Moore fabrications

Barb Nicolosi has an interesting post rounding up some reporting on Michael Moore’s documentary work, now that “Sicko” is coming out.

This post started out as me following up on the challenge by a commenter to post the news that Michael Moore is denying charges in the upcoming documentary about him which asserts that he fabricated all the essential details in his first film “Roger and Me.”

So, I started looking for the news story of Moore’s denial to link to. But on the way I found this:

“A veteran who lost both arms in the war in Iraq is suing filmmaker Michael Moore for $85 million US, saying Moore misrepresented him in the film Fahrenheit 9/11.

Sgt. Peter Damon, a National Guardsman from Middleborough, Mass., says Moore twisted excerpts from an interview he gave to NBC’s Nightly News to portray him as anti-war.

Former National Guard Sgt. Peter Damon says filmmaker Michael Moore’s portrayal of him as anti-war has caused “loss of reputation” and “personal humiliation.”

…and on it goes.

Anyway, here’s a recap of the original Moore post about the two Toronto documentarians who started out to make a valentine to their idol, Michael Moore. But then…

“It was a slow reveal, really,” Melnyk says. “We go into things and start to research them as we go along and start to do interviews with people, and we started to realize: ‘Oh my God, there are some cheats in these films.’ Obviously, the biggest one being that Michael actually did talk to Roger Smith twice during the making of ‘Roger and Me.’

“That one really, really bothered me. Because, OK, if you’re willing to lie about the entire premise of the film, then what is sacrosanct? There must have been other smaller cheats along the way. So that was a shocker.”

“If you’re willing to lie about the entire premise of the film, then what is sacrosanct?” Nothing. Precisely. Except…maybe…shock value.