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By Lileks:

"This from a man who waddles up to the deep well of American freedom, fumbles with his zipper, and ****es in it."

http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/04/0704/070804.html

he's a liar...


But, in high school, things changed. Nine boys from my school came back home from Vietnam in boxes. Draped over each coffin was the American flag. I knew that they also had made a sacrifice. But their sacrifice wasn't for their country: They were sent to die by men who lied to them.

For some reason that intrigued me: nine boys from my school. So I googled around, and found the Casualty list for the Vietnam War. There were six casualties from Davison, Michigan. (He didn’t go to high school in Flint. He didn’t live in Flint. You knew that, right? He lived in a suburb.) They weren’t boys. They were men. The earliest was killed in 1967, and there were two casualties in that year. Two in 1969, one in 1968, and one in 1970. Moore was born in 1954, so he would have entered high school in 1969, after which there were four casualties. (One of which died of a heart attack.) Two were drafted, incidentally. The rest – if I’m reading the site correctly – appeared to have enlisted.

That's the worst written article I've ever read-nearly read-on this forum. I read tons of the linked articles on this forum as most of them are by writers that are new to me and published by online magazines I haven't read before. I may disagree with some but most are nevertheless well written and thought out.

That one has to be the exception.

you must be an excellent critic

From the home page of the above link:


Welcome
to the Institute - where old pop culture is subjected to our patented Re-Ironization Process, and converted into chipper, spiffy, feather-light postmodern commentary on commercial culture. Or, to put it another way: there’s enough here to kill two, maybe three lunch hours.

Don't kid yourself pal.

Perhaps you will find this one better written:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0704/lileks.html

Nope.

You are a tough critic. What is it, did he split an infinitive? Or do you just not like what he says.

Apparently Moore is a congenital liar. He can't even keep from it when it doesn't matter.

Moore said the following after the Washington premiere of his cinematic turdletting,

"He (Senator Daschle) gave me a hug (after the showing) and said he felt bad and that we were all gonna fight from now on. I thanked him for being a good sport."

Senator Daschle however, has a different story to tell.....

""I know we senators all tend to look alike. But I arrived late, and I had to leave early for Senate votes. I didn't meet Mr. Moore," Daschle said." In fact, Daschle went on to say he had *never* met Michael Moore.

I thought the first one was wonderfully written.

Why can they dish it out (with moore) but not take it?

It's not the content of what he's saying that I object to.

I've been reading that first paragraph again and trying to work out why I really can't stand his writing. It's the way he constructs a sentence. He appears too lost in his own emotions to communicate with any real clarity for me. Too many clashing colours. My nan would have said that he sounds like a Sergeant Major who has swallowed a dictionary.

Which reminds me of someone from your side of the water whose writing I love............William Goldman.
Anyone out there read Adventures in the Screen Trade or Which Lie Did I Tell? I love his style of writing. It's like he's in the room with you. So direct. So not up his own arse.
I'm sure there's plenty of you out there that will disagree...........