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Originally posted by Torone@Mar 28 2003, 08:37 AM
"when you should realize that Bush did the deed, he just framed the next guy."
Hmmm...Can we say 2000?
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What concerns me is that Micheal Moore's material is presented as documentary and a lot of gullible people (particularly the 18-30 crowd here in the states) take it as a documentary and form opinions on the material and then act on those opinions based on information that has been incorrectly presented or represented - hence we have harmful, misguided action from Moore's profiteering
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Vick, how does this differ from the radio windbags like Rush Limbaugh (one of my favorites) that misrepresents almost every single event in political history to shade things to his side? He does it under the guise of "information you need to know"... I was amazed in listening to him how often he criticizes dems for something, and praises repubs for the same action a minute later. How he forgets things so quickly... when anyone ever talks about the economy, he never does get around to mentioning that the recessions of the last 30 years always occur during a republican presidency... he just glosses over that and points to "democratic do-goodie liberal money wasting"... forgetting that the democrats never had control of the whitehouse, the senate, and the house at the same time...
I honestly think that type of stuff does way more damage than anything a MM or his kind can ever do, because it is presented with the authority and the "ring of truth"... no attempt at comedy.
Worse, judging by this board, some people actually buy into it. :-(
Alex