BBtB
I would suggest just finding a few quite irrefutable and outright lies.
The one that first caught my eye in Stupid Whit Men was:
Quote:
Among all the instances when a guns are fired during a break-in while the owner is at home, in only 2 percent are guns used to shoot the intruder. The other 98 percent of the time, residents accidently shoot a loved one or themselves - or the burglars take the gun and kill them with it.
(p.76)
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This highliughts two of the classic Moore deceptions:
i) Bollocks statistics - does he really expect me to believe that in 2% of gun firings the burglar is hit and in 98% the owner/family is hit? So *no* bullets *ever* miss everyone and just hit the wall?
Clearly he found that 2% statistic somewhere and then made up what he wanted to about the other 98%.
ii) Misrepresentation - his final throw away comment indicates that the only other option is the burglar killing the family with their own gun. No mention of the burglar injuring the owner. Oh no, its death or nothing.
Charlatan
Chomsky is brilliant. I wish he could have just half as much publicity as Moore.
In fact Moore began his London show with a song, one line of which was (referring to himself) "He's no Noam Chomsky". Shame really.