Wednesday, March 19, 2003 |
11:50 - Bowling for Honesty
http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html
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Thank CapLion for digging up this one.
For those (like me) who are still seething from Bowling for Columbine, and who even after registering our own reactions are still unsatisfied by the lack of scorn sent its way (and in fact the legitimacy conferred by the whole Academy Award thing), this article is just what we've been waiting for. David T. Hardy has done his homework, gathering together the case for the dishonesty of the movie, and presenting it along with facts and transcripts for your perusal. Other sources have made these same points in the past, but weaker. This time it's much harder to call them into doubt.
It's all good, particularly if you've been hungering for something like this ever since friends and co-workers swarmed around your cubicle keening about how funny and poignant and insightful and ingenious a documentary it was, and how the whole office should go see it, and how blah blah blah. My favorite part comes at the end of the Charlton Heston speech transcript that Hardy demonstrates to have been chopped up, spliced, rearranged, mixed with other speeches, and soundbited so as to make it sound in the movie like a defiant call to arms for the NRA against the whiny residents of Littleton:
One more thing. Our words and our behavior will be scrutinized more than ever this morning. Those who are hostile towards us will lie in wait to seize on a soundbite out of context, ever searching for an embarrassing moment to ridicule us. So, let us be mindful. The eyes of the nation are upon us today.
I guess Moore took it upon himself to make those words prophetic.
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