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Radical lefty documentary filmmakers expose the corruption of ... Michael Moore?

Fascinating article. They started out to make an homage to their hero, the man who popularized documentary filmmaking. And then they found out Moore was lying and manipulating to produce the conclusions he had foreordained. "If we think it's wrong for the government to lie and manipulate, how do we think that [left-wingers] doing it is the solution?"

They finally concluded: "When we started this project we hoped to have done a documentary that celebrated Michael Moore. We were admirers and fans," said Debbie Melnyk, who made the film with her husband, Rick Caine. "Then we found out certain facts about his documentaries that we hadn't known before. We ended up very disappointed and disillusioned."

When Caine and Melnyk began to follow him as part of their own documentary, their efforts to interview him met with the same kind of obstruction, denial and, ultimately, physical ejection that Moore had suffered when he tried to track down Roger Smith, the former chief executive of General Motors, for his first film, Roger & Me.

Strangest of all, it turned out that while Moore practiced dodging in the Roger Smith manner, the real Roger Smith did not! He actually granted Moore not one but two interviews which, of course, were not included or mentioned in Moore's film because their existence (and maybe their content) contradicted the predetermined storyline!