One question:
Have any of you that have posted above seen the movie?
And seeing the reaction of the majority of people, anyone attempting to go after MM would get mobbed. Severely.
Anyway, I took a glance at what the guy had to say, and I can see that he circles around the facts like a Mexican hat dance.
For example:
The film shows CBS and CNN calling Florida for Al Gore. According to the narrator, “Then something called the Fox News Channel called the election in favor of the other guy….All of a sudden the other networks said, ‘Hey, if Fox said it, it must be true.’â€
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At 10:00 p.m., which network took the lead in retracting the premature Florida result? The first retracting network was CBS, not Fox.
Ummm... when did Moore say that Fox was the first one to break it? However, Fox DID call it in favor of Bush. And we know whose pocket Fox is in, don't we? The same one the
Conservative
Broadcasting
Station is in
…Michael Moore shows a clip of CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin saying that if ballots had been recounted in Florida after the 2000 presidential vote, “under every scenario Gore won the election.â€
What Moore doesn’t show is that a six-month study in 2001 by news organizations including The New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN found just the opposite. Even if the Supreme Court had not stopped a statewide recount, or if a more limited recount of four heavily Democratic counties had taken place, Bush still would have won Florida and the election.
Bush: 2,924,588
Gore: 2,924,695
This is if all votes were recounted, all 'chads' were optically read to indicate a vote, AND if all disenfranchised voters who were done so wrongly were counted. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_2000)
And isn't having the person who is doing your campainging in Florida do the vote counting some sort of conflict of interest?
Anyway, it's a given that ANYTHING can be spun to the advantage of the person who presents it. Moore did some spinning of his own. The Bush administration has been spinning so much that the majority of the country is vomiting from dizziness.
One surefire thing F911 has done is get a shitload of people to the voting booths.
BTW: If you're interested in actually seeing the movie, go download a copy. Moore and Lion's Gate Films fully approve it.
thank you