Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Read October
Wow it's October already, and the weather here in Sydney is pretty damn terrific, not too hot, nice breeze, sun is shining everyone is smiling, chilled out, no one is rushing anywhere....God I love this place.
So since I last wrote I have been all the way up to Queensland to catch up with Renaye, we spent a day at the Gold Coast, did Sea World, although I didn't swim with the sharks, I did wave at them (a sort of ha hah you can't eat me from behind the glass sort of wave).
Also went to an Airshow, had another ride in a helicopter, saw lots of planes etc, caught the sun…again.
Oh Yeah! FHM magazine unexpectedly printed a letter I wrote to them as a result of a really dodgy bit of propaganda about Michael Moore they ran with in the last edition. Basically they filled a page with a report entitled 10 lies by Michael Moore – and basically they only got to number three before they had to resort to pointing out minor errors in ‘Bowling for Columbine’, I think therefore implying that there were very few errors in ‘Farenheight 9/11’.
All in all it was a pretty weak bit of journalism, so I wrote to them detailing why each one was pretty pathetic, and suggested they went and saw the film with whoever had told them to publish that crap. They cut my letter up to make me sound like a jerk, but more insultingly they made the claim that I was misguided because I had agreed with them but was angry at them for daring to question Michael Moore! ……………………Hmmm!
I was angry at them for making a shit magazine, it’s not a patch on Loaded or Ralph or even FHM in the UK, it’s neither funny, informative, irreverent or clever – and if all I wanted were pictures of pretty girls, I would probably buy a porn mag.
Now I feel better.
Oh Yeah - Here is a copy of my letter in full - Get it up yer FHM! (If someone wants to scan in the original FHM article and send it to me I will also publish it here, I threw mine in the bin.)
Dear Sir,
Publish this if you dare.
I read with interest your damming indictment of Michael Moore on Page 19 of your September Edition and have the following points to make.
In it you state that Bowling for Columbine is Commie Pinko Propaganda? Can you explain to me why you feel it is Communist and as for propaganda, take a look at your own article.
Weather Lockheed Martin Makes Military Missiles at that plant or another, is academic to the point Moore is making – I notice you choose your words carefully (L-M doesn’t make military missiles at that plant) – Also what is the source of you information on this fact, Lockheed-Martins own Publicity department?
The NRA is a pro gun organisation, their presence in Flint 8 months after a six year old child is killed is wrong.
So they don’t actually give you a gun in the bank, big deal, his question was clearly meant as a joke….…Hang on weren’t you trying to debunk Fahrenheit 911 – why are you nit picking Columbine?
Your argument on the B-52 Plaque is confusing, you state that it is a lie about Vietnam and depict this with a pair of pants on fire, but then go on to explain that it is actually true, what you are arguing over here is pure semantics, and if I may say, given the amount of information the film puts across, you are scraping the barrel here.
You argue that Moore’s Statistics on gun deaths are misleading, you then go on to suggest complex statistical equations and the discounting of self defence and police shootings in order to make the statistics less misleading – er….you make my point for me.
So Moore sends his kids to private schools, and lives in a Multi Million Dollar Manhattan Apartment – Weren’t you arguing that he was a Pinko Commie at the top of the article? He is one of the most successful filmmakers of our time , and he advocates the downloading of his movie for people who are unable to afford to go and see it!
Maby you should go and see the film yourself, take along whoever forced you to print this propaganda or look here for evidence of the truths in the film.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/warroom/f911notes/index.php?id=16
It makes much better reading than anything in your magazine.
Do I win some beer?
Thought not.
Eric Pinkerton
¶ 1:54 pm
So since I last wrote I have been all the way up to Queensland to catch up with Renaye, we spent a day at the Gold Coast, did Sea World, although I didn't swim with the sharks, I did wave at them (a sort of ha hah you can't eat me from behind the glass sort of wave).
Also went to an Airshow, had another ride in a helicopter, saw lots of planes etc, caught the sun…again.
Oh Yeah! FHM magazine unexpectedly printed a letter I wrote to them as a result of a really dodgy bit of propaganda about Michael Moore they ran with in the last edition. Basically they filled a page with a report entitled 10 lies by Michael Moore – and basically they only got to number three before they had to resort to pointing out minor errors in ‘Bowling for Columbine’, I think therefore implying that there were very few errors in ‘Farenheight 9/11’.
All in all it was a pretty weak bit of journalism, so I wrote to them detailing why each one was pretty pathetic, and suggested they went and saw the film with whoever had told them to publish that crap. They cut my letter up to make me sound like a jerk, but more insultingly they made the claim that I was misguided because I had agreed with them but was angry at them for daring to question Michael Moore! ……………………Hmmm!
I was angry at them for making a shit magazine, it’s not a patch on Loaded or Ralph or even FHM in the UK, it’s neither funny, informative, irreverent or clever – and if all I wanted were pictures of pretty girls, I would probably buy a porn mag.
Now I feel better.
Oh Yeah - Here is a copy of my letter in full - Get it up yer FHM! (If someone wants to scan in the original FHM article and send it to me I will also publish it here, I threw mine in the bin.)
Dear Sir,
Publish this if you dare.
I read with interest your damming indictment of Michael Moore on Page 19 of your September Edition and have the following points to make.
In it you state that Bowling for Columbine is Commie Pinko Propaganda? Can you explain to me why you feel it is Communist and as for propaganda, take a look at your own article.
Weather Lockheed Martin Makes Military Missiles at that plant or another, is academic to the point Moore is making – I notice you choose your words carefully (L-M doesn’t make military missiles at that plant) – Also what is the source of you information on this fact, Lockheed-Martins own Publicity department?
The NRA is a pro gun organisation, their presence in Flint 8 months after a six year old child is killed is wrong.
So they don’t actually give you a gun in the bank, big deal, his question was clearly meant as a joke….…Hang on weren’t you trying to debunk Fahrenheit 911 – why are you nit picking Columbine?
Your argument on the B-52 Plaque is confusing, you state that it is a lie about Vietnam and depict this with a pair of pants on fire, but then go on to explain that it is actually true, what you are arguing over here is pure semantics, and if I may say, given the amount of information the film puts across, you are scraping the barrel here.
You argue that Moore’s Statistics on gun deaths are misleading, you then go on to suggest complex statistical equations and the discounting of self defence and police shootings in order to make the statistics less misleading – er….you make my point for me.
So Moore sends his kids to private schools, and lives in a Multi Million Dollar Manhattan Apartment – Weren’t you arguing that he was a Pinko Commie at the top of the article? He is one of the most successful filmmakers of our time , and he advocates the downloading of his movie for people who are unable to afford to go and see it!
Maby you should go and see the film yourself, take along whoever forced you to print this propaganda or look here for evidence of the truths in the film.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/warroom/f911notes/index.php?id=16
It makes much better reading than anything in your magazine.
Do I win some beer?
Thought not.
Eric Pinkerton
¶ 1:54 pm
