Re: errors in Moore's film

From: Andrew Gray (andrew.gray_at_dunelm.org.uk)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: 5 Jul 2004 19:00:10 GMT

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On 2004-07-05, Dave O'Neill <dave@NOSPAM> wrote:
>
> "Terrell Miller" <millerto@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:ikWFc.822$jJ3.261@bignews5.bellsouth.net...
>> "JimO" <jameseoberg@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:heWFc.13088$mY2.4857@fe1.texas.rr.com...
>>
>> > Moore thinks you are a moron --
>> > have you proven him right, or wrong?
>>
>>
>> how would I prove him right? By believing all his BS?
>>
>> I tried to use very neutral language instead of the usual counter-bashing.
>> But no, I personally don't believe a word of what he says and haven't
> ever.
>
> Are you saying that nothing he says is true?
>
> I found a lot of inaccurate stuff in Stupid White Men, but also a lot of
> stuff that was factually correct.

This is the thing. A lot of it, I have no real reason to disbelieve.
Then he goes and says something godawfully stupid, which I happen to
know about. (I forget *what* his inventive editorialising re/ Ulster
was, but... I don't forget throwing the book across the room at that
point). Credibility of everything else, drops like a stone. And then
people assume I agree with him. There is nothing I like less, as the
man said, than a bad argument for a cause which I hold dear... hrmp.

Of course, he certainly doesn't have anything approaching a monopoly
over turning out misleading politically-charged rhetoric, which does
tend to render some of the more *rabid* objections more amusing than
anything else...

> It's certainly no better or worse than reading certain blogs, he just has a
> better marketing regime.

The problem is, IME, that Moore isn't a very good writer... at least
certain blogs tend to be amusing ;-) 

-- 
-Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk

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