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Interesting rebuttal, shame about the facts (Score:1)
Whilst I do not have the time to do an in-depth investigation into each piece, I did investigate the first few.
This author tries to suggest that Moore is "responding" to his rebuttal of the movie, when in fact he has just gone through the points that Michael Moore has published on his site, and collected as much circumstantial evidence and half mentions of opposite opinions as he can, and put them into a single article.
For some of the issues, as for the incorrect result projection on election night, bot
Re:Interesting rebuttal, shame about the facts (Score:2)
Actually, the election results of 2000 were the initial reason I had no desire to see this film. We 've all been there, done that. Seems like a very pointless, boring rehash of finger pointing.
What I find the most amusing about the whole thing, though, is the notion that declaring Gore the winner prematurely is "unbiased journalism", while declaring Bush the winner prematurely is "a right wing
Re:Interesting rebuttal, shame about the facts (Score:1)
Again, details. I find amusing the notion that a court decided the result in a so-called "democracy". Why not go to the polls again? Makes a farce of the whole process, really.
You make it sound like Iraq wasn't a complete failure already. How could it have been worse?
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Re:Interesting rebuttal, shame about the facts (Score:2)
No, a court upheld the result. No need to go to the polls twice. The votes were counted. Gore challenged. He lost.
You make it sound like Iraq wasn't a complete failure already. How could it have been worse?
Nation building takes time, especially with a bunch of whackos destroying the infrastructure you're trying to build. I'm not ready to declare it a failure YET.
Re:Interesting rebuttal, shame about the facts (Score:2)
They did not decide the result, they ruled on a disagreement about the law in how the result should be determined. Who else should do this, if not the courts? Do you prefer rioting in the streets to determine whose interpretation of the laws is the correct one?
We are a nation of laws. When we disagree, we look to the laws and th