# Michael Moore is a Dishonest Hack

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-is-a-dishonest-hack/541915>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 4, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-is-a-dishonest-hack/541915 "2010-06-04T13:18:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-is-a-dishonest-hack/541915/241 "2010-06-22T14:00:46Z")

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> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> Glad to hear that. Now, in the absence of any evidence that I was one of those people, could you kindly stop behaving as if I was, and get the fuck over yourself and your silly pedantic games? Good.

In that case, maybe next time you try to make a “joke” you leave out the parts (such as “but still not uncommon”) that could easily make someone believe you were backhandedly throwing in a uncited “it’s funny because guns kill a lot of people, amirite?”.

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-is-a-dishonest-hack/541915/242 "2010-06-22T16:45:40Z")

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Nah, it’s funny because you’re a complete dork.

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**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-is-a-dishonest-hack/541915/243 "2010-06-22T18:00:08Z")

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> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> Nah, it’s funny because you’re a complete dork.

I’ve copped to worse. =P

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**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-is-a-dishonest-hack/541915/244 "2010-06-27T02:22:18Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> I agree.
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> But I’m willing to bet you won’t get anywhere near the number of posts and the level of vitriol in this thread against Moore than we got against O’Keefe.

Remind me again of how lying, breaking and entering, and attempting to commit actual crimes equal editing and exaggerating and using extreme sarcasm?

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-is-a-dishonest-hack/541915/245 "2010-07-05T23:20:15Z")

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From today’s Democracy Now!: [Lengthy Michael Moore interview.](http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/5/michael_moore_on_his_life_his) (transcript)

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