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Originally posted by Vodstok
I dont hat ehim, but i have very little respect for him. He is incapable of doing anything without trying to further his own political views. I understand him being opinionated, i am very opinionated myself, but i can't stand people who cram their beliefs down other's throats. He is very much a "agree with me or you are wrong" kind of person, at least what i have seen.
He stands too close to the border of "Liberal Nazism".
I am, however, curious about this. i just don't trust him to provide any subject, especially this one, objectively, relying solely on fact, and not letting his emotions and beliefs get in the way.
i have yet to see that from him.
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Wtf is "Liberal Naziism"? That's quite the oxymoron. Mike Moore, to me, is sort of the political gadfly of today's journalism. The only time I saw him trying to cram his beliefs down others' throats was during the Academy Awards a couple of years ago. His film, "Bowling for Columbine", wasn't based enitrely on emotional appeals. In fact, it was more of his attempt to show the flaws in the arguments of the other side by providing evidence and using proper lines of philosophical reasoning. Granted, he's not entirely objective ... particularly because his subjects are of great importance to him. But how can you be persuasive to a mass audience regarding controversial issues in this age without pleading to emotion? Aren't his subjects emotional, even if he was entirely objective? For example, he could show the 9/11 footage of people plummeting to their deaths from the WTC. It's factual footage, but emotionally charged. People could easily criticize him for that, saying: "He didn't NEED to put that footage in there! He's just trying to make us feel horrified all over again!" Well, the horror of the 9/11 tragedy is inescapable. People will respond emotionally in different ways to the facts (same with the facts and footage presented in "Bowling for Columbine".) It's hard to discuss these subjects without getting people's emotions charged simply because they are emotional subjects.