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My big problem with Moore is that he very frequently is correct on some larger point but he gets the details wrong or is very misleading on them. Take Fahrenheit 9/11. One of the early scenes he either says or very strongly implies that a bunch of Saudis including bin Laden family members were allowed to fly out of the country while all flights were grounded. In reality they were apparently able to fly around within the country so that when they once again allowed all flights they could leave right away. Either way, this treatment is directly a problem and symbolically bad in terms of often giving Saudi Arabia such positive treatment when their country is a large part of the problem. So basically in this spot the truth is actually pretty damning. Telling it and not saying or implying that it was just a little bit worse than that is terrible. His arguments would be better served if he got the details correct on these types of things.


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This is a really great point. I realize that people get the details wrong a ton when they have debates (I'm sure I got a ton wrong in my tirade a few posts up), but when he makes a movie and presumably edits and fact checks and stuff and still manages to get easy crap like that wrong, it really hurts his credibility. More importantly, it hurts the credibility of all liberals by proxy.