What's "out of context" about a dead Iraqi baby with his arms blown off?

[NightTrain]

That was my question to a co-worker about an hour ago.

He told me, "I have a book about Michael Moore that you should read."

"What book?"

"It's called MICHAEL MOORE IS A BIG FAT STUPID WHITE MAN."

"Oh, please," I said. "I'm familiar with the guy who wrote that book. He's just another flag-waving wingnut."

My co-worker looked shocked. "What are you talking about? Michael Moore is the wingnut."

"No; Michael Moore is a patriot who cares about the American people, not just that segment of them with trust funds and summer homes on Martha's Vineyard."

"Well, you can't call his film documentaries."

"Why not?" I asked. "FAHRENHEIT 9/11 was 90% news footage."

"But he showed it out of context!"

"Out of context?! What's 'out of context' about a dead Iraqi baby with his arms blown off? What context would make that child's death and mutilation acceptable to you?"

Rather than answer my question, he walked out of the room.

I'll be so fucking glad when this election is over! :grr::nuke:

[wtmusic]

1. If only the election would make him go away

or open his mind...

[NightTrain]

3. Ironically, my co-worker thought he was trying to open *my* mind!

:eyes:

[xray s]

2. I am sick of this election too

the anti abortion crowd has been hitting it hard in my area. Leaflets, pictures etc.

i ask them, "If you are against the killing of innocent lfe, how can you support a man who started a war based on lies that has killed 100,000 innocent civilians?"

[sisenor]

4. That's cause your co-worker probably never saw F-9/11

Like most people who criticize it.

[wtmusic]

6. amen

*everyone* I have heard criticize the film has not seen it.

Everyone.

[NightTrain]

5. The three stock replies when right-wingers are caught lying:

1. I misspoke.

2. I was quoted out of context.

3. It's all Bill Clinton's fault!

[glitch]

7. Do you think you woke him up? It sounds like you gave him the

reality slap he needed, very well done, I'd like to think it worked.

[NightTrain]

9. If he was thinking of voting for Bush, I doubt that I changed his mind.

But I tend to be pessimistic about making Kool-Aid drinkers see the light.

[DuctapeFatwa]

8. Because it ignores the premise that the baby was US property, to

dispose of it in whatever way would generate the greatest revenues for US business interests.

This is the basis of US foreign policy, and illustrations of its successful implementation, while they do reassure taxpayers that their money is being spent as they wish, have the potential to incite sympathy with terrorist causes, such as the idea that the baby's life was more important than Raytheon's third quarter.

[bread_and_roses]

12. You NAILED it, yes yes yes

And unless and untill the citizens of this country wake up and realize that THAT'S why we are loathed around the world, we'll be "fighting the war on terra" till doomsday.

[Career Prole]

10. All of us will be glad...I think.

Might be a bit of postpartum depression after we deliver this baby!
Nice spankin' you gave the co-worker, by the way! :toast:

[Zorra]

11. Freeper heads always explode when they are presented with logic.

Always.

Example: 2+2=4

Works every time.