Michael Moore's response to BFC critics

[El Blanco]

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...?

I have seen the DVD. I saw it a while back at my old college when they screened it and then again a few weeks ago when my boss got it.

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.

Actually, the info is in dispute, I just don't feel like adressing it because it seems like aretarded idea to begin with and was nothing more than an appeal to emotion.

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.

So, he did use a piece from another speech. What exactly are you arguing?

No splicing was done to make him more evil, no sound bites were cut and recorded over other pieces of footage.

You just admitted to him doing it once.

ight, 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....?

Please find where on these boards I've ever made reference to Coulter or Hannity in any other way than to make fun of them. Did you notice I equated Coulter with Moore? Given my disgust of Moore, what does that make you think my feelings on Coulter are? The only reason I don't go out of my way to take shots at her here are because there are plenty of other people doing it and it just turns into another round "Lets Call Vince Dumb" which gets old quick.

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.

He can go after the high profile people like John Loften or the Gun Week Magazine editor. But hey, actually taking action kind of cramps a whiner's style.