OT: Interesting Read

Randallw · #1 August 4th, 2004, 10:27 AM

Primtive. Thankyou for bringing his views of Saint Theresa of Calcutta to my attention. As much as I would like (nay, love even) to accept any criticism of Michael Moore as relevant, I now have to dismiss his opinion as criticism on a par with Michael Moore himself

(and its a pity as he seemed to be pointing out the same ideas I had gathered). Narf, yes everyone has an opinion. It is inevitable that some people will disagree with other people. My stance is you can disagree with people while being polite. For example I vote Liberal, the opposition is Labour (or "the communists" as I call them). Opposition supporters are people too (I am told

) so I am polite if I meet them. It doesn't stop me hoping their opposing views never get power

. Michael Moore is just rude, a man so angry at his party not being elected that he makes up stuff to criticise his government, this Cristopher Hitchens seemed to me to be reasonable although I think I may have seen him being annoying on tv.

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 August 4th, 2004, 10:32 AM

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

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 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 · #4 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 · #5 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 · #6 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 · #7 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.