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I found the "fact checking" website to be flaccid and disappointing. It's filled with opinionated rants: "In one particularly tasteless portion of the film..." "The most offensive sequence in "Fahrenheit 9/11"'s long two hours..." As far as the movie goes, Michael Moore has always played fast and loose with statistics and has implied points via editing (just like many right-wing pundits). But I'm intelligent enough to understand the broad strokes (Saudi money good, Taliban money good, Saddam Hussein good, wait, evil), without having to post a website to pursuade the converted. It's amazing to me that people assume all information posted to the internet is correct. I wouldn't recommend this site myself. Posted by johnnyk at July 1, 2004 03:15 PM |
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There's also a blog to fact-check the fact checkers: http://fahrenheit_fact.blogspot.com/ At least he fixed the 'facts' on two posts (1 & 3) that a certain bitch had commented on. #4 is still irrelevant and 'tinfoil hat'. #2 is not factually inaccurate as the movie says "White House", not Bush, (and no 'signing' was questioned) and was accurate when the movie went to print _before the 9/11 hearings where Clarke tesified_. #3 is still iffy (he specifically excluded contractors of non-security nature). #7 is "so what?" and possibly a Moore publicity stunt. #8 does not give the whole story. #11 implies the book is flawed whereas the issue is the British libel laws and a certain litigious Saudi billionaire. #13 is plain wrong, and the author should know this after having seen the film, but he's intent on this one based on his observation that Moore has called Bush a 'deserter' on previous occasions. #14, the full Kennedy transcript was posted -- the cut bits are hardly impressive or damning. |