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Old 12-17-2003, 07:02 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Michael Moore responds to the wacko attackos

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/wackoattacko/

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One thing you get used to when you're in what's called "the public eye" is reading the humorous fiction that others like to write about you. For instance, I have read in quite respectable and trustworthy publications that a) I'm a college graduate (I'm not), b) I was a factory worker (I quit the first day), and c) I have two brothers (I have none). Newsweek wrote that I live in a penthouse on Central Park West (I live above a Baby Gap store, and not on any park), and the Internet Movie Database once listed me as the director of the Elvis movie, "Blue Hawaii" ( I was 6 at the time the film was made, but I was quite skilled in directing my sisters in building me a snowman). Lately, my favorite mistake is the one many reviewers made crediting the cartoon in "Bowling for Columbine" as being the work of the "South Park" creators. It isn't. I wrote it and my buddy Harold Moss's animation studio drew it.

I've enjoyed reading these inventions/mistakes about this "Michael Moore." I mean, who wouldn't want to fantasize about living in penthouses roughhousing with brothers you never had. But lately I've begun to see so many things about me or my work that aren't true. It's become so easy to spread these fictions through the internet (thanks mostly to lazy reporters or web junkies who do all their research by typing in "key words" and then just repeat the same mistakes). And so I wonder that if I don't correct the record, then all of the people who don't know better may just end up being filled with a bunch of stuff that isn't true.

Of course, it would take a lot of my time to contact all these sites and media outlets to correct their errors and I think it's more important I spend my time on my next book or movie so I just let it ride. But is that fair to you, the reader, who has now been told something that isn't true?

With the unexpected and overwhelming success of "Bowling for Columbine" and "Stupid White Men," the fiction that has been written or spoken about me and my work has reached a whole new level of storytelling. It's no longer about making some simple errors or calling me "Roger" Moore. It is now about organized groups going full blast trying to discredit me by knowingly making up lies and repeating them over and over in the hopes that people will believe them – and, then, stop listening to me.

Oh, that it would be so easy!

Fortunately, they are so wound up in their anger and hatred that they have ended up discrediting themselves.

Look, I accept the fact that, if I go after the Thief-in-Chief – and more people buy my book than any other nonfiction book last year – then that is naturally going to send a few of his henchmen after me. Fine. That's okay. I knew that before I got into this and I ain't whining about it now.

I also realize that you just don't go after the NRA and its supporters and then not expect them to come back at you with both barrels (so to speak). These are not nice people and they don't play nice – that's how they got to be so powerful.

So, a whole host of gun lobby groups and individual gun nuts have put up websites where the smears on me range from the pre-adolescent (I'm a "crapweasel," and a "fat fucking piece of shit") to Orwellian-style venom ("Michael Moore hates America!").

I have mostly ignored this silliness. But a few weeks ago, this lunatic crap hit the mainstream fan. CNN actually put some guy on a show saying that my film contains "so many falsehoods, one after the other, after the other, after the other." They introduced him as a "critic" and "research director" of the "Independence Institute." He seemed mighty impressive.
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Old 12-17-2003, 07:33 AM   #2 (permalink)
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And your thoughts on the article would be?
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Old 12-17-2003, 09:59 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I don't really feel sorry for him. A nice dosage of his own medecine. Welcome to your world Mr. Moore, where would you like to sit? We've been expecting you.
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Old 12-17-2003, 11:28 AM   #4 (permalink)
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When posting external information, please include your own views on the subject. It stimulates discussion when a poster contextualizes referenced material within a personal viewpoint.
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Old 12-17-2003, 12:26 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I think this reply to his many detractors was long over-due.

I for one do not have a problem with Bowling for Columbine that many on this site do.

I am not about to reopen (or continue) the pointless debat on guns and gun ownership that has been a staple of this board. I simply agree to disagree with those that will fall into the "cold dead hands" camp...
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Old 12-17-2003, 12:36 PM   #6 (permalink)
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So, ,where is Mr. Moore's response to all these "false" accusations about him? Is he saying that the critic on CNN was wrong? Anyone who saw that horrible movie knows it was full of lies. There's no need to start a debate on that again.
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Old 12-17-2003, 06:57 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I respect only Mark Thomas more than Moore, heres an unedcated fat guy who is doing something no one else seems to be doing in america, working for the working class, he makes no claims for political office and has yet, as far as i know, to lower himself to the level of his naysayers.

I dont care if he lies a bit, true it hurts the political and debate circles but for the average person who does not concern themselves in such circles he is a small voice that occasionally becomes very loud, and I do not consider him some kind of hero, he has clearly become more greedy and more angry.
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Old 12-18-2003, 12:30 AM   #8 (permalink)
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So, ,where is Mr. Moore's response to all these "false" accusations about him? Is he saying that the critic on CNN was wrong?
Yes, he's saying exactly that. Only a portion of the whole article is on this page, follow the link to get a point-by-point debunking of many accusations against Moore.


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Anyone who saw that horrible movie knows it was full of lies. There's no need to start a debate on that again.
Can you name one that isn't responded to in Moore's post?
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