Poseur Michael Moore is going to get a mouthful of truth, like it or not, courtesy of aspiring film director Michael Wilson, who is making a movie of his own. Check out MichaelMooreHatesAmerica.com for the full tale.
Director Michael Wilson takes viewers on a journey from Sioux City, IA—where his father is unemployed and looking for work, to Las Vegas and the height of prosperity—where he visits with Penn Jillette (of Penn and Teller), to Wisconsin—where thousands of people have prospered through the nation’s most successful welfare-to-work program, to Flint, MI where he checks out Moore's background, to Minneapolis—where he meets up with immigrants from Korea who have created an incredible life for themselves through the liberty the US affords, and finally to New York for a showdown with Michael Moore—where Wilson asks Moore to return his Best Documentary Oscar® after presenting facts that show Bowling for Columbine was more fiction that fact.“Despite the title, the film is not about bashing Michael Moore,” said Producer Carr Hagerman, “but Moore is a good starting point for showing people why America is great. He has the liberty to trash his own country, and we have the liberty to show people how he is wrong. The film debunks many of Moore’s claims through interviews with people who contradict what he’s saying by their own experiences and life stories.”
Moore, the oft-celebrated documentary director, has built a cottage industry by showing the less-than-perfect side of America in his films and by bending (and sometimes breaking) the truth to suit his personal and political agendas. In Bowling for Columbine, Moore blamed Lockheed-Martin for the Columbine shootings, despite the fact that no weapons were actually manufactured in the Littleton factory, and that neither of the killers or their parents had any connection to the company. Moore also claimed that the NRA came to Littleton after the school shootings for a large rally when, in fact, the NRA cancelled all but one morning of its four-day event. Because this didn’t help his case, Moore inserted footage he shot at a rally a full year later, stating that it came from the Denver rally. These are only two of the dozens of inaccuracies and fabrications in the film.
Kudos to Maripat and Lori at Right We Are! for the lowdown.