Bowling for Columbine

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Just read this article. Havent really heard of this movie. Im assuming it's an Anti-gun movie thats going to be released to theaters? Just the part about the survivors of the school shooting going to K-mart to "return" the bullets they were shot with made me laugh. How stupid are these people? Why does it matter in the least where the bullets were bought? So is this the stupid reason K-mart is not selling rifles or ammo anymore?

Im just trying to find out about this movie. Is this gonna be another big kick in our faces? Will any of you go see this movie to see what its about? Seems to me that going to see it would be like supporting their cause.

Im interested to read what you guys think about this.
 
See my thread on The Firing Line.

I've been banned from the MM forum about 5 times. Including my IP address and all that fun stuff. They really don't like me. I went back under an anonymous proxy server for awhile to bug them some more. I gave up after the forum mods started deleting all pro gun threads on site.
 
I spent about half a year bugging MM fan site/forum. What a nut sack that dude is. It was loks of fun!!!

Diesle
 
MM's forum has been offline for several days now. I wonder if this is due to technical difficulties or the fact that the pro-gun posts have turned their forum from anti to pro. The anti-gun movements makes perfect sense as long as you don't refute their position with facts or logic.
 
Never cared much for M.Moore after he decided to bash Bush right after 9/11.
 
The advent of digital videography for the masses has allowed this yahoo, M. Moore ,his 15 minutes of fame :cuss:
 
I think Moore has pulled the plug on that forum. There had been a great deal of complaining to the admins about how "right wing trolls" (i.e. those of us who don't toe the PC line) had taken over the boards and were spoiling everybody's fun.

Most of what went on at the BFC boards was bravo sierra. However, I will miss making fun of Germans! Those were some really priceless moments.
 
Kind of miss my opportunity to go to MM's board and poke all the neo-Marxists in the eye.

Maybe the board has gone the way of liberal talk-shows...they all fall of their own weight.
 
Zander, those "neo-marxists" that you mentioned, were they, in Michael Moore's own words (not mine guys), "stupid white men" or as Lenin once said, "useful idiots?"
 
I think he pulled it because too many people were understanding the logical points made by the pro-gun-rights people. I read a few posts that said "When I first got here, I was anti gun.. but not so much now". I'm sure he didn't want his own board to to be filled with logic and reason and serve to dispute his side.

That, and the ridicule for his behavior in England.

He is so weak and pathetic that he can't stand up to a little debate or a little criticism.
 
Just read this in yesterdays OC Register

A devotion to distortion
Jan. 12, 2003 Orange County Register Column: Filmmaker-provocateur Michael Moore wanted to expose America's gun culture with his documentary, 'Bowling for Columbine.' Instead, he again exposed his basic dishonesty.
By Ben Fritz
Ben Fritz is co-editor of Spinsanity (www.spinsanity.org). Portions of this article first appeared there.




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It's no exaggeration to say Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" has had the greatest impact of any documentary in this country since his own "Roger and Me" 14 years ago. After winning a special prize last spring at the Cannes Film Festival, Moore's exploration of the reasons behind America's high rate of gun violence went on to break "Roger and Me's" record for the highest box office gross of any nonmusical documentary. Now it's won the prestigious National Board of Review's "Best Documentary" prize, made over 100 critics' Top 10 lists, and been voted by members of the International Documentary Association as the best documentary of all time. But in their praise of Moore's provocative and often hilarious filmmaking style, critics have neglected the fact that "Bowling for Columbine" fails at the most basic task of a documentary: telling the truth.

Perhaps most egregiously, Moore has apparently altered footage of an ad run by the Bush/Quayle campaign in 1988 to further implicate then-Vice President George Bush in the Willie Horton controversy. Trying to make a point about how racial symbols have been used to scare the American public, he shows the Bush/Quayle ad called "Revolving Doors," which attacked Michael Dukakis for a Massachusetts prison furlough program by showing prisoners entering and exiting a prison. Superimposed over the footage is the text "Willie Horton released. Then kills again." This caption is displayed as if it is part of the original ad.

However, existing footage, media reports and the recollections of several high-level people involved in the campaign indicate that the "Revolving Doors" ad did not mention Horton, unlike the ad run by the National Security Political Action Committee (which had close ties to Bush adviser Roger Ailes). In addition, the caption is incorrect - Horton did not kill anyone while on furlough (he raped a woman).

Similarly, during a stylized overview of American foreign policy, Moore claims that the U.S. gave $245 million in aid to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001. The Taliban aid tale is one Moore has repeated in many media appearances over the past year. But contrary to his claim, the aid did not go to the Taliban - it actually went to famine-relief programs administered by the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations.

