Turning the tables on Michael Moore
What goes around, comes around. A new documentary unmasking Michael Moore debuts today at the South by Southwest film festival:
The cameras get turned on Michael Moore for a change at the South by Southwest film festival, where the documentary Manufacturing Dissent will have its world premiere.
The film from directors Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk, playing March 10 at the Austin festival, follows Moore during the release of Fahrenheit 9/11 and questions many of his tactics.
Among its revelations: that the confrontational documentarian did interview former General Motors Chairman Roger Smith, the elusive subject of his 1989 debut Roger & Me, and simply chose to leave it out of the finished cut.
Moore, who won an Academy Award for 2002’s Bowling for Columbine, has not responded to e-mail and phone requests for comment.
“The people who can attest to this are extremely credible and do attest to this in the film,” said John Pierson, the independent film veteran who helped sell Roger & Me to Warner Bros. and now teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. “I’ve always loved Roger & Me. I loved working on it. I really believed in it, and that’s really bad. The fundamental core of the film is how his mission to get Roger Smith fails and, P.S., Michael spent 18 years since then swearing he never interviewed Roger Smith.”
In “Manufacturing Dissent” Caine and Melnyk — whose previous films include “Junket Whore,” about movie journalists, and “Citizen Black,” about Conrad Black — note that the scene in “Fahrenheit 9/11″ in which President George W. Bush greets “the haves, and the have-mores” took place at the annual Al Smith Dinner, where politicians traditionally make sport of themselves. Melnyk and Caine received a video of the speeches from the dinner’s sponsor, the Archdiocese of New York. “Al Gore later answers a question by saying, ‘I invented the Internet,’” Caine said. “It’s all about them making jokes at their own expense.”
For once, Michael Moore has no comment.
Encore!
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Spinsanity, an internet-based watchdog that claimed to sniff out misleading political rhetoric, says Moore uses “lies, distortions, and nonsensical arguments to mask cheap attacks and promote his own political agenda”.
“When pressed, in fact, he isn’t even sure he actually has a point. Appearing on CNN’s Moneyline in 2002, host Lou Dobbs asked him about the inaccuracies in Stupid White Men. “How can there be inaccuracy in comedy?” Moore responded.”
Moore, like Gore, makes crockumentaries, films designed to look like a documentary, but actually shaped into a particular political mold. Items that don’t fit that mold are omitted or taken out of context. Essentially, these liberals are doing what they falsely accuse the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth for doing: lying about people for political reasons. The Swifties have yet to be disproven, but Moore and Gore are constantly disproven. But who gets the coverage?
Moore hides behind comedy to cover for his inaccuracies, or, more precisely, fabrications. Gore has to use the fact that he only got C’s and D’s in what few science courses he took in college, and can thus be relegated to the ranks of the ignorant, but the ignorant with a bully pulpit, which is why he is so loved by his peers in Hollywood.
Both appeal to liberal media types, and thus have their opinions hammering us day after day, a la Josef Goebbels. When they are exposed for what they are, the media is silent, so the big lie stands. No matter how many judges rule that Gore’s film is rife with inaccuracies, and no matter how many remedial critical documentaries dissect Moore, the public is left with the perception that they are correct in their screeds.
Thank God for the internet!