Comments on: Oscar Alert 2008 http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/ The blog of the mystery writer, screenwriter and CEO of Pajamas Media Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:22:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Barrett http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85630 Barrett Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:48:38 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85630 KarenT asks "Why isn't some of Gore's carbon offset money going to his most fervent, real-time carbon reducing disciples, rather than to a fund which is reportedly tax-exempt and doesn't even have to report its investments, much less verify how carbon credits are calculated? Could any Republican get away with something like this?" Answer. 1) Why get involved in the facts? The facts just confuse the situation. Al Gore and his ilk largely deal in emotion (manipulated at that) and refuse to answer when challenged by the facts by calling you intellectually inferior. 2) No Republican could get away with this. dclydew writes "When do you think that people will realize "Documentary" = Entertainment not Fact." I still believe that a documentary should explore both sides of an issue and let the viewers make their minds. Otherwise, it is just propoganda. The purpose of this new film seems to be to counter the onesidedness of An Incovenient Truth by supplying some inconvenient facts. Is it really a documentary? Probably not. (As an aside, the real value of An Inconvenient Truth is that it is the first Powerpoint presentation to win an Oscar!) However, if it get people to stop drinking the Kool-Aid and moves the discourse back to a discussion of the facts, then it may serve a useful purpose. It's just disappointing that so few are intellectually honest anymore. I was taught that "learning" could lead one to change one's views - especially if one pursued the facts and was looking foe the "truth". Changing one's mind was never looked at as a weakness in my home. Refusing to assess the facts was. KarenT asks “Why isn’t some of Gore’s carbon offset money going to his most fervent, real-time carbon reducing disciples, rather than to a fund which is reportedly tax-exempt and doesn’t even have to report its investments, much less verify how carbon credits are calculated? Could any Republican get away with something like this?”

Answer. 1) Why get involved in the facts? The facts just confuse the situation. Al Gore and his ilk largely deal in emotion (manipulated at that) and refuse to answer when challenged by the facts by calling you intellectually inferior. 2) No Republican could get away with this.

dclydew writes “When do you think that people will realize “Documentary” = Entertainment not Fact.”

I still believe that a documentary should explore both sides of an issue and let the viewers make their minds. Otherwise, it is just propoganda.

The purpose of this new film seems to be to counter the onesidedness of An Incovenient Truth by supplying some inconvenient facts. Is it really a documentary? Probably not. (As an aside, the real value of An Inconvenient Truth is that it is the first Powerpoint presentation to win an Oscar!)

However, if it get people to stop drinking the Kool-Aid and moves the discourse back to a discussion of the facts, then it may serve a useful purpose.

It’s just disappointing that so few are intellectually honest anymore.

I was taught that “learning” could lead one to change one’s views – especially if one pursued the facts and was looking foe the “truth”. Changing one’s mind was never looked at as a weakness in my home. Refusing to assess the facts was.

]]> By: Captain Hate http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85629 Captain Hate Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:24:20 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85629 Weird Al's carbon footprint stepped on my mood ring. Weird Al’s carbon footprint stepped on my mood ring.

]]> By: Buddy Larsen http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85628 Buddy Larsen Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:15:59 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85628 Dems message to Pubs: "Stay outta DC". Dems message to Pubs: “Stay outta DC”.

]]> By: Buddy Larsen http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85627 Buddy Larsen Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:13:15 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85627 Sandy burgled top-secret docs, and didn't even bother to take a court-ordered lie-detector test. Sandy burgled top-secret docs, and didn’t even bother to take a court-ordered lie-detector test.

]]> By: Lem http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85626 Lem Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:51:10 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85626 Libby lied, he may go to jail. Al Gore lied, he got an Oscar. Libby lied, he may go to jail.

Al Gore lied, he got an Oscar.

]]> By: Buddy Larsen http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85625 Buddy Larsen Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:28:32 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85625 But one of them has the prestige of the UN behind it. This is a clue as to which one is likely to have tried to have been honest. But one of them has the prestige of the UN behind it. This is a clue as to which one is likely to have tried to have been honest.

]]> By: dclydew http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85624 dclydew Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:07:15 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85624 Something tells me that this movie will be as biased in one direction as Gore's was in the other. I can imagine that people will support the one that they would personally like to be true. At least, that's what usually seems to happen. When do you think that people will realize "Documentary" = Entertainment not Fact. Something tells me that this movie will be as biased in one direction as Gore’s was in the other. I can imagine that people will support the one that they would personally like to be true. At least, that’s what usually seems to happen.

When do you think that people will realize “Documentary” = Entertainment not Fact.

]]> By: Lem http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85623 Lem Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:12:19 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85623 It gave Chaney a blood clot. As for me? I see it as a leg up. It gave Chaney a blood clot. As for me?
I see it as a leg up.

]]> By: ricpic http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85622 ricpic Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:57:06 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85622 Carbon footprint: why do all these newspeak terms fill me with inchoate rage? Carbon footprint: why do all these newspeak terms fill me with inchoate rage?

]]> By: Lem http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85621 Lem Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:24:53 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/03/04/oscar-alert-2008/#comment-85621 Obama should get some mileage :) Obama should get some mileage :)

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