"Ironic." (by guest blogger Dorian Davis)

Michael Moore "Exposes" Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly

Yesterday, on michaelmoore.com, there was a split screen of Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly "exposed" by Canada's CBC as, allegedly, "liars." Coulter's "lie" was misinformation about Canadian troop deployment to Vietnam, and O'Reilly's "lie" was a one-year-old reference to the "Paris Business Review," a phrase that Moore and Al Franken assumed referred to a periodical, which happened not to exist, when, in fact, O'Reilly never referred to it as a publication, and probably just misspoke.

Is this guy kidding? The best dirt he has on those nefarious "liars" is a mistatement about Canadian troop deployment 35 years ago, and a vague reference to a magazine allegedly called The Paris Business Review? In espousing these charges, when he, himself, is the most famous propagandist of the twenty-first century, Moore has created a very unsubtle, living, breathing irony, that even Alanis Morissette, who misrepresented irony eleven times in her song "Ironic," could probably understand, and I covered it in my review of Fahrenheit 9/11, named, unfortunately, Best Picture of the Year by the People's Choice Awards:

"That finessing of the facts is a Michael Moore trademark. Take the scene of the movie where he shows the American "shock and awe" bombing campaign in Iraq, and says that Iraq never murdered a U.S. citizen. Of course, he forgot to mention the Gulf War, when hundreds of American citizens were killed to free a country that Saddam took by force. He forgot to mention the highly publicized attempt to assassinate President George H. W. Bush. He forgot to mention the fact that Iraq shot at U.S. planes every day for a decade during the inspections of the 1990s. And he forgot to mention the American pilot, Scott Spiecher, who was shot down in the Gulf War, and disappeared. Iraq disavowed any knowledge of him. His initials were found after the liberation in 2003, carved on the wall of a prison in Baghdad. Where is Scott Speicher?"