OT: Interesting Read

narf poit chez BOOM · #1 August 4th, 2004, 10:32 AM

I was encouraging skepticism, not a particular treatment of anybody.

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 August 5th, 2004, 02:26 AM

One can also analize the data for internal consistancy and signs of bias, but that requires previous experience to triangulate.

CNCRaymond · #3 August 5th, 2004, 08:27 AM

Trust me, if this article were the product of fiction, it would not have been posted at MSN.com.

MSN cannot afford to be victimized by a COOKED story.

There was an office joke going around about the kind of people who believed that the Blare Witch Project was a real documentary footage of some kids who mysteriously came up missing, are the same kind of people who believe that Moore�s movie is a factual and real documentary. LOL

I have to say, when I saw it, most of the people were booing at it. It was quite funny to say the least. Then I stumbled onto this article and now I know why they were laughing. Nearly the entire movie is BS. I feel completely duped by it as I thought I was seeing a factual and fair documentary on the President of the United States, created by a Filmmaker whom has been phrased for his honesty and integrity. Riiiiiiiighhhhhht.

I no the truth now.

Unknown_Enemy · #4 August 5th, 2004, 10:06 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by CNCRaymond:
MSN cannot afford to be victimized by a COOKED story.

From what I read, quite a few respected newspapers in USA admit they have been cooked having them supporting to wage war in Irak, so a phoney article written by a republican equivallent of More is indeed a strong possibility.

Randallw · #5 August 5th, 2004, 11:25 AM

He is a Republican?. I got the impression he was left wing. He even refers to his associates as comrades, which in my book is as left as you can get. Mind you the NSDAP was right wing and they were all "Kamerad".

primitive · #6 August 5th, 2004, 11:59 AM

He�s a flip flopper. He was leftwing (Trotskyist by his own words) when being Reaganism was in vogue. When being �political correct� become the norm he flopped to neo-facism

He is just a moron with as talent to spew out hate-articles. To be honest, I don�t think he even have an opinion of his own. He just lashes out at everything that moves to sell a few more copies of Vanity Fair.

geoschmo · #7 August 6th, 2004, 01:32 AM

Actually Hitchens is pretty left on most issues. On the Iraq War though he's in strong agreement with the current administrations policies. That's not flip-floppy though unless you think the Iraq War is somehow a left-right issue.

Of course people like Moore (and Primitive) think exactly that. And that's why they loathe Hitchens so much. Because they can't understand why someone that agrees with them on so many other points in their world view could be so irrational as to disagree on this thing.

So instead of discussions on substative issues and raising rational counter points to his commentary you'll get elitist comments like, "Hitchens? Oh never mind him, he only writes for Vanity Fair afterall."

[ August 05, 2004, 13:06: Message edited by: geoschmo ]