Comments on: michaelmoorization? http://lailalalami.com/2003/michaelmoorization/ Author of Secret Son and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:44:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: moorishgirl http://lailalalami.com/2003/michaelmoorization/#comment-503 moorishgirl Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:42:47 +0000 http://lailalalami.com/2003/michaelmoorization/#comment-503 I like Michael Moore. But I'll agree that sometimes his ego (and wanting to appear as a hero) get in the way of telling his story. I like Michael Moore. But I’ll agree that sometimes his ego (and wanting to appear as a hero) get in the way of telling his story.

]]> By: Dud http://lailalalami.com/2003/michaelmoorization/#comment-502 Dud Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:26:22 +0000 http://lailalalami.com/2003/michaelmoorization/#comment-502 I'd say that Moore's things are pretty clearly provocations rather than documentaries in any traditional sense, designed to force topics into the media highlight partly by winding up his ideological adversaries and creating controversy. They're editorial rather than reportage, they obviously come with an agenda and a viewer would have to be fairly naive not to grasp that. What does bug me is agenda-laden pieces of any political perspective that pretend to a cool documentary objectivity ( What was the phrase in MG's cons list? 'Bigots disguised as pundits'). I’d say that Moore’s things are pretty clearly provocations rather than documentaries in any traditional sense, designed to force topics into the media highlight partly by winding up his ideological adversaries and creating controversy. They’re editorial rather than reportage, they obviously come with an agenda and a viewer would have to be fairly naive not to grasp that.

What does bug me is agenda-laden pieces of any political perspective that pretend to a cool documentary objectivity ( What was the phrase in MG’s cons list? ‘Bigots disguised as pundits’).

]]> By: Big John http://lailalalami.com/2003/michaelmoorization/#comment-501 Big John Thu, 24 Jul 2003 05:32:51 +0000 http://lailalalami.com/2003/michaelmoorization/#comment-501 Excuse me? Mr Moore slanders decent people with outright falsehoods, and that's not "wrong", just obnoxious? Eldan, can I now assume that if I go around in your neighborhood telling people you are a known child molester, you won't object? Fine. Yes MM made people "go nuts", by saying things about them that were untrue. But of course you deem those targets of MM as "evil", and thus undeserving of fair treatment. No tactic is too dirty when dealing the hated CONSERVATIVES, right? And liberals always claim to be the fair, tolerant, enlightened ones. Ha. Excuse me? Mr Moore slanders decent people with outright falsehoods, and that’s not “wrong”, just obnoxious? Eldan, can I now assume that if I go around in your neighborhood telling people you are a known child molester, you won’t object? Fine.

Yes MM made people “go nuts”, by saying things about them that were untrue. But of course you deem those targets of MM as “evil”, and thus undeserving of fair treatment. No tactic is too dirty when dealing the hated CONSERVATIVES, right?

And liberals always claim to be the fair, tolerant, enlightened ones. Ha.

]]> By: eldan http://lailalalami.com/2003/michaelmoorization/#comment-500 eldan Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:28:46 +0000 http://lailalalami.com/2003/michaelmoorization/#comment-500 Just because someone is obnoxious doesn't mean they're wrong. That applies as much to Michael Moore as to the people he attacks, but it can be so easy to forget.... Just because someone is obnoxious doesn’t mean they’re wrong. That applies as much to Michael Moore as to the people he attacks, but it can be so easy to forget….

]]> By: supatyp http://lailalalami.com/2003/michaelmoorization/#comment-499 supatyp Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:28:29 +0000 http://lailalalami.com/2003/michaelmoorization/#comment-499 well, what's the problem? mm made people go nuts. that's fine. well, what’s the problem? mm made people go nuts. that’s fine.

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