Originally posted by newfangle
Anyone that wants to poke fun at Moore can, but you at least have to see clips of his movie, especially a "Brief History of America."
www.bowlingforcolumbine.com
Haven't seen Moore's stuff. To be honest, he seems another self-serving demagogue that built an industry on outrage and dressed it in blue-collar denim. The righties have enough screechers running around, it makes sense the lefties should have some to balance things out (and it seems like he was at least doing a good job at keeping consciousness elevated).
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One thing I do wonder about, now, is whether Moore had his 'Payback Tuesday' letter pulled from his
site. I heard about this flap where he was predicting Bush would receive the "Mother of all Shellackings," then...
whoops. Sounded almost too pat to be true. Could he have pulled his own post, going back on himself like a hypocrite? Double trouble when you figure that Moore's favorite tactic (what pays his bills, in fact) is that he accuses everyone else of being a hypocrite.
Well, I wasn't going to buy it without looking at it. I went to look to look at
"Mike's Messages" to see if there was, indeed, a missing post. Sure enough.
Now, the question is: was this an astounding bit of bad luck that his webmaster accidentally deleted the link from the page? The document itself is gone, too (the old direct link would've taken you there, but now all it gives you is a "Sorry this message doesn't exist!" page). How long will it take for the message to go back up? Will it ever? If so or if not (there has been no comment on it so far), what will the excuse be? I won't pull the trigger yet, so to speak, but this is looking awfully bad for the guys credibility...
