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Lazy echo chamber Village thinking
by timezoned

Yeah yeah: Michael Moore is too extreme and distorts "facts", Matt Taibbi is too wild and crazy and is too funny to be a real journalist, the Villagers love this line of attack.

Tell me: Has anything Michael Moore presented been actually shown to be false? Go back and watch Farenheit 9/11. People were saying the same thing about it when it came out, that "Well, he has some points, but he stretches the truth and is too extreme" and all the rest of it. Does it seem so now, regarding that film? Does anything he presented in it seem extreme, or does it all now just get taken as fact? Bush was a tragedy, the Iraq invasion was a fraud, and we all agree, or at least all except the less than 20% extreme right wing fringe die-hards.


We all are Michael Moore eventually, you just love to trash him in the meantime before you realize you agree.

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