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There is a name for that type of documentary style

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In Reply to: RE: Balanceing Michael Moore posted by Ross on March 15, 2008 at 18:29:52

It is called a polemic. Moore never said for a moment that F9/11 was anything but. Most great political documentaries are.

F9/11 is not only the most successful documentary in the history of film, it is also the most vetted. Where are all the lawsuits? The most prominent, the $85 million suit brought by a vet depicted in the film, was thrown out immediately by the judge who heard the case. The documentary with the biggest bullseye on it's back in history and that's it?

Does the Bush family not, for a fact, have connections to the Saudis? In retrospect, wasn't Iraq relatively peaceful before the bombs fell compared to the mayhem of the last five years?

If anything, it's even worse now if you think about it. Look at the economic picture, the national debt, the financial crisis, OIL PRICES. This country elected two men deeply connected to the oil industry and they invaded the 2nd largest oil producing nation on earth for reasons that turned out to be false. The result is oil prices of $115 a barrel and trillions in profits for the oil companies and trillions of debt for the American people. Do you really want to say that Michael Moore is the bad guy here?

Upton Sinclair probably wasn't a perfect human being either, but back then at least, the public seemed to be more receptive to dire warnings...

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I used to work with an Iraqi... - C.B. 09:50:44 03/16/08 (3)
he says that before the U.S. invasion, Bagdad was (despite, or perhaps because of Saddam) a peaceful, cultured, beautiful city when one could sit in an outside cafe, sip tea and watch people go by. Now, as we all know, it's a hellhole. The city and the country have been ruined, perhaps for all time.

I liken Bush's Mideast policy to the farmer who tries to remove a hornet's nest by whacking it with a big stick.

As for Michael Moore, only extremely naive people will fail to see what his movies are about. Of course they're not 'documentaries' in the strict sense of the word--they're far more than that.
- No End in Sight-documentary - Duilawyer 12:31:00 03/16/08 (2)
  theres plenty of other video showing this to be true. It was a Western city, with colleges, and department stores. It is now in the stone age and anarchy.
  - Now that was a depressing documentary. - sjb 12:42:12 03/16/08 (1)
    A better outcome was so close at hand... and yet...
    
    "You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
    - hard for me to watch. I had to turn it off a few times - Duilawyer 07:25:42 03/17/08 (0)
      in frustration.
Please remember lefties have to be honest and reasonable... - dave c 00:11:35 03/16/08 (0)
... it's only right wingers who can screw your country without criticism... it's the American way...

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