{"id":2799,"date":"2004-08-02T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T21:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/08\/moore-busted-again\/"},"modified":"2004-08-02T14:04:26","modified_gmt":"2004-08-02T21:04:26","slug":"moore-busted-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/02\/moore-busted-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Moore busted again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tIt seems that Michael Moore has been caught playing fast and loose with the truth again:<\/a><\/p>\n

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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. <\/p>\n

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.” <\/p>\n

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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Here’s another one, via Tim Blair:<\/a><\/p>\n

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THE movie Fahrenheit 9\/11 asserts the children of US congressmen are under-represented in US forces in Iraq. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The fun never stops in the world of Moore’s delusions.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “Moore busted again”<\/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-2799","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-J9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","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=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}