Moore had some errors in Bowling that left him open for a lot of criticism. But most of the points he made stand.
He edited speeches
What was he supposed to do? Show the whole ten minutes of Heston talking between I said to the mayor....dont come here we're already here? It didnt change the meaning of what he said. He said that to the mayor and thats what Moore put in the film. Its retarded to put in criticisms like that.
And the kid who shot that little girl isnt the nicest person in the world, and he didnt come from the greatest family. Well no shit, I expected him to be Bill Gates kid and have had the best upbringing that money could buy.
Most of the criticism is retarded and completely misses the points being made. If guns werent so easily availible that kid wouldnt have had the gun, if his mum didnt have to work a job and never get to see her son then maybe he wouldnt be such a brat. You know I think theres even some research that says that kids who lose both parents in quick succession might...just might suffer because of it and they might act out
As far as his recent work the criticism he got for bowling where he did make a couple of mistakes has made him research his facts alot better. You only have to look at his last book "Dude Wheres My Country" and see how well sourced it is, in the back of the book everything is listed, every article, every report so that its simple for anyone to check up on his facts. And from what Ive seen and heard of Farenheit 9/11 its as well researched as hs last book and I havent heard anyone criticise his book for getting facts wrong.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/wackoattacko/ Thats Michaels response to all the criticism about Bowling aswell. From the bank scene, Hestons speech to the gun death figures:
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The U.S. figure of 11,127 gun deaths comes from a report from the Center for Disease Control. Japan's gun deaths of 39 was provided by the National Police Agency of Japan; Germany: 381 gun deaths from Bundeskriminalamt (German FBI); Canada: 165 gun deaths from Statistics Canada, the governmental statistics agency; United Kingdom: 68 gun deaths, from the Centre for Crime and Justice studies in Britain; Australia: 65 gun deaths from the Australian Institute of Criminology; France: 255 gun deaths, from the International Journal of Epidemiology.
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