Letters to the Editor
Xanthro
Published Letters: 522 Editor's Choice: 47
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Film tactics.
[Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"No one but moronic, knuckledragging neanderthals believe that Moore threaded together a number of Heston appearances "to present them as one speech." In the clips, Heston is wearing different suits and has different backdrops."
Odd that you feel the need to immediately resort to name calling, but that aside, when someone presents a speech, where parts have been edited together to form complete sentences and a coherent theme, and the parts are taken from different speeches, yet each cut to a different speech is interwoven with a fade out of some type, the reason to do so is to mislead the viewer. It's really as simple as that.
"Only a complete buffoon (See Bush voters and NRA wingnuts) would look at those clips and draw the conclusion that they were supposed to be drawn from the same speech."
I've spoken with literally scores to over a hundred people, none of whom were members of the NRA and 95% were anti-gun, about the movie, and not one of them was aware upon seeing the movie that there were different speeches.
My guess is that the majority of the readers on Salon, hardly a NRA bastion of support, don't realize they are different speeches.
"They were merely a serious of clips designed to show Heston for the raving lunatic that he was."
Perhaps Heston is a raving lunatic, but if that's the case then it isn't neccessary to change context of speeches in order to make your point.
Moore simply disgreads what he doesn't like in his "documentaries" which means they are actual documentaries.
Moore is a politician in like Dick Cheney, and they both have a equal knack for lieing to make a point. Moore got his interview in "Roger and Me", but didn't show it, presenting the appearance that such an interview never took place, while Cheney's lies are like rain in Seattle, I'll use just one as an example, the Vice Presidential debate where Cheney stated he was President of the Senate and was at the Senate every Tuesday and had never seen Edwards. The first two points are true, in the sense that he is President of the Senate, and was at the Senate every Tuesday, but he wasn't at the Senate on Tuesday to lead in his capacity as President, it was an informal Republican meeting only. Cheney acted as President of the Senate the same number of times Edwards did. Cheney used the context of his statements to make it appear that on Tuesday's he was leading the Senate, when he was actually at a meeting that Edwards would never attend.
Cheating with the truth is lieing, and Moore is guilty of this.
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Poodles are awesome
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Because Poodles are fru fru
Everyone knows that. 8>)
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I used to think that poodles are fru fru until I got one, and he is 65lbs of badass and fun.
I think it's the haircuts that make them look silly, we just cut ours short in the summer and let in grow in the winter. He doesn't shed, he can retrieve (they are water dogs with webbed feet even) he does everything you'd want in a dog.
Now, if I could just get him to stop chasing skunks that would be nice.