moore did nothing more than the media and politicians have done. you have yet to give an example of any fact in the movie that is false.
Your defense of Moore is rather weak. Just because so and so does it does not make it right. Yellow journalism = Propaganda in my book. What was the difference between Soviet propaganda and American? It’s a matter of perspective only. I’m sure that Moore had several hundred hours of tape that never made it into the movie. And if he had wanted to, he could’ve made appear that if every student had a gun that day those two pieces-of-shit would’ve never got through the front door alive. But as his WEB site (http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/) states, “Stop Wal-Mart from selling bullets!
Fill out this petition and let them know how you feel.” It’s quite clear what the agenda is for the movie: Negative portrayal of gun advocates. I would’ve liked for Moore to have covered how the gang-bangers get their weapons, but alas, he didn’t (omit things you don’t want thought about). I can guarantee you they don’t buy them from dealers, nor gun shows. These guns are smuggled in from China. You can buy a fully automatic AK-47 on the street for about $500.00.
The absence of certain facts, out-of-context remarks, and synchronization of scenes is enough to taint a piece. You take Rush Limbaugh, he’s great entertainment as far as I’m concerned. But he distorts the facts just as much as the “liberal” media. I had a discussion with jhood yesterday about how the media presents certain things. I told him that I could make him dislike chocolate cake. Start with a piece in the NAZI death camps , a little girl holding what looks like a cake. Throw in some clips of dead bodies being thrown onto a pile. Next piece is about a bakery with roaches and rat droppings in the flour. Then cut to a sara-lee commercial for chocolate cake. That’s how indoctrination occurs. EST and LifeSpring use similar techniques. You associate music with certain feelings. So when you hear them again, those same feelings return.
how about the fact that the nra and kkk have fundamental ties with each other? or the fact littleton is one of the biggest weapons of mass destruction producers in the world? how about the fact that at the time the columbine shooting happened, the US dropped more bombs on Kosovo than any other time ever (no one seemed to care about that)
nra=kkk. This is your statement? Maybe a lot of kluckers are members of the nra. But the last time I checked nra=gun advocates and kkk=ethic haters. A little different in my book.
The U.S. has a number of weapons plants, one of which is outside of Denver. I seem to remember that America was protecting the Islamics from the Serbs in Bosnia. What thanks do we get for that, they go and drive a couple of perfectly good airplanes into our buildings.
please tell me they are just big lies, i really wish they were. im begging you wonka, tell me it aint so
I wish I could Underdog. But Bosnia occurred and Serbs, Croats and others died, The weapon plants do exist, the KKK still hates, and Columbine did happen.
One thing I’d like to say about America is this. Why do immigrants want to come here? It’s the land of opportunity. It is because there is an underlying belief in this country that you have to succeed. Americans are raised to compete in everything. You can start with nothing and become successful. No country on the planet has as many diverse cultures as America, yet we manage to live together in relative peace. Other peoples look at our life styles and figure we are weak and don’t have the stomach for war. The Japanese underestimated us, so did the Germans, and so have others like the Islamics. America is the most feared fighting force on the planet. We know how to make people who mess with us dead. And why is this? It is our culture. Americans don’t need a rigid structure to succeed. America emphasizes individuality and therein lies our strength and our weakness. The weakness leads to things like Charles Whitman on the Texas tower, or Columbine, the gang wars, mob wars, bar fights, and domestic violence. Some people can’t cope with the transient nature of American society, the me first mentality and they close up and withdraw from society and then themselves. Then they become scary and bad things happen.
So much for my essay.
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