{"id":538,"date":"2007-07-29T01:32:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T08:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=538"},"modified":"2007-07-29T01:32:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T08:32:07","slug":"c-span-supports-shooting-michael-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"C-SPAN Supports Shooting Michael Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Sunday, C-SPAN is airing an interview with Kevin Leffler, the director of a film called “Shooting Michael Moore.”<\/em> According to C-SPAN:<\/p>\n

Mr. Leffler says he knew Michael Moore as a young adult and attended high school with him in Michigan. In his film, Mr. Leffler examines Michael Moore’s work while utilizing some of Moore’s well known production techniques.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leffler appears to be a pathetic character who is consumed with envy that his high school chum has so far out-classed him. The credibility for which he grasps is built upon the claim that he knows the real Michael Moore. But even in his own trailer for the film, we see him re-introducing himself to Moore, who, at first, doesn’t seem to recognize Leffler. Then when pressed, Moore says, “Oh yeah, I remember you.”<\/em> That doesn’t strike me as a greeting between two old friends who were ever very close. There goes the foundation for his credibility.<\/p>\n

On a more humorous note, the web site for the homicidely-titled crockumentary<\/a> includes a description of its contents. At one point it reads…<\/p>\n

“Shooting Michael Moore is neither mean-spirited nor deceptive, like so much of the namesake’s work.”<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s nice to hear. Unfortunately, in the very next paragraph, it says…<\/p>\n

“Once we learn Iran and Osama Bin Laden praised Moore’s Fahrenheit 9\/11, we also question his patriotism.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I guess in the view of Leffler, saying that Bin Laden praised Fahrenheit 9\/11 when that never happened isn’t considered deceptive, and questioning someone’s patriotism doesn’t qualify as mean-spirited.<\/p>\n

Not having seen the film, I don’t really want to critique it because, unlike so many rightist pods, I don’t believe in judging something I haven’t seen. It’s not as if there hasn’t been opportunity, because the film is over two years old. In that time it has failed to either rise from obscurity or find corroboration. So I am curious as to why C-SPAN would drudge up this interview with a director of such an undistinguished film that is plainly biased and outdated. What’s up with that, C-SPAN?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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