LETTER: Moore not a good authority

Editor,

Their seems to be this misconception that the First Amendment demands that we must listen to and embrace the ideas of complete idiots. All people have the right to speak, we also have the right to argue and protest those we do not agree with. I went to UVSC to protest Michael Moore and I was able to get in and listen to all he had to say.

It is ridiculous that people elevate Micheal Moore as someone with the authority to give people “the other side.” Why do we give him such validity? Do people realize that he never proclaimed that his “documentaries” were based on truth, but were his own artistic interpretation of what happened. What does this tell us people, he is NOT telling us the truth. Yet liberals eat this stuff up like it’s doctrine. So-called First Amendment supporters give him such validity because he speaks the other side, and Utah needs that. Is the Left so desperate for some kind of foundation that they will turn an artistic interpretation into truth?

Nobody seems to be reporting that Micheal Moore ranted and raved about white males being obsolete in the future. That their time is up and society only needs them for sperm donation, and that white men are going to “get what they deserve.” Micheal Moore hates the traditional family, and good ole UVSC paid money to hear that “other side.”

Good for you for being so open-minded that you will not stand up for right and wrong but value the liar just because he, too, must speak. Good for UVSC for giving Moore so much validity, as if he were some kind of authority. If there goal was to “hear the other side,” why didn’t they get an authority on the subject, someone who is actually in politics and proclaims to express facts? Instead they spent $40,000 on someone who admits to lying because he’s protected under the idea of artistic interpretation. 

Scott Dewey