Bowling for Columbine

Annie · #21 05-01-2003, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Jovi2003

Unmoored From Reality
An ideological con artist is the favorite for an Oscar.

Friday, March 21, 2003 12:01 a.m. EST

With Hollywood in a fever pitch against the war in Iraq, Michael Moore is likely to win the Oscar for Best Documentary at Sunday's Academy Awards. "Bowling for Columbine," Mr. Moore's work of anti-American propaganda, has grossed over $15 million, an amazing sum for a film billed as a documentary. But the film, a merry dissection of America's "culture of fear" and love of guns, is filled with so many inaccuracies and distortions that it ought to be classed as a work of fiction.

Mr. Moore is naturally a big hit among the French...... blablabla.....

Why should I believe that is all true???

Maybe it is, maybe not.... who knows???

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Forbes reports that an early scene in "Bowling" in which Mr. Moore tries to demonstrate how easy it is to obtain guns in America was staged. He goes to a small bank in Traverse City, Mich., that offers various inducements to open an account and claims "I put $1,000 in a long-term account, they did the background check, and, within an hour, I walked out with my new Weatherby," a rifle.

But Jan Jacobson, the bank employee who worked with Mr. Moore on his account, says that only happened because Mr. Moore's film company had worked for a month to stage the scene. "What happened at the bank was a prearranged thing," she says. The gun was brought from a gun dealer in another city, where it would normally have to be picked up. "Typically, you're looking at a week to 10 days waiting period," she says. Ms. Jacobson feels used: "He just portrayed us as backward hicks."

And if you had to wait for a month or two to get your gun ..... that doesn't make it right.

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Mr. Moore makes the preposterous claim that a Michigan program by which welfare recipients were required to work was responsible for an incident in which a six-year-old Flint boy shot a girl to death at school. Mr. Moore doesn't mention that the boy's mother had sent him to live in a crack house where her brother and a friend kept both drugs and guns--a frequently lethal combination.

And why did she send the boy to her brother?? In the film they said it was because she lost her home, because she had not enough money in spite of her welfare-job. And why had his brother a gun at his house???

Where did he get it from??

And why should M. Moore tell lies about the americans.... he's an american himself........??? (Just for of the money and fame that he gets now??? :P )

Mongoose · #22 05-01-2003, 05:02 PM

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Ahhh..Mike Moore taking advantage of the Abner Louima case. Shocking!!! I hate people like that.

yes, those wallets are deadly if you hit someone over the head with them...no honestly

Mousebounce · #23 05-01-2003, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Mongoose

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Ahhh..Mike Moore taking advantage of the Abner Louima case. Shocking!!! I hate people like that.

yes, those wallets are deadly if you hit someone over the head with them...no honestly

Illegal immigrant.

Mousebounce · #24 05-01-2003, 06:24 PM

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Just for of the money and fame that he gets now??? )

Lets face it. People have done a lot worse for fame and fortune.

Mongoose · #25 05-01-2003, 06:29 PM

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Illegal immigrant

err

and?

Mousebounce · #26 05-01-2003, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Mongoose

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Illegal immigrant

err

and?

Ooops. Wrong person I said.

I meant...Amadou Diallo.

Anyway, if he wasn't guilty of something, there might not have been a problem.

Mongoose · #27 05-01-2003, 09:28 PM

!?!?!!?!

but he had a wallet

not a gun

and just because hes guilty of a crime doesnt mean its ok to shoot him..

Derek Bliss · #28 05-02-2003, 12:37 AM

There are obviously issues stretched for attention to make a point... Michael Moore's style is a bit more agressive (and sometimes comical) than your average BBC or CNN piece that reports "news." Read Stupid White Men.

Mousebounce · #29 05-02-2003, 01:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Mongoose

!?!?!!?!

but he had a wallet

not a gun

and just because hes guilty of a crime doesnt mean its ok to shoot him..

But, Carroll and McMellon said, when Diallo did not acknowledge them and "darted" into the vestibule, they thought he was trying to flee them. Both officers said they began to run after him. [Carroll said he thought Diallo may have been a lookout for a push-in robbery.] When Diallo began to turn towards the officers and reach for a black object in his right pocket, Carroll said he believed Diallo had a weapon. Carroll said he cried, "Gun!" Gunfire erupted.

All I am saying that is if he wasn't an illegal immigrant, he may not have "darted." This, in turn, could have been avoided.

Unless you are a cop, I don't see how anyone could possibly relate to the situation.

Mongoose · #30 05-02-2003, 02:11 AM

wallet

9mm Pistol

Bowling for Columbine

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