What's your opinion on Michael Moore?

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Could we stop confusing commie (bad) with socialism (good, but sucks when applied in the real word because people are poo heads).

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If it isnt capitalism, its all commie to me dids.

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Private companies shouldn't have an obligation to keep people employeed. It's government's job to sustain them once a company, in holding to the obligation it has towards it's owners/shareholds has to lay them off to save/make more money.



Thats pretty commie.

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The definition of lefty is pretty different in the US than here in Europe, but believing in a basic welfare system, in this instance the government paying a minimal unemployment benefit (?) is commie?

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Anything that doesn't agree with the republicans is commie.

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You're definitely showing a small brain on this one. Maybe you don't know that communism is a form of socialism, not just some empty insult, as you appear to think it is. I don't think there's anything more socialist than a major national welfare system. It most definitely is not the government's job to make sure everyone has a job. WTF? Get off your ass and have some responsibility for your own damned self. Sweden does pretty well for itself, but they're the exception. Look at every other socialist or communist country in the world, even respectable major countries like France. They're all easily outperformed by the United States.

Also, to the right-winger who wishes the right had their own Moore: I think the right would be much, much, MUCH better off with an equivalent to Jon Stewart. Moore does more harm than good - to all sides and to America as a whole.

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Private companies shouldn't have an obligation to keep people employeed. It's government's job to sustain them once a company, in holding to the obligation it has towards it's owners/shareholds has to lay them off to save/make more money.



Thats pretty commie.

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The definition of lefty is pretty different in the US than here in Europe, but believing in a basic welfare system, in this instance the government paying a minimal unemployment benefit (?) is commie?

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Anything that doesn't agree with the republicans is commie.

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You're definitely showing a small brain on this one. Maybe you don't know that communism is a form of socialism, not just some empty insult, as you appear to think it is. I don't think there's anything more socialist than a major national welfare system. It most definitely is not the government's job to make sure everyone has a job. WTF? Get off your ass and have some responsibility for your own damned self. Sweden does pretty well for itself, but they're the exception. Look at every other socialist or communist country in the world, even respectable major countries like France. They're all easily outperformed by the United States.

Also, to the right-winger who wishes the right had their own Moore: I think the right would be much, much, MUCH better off with an equivalent to Jon Stewart. Moore does more harm than good - to all sides and to America as a whole.

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right wing couldn't have a jon stewart unless the left assumed power and became unbelievably corrupt. watch dennis miller make jokes about liberals and you'll see why.

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Moore comes off not looking too good

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Oh really?

I remember reading on his site michaelmoore.com the debunking of the debunkers about F 9/11, not only that, I remember there were a extensive list of quotes, articles, and research about the facts on F 9/11. Usually I found pretty pathetic the attempts to discredit the movie. I'm pretty sure the republican machine and all their millions tried pretty hard, and the "liberal" media (note to the naive people, if I use "liberal" instead of liberal I'm being ironic ) gave them plenty of TV time to do it.

I'm pretty sure in the past years Moore has been painted pretty bad by the media, and I'm talking here about ABC,NBC,CBS,CNN. But of course for some of you guys if you didn't hear that Michael is complete garbage and the Antichrist like you hear on FOX; you thought they were saying good things about him.

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I'm curious to see what people here think of Moore's choice to make Lila Lipscomb's son's death in Iraq such a central piece to the film.

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http://slate.msn.com/id/2102723/

Christopher Hitchen's take on Fahrenheit 9/11. Eloquent and vicious, as only hitchens can be.

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I'm curious to see what people here think of Moore's choice to make Lila Lipscomb's son's death in Iraq such a central piece to the film.

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I thought that part really dragged on for too long. I felt bad for her but I didn't learn much from her.

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Moore comes off not looking too good

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Oh really?

I remember reading on his site michaelmoore.com the debunking of the debunkers about F 9/11, not only that, I remember there were a extensive list of quotes, articles, and research about the facts on F 9/11. Usually I found pretty pathetic the attempts to discredit the movie. I'm pretty sure the republican machine and all their millions tried pretty hard, and the "liberal" media (note to the naive people, if I use "liberal" instead of liberal I'm being ironic ) gave them plenty of TV time to do it.

I'm pretty sure in the past years Moore has been painted pretty bad by the media, and I'm talking here about ABC,NBC,CBS,CNN. But of course for some of you guys if you didn't hear that Michael is complete garbage and the Antichrist like you hear on FOX; you thought they were saying good things about him.

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If you'd bother to read the link I gave earlier, they address all those. They give him credit where it's due, but he apparently ignores a lot of points where they show he manipulated or quoted out of context.

Here's another one, in "Bowling for Columbine", when he goes and tries all those doors in the Canadian town to show that Canadians feel safer, apparently about 40% of the doors were locked. He doesn't show that in the film. He's never responded to inquiries on that one. Apparently he only quotes the facts he likes and ignores the ones he doesn't.

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Found the link.

Factual back up for Fahrenheit 9/11

I think you guys will find a key difference between this article and the one cited by MrMon

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Moore does more harm than good - to all sides and to America as a whole.

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Could you elaborate about how exactly is Moore hurting America?