Michael Moore?

Question

How many believe now that "Farinheight 911" is a documantry. among other "problems" Moore is having befall him is this
A double-amputee Iraq-war vet is suing Michael Moore for $85 million, claiming the portly peacenik recycled an old interview and used it out of context to make him appear anti-war in “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
Sgt. Peter Damon, 33, who strongly supports America’s invasion of Iraq, said he never agreed to be in the 2004 movie, which trashes President Bush.
In the 2003 interview, which he did at Walter Reed Army Hospital for NBC News, he discussed only a new painkiller the military was using on wounded vets.
“They took the clip because it was a gut-wrenching scene,” Damon said yesterday. “They sandwiched it in. [Moore] was using me as ammunition.”
Damon seems to “voice complaint about the war effort” in the movie, according to the lawsuit.
But what the father of two from Middleborough, Mass., was really talking about was the “excruciating” pain he felt

Answer 1

Michael Moore is the personification of the gauche, self-serving, righteous high Left. He involves himself in things he has no education on, and makes easy half-baked assumptions and commentary and then points the finger at anyone he can to appear to be the one who "solved" the problem.

It's easy to point out problems and offer dumb solutions when you dont actually have to deal with any of the problems. He lives in a yuppie area of manhattan. His daughter goes to a private school in manhattan. He is rumored to be a bastard to work for and notoriously cheap (hey what about the common working man mike??!).

He makes money telling idiots lies and giving them political beliefs that they want to get the easy way, by watching a movie, rather than actually doing the heavy lifting needed to acquire political beliefs.

As far as the lawsuit, i'm sure a judge is going to send a message to MM and people like him that you can't put people in movies and slander them for your personal gain and get away with it. 85M is a bit much but I bet the guy will get 25M easy. Just watch.

Answer 2

I want to like Michael Moore. I think his heart is in the right place. And I agree with many of the points he tries to make in his books and his films. Which makes it all the more disappointing when he lets himself (and the rest of us) down with the occasional bit of unneccessarily sloppy journalism, which everyone will pounce on.

To use one of his own arguments in his defence, however, you have to understand the degree of bias and sloppy journalism that is present in the mainstream news reporting against which he is typically setting himself: the news is supposed to hold up to the same standards that everyone responding to this question is attributing to documentary film-making, and yet it demonstrably does not. (see "Outfoxed" (http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0418038/) for example.)

I think Michael is trying to fight fire with fire sometimes, when a better approach would be to retain the journalistic integrity and simply report the facts.

But then again, we are talking about him......

Answer 3

I have never thought Fahrenheit 911 was a documentary. I cant stand Michael Moore!!!! It would suit me fine if he would just move out of the United States of America. I think it is disgraceful how he just slipped-in what he wanted----- to make things appear how he needed it to. I've always thought he was a liar and now i know he is. I get so sick and tired of listening to celebrities....give there thoughts..etc....thinking they can influence people just because they are famous...i don't care what they think. This is a free country and people can say just about anything they want, but it does not mean i have to listen.---ella

Answer 4

Michael Moore is a rich white hypocrite who tells lies to impressionable people in order to profit millions of dollars. He is everything he says he hates, and has even owned Haliburton stock.

He's currently making a movie about the "evils" of the big pharmaceutical companies, yet he has owned stock in those same companies.

Anyone who faithfully follows Michael Moore is truly ignorant. And not because you might be liberal, but because you're following a man who is so obviously a con artist.

Answer 5

I don't think you will hear much more about this. I'm no lawyer but it will be very difficult for this Damon to prove he was "damaged financially" by this movie. One way or another the 85mil is not even close to realistic. He will settle out of court for a much much smaller sum. Moore could tie this up in court for years and easily out spend this poor guy. He will be lucky to walk with 85,000. I'm a Moore fan but Hate to hear stuff like this.

Answer 6

Mickaela V...One could argue that Michael Moore is, in part, responsible. His efforts to break the administration have cost morale in Iraq, and if you break morale, you break the men and women fighting. He is part of a larger effort to destroy President Bush at all costs. He is a selfish, self centered porker. As for showing this film, for lack of a better more Yahoo friendly term, to all high school students...Why? To what end? To indoctrinate kids with lies?

I wonder why this news story isn't on the front pages. I wonder why it isn't big news at the NYT? Michael Moore is a phony. He exploited this man and his suffering for profit. He is what he despises most.

Answer 7

None of his "documentaries" have been documentaries per se. Even in his first one, Roger & me, he implied a reagan visit to Michigan occurred years after it actually did. In F911 a "headline" turned out to be a letter to the editor manipulated to look like a headline. There have been whole documentaries made about how F911 wasn't an actual documentary.

Answer 8

It happens, that army dude probably told his true feelings, but then his buddies probably kicked his ***, so now he is trying to backtrack. and you know what: In this country if you have money to but a good attorney, then you are good to go. That attorney can even get you off the hook just because a "glove " doesn`t fit. And now we know directly or indirectly there a greedy lawyer wanting a settlement. So I have an advice for moore: Goto some other country, and talk to someone who can f****** has balls to say things and back it ...

Answer 9

While M.M seems to have spun his film in a certain way, its really not nearly as bad as the stuff it exposed, and Id have to argue that the military and government go to great lengths to spin stuff a certain way as well. The big difference is that M.M. isnt responsible for thousands of deaths and recruitment of the nations poor into battles for oil and money. F 9-11 is a great film and should be shown in all high school 20th century american history classes. Yay M.M.!!!!! Boo-hiss to all the people who want to whine about the truths is exposed!

Answer 10

Michael Moore.
A no talent filmaker.
A true documentary is an unbiased account of the subject. He has from the beginning espoused his anti-Bush ways, and anyone willing to believe him deserves to known as an idiot.
His fat a$$ will eventually fade into obscurity and die of a stroke.