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New York times Fact checks Moore
#2837108 - 06/28/04 05:11 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/movies...artner=USERLAND
Mr. Moore is on firm ground in arguing that the Bushes, like many prominent Texas families with oil interests, have profited handsomely from their relationships with prominent Saudis, including members of the royal family and of the large and fabulously wealthy bin Laden clan, which has insisted it long ago disowned Osama. Mr. Moore spends several minutes in the film documenting ties between the president and James R. Bath, a financial advisor to a prominent member of the bin Laden family who was an original investor in Mr. Bush's Arbusto energy company and who served with the future president in the Air National Guard in the early 1970's. The Bath friendship, which indirectly links Mr. Bush to the family of the world's most notorious terrorist, has received less attention from national news organization than it has from reporters in Texas, but it has been well documented.
Mr. Moore charges that President Bush and his aides paid too little attention to warnings in the summer of 2001 that Al Qaeda was about to attack, including a detailed Aug. 6, 2001, C.I.A. briefing that warned of terrorism within the country's borders. In its final report next month, the Sept. 11 commission can be expected to offer support to this assertion. Mr. Moore says that instead of focusing on Al Qaeda, the president spent 42 percent of his first eight months in office on vacation; the figure came not from a conspiracy-hungry Web site but from a calculation by The Washington Post.
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: fft2]
#2837164 - 06/28/04 05:44 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Unfortunately for Moore, his reputation as a lying sack of shit precedes him.
Yet gullible sheep flock to his films.
Puzzling.
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#2837237 - 06/28/04 06:17 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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can you point me to any source that can prove that Moore has lied about the points he makes in the movie, Mr. McBitterson?
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: afoaf]
#2837328 - 06/28/04 06:41 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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I read the Times every day and I don't recall this review nor do I recognize the name Phillip Shenon. As to Moore lies and obfuscations see Christopher Hitchens' article from another thread (Pinky linked it and Hitchens is a lib).
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: afoaf]
#2837355 - 06/28/04 06:53 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Sure. Soon as you show me where in my post I referred to his current film.
You need to pay "moore" attention.
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#2837366 - 06/28/04 06:55 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Unfortunately for Moore, his reputation as a lying sack of shit precedes him.
that statement, given the title line of the thread... would seem to imply that you were referring to his current film.
if you weren't referring to his latest film, you had me fooled as well.
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: ]
#2837393 - 06/28/04 06:59 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Read it a bit closer. You'll see I (deliberately) made no mention of his current movie. I haven't seen it and as such don't know if it's as full of shit as the last.
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#2837459 - 06/28/04 07:25 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Just like Bush never saaaaaaaiiid that Iraq was an "imminent" threat, right?
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: Learyfan]
#2837528 - 06/28/04 07:59 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Did he?
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#2837575 - 06/28/04 08:21 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20031103.html http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2003_11_09_archive.html
there's a couple interesting pieces on the matter.
though, there is the argument that while there was no literal mention of the phrase, 87% of americans (USA Today) walked away from the table believing that iraq posed an imminent threat to the US.
whether that's creditable to the administration's skill at plausibly deniable doublespeak or americans poor listening comprehension is debatable.
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: afoaf]
#2837582 - 06/28/04 08:23 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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afoaf said: can you point me to any source that can prove that Moore has lied about the points he makes in the movie, Mr. McBitterson?
Try this http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723/ and another http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39079 Keep admiring this guy. He obviously has no problem with the actions of Hezbollah. I guess he has no problem with organizations that want to kill every Jew on the planet.
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: Bush2004]
#2837585 - 06/28/04 08:25 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Daniel Ledeen...a budding journalist with a summer internship at the Washington bureau of The New York Sun, wangled an admission to the Washington event of the day... the Michael Moore press conference.
