How to Deal with the Lies and the Lying Liars When They Lie about “Bowling for Columbine”
One thing you get used to when you’re in what’s called “the public eye” is reading the humorous fiction that others like to write about you. For instance, I have read in quite respectable and trustworthy publications that a) I’m a college graduate (I’m not), b) I was a factory worker (I quit the first day), and c) I have two brothers (I have none). Newsweek wrote that I live in a penthouse on Central Park West (I live above a Baby Gap store, and not on any park), and the Internet Movie Database once listed me as the director of the Elvis movie, “Blue Hawaii” ( I was 6 at the time the film was made, but I was quite skilled in directing my sisters in building me a snowman). Lately, my favorite mistake is the one many reviewers made crediting the cartoon in “Bowling for Columbine” as being the work of the “South Park” creators. It isn’t. I wrote it and my buddy Harold Moss’s animation studio drew it.
I’ve enjoyed reading these inventions/mistakes about this “Michael Moore.” I mean, who wouldn’t want to fantasize about living in penthouses roughhousing with brothers you never had. But lately I’ve begun to see so many things about me or my work that aren’t true. It’s become so easy to spread these fictions through the internet (thanks mostly to lazy reporters or web junkies who do all their research by typing in “key words” and then just repeat the same mistakes). And so I wonder that if I don’t correct the record, then all of the people who don’t know better may just end up being filled with a bunch of stuff that isn’t true.
Of course, it would take a lot of my time to contact all these sites and media outlets to correct their errors and I think it’s more important I spend my time on my next book or movie so I just let it ride. But is that fair to you, the reader, who has now been told something that isn’t true?
With the unexpected and overwhelming success of “Bowling for Columbine” and “Stupid White Men,” the fiction that has been written or spoken about me and my work has reached a whole new level of storytelling. It’s no longer about making some simple errors or calling me “Roger” Moore. It is now about organized groups going full blast trying to discredit me by knowingly making up lies and repeating them over and over in the hopes that people will believe them
Who Do You Trust?
My opinion of Michael Moore had gone down this year after I’d heard a lot of stories “debunking” Bowling for Columbine, saying it was full of lies and misrepresentations, giving many specific instances. I was bummed to hear that. Moore
Moore is the lowest peice of democratic(far left) peice of lying lowdown dumb@##@, on this planet. He’s just in it for the glory and money. His facts are NEVER right, His story line races through what is relevant, to propaganda that should get him commited for treason. Any body that believes anything that comes out of that dumdfucks mouth should be sent to Al-Quaida
hello…wake up people! Im just a kid and even I can see what a traitor peice of shit michael moore and other people like him are. These people cant get off bin laden and 9/11;the iraqis arnt the ones who attacked us blah blah…think of this as a different cause. They are powerful evil factions that should not and will not be given any breathing room as long as people like me remain on this earth. Just because we dont share a border with the worlds enemies doesnt give us the right to be pussies.:)