To anyone claiming Michael "doesn't show context"...

You can't fill 2+ hours of movie without "context".

that O'Keefe gets real time with a real roommate, kind of like "Toothless Man" from "Deliverance."

You remember the conversation:
Mountain Man: What do you want to do now?
Toothless Man: [grinning] He got a real pretty mouth ain't he?
Mountain Man: That's the truth
Toothless Man: [to Ed] You gonna do some prayin' for me, boy. And you better pray good.

Hey, he is just another compassionate conservative, you know like W and the GOP.

If you make less then 250 thousand a year you are not a real American.
Not like them.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!

and start trying to itemize people and things James O'keefe is not where will it end? I'll tell you. It'll end with with the exhaustion of all available bandwidth. It is probably better to start with what he is. I'd say a spoiled and petulant little frat boy with delusions of competence. That's probably inherited. The turd doesn't fall far from the anus.

hate poor people?

Don't the southern NASCAR poor people realize they're supporting the party of hate?

Oopsies! Wrong question. The southern NASCAR poor people are themselves haters.

Three of the four (O'keefe, Basel and Dai) were in fact College Republicans - snotty frat boys.

Pooter had a bad week. First he's getting sued for his Acorn Follies tape and now this. I can just picture the little clown car pulling up outside government offices and Pooter and his clowns get out dressed up in their "Phone Repair Clown" outfits and begin their wacky madcap adventure. A few moments later as they are surrounded by the big bad coppers, Pooter honks on his bulb horn to signify that he's sad and won't say a word until his "Clown Lawyer" arrives. Pooter is a sad clown. Awww poor Pooter and his sad "Phone Repair Clowns". Honk once if you want to be the wife or twice if you want to be the husband. Life will be different for Pooter in "Clown Prison". Awww poor Pooter.

so he's a scumbag republican operative... but we already knew that.

How is it possible that the Repuke base cannot see that the Repuke elite has nothing but disdain for them and their ilk. Yes, being morans might explain it but Gawd almighty even morans must surley see what is so blatantly true one of these days.

"OVERREACHIN' DON'T PAY."

It finally happens to them all. They go too far. All you gotta do is wait.

So the little journalist that could manages to find acorn acting the fool. In seconds the legislature breathlessly moves to cut funding for community organizers.

Now those folks say we need to let all the facts come in. I suppose we'll let "history judge him" and wait till his crimes fall down the memory hole.

Don't cry for him. Ollie North played ball and now has a full time gig with those guys.

/shorter
he'll be back.

while I love Michael Moore and his films, I wish he'd been a little more concerned with context. For example, that great clip of Bush at an expensive dinner saying that the "haves and have mores" were "his base" was a real eye-opener. Within the context of the movie, Bush came off looking like a smug, rich bastard who cared only about the elites. I was angered and wondered why we'd never seen this before! But the impact was lost later when we found out that it was the Al Smith dinner, at which the candidates traditionally make jokes and poke fun at themselves.

There's plenty of material to make the case against right-wing policies, motives and candidates without slick editing and contextual sleight of hand. It damages the message when those tricks are used.

How many media outlets ran O'Keefe's version of the ACORN made-up scandal? All it takes for evil imps like Karl Rove and James O'Keefe to succeed is for editors and real journalists to refuse to do their jobs.

Thus, the Daily Show. Thus, the blogosphere.

As long as our news comes through corporate conglomerates, it will always be thus.