Comments: Facts and Pulp Fiction

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

There's also a blog to fact-check the fact checkers:
fahrenheit_fact_check.blogspot.com

http://fahrenheit_fact.blogspot.com/
has also turned off comments on their site. Now any comments are to be emailed to them. So much for open discussion, as they had asked for in the now missing entry that said "please discuss".

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.
And finally, #15 - the author, in comments, cries out his abject horror at the videos of torture. In his estimation this is reason for war and he 'tacitly' ignores the thousands of innocents who were just as tortured (burned, mutilated, impaled... cooked...) by our bombs dropping on their homes. He just can't see past the 'skin peeling' in the videos he posts which... have nothing to do with the movie and everything to do with his _personal_ desire to justify the war.

Posted by Maggie at July 1, 2004 03:30 PM


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