I have a few friends who lap up everything Michael Moore says with, (what appears to me) an incredible amount of gullibility, and astounding failure to actually apply common sense to what they see on the screen.

It’s “cool” to diss George W and the ‘Corporate world’, and government conspiricies are always popular.  Moore plays on this, and uses it to disguise some shoddy ideas, and (it seems) blatant mistruths.

Obviously his stuff is politically motivated.  I’m not American, I don’t care either way about George W, neither should anyone else who isn’t American / being invaded by America.

I sat down and watched Bowling for Columbine, I was fairly skeptical already, but was looking forward to watching it, so tried to keep an open mind.

...he pointed the camera at some stupid Americans, and let them make themselves look stupid.  Then used the ridiculous things they said as ‘evidence’.

One gimp reckoned he was number 3 on the FBI’s wanted list after the Oaklahoma bombings .. why? .. because he owned a copy of The Anarchists Handbook.  Utter rubbish!  But I’ve had friends telling me that in America you can get sent to jail simply for checking the wrong book out of the Library ... rubbish!  why would the librarys stock those books?

His reporting is not impartial, there is no middle ground, so even the facts in his report are well hidden by the huge bias he adds.

I write this having only seen Bowling for Columbine, I haven’t read his books, or seen Farenheit 911 .. it may be that BfC is universally accepted as the worst piece of work he’s ever done .. but I doubt it.

Quite how he is able to convince people who I know are intelligent to believe his every word without applying their own judgement is something I really don’t understand… ?