Letters to the Editor

• E, perhaps you don't understand the law

  [Read the article: Beyond the Multiplex]
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  Third, corporate laws about cancelling meetings? Are you kidding? This is your defense of Heston and the NRA?

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  Perhaps you don't understand the ramifications of not holding a general meeting when required by law, it basically means your status is revoked and your organization ceases to exist.

  The NRA is not a corporation nor is it a lobbying group, it's a non-profit organization. The lobbying group is the NRA-ILA.

  Do you really expect a 125 year old non-profit to cease to exist, and have thousands of people cancel their plans because of the actions of others?

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  We are talking about COLUMBINE! Asking the President of the NRA "Why did you have a pro-gun raly during a time when people are suffering from grief over a horrible shooting tragedy?" is comletely appropriate. Asking a follow-up question like "Do you think you should apologize to the people?" is fair also. If you disagree, fine.

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  The problem was, it wasn't a pro-gun rally, it was a general meeting of a non-profit, all the extra curricular activities that could be construed as pro-gun were canceled. The NRA held only what was required to keep their charter active, and Moore knows this and played on the fact that people like you did not know this.

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  Fourth, Michael Moore did not splice speaches together to make them look like one speach. Watch the movie!

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  Do I need to post a transcription of the speech and what parts Moore used? I've watched the movie, and I've seen the speech, have you? The movie butchers what Heston said. Do you really think this is fair, when Heston says,

  "NRA members are in city hall, Fort Carson, NORAD, the Air Force Academy and the Olympic Training Center. And yes, NRA members are surely among the police and fire and SWAT team heroes who risked their lives to rescue the students at Columbine.

  [Don't come here? We're already here.] This community is our home. Every community in America is our home. We are a 128-year-old fixture of mainstream America. The Second Amendment ethic of lawful, responsible firearm ownership spans the broadest cross section of American life imaginable.

  So, we have the same right as all other citizens to be here. To help shoulder the grief and share our sorrow and to offer our respectful, reassured voice to the national discourse that has erupted around this tragedy.

  One more thing. Our words and our behavior will be scrutinized more than ever this morning. Those who are hostile towards us will lie in wait to seize on a soundbite out of context, ever searching for an embarrassing moment to ridicule us. So, let us be mindful. The eyes of the nation are upon us today. "

  And Moore lifts out the "Don't come here? We're already here." Is that phrase representative of the above? No, it is not.

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  "Lastly and most important, there is no such thing as a non-biased documentary! The most fair, both-side-of-the-aregument reporting you get from Frontline, 60 Minutes, or anything else is always biased if it DRAWS a conclusion."

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  I agree, and I've already said so, but there is a difference between allowing your views to influence your documentary or your reporting, and doing what both Fox and Moore do, which is misrepresent and distort.

  Moore's films don't have a few distortions, they are full of them. Let's take the NRA-KKK comparison in Bowling. Moore tries to link the two organizations together simply because the NRA was founded in 1871 and the Ku Klux Klan Act and Enforcement Act was passed in 1871. What do these two have to do with one another other than they are passed in the same year? NOTHING. The NRA was founded by New York law made up of Union veterans, the KKK was founded in 1866 by Confederates, and outlawed in 1871 under President Grant, who went on to become a NRA president.

  Moore constantly gets facts wrong, even when the correct facts support his point of view. This implies a disregard of the truth that is Fox like in nature. Facts are important to Moore, his views are.

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  The most dishonest phrase FOX uses is "We report, you decide" because sometimes a reporters job is to decide. If you have two sides of an issue, and one side sounds like logic and the other side sounds like bullshit, you don't report it like both arguments have even strength. If it sounds like bullshit, a good reporter says "This sounds like bullshit."

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  I couldn't agree more, but I'm not going to ignore either side when they violate this requirement, and Moore violates it.

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  That is what Moore does, and he does it very well. I am so greatful for Moore's films. When Farenheit came out, there was NOTHING ELSE out there. All of the media was pro-Bush, pro-war. Moore had guts when he made that film and liberals should be more appreciative.

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  And the right wing is very appreciative of Fox News, but that doesn't excuse Moore using the same tactics and getting an Oscar for it being a documentary.

  Now, I'll repeat it, Moore has every right to make his films, and they might even be a decent counter to the Fox type propaganda, but they are not documentaries.

  That's my problem with Moore's films is that they are all passed off as documentaries when they do not meet the definition of an actual documentary.

  Permalink Tuesday, March 13, 2007 09:13 AM