In a recent article for Forbes, Dan Lyons found even more distortions in Moore's documentary. The film makes reference to "weapons of mass destruction" being manufactured in Littleton, Colo., and questions whether there is a connection between that activity and the Columbine High School shooting. In actuality, the Lockheed Martin plant in Littleton makes space launch vehicles for satellites. The much-celebrated scene at the beginning of the film where Moore receives a gun at a bank in return for setting up a certificate of deposit turns out to be false as well. In reality, customers at the branch where Moore shot the scene are normally required to pick up their guns at a local store. An executive at North Country Bank said the scene where Moore is handed the gun at the bank was staged at his request (and a mistaken belief by the bank that it would be good publicity). Yet Moore makes it look like it's standard practice to receive a gun right there, even joking before he walks out, "Here's my first question: Do you think it's a little dangerous handing out guns at a bank?"

Beyond his errors and distortions, what Moore likes to call his "hard-core analysis" is contradictory and confused. He claims that excessive coverage of gun violence by the media makes Americans scared of each other and therefore more violent. This circular argument doesn't make any sense. If gun violence is really so bad, shouldn't the media be covering it, and don't citizens have something to be afraid of? And if the media are indeed overcovering it and America is safer than we think, why did Moore make this film?

Contradicting himself doesn't seem to be a problem for Moore, though. Nor does he lose sleep worrying about his growing reputation as someone who makes things up and passes them off as fact.

When questioned last year about distortions in his best-selling book, "Stupid White Men," Moore hid behind the excuse of satire. "How can there be inaccuracy in comedy?" he said on CNN. Yet in an interview with the Contra Costa Times, he expressed an opposite sentiment: "I always assume that only 10 to 20 percent of people who read my books or see my films will take the facts and hard-core analysis and do something with it. If I can bring the other 80 percent to it through entertainment and comedy, then some of it will trickle through."

Most critics, it seems, land in that latter 80 percent. But when you're giving out prizes for a documentary, shouldn't facts count for something?

MM..."Don't confuse me with the facts." :cuss:
 
The bowling movie lasted about a week on the screens of Greater Cleveland, as I recall...............


\\\tongue in cheek mode on

And ya know, I didn't see a single bowling alley :neener:

\\\smarmy smart-??? mode off
 
Bad movie. Little money. Ignore fat liberal lying piece of cow pie.
People will tire of him and he will disappear. Bye BYE FAT LIBERAL!
 
From what I've read here and on TFL it's probably not a movie I'll be paying to see anytime soon. Luckly I don't think it ever made it to any theaters up here. :neener:
 
I won't pay to see it, but ...

My daughter has seen it twice. She has been nagging me that if I'm "really" interested in hearing opposite points of view from my own, under my know thine enemy philosophy, then I should see it. Snotty kid! (I'll catch it when it's on Sundance, or the IFC channel on my dish for free)

Her take was that it was less of an anti-gun movie than she thought it was and more of a sloppy parenting indictment. She thought he's using the reactions from the pro-gun people as publicity fodder to hype it for a few extra weeks.

It's what the theaters classify as an "art" or "special interest" film. Translation: only a handful of people will show up for it so it's in andout quickly.

She did say the Charlton Heston so called "interview" was very uncomfortable for her, knowing he has Alzheimers.

His ambush interviews are his "schtick". IMHO that kind of so called investigative journalism went out with the Carter administration.

Don P.
 
I may download the movie if I feel like wasting a half hour of my time and just to educate myself about this BFC crap. I'd never pay money to see it though.
 
I got an invite to the movie from a proffesor, actually an email went out to the whole class to view it compliments of the Brady Group. I thought real hard about keeping my trap shut, but i'm to old and tired to put up with this crap anymore from the college proffs. An apology was extended to the class in due time because of this, but more importantly it opened some dialog between him and myself that might in time do some good. I think a point we all need to push and expound upon given the opportunity is the racial history of gun laws in this country...


Bowling for
Auschwitz, Vidor, Cars, and Swimming pools…


Have you ever opened your email box only to discover an invite to a KKK meeting? How about opening it up to an invite to a provocative, exasperating, and funny cinematic essay on how to gay bash? Wouldn’t be to funny would it? Might raise your blood pressure a few points, make you wonder who the inconsiderate hate monger happened to be, and why they felt they had the right to send you that email. Then imagine that you paid $442 to take a class and that is one of the things you paid for, to get an invite to an event sponsored by a radical hate group. Would you feel cheated, violated, and angered?

I’m one of 80 million law abiding gun owners in this country, exercising a right that the Constitution enumerates, a right that many constitutional scholars, the United States Congress, and assorted Courts have upheld as a personal liberty, an individual right. How would you feel if you opened an email and attached to it was one from a group whose supporters have said things like, “Charlton Heston ought to be shot right in the head†as Spike Lee did. “Gun owners should all be locked up in prison†as Rosie O’Donnel did. How would you feel if the namesake of the organization routinely tried to infringe upon liberties you happen to hold dear to your heart? The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is to 80 million law abiding gun owners what the Klan is to African Americans, an organization designed, funded, and supported to remove from the American scene a certain cultural group. Now imagine you received that message from a professor who is supposed to be teaching an English class. Would it make you question why you spent $442 to enter into a class with a professor who supports a hate group, a group that wants to see you killed, jailed, or stripped of your liberties?

