Duffbert's Random Musings

1 - There was a time when I eagerly awaited for new Micheal Moore offerings, but that was a long time ago, and today I avoid him like a dog deposit on the footpath.

Tom, with his personal experience dealing with diabetes, will understand only too well how fast and loose Moore plays with the truth.

A few years ago, Moore, in his TV show (the name of which escapes me now), had a segment calling to task the big, bad, HMO for denying a "life saving" pancreas transplant to a poor, hapless victim.
Without going into many details of his repeated drumming on this theme, let me fill you in on a fact of life, the pancreas transplant would only affect the patient's quality of life, in that it would save him the bother of daily insulin injections, not necessarily a life threatening condition to continue, but at what cost? This point was never brought up in the report which harped on the theme of Goliath vs. David and how dare they refuse him the "life saving" procedure. This one-sided report was a severe disillusionment to this documentarian. Obviously the truth was not to be used if it interfered in any way with the sensationalistic aims of the filmmaker.

2 - At Michael Moore's site ( http://www.michaelmoore.com/ ), he states right there for all the world that, yes, Disney's Eisner said a year ago that Disney would not distribute the film. But then Disney - through Miramax - went ahead and spent over 6 million dollars on the film, and Miramax (again, a Disney company), stated that there'd be no problems distributing the film.

Disney stated that Michael Moore's new film is not proper family fare. So Kill Bill 2 and Pulp Fiction (each distributed by Disney through Miramax) ARE?

I don't hold Michael Moore up to be the defender of truth. But I DO see him as someone who provides an alternative to what we usually hear in the news. It is important to be able to have access to multiple viewpoints. And one of the things I especially like about Michael Moore as an author, is that - at least in the 2 books of his that I've read - he footnotes the statements and quotes in his writing, and provides the references for those statements and quotes -- the date and location at which a politician made a statement, the newspaper name and date in which an article reported an event, the Congressional hearing at which something was said.

So whether or not one cares for the conclusions that Michael Moore draws from these collected events and quotes, one IS free to check the references. And I have done just that for many of them in the past, wondering, for example, how I could have missed the published report of Saudis being allowed to fly within US airspace during a ban on ALL flights - even life-saving emergency flights - immediately after Sept 11 (story from the Tampa Tribune: http://snipurl.com/69e7 ).

Michael Moore and Disney both have political agendas. And both will see their financial bottom line affected by the distribution - or prevention thereof - of this film.

3 - Hi....i stumbled across this article and i knwo its old but with the 59 CONFIRMED lies and deciets in ferenheit 9-11 moore proves yet again that he is a patholigical liar with an agenda who osama bin laden quotes word for word in his 'tapes'..please.....