[NoahSD]

I hate him because I think he's incredibly stupid but he happens to share my point of view.

I think that people who are stupid enough to think he's making a decent argument are also the kind of people who are stupid enough to think various other arguments for the opposite point of view are decent--i.e., the kind of people who just choose one view on an issue and stick to it no matter how stupid. I think lots of people who are smart enough to actually think about politics and tend to be more conservative than Michael Moore might accidentally assume that all there is to liberal politics is the Michael Moore, uneducated sympathy-style logic--so I think he ends up hurting more than he helps.

Edit: Maybe I'll read this whole thread later, but just read the first reply and feel the need to justify what I wrote a bit since El D's a really smart guy who clearly disagrees with me here.

In Bowling for Columbine, throughout the movie Moore's blaming the gun violence problem on tons of stuff. He blames it on K-mart (or some other similar store.. maybe Walmart or something) for selling bullets, the government for not outlawing guns, the media/hollywood/video game industry for encouraging violence, etc, etc, etc. Obviously none of this is substantiated by facts (I'm not disagreeing with this stuff, just saying that he doesn't make a case for it).

Then, he does perhaps the most retarded thing he could possibly do. He throws this sequence into the film in which he says something like "So why does America have this problem so much worse than other countries?" And then he repeats all of these arguments--"Is it because of the availability of guns?"--and shoots them down one by one--"No, Canada has many more guns and less gun violence". He threw in some statistics to justify these claims, and many of them were really silly like "Canada has way more guns per person but way less shootings per year" (as opposed to the relevant statistic, shootings per person per year).

So, to recap, he blamed gun violence on many different things without justifying his reasoning, he then completely contradicted himself, and tried to justify his reasoning in that but failed miserably.


Also, a good chunk of his movies is composed of scenes of him putting people (like gun company people or senators or security guards in the lobby of some corporate office) in incredibly awkward situations and showing that they get uncomfortable and don't know what to say--which really isn't interesting at all and really isn't far off from calling somebody a stupid doody head.