WHAT?! Michael Moore Is A FAKE?!?!

Say it isn't so!

A couple of nice Canadians set out to do a tribute piece expressing their admiration for the Moore-On. And it kinda sorta backfired.

--THE hunter has become the hunted. Michael Moore, the celebrated left-wing film-maker, has become the unwilling subject of a new documentary that raises damaging questions about the credibility of his work.

The director and star of successful documentaries such as Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore has repeatedly been accused by his right-wing enemies of distorting or manipulating the material in his films. On his website he dismisses his critics as “wacko attackos”.

Yet the latest assault on Moore’s film-making techniques has come from an unexpected quarter. In Manufacturing Dissent, a documentary to be shown for the first time at a Texas film festival on Saturday, a pair of left-wing Canadian film-makers take Moore to task for what they describe as a disturbing pattern of fact-fudging and misrepresentation.--

Oh, uh, OOPS.

Leaving aside the obvious...

No, let's NOT leave aside the obvious. Michael Moore's "product" is not documentaries.

There's a genre of bad films that you can find on Pussy TV (Lifetime, WE, and other "women's networks") called a docu-drama. That's where you get to see a story that's basically true, but they punch it up by altering some of the events to make them more dramatic.

That's kind of what Michael Moore does, and if he were an honest man, it would actually be quite a funny schtick. I mean, walking into a bank, and walking out with a gun instead of a toaster as your reward for opening an account? That's a fucking riot. And if it was presented for what it is - comedy - there would be no problem.

But it's not presented as comedy. Moore wants you to believe that he's showing you reality. And that's when it stops being funny.

Journalists who play fast and loose with the truth end up disgraced and unemployed. That should also be the fate of documentarians who make it up as they go. ANd that is, in fact, what Michael Moore does.

There are still true believers out there who deny it. There's also people out there who think we didn't land on the moon, the World Trade Center was brought down by explosives, and Pancho Villa's skull is in the basement of a frat house at Yale.

Over the years, such people have had many names, including lunatics, moonbats, wearers of the tinfoil hat, Moore-ons, "special" people, and California liberals. They have always existed, and they really are harmless.

I suspect that once this documentary chronicling the Moore-on's duplicity is released, the number of true believers will dwindle even further. But they will never completely go away, because there really was a shooter on the grassy knoll. I've heard rumors that it was a bionic rock star built by the government from the remains of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Richie Valens, in the bowels of a building at Area 51. (Tee hee. I just said bowels.)

I have to include this picture, because it makes me giggle more than the word "bowels" does:



*snicker*

So yeah, I'm thinking this nice Canadian couple needs to change the title of their film from Manufacturing Dissent to When Tribute Documentaries Go Horribly Wrong. And I do have some parting words for the Moore-on:

I love the way you confused and confounded a man suffering from Alzheimer's disease in Bowling For Columbine. You're a real class act. May your inevitable myocardial infarction show you more mercy than you showed Charlton Heston.

GOD you are a pathetic asshole.

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