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Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (and outright lies?) in Bowling for Columbine. Thanks to Alex for the link.

The point is far more fundamental: Bowling for Columbine is dishonest. It is fraudulent. It fixes upon a theme, and advances it, whenever necessary, by deception. To trash Heston, it even uses the audio/video editor to assemble a Heston speech that Heston did not give, and to turn sympathetic phrases into arrogant ones. Moore's object is not to enlighten or to document, but to play his viewer like a violin, to the point where they leave the theater with heartfelt believe in that which is, sadly, quite false.

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Although I do not agree with all of Mr. Moore's ideas, I do share his resentment towards the war. Note, this is not anti-American thinking; it is anti-war thinking. If you wnat to get rid of the dictator, make him watch 'Big Brother' or something.
About the Oscars: What is more disrespectful, talking about the war (come on, it's not like it's a big secret, with all the security around the building...), or to stand there and say things like "I wanna thank my dog for being so furry, and I wanna thank my post office for delivering my mail, and I wanna thank my mom for baking cookies, etc. etc."?
Long and lame acceptance speeches are REALLY disrespectful to people watching and to TV networks that pay big money to broadcast the thing. We need more acceptance speeches with a meaning!

I haven't seem "Bowling for Columbine" yet, but I will. I will apply lots of critical thinking before I accept Mr. Moore's ideas, and I will probably agree that he's a hypocrite. Nonetheless, he has some good ideas.

Guns don't kill Americans, Americans kill Americans.
If you need to shoot someone because you failed a test, you shouldn't be allowed to handle a gun.
Gun control is not the answer, intelligent behavior is the answer.