Don’t let the title put you off. This isn’t some jingoistic, Republican response to Moore’s evidently successful Farenheit 911.  In fact documentary maker Michael Wilson, dedicates a great deal of time to justifying the movie’s somewhat harsh title and how similar his upbringing was to Moore’s.

Interviewed are people from Moore’s real home town in Michigan (not Flint) and several renouned documentary makers. So to are the bank clerks from the beginning of Bowling For Columbine that handed our Mick the shotgun over the counter. Because this is where Moore shows his contempt for his fans, by liberally editing and manipulating the truth to the point he could be an intern on Fox News. You’ll be quite surprised to see what the bank clerks have to say about Moore’s ruse to get his scene.

Those of you looking for a pro gun, doco-made-from-the-back-of-a pickup will be disapointed. So too those who are far too sensitive to Moore’s plight to overcome dumb, middle America. Because this doco shows a more liberal, beligerant side to the US that Moore belittles as the rubble left behind by corporate America. No doubt the US is trouble, but several people, including a maimed Iraq war vet. are furious with the way Moore has manipulated the interview footage.

Moore himself hasn’t done himself any favours by telling the doco maker, for all intents, to fuck off at question time at one of his university tours. So much so that many attendees actually came up to the documentary maker, to comment that whilst they agreed with Moore, they thought accosting him was uncalled for. Furthermore for refusing to be interview, as so many of his own subjects had in Roger and Me especially.

Whilst Moore himself may not hate America per se, he’s certainly profiting from corporate channels through criticising it.  Allegedly he now lives in New York far, far away from the Flint he so allegedly loves. This film certainly illustrates he’s not catching the bus.

Effectively those who criticise this doco may say it’s a dissection of Moore’s crock pot edit techniques to polarize people into action. I used to agree with his principals despite his actions. However this doco was in making me realise that truth should never be manipulated or compromised. Ultimately it only weakens your case and strengthens your detractors.

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