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Finally, I think Michael Moore has desperately tried to educate the public.


I disagree with this. M&M has not educated but rather said "You clueless idiot, do what I say."

I have never read anything M&M has written where he didn't start by essentially asserting his immense intellectual superiority and proceed to tell me what to think and how to vote. There is never a persuasion of logic or education: it is closer to a command-lecture where one is expected to listen and obey, and no thought or consideration in the audience is necessary, desirable, or likely to lead to a useful result. He's like an Army general issuing marching orders and not someone trying to persuade a peer.

The problem is that M&M hasn't demonstrated that he in fact has any better grasp of the facts or logic than the average housewife. People don't believe he's so smart just because he says so, and there simply isn't any reason given to intuitively believe he's any more of an expert on politics than, say, Andrea Dworkin is on gender relations.

(people like to watch movies and ogle hot starlets but have a far lower opinion of Hollywood types than Hollywood realizes; few really believe that Hollywood types are actually capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time)

M&M does have some points but tends to make them poorly. In particular he presents a remarkably tilted set of facts, treading on the border between fraudulently false and extremely selective presentation of facts. This may be a good approach at politically liberal cocktail parties, but when a neutral undecided looks at his presentation and sees such an obviously partisan selection and interpretation of facts his credibility falls to the level of any politician in a staged debate: zero.
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