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Mike Moore Photos

Sorry I should have pointed it out in my post but no, I wasn’t referring to all of you.
 
Photo number 4 is potentially libelous, and the JREF could be held responsible for hosting it.
 
Look, I don’t care if this humor is falsely accusing him.
Its just humor I consider his humor far more tasteless as these photo’s.
So therefore, I don’t give a dam sorry to interrupt all of this whining for this poor helpless victim.
 
I don't care about Michael Moore. I care about the JREF possibly being held responsible for allowing a libelous image to be posted. The pictures are stupid, like all such pictures. Any talentless idiot can get a cheap laugh that way.
 
Baker said:
Look, I don’t care if this humor is falsely accusing him.
Its just humor I consider his humor far more tasteless as these photo’s.
So therefore, I don’t give a dam sorry to interrupt all of this whining for this poor helpless victim.
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So it's alright to falsely accuse someone of views they don't hold and acts they didn't commit, as long as it's somebody you don't care for? Or is it OK to do that to anyone at all? I think you'll find either position rather difficult to defend.

As for the photos, I'm not defending Michael Moore as much as I'm trying to figure out what's so darn funny about the pictures. The best I can figure is that people who find them humorous seem to be laughing because the pictures ridicule Michael Moore, and they don't like Michael Moore. To me, it's like screaming, "Hitler-lover!" at someone who you don't like, even though you're well aware they don't love Hitler. There's no reason to find it funny. Unless I'm missing something.

Mike


Edited to add full disclosure...I happen to believe some of Michael Moore's humor is truly inspired, like the time he staged a tourist "invasion" of a public beach that the residents of an ocean-front town were trying to prevent non-residents from using. Perhaps some of it is tasteless, but there's almost always a legitimate point being made.
 
mfeldman said:



So it's alright to falsely accuse someone of views they don't hold and acts they didn't commit, as long as it's somebody you don't care for? Or is it OK to do that to anyone at all? I think you'll find either position rather difficult to defend.
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Maybe you missed Richard’s thread on how Michael Moore deliberately misrepresented some actual events to support his agenda.

http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16944
Falsely accusing someone is right up his ally.


As for the photos, I'm not defending Michael Moore as much as I'm trying to figure out what's so darn funny about the pictures. The best I can figure is that people who find them humorous seem to be laughing because the pictures ridicule Michael Moore, and they don't like Michael Moore. To me, it's like screaming, "Hitler-lover!" at someone who you don't like, even though you're well aware they don't love Hitler. There's no reason to find it funny. Unless I'm missing something.
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Yes they ridicule him as he has done many times to those who doesn’t fit his view’s are support his agenda.
 
pyrrho2000 said:
I don't care about Michael Moore. I care about the JREF possibly being held responsible for allowing a libelous image to be posted. The pictures are stupid, like all such pictures. Any talentless idiot can get a cheap laugh that way.
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your nuts.
 
I don't think people are nuts for having concerns regarding the possibility of libel, or a libel suit. The pictures are good for a quick giggle at best, but that's about it. I get this sort of thing from my creepy brother-in-law, who thinks this sort of thing is funny as hell. (He also gets a kick out of calling my wife and kids childish names, like calling my wife, Peggy, "Piggy...") I agree: Moore is is a clod, and a propagandist; he's hamfisted and crude, with little to offer an intelligent debate.

But, having said that, there's the real potential for trouble. Sorry, guys: gotta call it as I see it. Moore is still a private citizen (even if he is a celeb), unlike Bush, who's a public official. There's a serious question about fair comment. I'm not sure what the libel laws are like regarding the Internet, but my suspicion is that it's not very different at all. And you ought to consider what a guy like Moore would do if he saw the photoshop work. He takes himself extremely seriously; I'd bet he'd be on the phone to a lawyer inside of ten minutes.

Just a thought, all. I could be completely wrong, so take it in that spirit.
 
Baker said:


Maybe you missed Richard’s thread on how Michael Moore deliberately misrepresented some actual events to support his agenda.

http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16944
Falsely accusing someone is right up his ally.

Yes they ridicule him as he has done many times to those who doesn’t fit his view’s are support his agenda.
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Didn't your parents ever teach you that two wrongs don't make a right?


Mike
 
Of course not. Hitler was elected, and Moore is still stuck on the two-year old non-issue of election problems that are so completely moot he couldn't even market a muckraking film about them anymore.
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What does this have to do with anything? Have you even seen Bowling for Columbine? Did you know that I think very little of the flim, and see it as nothing more than a biased piece of garbage? Perhaps you like to screech at people without learning the facts?

Ah, the facts at last! Thank you! It seems you and Moore both got hold of the same odd definition of "facts"...
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You don't combat biased garbage with more biased garbage.

Also, will you please point out the facts that I have listed? Is my opinion of Bush now held as a fact?

I thought they were funny.
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Good for you. I haven't said whether I thought whether they were funny or not.

Wanna post a poll over "what is humor," or just accept that your opinion is NOT one of your "facts"?
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What on earth does this mean?

Besides, I'll bet you couldn't pull off even this "hamfisted" photoshop stunt.
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Do you have any idea how easy it is to cut and paste images into other images? These are hamfisted. They are blunt and easy.
 
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