LETTER: Moore didn’t lie, checked his facts

Editor,

I am writing this letter in response to a letter that appeared in Monday’s paper. Scott Dewey proclaimed repeatedly that Michael Moore was a liar, while at the same time positioning a few strategic lies of his own. It looks like the mini-Republican attack machine is in full force here at USU. With hateful (yet hilarious) opinion columns by Jared Westbroek, and letters such as Dewey’s, they are trying to use the usual bullying to get people to conform to their will.

While Dick Cheney was out booming and glooming about how terrorists are going to attack if we all don’t vote the “right way,” a few certain people were tearing down a sign that the College Democrats put up as a joke about the Republican’s own hypocrisy! Is this kind of behavior acceptable? Or is freedom of speech only applicable to certain groups, but not others? Does public discourse have no place here? So, tell me, what is so scary about Michael Moore?

Moore has never said that his documentaries are artistic interpretations, but held that they are documentaries. And Mr. Moore has never said that he lied about anything in his film. He has not wavered from the fact that not a single thing in his movie can be refuted. It wasn’t just Moore making this movie – he had teams of people checking his facts. According to his Web site, he is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can prove that anything in his film is a lie. So, I ask the writer of the letter, where is your $10,000?

But, we college students are intelligent enough to bypass such tactics, and see the movie and judge it for ourselves. We have been given an opportunity to see it here on our campus, as the College Democrats are playing it on Thursday, Oct. 28 in the TSC Auditorium at 4:45 p.m. and again at 8:15 p.m. They have already started tearing down the signs that advertise it, but I won’t let bullying sway me from seeing it!

Sara Lundberg