# Michael Moore = Liar. Why?

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**Created:** [June 14, 2004, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-liar-why/250240 "2004-06-14T04:15:50Z")\
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_Bowling For Columbine_: there is no bank that gives you a free gun for starting an account there. That sequence was faked. True, it was faked to make a point, but it was faked.

Faked footage has no place in a documentary. By doing this, Michael Moore puts himself pretty much in the same camp with Rush Limbaugh: people who claim they’re “informing America,” but when caught with their facts down, back away, claiming, “I’m an entertainer, not a reporter.”

And that’s just one example.

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