Sicko!

I’ll watch it, but I’m afraid Michael Moore is no better than the spin-doctors at the Whitehouse. Although I like some of his other stuff, he tends to do something that I don’t like with his documentaries, which is to make sure his opinion is 100% correct, even if all the facts don’t fit.

Bowling for Columbine was a good example of this. Why did those kids go on a killing rampage in their school? Well it was because Walmart sold 9mm ammo and because the town is home to military contractors, apparently.

Seems to me he takes a subject and uses it to bludgeon whichever political subject he feels strongly about.

You’re right Doc, especially if you watch some of the American news channels. I remember Fox news adverts refering to Gulf War 2 as ‘Showdown: Iraq’. For all his failings, at least Michael Moore is speaking out, even if he does get demonised for doing so.

However, I’d rather see a watertight argument than a conveniently slanted documentary, which is where Moore lets the side down. One thing he did (which I can’t forgive him for) was infer that Matt Stone was behind that cartoon in ‘Bowling for Columbine’, which claimed that the KKK and NRA were the same thing and that Americans all own guns because they’re racist and scared of black people. Again, it was Moore telling us why he wants us to believe his opinion is right (‘cos if you don’t you’re a gun-toting racist). Which is, incidentally, why Michael Moore was a suicide bomber in Team America.

I also thought Matt Stone probably came closest to explaining why those boys went loco, without blaming the media, McDonald Douglas, the President, Walmart and the NRA.