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Blue Shoe Mike Verified
http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/1...
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jim Carson Verified
My opinion of Pegasus News just took a nosedive. My opinion of Blue Shoe Mike is pity.
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
April Powell Staff
Oh, don't paint us all with the same brush . . . we here at Pegasus have a variety of viewpoints in our little office.
I, for instance, lost all tolerance for Michael Moore's ham-handed filmmaking techniques after being subjected to a screening of "Bowling for Columbine."
At this point, the only "Michael Moore film" I have any interest in seeing is this one: http://www.manufacturingdissentmovie....
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Gary Cohen Verified
Yep, count me in as another Moore despiser.
With that said, there is no "official" opinion/viewpoint of Pegasus News on all matters, unlike most traditional media organizations. However, our individual staffers are free to post their own opinions, so you might see one person post in favor of someone like Michael Moore, and another post against him. We definitely don't speak with one voice around here. Just another way we do things differently.
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
WhitneyTM Anonymous
Whether you agree with him or not, Michael Moore cares about what goes on in our country, sees something he thinks is wrong, and feels compelled to do something about it (and is lucky enough to have the resources). I wish I were as dedicated.
I hope that the Fahrenheit 9/11 critics out there (including the many that never saw the film) will give Sicko a chance. You should know that this time it's a bipartisan effort to improve healthcare for all of us. Even Oprah has endorsed the film. If you won't take my word for it, surely you can trust Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2...
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
April Powell Staff
Just to clarify . . . my criticism of Moore is not based on his position on the issues. I agree with some of his stated positions and disagree with others.
My criticism is of his methods. Those methods are the main focus of the Manufacturing Dissent filmmakers (who, incidentally, profess to agree with the bulk of Moore's positions on the issues).
I've also never been sold on any movie based on bipartisan, Oprah, or Fox News endorsement. If anything, such endorsements tend to reinforce my belief that the recommended product will annoy me.
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jim Carson Verified
Even if one agrees with Michael Moore's political views down to the last detail, how can you not condemn his well-documented deceitful practices?
For journalists, the standard should be truth above all else; hence my discouragement at discovering a Michael Moore fan (nearly) in charge of an otherwise excellent journalistic upstart.
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Teresa Gubbins Staff
does michael moore call himself a journalist? he makes documentary films, no? those two aren't the same thing, right?
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WhitneyTM Anonymous
I was joking about Fox News. Of course you shouldn't go see Sicko based on Fox News. You shouldn't even watch Fox News.
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Mike Orren Staff
This is as good a time as any to mention that Alan is on a well-deserved vacation for the next two weeks. And this was his last post before hitting the road.
Hmm... Wonder if he was punting one up to stir some controversy while he's gone? Sort of the equivalent of dropping a loud fart before going outside to play...
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Lisa Lawrence Merritt Verified
I invite anyone to watch Fahrenheit 9/11 and FahrenHype 9/11 back to back and then make a comment about Moore.
I have a full container of Morton's Salt for anyone who believe's Moore or any of his ilk coming out of Follywood.
Fanciful fiction sold as fact.
LLM
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Jim Carson Verified
No one calls Michael Moore a journalist.
A journalist we all know and love "really really likes" Michael Moore, and unless he's just breaking wind as Mike suggests, I'm disillusioned by said journalist's apparent willingness to overlook lies.
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
WhitneyTM Anonymous
To be fair, it seems like Alan was just approving of Moore's marketing idea?
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David Gouldin Verified
In response to Mike -
Sorry, I felt compelled
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Mike Orren Staff
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cehmann Anonymous
Michael Moore calls himself a journalist. He applied to go to Cuba under the journalist exception.
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David Gouldin Verified
Michael Moore's Law:
At the same price point, the number of biased, emotionally based arguments in my films will increase by a factor of 2 approximately every 18 months.
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Blue Shoe Mike Verified
Hey Jim, I'm not quite sure what you were trying to say when you stated "My opinion of Blue Shoe Mike is pity." Can you please clarify? Pardon my ignorance.
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jim Carson Verified
I pity anyone who believes the conspiracy theories of Alex Jones. But if you were just kidding, I'm sorry.
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
DC Anonymous
"Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking."
?!
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Blue Shoe Mike Verified
Thanks for clarifying Jim. Unfortunately, a majority of history is conspiratorial not accidental. Don't let your emotion get in the way of the facts.
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
David Gouldin Verified
Also unfortunately, Occam's razor must be completely thrown out the window to make many conspiracy theories work. It's not the facts that many have a problem with, it's the far-fetched conclusions drawn from them.
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Blue Shoe Mike Verified
First, using the term conspiracy theory/theorist is an Ad Hominem argument tactic that is used as an attempt to bring credence to an unsubstantiated claim, i.e. Jim Cason’s “Alex Jones Conspiracy Theories” remark.
Second, Occam's Razor. In order to make a judgment you must take all of the available facts into account.
There are simple explanations for why things happen. Sometimes the motives are so "far-fetched" that people can not accept the reality that is drawn from them. That does not change the fact that they occurred for that reason.
It's called The Big Lie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie
This is getting far from the original issue which is Michael Moore and his omissions of pertinent facts.
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
J_Mortimer Anonymous
Do people ever notice the problems of believability those " conspiracy theories" create? (Sorry. I don't have a better term.) That is to say, that when one looks at the "evidence" for these so called inside conspiracies one has to wonder why the so called conspirators would be so smart and successful as to create certain kinds of ploys and illusions while at the same time being so stupid about such simple things. For example, if no real person has stepped forward claiming inside knowledge of this plot then this means the insiders have a sophisticated network of people able to accomplish some fairly disciplined things. At the same time the theorists would have us believe they aren't smart enough not to leave behind the alleged bits of evidence that we see on the internet that can be found by anyone?
In other words, if you were imagining how a person would get the conspiratorial ends imagined, one would pick far easier means than the means proposed by the so called conspiracy theorists (for lack of a better term.)
It reminds me of the old game "mouse trap" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Tr... ). The analogy I am making is that the theorists are claiming the insiders built a Rube Goldberg "mouse trap" when all insiders had to do to trap the mouse was build this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mo...
J
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DC Anonymous
Imagine imagining about these non imaginary compensation packages:
http://www.forbes.com/cms/template/li...
Yeah, just imagine...
1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
John Meyer Staff
Late-breaking Sicko news:
The film is now (as reported by this piece in Advertising Age) available for free (if ethically/legally problematic) download on Pirate Bay.
NOTE that I am not in any way endorsing such copyright-questionable bit-torrenting activities, but the writer of the Advertising Age piece admits to having grabbed it.
Plus, Mr. Moore seems enthusiastic about getting his message out to as many people as possible. And his motives are unquestionably altruistic, right?
AVAST!
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Blue Shoe Mike Verified
Looks like Michael Moore may be on the path to redemption.
"Filmmaker Michael Moore Now Says 9/11 Could Be Inside Job"
http://infowars.com/articles/sept11/m...
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