{"id":2082,"date":"2004-07-02T14:13:28","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T21:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/07\/the-temperature-at-which-michael-moores-pants-burn\/"},"modified":"2004-07-02T14:13:28","modified_gmt":"2004-07-02T21:13:28","slug":"the-temperature-at-which-michael-moores-pants-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/02\/the-temperature-at-which-michael-moores-pants-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"The temperature at which Michael Moore’s pants burn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tSpinsanity does the heavy lifting on the lies, half-truths, and deceptions in Fahrenheit 9\/11,<\/a> reaching this conclusion:<\/p>\n

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During a recent interview on “Late Night with David Letterman,” the host identified the problems with the circumstantial argument of the film in a series of probing questions to Moore:<\/p>\n

When you look at the film in total, are there things there – if I were smarter, could I refute some of these points? Shall I believe you that everything means exactly what it looks like? I mean, the presentation is overwhelming, but could a smarter man than me come in and say, “Yes, this happened, but it means nothing,” “Yes, that happened but it means nothing”? But put together in a puzzle it creates one inarguable, compelling circumstance.<\/i><\/p>\n

Moore’s response to Letterman (after a joking aside) sums up the problem with his work. Despite proclamations that the film is satirical and represents his opinion, Moore still makes strong claims about its veracity:<\/p>\n

You can’t refute what’s said in the film. It’s all there, the facts are all there, the footage is all there.<\/i><\/p>\n

Sadly, as with most of Moore’s work, this is simply not true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a pretty devastating litany, and those who find themselves arguing the film’s merits with Moore-bots would do well to read it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spinsanity does the heavy lifting on the lies, half-truths, and deceptions in Fahrenheit 9\/11, reaching this conclusion: During a recent interview on “Late Night with David Letterman,” the host identified the problems with the circumstantial argument of the film in a series of probing questions to Moore: When you look at the film in total, … Continue reading “The temperature at which Michael Moore’s pants burn”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-xA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}