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[PornoDoggy]

Random thoughts on this topic. I haven't seen this film; probably never will. I think that the hoopla surrounding Moore's film has probably ruined any chance I could give it a fair viewing.

I'm neither anti-gun nor an idiot. Call me a former civil disobedient who has read some Marx, but I don't believe the 2nd Ammendment guarantees anyones right to rocket-propelled grenades for sporting purposes any more than I believe that we should try to collect all the guns.

I'm inherently distrustful of a film with such a blatant preordained bias; unlike some people - Fox News viewers come to mind immediately - I don't want information chopped up, processed, and spoon-fed to me in palatable bite-sized pieces. Not having seen the film, I can't make a fair judgement - but from what I have read about it, both pro and con, makes its claims to documentary status dubious at best.

At the same time I NOW have a certain temptation to see it. When I start hearing the usual suspects tossing around the usual bullshit ("blah blah blah anti-Americanism blah blah blah"), it makes me think there might be more to it. After all, there were folks who tossed THAT criticism around about Gary Fucking Cooper in that noted piece of Marxist cinema, "High Noon."

Just an observation ... some of the same people screaming so shrilly about the falsehood of the title (since they skipped the class that morning) are the very same folks who don't seem to object to the President of the United States crossing his fingers and saying "I didn't say it was true ... I said that the British say it." So when a lot of people find their panties in a knot and start screaming, they're not screaming because it's biased. They're screaming because it has a bias opposing their own.



Last edited by PornoDoggy at Aug 25 2003, 09:19 AM