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News > NPR's Scott Simon on Michael Moore

If you want more proof that the liberal news establishment isn't capable of telling the truth, here it is. Scott Simon, host of NPR's "Weekend Edition Saturday" criticizes Michael Moore, saying "Trying to track the unproven innuendoes and conspiracies in a Michael Moore film or book is as futile as trying to count the flatulence jokes in one by Adam Sandler."

Simon's venue for airing his thoughts? Not NPR. He had to go to the conservative Wall Street Journal to get his piece published.

Simon points out something about the movie that bugged Melissa when she saw it (I didn't go): "Mr. Moore tries hard to identify himself with U.S. troops and their concerns. But he spends an awful lot of effort depicting them as dupes and brutes. At one point in "Fahrenheit 9/11," someone off-camera prods a U.S. soldier into singing a favorite hip-hop song with profane lyrics. Mr. Moore then runs the soldier's voice over combat footage, to make it seem as if the soldier were insensitively singing along with the destruction."

In a similar vein is this pre-Fahrenheit 911 article on Michael Moore from the Democractic Leadership Council. Via InstaPundit.

Is Michael Moore a courageous political documentarist who unmasks the chicanery all around us -- or just a charlatan in a clown suit? Is he an entertainment genius or a dangerous ideologue? The answer, of course, is all of the above. The problem is that you never know which of the four is doing the talking in Moore's movies and books. The end result is that the writer-filmmaker spreads a fog of misbegotten notions about America, politics, business, and international affairs among his youthful, left-leaning following at home and, indeed, around the world. Uninformed readers and viewers tend to believe everything he says.