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Steyn has a piece on WC at OpinionJournal, and of course I want to use it to talk about Michael Moore.The day after that, he's in ethics class helping out his new buddy, King Faisal's nephew Prince Turki, later the deeply sinister longtime head of Saudi Arabia's intelligence service and now ambassador in London. This is ethics class in Georgetown, I believe, not at Miss Marie Purkins's School for Little Folks. But even so, where's Michael Moore when you need a documentary exposé of the murky decades-old ties between the House of Saud and the House of Bill?I was thinking the other day that complaining about Moore's violent allergies to the truth are all well and good, but concede too much. While his films seem to become increasingly inaccurate — as though he's fascinated to see what he can get away with — their greater offense to The Truth is still less in the small-scale inaccuracies than the presentation of partial truths completely out of context. His six-degrees of Osama bin Laden may well be factually accurate — I don't frankly know — but I still can't concede the implication that it means more than that he's decent at data mining. |
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