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bless those that push our buttons
Mar. 24th, 2003 01:31 amA friend posted a link to this. My comment grew too long and acidic to post in her journal, so I'll post it here, where it belongs. Probably piss some people off, but I don't care. It's been a long time since I'VE even been this annoyed...oh, except for that whole war thing.
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Michael Moore had a point to make and he made it rather well. The point isn't to get hung up on the semantics of the word "documentary", but take the information provided and make your own decision. You go into "Bowling For Columbine" KNOWING that the person who made it had an opinion to share. And you know that either side can cite their own "facts" and often turn them around to suit their own purpose. That's what people do. It's, generally, how we work.
Michael Moore is clever. Do I always agree with him? No. Do I always believe what he says are facts or even believe what he implies? No. But he makes you think, he makes you sit up, and even if he makes you pissed off, he's still doing his job. And I think he does a fine fucking job of it.
His documentaries, or if you prefer, his "films", are made for the person so graciously bestowed with common sense, a rare commodity. Everyone lies, everyone twists. But are you smart enough to see the difference, or pick out the truth, your own truth?
You probably are. But this is more of an angry response to someone's hypocritical, SELF-PROMOTING, ego-stroking piece of long-winded tripe (see his link to his OWN documentary on, of all things, *gasp*, the 2nd Amendment. Well now, HE couldn't be biased and twisting the "facts" either, now could he? Methinks Mr. Hardy is probably a proud member of the NRA. And how nice of him to do this, just as the film won an Oscar. *cough* riding on *cough coattails *cough*).
That film is clever and for all of Moore's rather OBVIOUS twisting (I don't know why someone thought they had to "de-bunk" anything) it holds quite a bit of truth. But then again, I've always been a fan of subtle, successful manipulation...with best interests in mind. Make sense, probably not. Unfortunately, I assume most people are intelligent enough to make their own decisions.
Fuck, the more I think about this, the more it pisses me off. Fuck American society. We're so namby-pamby that now we're getting pissed off that a FILM is "leading" us into conclusions. We cannot even make our own decisions. Someone else ALWAYS has to be responsible. Hell, I'm surprised someone in our litigious country hasn't sued for "making" them think a certain way. Why! How DARE he?! Mislead US? The American People! Well I never.
Well you DO. Every. Fucking. Day.
And let me say this. Good for him. Good for him for standing up there and sullying "Hollywood's Biggest Night". I watched it. I usually don't. But the thought that it was going to be toned down, made it digestible. And there's not a lot of people willing to stand in front of America's Fucking Royalty and say something so controversial in so public a space. Bully for him for having the cajones to NOT be popular. And fuck all those Scientology-worhipping fuckheads who booed him.
THAT said, I was against this fucking war, I AM against this fucking war. But stop with the fucking protesting. It's TOO GODDAMMED LATE. You hear me? We're in it. We're deep in the doo-doo now, kids. So, absolutely, let your thoughts be known, speak out against it if you must, but support those that are doing what I freely admit that I could not, nor would want, to do. Yes, it's wrong. Yes, the Chimp In Charge is fucking our diplomatic asses left and right. Invest in some Canadian patches to sew on your backpack when you go travel abroad this summer, but you know what...Shut. Up. Don't make them come home to another Vietnam War welcome.
*sigh*
I just think that though this is not the answer, though it didn't have to be like this and our "President" is a loose cannon...it has to be finished now. And hopefully...Christ...HOPEFULLY, many civilians will be spared, those oil wells WILL be used to re-build Iraq, and this doesn't escalate into WW III. We're already hated. Might as well go the distance.
But I swear to [insert deity here], if that fuckhead gets elected again, I am moving to France.
Je suis canadienne.
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Michael Moore had a point to make and he made it rather well. The point isn't to get hung up on the semantics of the word "documentary", but take the information provided and make your own decision. You go into "Bowling For Columbine" KNOWING that the person who made it had an opinion to share. And you know that either side can cite their own "facts" and often turn them around to suit their own purpose. That's what people do. It's, generally, how we work.
Michael Moore is clever. Do I always agree with him? No. Do I always believe what he says are facts or even believe what he implies? No. But he makes you think, he makes you sit up, and even if he makes you pissed off, he's still doing his job. And I think he does a fine fucking job of it.
His documentaries, or if you prefer, his "films", are made for the person so graciously bestowed with common sense, a rare commodity. Everyone lies, everyone twists. But are you smart enough to see the difference, or pick out the truth, your own truth?
You probably are. But this is more of an angry response to someone's hypocritical, SELF-PROMOTING, ego-stroking piece of long-winded tripe (see his link to his OWN documentary on, of all things, *gasp*, the 2nd Amendment. Well now, HE couldn't be biased and twisting the "facts" either, now could he? Methinks Mr. Hardy is probably a proud member of the NRA. And how nice of him to do this, just as the film won an Oscar. *cough* riding on *cough coattails *cough*).
That film is clever and for all of Moore's rather OBVIOUS twisting (I don't know why someone thought they had to "de-bunk" anything) it holds quite a bit of truth. But then again, I've always been a fan of subtle, successful manipulation...with best interests in mind. Make sense, probably not. Unfortunately, I assume most people are intelligent enough to make their own decisions.
Fuck, the more I think about this, the more it pisses me off. Fuck American society. We're so namby-pamby that now we're getting pissed off that a FILM is "leading" us into conclusions. We cannot even make our own decisions. Someone else ALWAYS has to be responsible. Hell, I'm surprised someone in our litigious country hasn't sued for "making" them think a certain way. Why! How DARE he?! Mislead US? The American People! Well I never.
Well you DO. Every. Fucking. Day.
And let me say this. Good for him. Good for him for standing up there and sullying "Hollywood's Biggest Night". I watched it. I usually don't. But the thought that it was going to be toned down, made it digestible. And there's not a lot of people willing to stand in front of America's Fucking Royalty and say something so controversial in so public a space. Bully for him for having the cajones to NOT be popular. And fuck all those Scientology-worhipping fuckheads who booed him.
THAT said, I was against this fucking war, I AM against this fucking war. But stop with the fucking protesting. It's TOO GODDAMMED LATE. You hear me? We're in it. We're deep in the doo-doo now, kids. So, absolutely, let your thoughts be known, speak out against it if you must, but support those that are doing what I freely admit that I could not, nor would want, to do. Yes, it's wrong. Yes, the Chimp In Charge is fucking our diplomatic asses left and right. Invest in some Canadian patches to sew on your backpack when you go travel abroad this summer, but you know what...Shut. Up. Don't make them come home to another Vietnam War welcome.
*sigh*
I just think that though this is not the answer, though it didn't have to be like this and our "President" is a loose cannon...it has to be finished now. And hopefully...Christ...HOPEFULLY, many civilians will be spared, those oil wells WILL be used to re-build Iraq, and this doesn't escalate into WW III. We're already hated. Might as well go the distance.
But I swear to [insert deity here], if that fuckhead gets elected again, I am moving to France.
Je suis canadienne.
