warroom/...ndex.php?id=21