David Kopel's latest Rocky Mountain News column included a note about film maker Michael Moore's DVD release of Bowling For Columbine:
A shorter piece in the Post (Aug. 22), while still recommending the movie, also warned viewers about fakery in the new release: the footage of director Michael Moore's Oscar acceptance speech is a re-enactment, not the real event. The Post also informed readers that Bowling "takes a few liberties with the truth."
Wow, I guess his reception at the Oscars did bother him. Why wouldn't he want to remind people of what happened there? You would think he'd be proud of that.
Kopel also informs us;
Neither the Post nor the News has ever reported on the audacious frauds in the "documentary," some of which involve Colorado.
For example, while showing a plane on display at the Air Force Academy, Moore announces that "The plaque underneath it proudly proclaims that this plane killed Vietnamese people on Christmas Eve 1972." This just isn't true, nor is much of the rest of the movie, as I detailed in an April 4 article for National Review Online.
(In-text link added by yours truly. The Rocky wouldn't do that kind of thing)
Thanks for posting the link to the National Review article. I saw the movie and was rather appalled by the wacko assertions being made, but I had no idea the degree to which things were fabricated to make those assertions. I'm all for gun control, and even I didn't think this movie did anything to help the cause.
You'd think there would be enough real and obvious things for a perpetual victim crybaby like Moore to whine about without having to make shit up like that.
Posted by: Michael Ditto at September 4, 2003 01:15 AM