Young Ledeen then asked the toughest question to the muckraking (or muckslinging) filmmaker, depending on your POV. To wit, he asked the budding mogul what he thought of Hezbollah being involved in the distribution of Fahrenheit 911. "Shockingly," Moore shined him on with some comment about some people believing there were Martians on Earth (or the equivalent). But Ledeen came armed with a follow-up, having phoned Moore's distributor who had already affirmed the rumor. Then the "courageous documentarian" simply stonewalled and changed the subject. So it goes
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: Bush2004]
#2837637 - 06/28/04 08:43 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Bush2004 said: Try this http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723/ and another http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39079 Keep admiring this guy. He obviously has no problem with the actions of Hezbollah. I guess he has no problem with organizations that want to kill every Jew on the planet.
keep admiring bush, he has no problem killing millions for a little green, demonizing several million potheads as terrorists... did you read the first piece you posted... some jackass that is more interested in hearing himself talk than making a report, a serious slant that starts "One of the many problems with the American left, and indeed of the American left" so what is the right of america... those that blindly follow without question. here, have a review of the review(er) http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/lieshitchens.html
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#2837712 - 06/28/04 09:05 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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luvdemshrooms said: Unfortunately for Moore, his reputation as a lying sack of shit precedes him.
Yet gullible sheep flock to his films.
Puzzling.
Unfortunately for our country and our notions of free speech, his reputation as a lying sack of shit precedes him for reasons that can never be properly explained by anyone who holds this opinion. When questioned about the presupposed "lies", Moore's opponents usually burst into ad hominem attacks about his weight.
And yet, open minded people keep flocking to his films.
Puzzling.
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: Prisoner#1]
#2837715 - 06/28/04 09:05 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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I see... so Bush has killed millions now.
Yep Michael Moore is an objective source.
I can post dozens of articles that discredit most of the movie. The 911 comission has refuted the Sauds on the planes.
Do you thinks it a good thing that Hezbollah is distributing this film.
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: Bush2004]
#2837724 - 06/28/04 09:08 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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So we've gone from "Hezbollah endorses F 9/11" to "Micheal Moore has no problem with the actions of Hezbollah" to "Hezbollah is distributing the film"...
Seriously...
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: GernBlanston]
#2838088 - 06/28/04 11:31 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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no thinking allowed.
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: Bush2004]
#2838119 - 06/28/04 11:42 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Bush2004 said: Daniel Ledeen...a budding journalist with a summer internship at the Washington bureau of The New York Sun, wangled an admission to the Washington event of the day... the Michael Moore press conference.
Young Ledeen then asked the toughest question to the muckraking (or muckslinging) filmmaker, depending on your POV. To wit, he asked the budding mogul what he thought of Hezbollah being involved in the distribution of Fahrenheit 911. "Shockingly," Moore shined him on with some comment about some people believing there were Martians on Earth (or the equivalent). But Ledeen came armed with a follow-up, having phoned Moore's distributor who had already affirmed the rumor. Then the "courageous documentarian" simply stonewalled and changed the subject. So it goes
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read that again.
The enemy loves guys like Michael Moore. Similar to the Useful Idiots back during the cold war. Stalin loved them.
Moore's own words
write "pretend" because Moore understands, from first-hand experience, the protections enjoyed by opinion journalists. On This Week, Moore described Fahrenheit 9/11 as "an op-ed piece. It's my opinion about the last four years of the Bush administration. And that's what I call it. I'm not trying to pretend that this is some sort of, you know, fair and balanced work of journalism. ?" Later in the interview, he called the movie "a comedy, too." In other words, he knows that nobody is likely to get very far by suing him for his opinions, as expressed in Fahrenheit 9/11. Since he clearly understands the law, it's plain that if we take Moore at his word, he appears to believe in free speech only for himself.
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: Bush2004]
#2838127 - 06/28/04 11:44 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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The enemy loves guys like Michael Moore.
so?
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Re: New York times Fact checks Moore [Re: Vvellum]
#2838130 - 06/28/04 11:44 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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bi0 said:
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The enemy loves guys like Michael Moore.
so?
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