Proof that Bowling for Columbine was a fabrication

'Sophisticated' folks can also spot biased propaganda from a distance, and avoid it if they so choose. How many of your 'sophisticated' audience members knew which details in the movie were fictionalized?

I imagine that there are plenty of sophisticated folks who criticize moore's work. Your statement may have sounded good to you, but it is dismissive and condescending to many who have valid criticisms. If you feel differently, fine, I won't call you a putz for watching a show that tried to make it's points using fictional accounts that were presented as fact.

 

My thinly veiled insults were actually openly mocking your paranoid perception of my previous implied insults which may or may not have really been present or veiled or unveiled, so they weren't really veiled, nor were they really insults in the traditonal sense of the word, nor were they farted in the literal sense of the word.

But yeah, I think I'm the bestest! not sad, Happy!

 

Luckily, I have more than just this context from which to reach my conclusion.

 

huhh, man. Watch the movie first, OK? It was about the forest, not the trees. I realized that, and took it with a grain of salt, it would be presumptive of me to believe that others couldn't do the same.

If you see the movie and then walk out of the theater and are convinced that the overarching theme was that the NRA was founded by the KKK in 1867 rather than by Upstate New Yorkers in 1873, then you will be rightly upset. But I don't think you will.

 

Trees make the Forest. Not only are moore's trees skewed way to the left, but they're 'fictional'. So your 'Forest' is a bunch of virtual, left-leaning trees?

You don't address the fundamental dishonesty of the movie, but then neither did moore, did he?

You have your right to watch such a movie from such a person and let it send it's message. It is offensive for you to claim that those of us who are disgusted by the movie and/or moore lack sophistication, i.e. mental ability, because we do not feel the way you do.

 

bamaslmmer, This is from the very bottom of the anti Michael Moore website that started this whole thread, your guy seems to agree with me:

 

In retrospect, this film lost its way. It has a salient message that lost its way in trying to attach itself to the tragedy at Columbine-- probably to capitalize on the notoriety of Columbine.

That makes Michael Moore about the same as those he lashes out against.

 

The film is flawed in it's facts at times. I don't know that Moore has successfully argued that away.

But Bamma- The movie is not about gun control. If you did see it and didn't understand that, then please watch it again. It is indeed about the culture of fear, thus entire segments about south-central LA and other things that have absolutely nothing to do with guns and a lot to do with about the marketing and culture of fear.

 

I wouldn't say the movie is NOT about Gun Control. It is about Gun Control but it does conclude that the Culture of Fear is perhaps the paramount problem.