Moore Exposed
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"the Oscar SHOULD be revoked for another very simple reason: It wasn't a documentary; it was a fairy tale.
Academy Rule 12.1 requires that films in this category be "non-fiction." Moore broke this rule over and over again by inventing facts, fabricating events and staging scenes.
Indeed, even the title of Moore's "documentary" is based on a falsehood, as explained by Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund.
"It refers to the bowling class that the Columbine killers supposedly took the morning they committed the murders," writes Fund. "The only problem is that they actually cut the class."
National Review Online columnist Dave Kopel rips apart, point-by-point, "Bowling for Columbine" and contends that "no artist has ever demonstrated the film elite's hyper-sensitive preference for political correctness over truth as thoroughly and as well as has Michael Moore." "
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"Mr. Moore is naturally a big hit among the French. The jury at the Cannes Film Festival created a special, one-time only award to honor his film and then gave it a 13-minute standing ovation. "Not since Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer have we seen such a successful export of anti-Americanism," observes Andrew Sullivan in London's Sunday Times. "