Every year 40,000 people die in auto accidents, 4,300 die from drowning, 3,500 from inhalation of a foreign object, 2,700 from medical procedure complications, and accidental shootings 1,600 based on a population of 270 million. 2.5 million times per year honest law abiding gun owners use a firearm to protect themselves, their family, or others. They stop murderers, rapists, robbers, and kidnappers and the Brady campaign wishes to take that right away, to leave the criminal element an unarmed pool of victims to choose from.

Sensible gun laws to the Brady campaign is simply put, no guns at all, not lets put criminal behind bars, not lets admit that gun laws have no effect on the criminal element, whose job it is to break laws. Gun laws have worked so well in England and Australia that violent crime has skyrocketed, criminals have been given a government guarantee of a pool of defenseless victims. England has a flourishing trade in full automatic machine guns, guns not allowed without severe restrictions and intensive background checks that last up to 90 days in America, with every one of the 225,000 cataloged by the Bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. The largest importer of these black market machine guns, China, a country with gun laws so strict they would make the Brady campaign rejoice about their progressive gun laws

The first gun laws in America where instituted not to control crime, shootings, or as sensible precautions; Gun laws where the first of the Jim Crow laws. Bob Klansman with a white sheet and a burning cross wouldn’t want a minority they viewed as lower than trash shooting them dead before they could drag him out for the weekly Klan lynching. Members of the Bi-partisan anti-Chinese committee wouldn’t appreciate being killed by armed Chinese they happened to be exploiting in the building of a railroad. Gun control has always been, and will always been about one thing, “Control.â€

History is replete with examples of the results of reasonable gun laws and where they led. Turkey established reasonable gun laws in 1911, from 1915 to 1917 one point five million Armenians, where rounded up and exterminated, they had no way of defending themselves. The Soviet Union established reasonable gun laws in 1929, from then until 1953, twenty million political dissidents where slaughtered. China established reasonable gun laws in 1935, between 1948-1952 twenty million political dissidents where brutally exterminated. Germany enacted reasonable gun laws in 1938, from 1939-1945 thirteen million Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and mentally ill people where exterminated in a quest for a pure socialist utopia. Cambodia got their reasonable gun laws in 1956, from 1975-1977 one million educated people where killed off. Guatemala established reasonable gun laws in 1964, from them until 1981 one hundred thousand Mayan Indians where killed. Uganda established reasonable gun laws in 1970, from 1971 to 1979, three hundred thousand Christians where slaughtered. The list goes on, Bosnia, Iraq, Iran, and dozens of atrocities in Africa, all related by one common theme, they got reasonable gun laws, and brutal ethnic, cultural, and religious cleansing took place soon after. So please forgive me if it makes me angry when a so-called educated member of American society, asks me to sign up for reasonable gun laws. Can’t happen here; study the history of the Bonus Marchers, right here on American soil after WWI. Unarmed peaceful protestors where marched back by United States Calvary, and slaughtered, their shelters burned. Randy Weaver after not paying a $200 tax on a gun the government felt needed to be controlled had his son shot, his wife murdered, and he received a 3.5 million dollar settlement from the United States Government because of their brutal tactics, have you ever owed $200 in taxes?

So when someone tells me I need to support reasonable gun laws, I ask myself, what do they stand to gain? Do they want socialist based programs that most gun owners find un-American? Is it because they object to rapists, murderers, and other criminal being killed in the commission of their crimes? Or like so many times in history is it the basic reason that political dissidents cause unneeded problems?

Among the many misdeeds of the British Rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.
--Mohandas Gandi

Both the oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms.
--Aristotle

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purpose without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.
--Joseph Story (1840)

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
--Abraham Lincoln (first inaugural address, March 4, 1861.)

Funny thing about history, how modern society who has never faced severe oppression, tyranny, and fascism can discount so many who have with a wave of their hand and simple phrase, “If it saves just one life.†What is it they say about those who fail to remember history being doomed to repeat it? Funny how the supposed elitist educated can dismiss such a simple lesson and a Southern white trash beer drinking redneck can take it to heart and practice it. What does that say about our education systems in this country, and those who stand at podiums in an attempt to indoctrinate? What does it say about those who graduate and parrot the same things those professors said? Leads this redneck to ask some simple questions of his own, “Are we the home of the brave, or a nation of sheep?†Do you supposed Hitler ever asked his victims, “Would you like your payment for supporting reasonable gun laws with Zyklon-B or just a fiery furnace,†what would I be offered today?


An emailed apology to the class for your pushing political ideals from the podium of education would be appreciated. Just as it would if I had sent an invitation to some hate group sponsored activity of my political leanings.


Not exactly a sheep, but not stupid enough to sign my name and watch my grade plummet.

Don’t Tread on Me,
Bubba Redneck



P.s. How is that for a provocative, exasperating, and funny essay on the truths about gun control.
 
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