Is there anyone left who doesn't think Michael Moore is a fraud?

Answer 1

In Fahrenheit 9/11 Moore smears military recruiters and portrays American soldiers in Iraq as mindless monsters, then uses footage from the funerals of the fallen without even bothering to consult their families.

He exploits the wounded and the dead without remorse, and smears the living with a devilish glee. He portrays President Bush as a cold-blooded, golf-club-wielding maniac, and portrays Saddam Hussein's Iraq as an idyllic land where children flew kites instead of being tossed into pre-teen prisons.

Moore's film is an unconscionable exercise in deceit from start to finish. He obtained interviews under false pretenses, then used those interviews to insinuate things that the interview subjects neither believe nor support.

Case in point: Oregon State Trooper Andy Kenyon. Moore sent a crew to interview him under the guise of making a documentary about cutbacks in some state police programs. Moore did not attend the filming himself and his name never came up, for obvious reasons. The film crew led Kenyon to believe that the documentary was probably bound for public television, if it made broadcast at all. So Kenyon consented to the interview and answered questions related to those cutbacks.

The day before Fahrenheit 9/11 opened, someone from Moore's production company called Kenyon to tell him he was in that film. Shocked, Kenyon went to see the film, only to see his answers about state-level cutbacks blamed on the Bush administration, and twisted to insinuate that in cutting Oregon's state police budget (something no president has the authority to do, since state-police budgets are a state matter), President Bush had left the Oregon coastline without police protection. But it was never the Oregon state-police force's job to patrol the coast in the first place. That responsibility belongs to the Coast Guard.

In researching the story of Oregon's state-police cutbacks, it is impossible for Moore not to have learned these salient facts. Yet he left them all out to create a false impression that the Bush administration's tax cuts directly took needed police off the streets.

Answer 2

You should go beyond the F. 911 video and look at the other works he's done. If you've ever heard of "Roger and Me," you'll see that Michael Moore is more interested in speaking up for the rights of workers and the disenfranchised in th U.S. than really attempting to bash Bush for any fraudulent purposes. He is doing what our Congressional leaders should be doing. Which is questioning why American workers (anyone on American soil) and labor does not get ample protection they deserve. And in general questioning laws that impede basic human rights. He's not the fraud.

Answer 3

I don't think Michael's Moore's a fraud; he's an American citizen with a camera and some good questions. I think a lot of people are afraid of his answers because such answers jostle people out of their complacency.

Now, being unwilling to have your mind changed by arguments, data, new information. . . in a democracy, that's fraudulent and irresponsible!

Answer 4

Michael Moore a fraud? As opposed to George Bush, who is a ..... ?

Answer 5

Michael Moore is just exercising his rights to free expression like you just did, in implying he was a fraud ;-)

Answer 6

I agree with the 3rd answer.
Michael Moore should grab a parachute, go to the top of the Sear's Tower, walk to the edge, jump off, and forget to pull the ripcord.

Answer 7

Hes a fat, insipid, unwashed, oppourtunistic twit who took advantage of the potentially bad situation this country is in to incite people against the president. I hope he feels real good about the means that he used to make the money he has at the expense of the country, national security and the people.

Answer 8

Others here are calling him things like "fat" "boob" "opportunist", but I have yet to see one comment that takes a real shot at any facts or opinions he has. You call him a fraud in your question, but leave it at that. All I see from neoconartist supporters is attacks on people not their ideas and that is why this country is so polarized. You don't like what he has to say, thats fine, but disagree with him on an intellectual level like the civilized human being. Calling him names because you don't like what he has to say doesn't make him look dumb, it makes you look dumb.

Answer 9

I would have said is there anyone left who doesn't think George Bush and Co. are frauds.

Answer 10

Hes Better Than Bush