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Old Feb 28th, 2004, 03:32 PM       
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Originally Posted by El Blanco
No, if you portray yourself as some sort fair and honest champion of the little guy, and then release a "documentary" that has holes big enough to drive an 18 wheeler through, people will call you on it.
Which you have yet to do. Perhaps I'm incorrect Blanco, but I sort of recall you saying you've never even seen the film....? Does trusting partisan critics, as opposed to creating your own judgements, seem like "calling somebody out" to you, or just blind partisanship...?

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CNN saw no need to inform the viewers that their "expert"-- who has made a career out of opposing any form of gun control–has a vested interest in convincing the public that "Bowling for Columbine" is a horribly rotten movie.
Like how you have vested intrest in selling your garbage.
Garbage that you have yet to disect on your own, let alone even providing serious criticism to actual flaws in the documentary.



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Except, you are a resident of New York State, which requires you to wait 6 months to get approval (or so I've been told, I honestly am stioll researching this one). You are required by federal law to adhere to the gun laws of both NYS and Michigan. This means one of two things:

1) You actually set this up well in advance

2) You used your old Michigan ID to get this gun and that is a felony

And besides, just look at what happened to get that gun. Come in, hand over 1,000 for a 20 year CD! That is a long term investment. Your Federally mandated application was then faxed to them home office to be refernced with a federal government law enforcement agency's database. After that, the bank (which by your own admission is a federally liscenced and inspected gun dealership) secured you a weapon.
Moore owns a home in Flint, MI, and calls that his main stay of residency. As he pointed out in his blog, he has a place in manhatan that he primarily uses for work and media shit.


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And I never honestly understood what the whole rocket factory thing had to do with the Columbine shooting.
I personally never cared much for that supposed link either, but nobody ever said you had to agree with the thesis/direction of a documentarian. There is however a big difference between disagreeing with the premise of his argument, and then saying that his info. about the factory was wrong. It wasn't. It was done honestly, and it still gets his point across, agree with it or not.

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Oooo, sorry, tubby, got you in another one. You did edit the speech. Lets check out what the actual transcript says:

http://www.hardylaw.net/Bowlingtranscript.html

The webmaster even put yours next to it for comparison. Convenient, ain't it?
Uhh, he doesn't deny editing the speech. What he denies doing is inter-splicing bits from OTHER speeches. The only part that isn't from the Denver speech is the "cold dead hands!" bit, which is used cinematically as an introduction for Heston, not the event itself. Again, anybody who WATCHES the film and has a 1/4 of a brain could clearly pick that up. The scenery is clearly different, Heston's stage position and clothes are clearly different.

No splicing was done to make him more evil, no sound bites were cut and recorded over other pieces of footage. I've read the full transcript before, so I won't do it again. But I know in reading it previously (off the NRA website) that it hardly indicted Moore of anything.


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Bullshit. you haven't faced litigation because you would just call the plaintiffs gun nuts and lunatics. Bullshit for Columbine would have sold 10x the copies and the NRA would have been in a public relations clusterfuck.
Right, just like every other "serious, conservative journalist" such as Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity don't sell #1 best selling books based on attacking the integrity, patriotism, and uter SOULS of liberals...? Please Blanco, the only bullshit is the inconsistency in your gripes. Where's the indignation over those people, who "slander" (no pun intended) in order to come across as sensational and sell books....?

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Of course, why not sue them if they are lying? Hell, you mention it in this little missive. Because you know the truth will come out and you will look like an even bigger asshole.
No, this isn't what he said. What he essentially said was that you can't fight people who do half-assed research over the internet by typing in key words and whatever. It's like in the film "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back." He can't track down the address of every pseudo-intellectual on the internet and go fly to their houses and assault them. Nor can he be like the RIAA and sue everybody in America. There's no need in it, no sense in it, and most of them should just be brushed off.

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And somebody mind telling me how Moore is different from Coulter?
I ask you the same question. But hey, go to his website, send him an e-mail with your drivers license query. I've received responses from him before, so it isn't unlikely that you will, too.
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