10 Documentaries That Were Full Of Blatant Lies

3. Fahrenheit 9/11 - Michael Moore

Fahrenheit 9/11; the temperature€™s rising, but so is the falseometer I used to love Michael Moore. Roger & Me was an excellent documentary about life in his hometown of Michigan. Moore was a popular dreamer, interesting and interested, a nice-guy kind of geek trying to right some of the world€™s wrongs. But his messianic approach soon wore thin and seemingly brought him to a place where he began inventing information to support his case. Fahrenheit 9/11 is just such a feature-length case. Amongst the many accusations and complaints against the film, the central ones levelled are that of political quotations taken out of context, alleged links between the U.S and Saudi Arabia greatly embellished, that the suggestion Bin Laden family enjoyed a close business relationship with the Bush family is lazily put together, and, most heatedly, that The Bush administration deliberately sent far too few troops to Afghanistan an absolute outrage. But it was Moore€™s incessant conspiracy theorizing which contained the most blatant lies and angered people the most. So convinced was Moore that the U.S was absolutely complicit in the War on Terror and the extent to which they could have staved off 9/11,he claimed that the Afghanistan War was fought so that the oil company Unocal could get infrastructure contracts in the country, building itself a pipeline through Afghanistan . In fact, the company had itself decided against the pipeline 3 years before those planes went through the Twin Towers, leaving Moore€™s accusation as nothing less than desperate. Moore even suggests Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, was in on the Unocal act too, acting as a €˜consultant€™ for the company, and an integral go-between to make sure the pipeline got built. Rather than a clever polemic about the dangers of the U.S far right, Fahrenheit 9/11 mostly served as a terrible ambassador for the loony far left, and Moore nothing short of a man who has lost the cohesion of his thoughts. Maybe George Bush was right when he called Moore a €˜slimeball€™. This kind of frivolous fanciful filming should never have been released