Michael Moore
Until someone provides evidence of anything false in Fahrenheit 9/11, no one is permitted to use the name "Michael Moore" as synonymous with lying. Disagreeing with him doesn't make him a liar. Neither does his penchant for using dramatic devices in storytelling.
Now, if you ask me for evidence that Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh are liars, I'm all over it.
Now, if you ask me for evidence that Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh are liars, I'm all over it.
posted by lifeintheG at 7:03 AM
2 Comments:
I think Michael Moore is a liar in the "how to lie with statistics" sense. To quote my own blog on F9/11, "Moore states in the movie that Saudi Arabia has invested over $1.3 billion in the US and also talks about how leading Republicans have invested in the defense industry and sit on boards of companies. I don't believe for one second that Saudia Arabia is investing significantly more in the US than the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Israel, Japan, or any number of other countries are investing. I also don't believe that leading Democrats aren't investing in the defense industry. I think there has probably been special treatment given by the current administration to the Saudis, but I don't think it is ANY different than the Clinton, Bush Sr, or Reagan administrations." (http://rabbitpower.blogspot.com/2004/08/first-blog.html)
And as for facts to back up arguments, Here are the countries with the most direct US holdings: "Despite the notoriety of Japanese investors, the British have the largest U.S. direct investment holding—with the Dutch not far behind—as has been the case since colonial times. In 1990 the United Kingdom held about 27 percent of foreign direct investment in the United States, significantly greater than Japan's 21 percent. The European Economic Community (EC) collectively holds about 57 percent. Moreover, according to research by Eric Rosengren, between 1978 and 1987, Japanese investors acquired only 94 U.S. companies, putting them fifth behind the British (640), Canadians (435), Germans (150), and French (113)." (from http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/ForeignInvestmentintheUnitedStates.html)
Yes, Christina, but the fact that other countries have invested more than Saudi Arabia doesn't prove that Saudi Arabia hasn't invested 1.3 billion in the US, and it doesn't change the fact that no British, German, Swiss, Israeli, or Japanese people crashed planes into buildings on 9/11. Moore's point is that Bush won't go after Saudi Arabia because they are so heavily invested in America, that any action against them will have dire consequences for the US economy. If you have any doubt about the Bush family's DIRECT ties to the Saudi Royal family, feel free to read House of Bush, House of Saud.
As for Democrats investing in defense companies, ok, maybe, but how many of them sit on the boards of those companies, as compared to Republicans? Cheney was the head of Halliburton, now Halliburton is getting (and sometimes misplacing) billions of dollars a year from the Iraq war. Do you really believe that's a coincidence?
So, really, you haven't actually shown where Michael Moore has lied.
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