><Jon> >If UC Berkeley were paying Hannity or O'Reilly 40K to speak, >no doubt the student body would be outraged, and Moore or >Franken would take advantage of the situation. That's the >way the game is played.
i went to berkeley, and let me tell you - that place is hilarious - especially in the early 90's (it calmed down a bit in the late 90's.) they protest about /everything/ - it's SUPER entertaining. columbus day is always one of my favorites - i could tell you stories... though interestingly enough, the /student body/ rarely protests about anything - it's always the people that live in berkeley - the local folks. a large portion of the student body are actually quite conservative (though i think the definition of what it is to be conservative might be different at BYU) ;-) oh, and for the record - imho - 'roger and me' was a pretty good film, but bowling for columbine was not. as best i can tell, bowling for columbine is where he started "making stuff up" to manipulate his audience, though i understand the manipulation in f911 is not nearly as blatant (i dont plan on seeing the film, so i really dont know.) i think michael moore is a talented propagandist - skilled in the art of partial truth and distortion to further his personal cause and damage the cause of his opposition. of course, lots of people are talented propagandist. moore's real problem is that he is mean, and as the bumper sticker says, mean people suck. Josh Coates http://www.jcoates.org ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
