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Thread #63137   Message #1026340
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
29-Sep-03 - 10:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: RE-visiting 'Bowling for Columbine'
Subject: RE: BS: RE-visiting 'Bowling for Columbine'
Strick...
Getting louder? What do you mean but "getting louder"?
This is for Strick's "getting louder" voice mu comments in italics


TITLE: Moore titled the movie Bowling for Columbine because, he suggests, the two kids who shot up Columbine High in Littleton, Colo., went to a 6 a.m. bowling class on the day of the attack.
ACTUALLY: Cool story, but police say it's not true. They say the shooters skipped their bowling class that day.

Yes, cool story, used to set up a rhetorical joke. Which police forbes.com? have you proved that Moore has lied or that there are conflicting stories. As I recall moore said, "witnesses said that the boys had been bowling"



MISSILES: Moore wonders whether kids at Columbine might be driven to violence because of the "weapons of mass destruction" made in Lockheed Martin's assembly plant in Littleton. Moore shows giant rockets being assembled.
ACTUALLY: Lockheed Martin's plant in Littleton doesn't make weapons. It makes space launch vehicles for TV satellites.

No Strick and Forbes Moore asked what the kids might think. Since the rockets built at the plant were originally designed as ICBM's and since the plant manager said many of them are built for Pentagon payloads. Moore told no lies here. Hes closer to the truth than forbes.com...    


WELFARE: Moore places blame for a shooting by a child in Michigan on the work-to-welfare program that prevented the boy's mother from spending time with him.
ACTUALLY: Moore doesn't mention that mom had sent the boy to live in a house where her brother and a friend kept drugs and guns.

Moore said that the boy got the gun from his uncle's house. Is not mentioning the drugs a lie? Are you saying that the drugs caused the kid to bring the gun to school and kill?

BANK: Moore says North Country Bank & Trust in Traverse City, Mich., offered a deal where, "if you opened an account, the bank would give you a gun." He walks into a branch and walks out with a gun.
ACTUALLY: Moore didn't just walk in off the street and get a gun. The transaction was staged for cameras. You have to buy a long-term CD, then go to a gun shop to pick up the weapon after a background check.

Moore had the lady from the bank describe the whole process. Including the background check. The lady from the bank said they had guns in the vault. Just exactly which detail are you quibbling with?

The "louder" voice here is Strick's he's just carrying what he has as childish arguements with me from another forum. As you can see from the above his principal weapon is rhetoric If you really want to see him twitch, say soemthing nasty about his hero George Bush. :)