Michael Moore Exposed

I just watched the unlikely interview of Michael Moore by FNC's Bill O'Reilly, and composed an email which I sent to Bill. I'll share it with you all here:

Bill,

You correctly identified Moore's blind ideology. I'd like to point out his method of making it APPEAR to make sense. Notice that in every instance he distorted the context of the question. His movies work this way too.

Regarding the loss felt by parents of fallen servicemen, Moore said, "That was not the reason they were given."
In reality there were many reasons which justified the war, not just the - still disputed - WMD question.

Regarding the President's responsibility for the deaths of servicemen, Moore said, "If I made a mistake that resulted in the death of your child, how would you feel toward me? I'm driving down the road and I hit your child, and your child is dead."
This is an entirely inappropriate analogy to a military commander sending an all volunteer army into battle where casualties result.

Regarding the morality of war, Moore said, "Would you sacrifice your child to remove one of the other 30 brutal dictators on this planet?" "Would you sacrifice your child to secure Fallujah?"
No soldier went to Iraq or Afghanistan intent on "sacrificing" himself. That is the stock in trade of the terrorists. They went there to do a job, accomplish a goal, protect the vulnerable.

Finally, in an effort to define himself as a reasonable man, Moore claimed, "I would be willing to sacrifice my life to track down the people who killed 3000 people on our soil."
But this contradicts Moore's own words, less than a month after September 11, 2001, when he criticized military action in Afghanistan by imploring Rush Limbaugh, Orrin Hatch, and yourself, to "get your butts over there to Afghanistan and defend a way of life that allows companies like Boeing [sic] get rid of 30,000 people while using the tragedy in New York as their shameful excuse." (from http://www.canadiandimension.mb.ca/extra/d1015mm.htm)

Is this the "way of life" that Moore is willing to "sacrifice" himself for?

Posted by JohnGalt at July 27, 2004 08:08 PM