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Moore's reasonable defenders have made two main points:

First, notwithstanding the specific falsehoods, isn't the film as a whole
filled with many important truths?

Not really. We can divide the film into three major parts. The first part
(Bush, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan) is so permeated with lies that most of
the scenes amount to lies. The second, shorter part involves domestic
issues and the USA PATRIOT Act. So far, I've identified only one clear
falsehood in this segment (Rep. Porter Goss's toll-free number). So this
part, at least arguably, presents useful information. The third part, on
Iraq has several outright falsehoods--such as the Saddam regime's murder
of Americans, and the regime's connection with al Qaeda. Other scenes in
the third part--such as Iraqi casualties, interviews with American
soldiers, and the material on bereaved mother Lila Lipscomb--are not
blatant lies; but the information presented is so extremely one-sided
(the only Iraqi casualties are innocents, nobody in Iraq is grateful for
liberation, all the American soldiers are disillusioned, except for the
sadists) that the overall picture of the Iraq War is false...

In this report, I number Moore's deceits. Some of them are outright
lies; some are omissions which create a false impression. Others involve
different forms of deception. A few are false statements Moore has made
when defending the film. Judge for yourself the credibility of Michael
Moore's promise, "Every single fact I state in 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is the
absolute and irrefutable truth...Do not let anyone say this or that
isn't true. If they say that, they are lying."

Do the many falsehoods and misrepresentations of Fahrenheit 9/11
suggest a film producer who just makes careless mistakes? Or does a man
who calls Americans: "possibly the dumbest people on the planet" believe
that his audience will be too dumb to tell when he is tricking them?
Viewers will have to decide for themselves whether the extremist and
extremely deceptive Fahrenheit 9/11 is a conscientious work of patriotic
dissent, or the cynical propaganda of a man who gives wartime aid to
America's murderous enemies, and who accepts their aid in return.

I say:

Those who have followed Michael Moore know that he's a colossal liar,
and has been for a long time. Those that don't know him that well need
to be warned.

(Those who worship him, of course, don't give a damn about truth. But
the rest should know.)

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You can take the needle in a haystack. Grasping for straws is your bag, not mine. And we all know now it was Joe Wilson who lied, not George Bush.

Which makes you a liar, too.