It seems that Michael Moore has been caught playing fast and loose with the truth again:
The (Bloomington) Pantagraph in central Illinois has sent a letter to Moore asking him to apologize for using what the newspaper says was a doctored front page in the film.
A scene early in the movie shows newspaper headlines related to the legally contested presidential election of 2000. It includes a shot of The Pantagraph’s front page with the prominent headline: “Latest Florida recount shows Gore won election.”
But the Pantagraph says that headline was never on the front page. It only appeared — in much smaller type — above a letter to the editor.
Why does this not surprise me? It’s just like the staged scene in Columbine where an actor hands a rifle to Moore on a stage; banks don’t really hand out guns in their lobbies, for obvious reasons, and newspapers don’t generally tell bald-faced lies in headlines on their front pages. Moore likes to put his most egregious lies in the mouths of others, and sometimes they object.
Here’s another one, via Tim Blair:
THE movie Fahrenheit 9/11 asserts the children of US congressmen are under-represented in US forces in Iraq.
There are 300 million Americans; 130,000 US troops in Iraq; 535 congressmen and women; and at least five children of congressmen serving in Iraq.
Thirty seconds of intellectual effort shows that children of US congressmen are very over-represented in Iraq; but 30 seconds is way over the capacity of admirers of Fahrenheit 9/11.
The fun never stops in the world of Moore’s delusions.