The Triangle

Issue date: 6/25/04 Section: Ed-Op

Ah, college, the prerequisite independent years that mark the beginning of adulthood: what better environment to lay the seeds of political leaning and activism? Groups from all over the political spectrum know that it is important to garner as many people from this demographic as they possibly can to not only increase this relatively weak voter base, but to obtain followers for the distant future. I do not really have a problem with this recruitment. After all, where else would you have such access to information and support of your peers?

This is the point, however, where a certain few lay salt into the earth of a political foundation. Both the extreme left and the religious right view this as an opportunity to extort the fragile and impressionable minds of youths. Socialism is a detriment to a free society, and religion should have no basis whatsoever in government policy.

One man in particular is the epicenter of unnecessary and baseless hatred toward anyone but his extremist view. Michael Moore is possibly one of the greatest domestic threats to our society. Terrorists have the foreign bases covered, but Moore sputters out such incredible lies that they baffle the minds of reasonable human beings and potentially poison the collective pool of knowledge.

Moore's documentary, Bowling for Columbine, was ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. From his complete lack of independent figures to his exploitation of interviewees, Moore made a film solely to purport his twisted political message: our society is bad, and guns greatly contribute to this. Not once did he mention various government and university studies that show that carrying legal weapons reduces crime. He stated that the Ku Klux Klan created the National Rifle Association, where no connection even remotely exists by all historical standards. He presented the gun owners' argument by interviewing the Michigan Militia and James Nichols, and his theory that the NRA spoke in Denver just after the Columbine massacre to defy the city of Littleton is abhorrent.

Heston was scheduled to speak there for months before the massacre, and one shooting by some twits who illegally procured guns is no reason to stop an organization that supports responsible gun ownership. His films are not documentaries. The definition of a documentary is "presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film."

Wait a second, I thought the NRA was created by the KKK? And, I could have sworn there wasn't any editorializing at all. This makes me sigh audibly. No wonder a city full of liberals would give Moore an award for a documentary, even though it blatantly doesn't fit either of the negative criteria. Those that support him still call them documentaries and are quite adamant about it. Really, folks, I am sure Fahrenheit 9/11 really does present both sides in an unbiased nature. What Moore makes are films that glorify the extreme left, nothing else. He is physically and mentally incapable of accepting or presenting any criticism to the extreme left or himself. Take, for example, Moore's new film. There is a scene where he walks up to a congressman and asks him to sign up his children for the military to serve in Iraq, and the congressman gives him a look like he just offered him crack-cocaine. What Moore edits out completely is the same congressman explaining his nephew was just sent out to Iraq. What "facts" he places in his film are simply his own distorted and twisted sense of the truth. Anything other than his own distorted and twisted sense of truth are edited and burned on the cutting room floor. Scary enough, this isn't the first time he has done this, as all of his other films strategically lack certain arguments.

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