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| tuwang (profile) wrote, on 4-27-2004 at 8:45pm | |
| Subject: from http://bowlingfortruth.com/bowlingforcolumbine/scenes/clark.htm |
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| Going down his list of unlikely and illogical targets, Michael Moore decides to point his sausage-esque fingers at Hollywood Producer Dick Clark accusing him of responsibility for the fatal shooting of 6-year-old Kayla Rowland (2000) of Mount Morris Township, Michigan, by her classmate, at Buell Elementary School. Impossible you say? Stupid and ridiculous you say? Well - walk through the association and see if you still disagree. Here's the connection old Mikey gives us: Moore blames the shooting of little Kayla Rowland on Michigan’s work-to-welfare program, which gets people off of welfare and into jobs. That's a good thing right? NO! To pro-capitalism folk, sure, but if you're a closet socialist like Moore, then anyone getting their free handout replaced with earned compensation is apparently a sin against man. So he claims the program prevented the shooter’s mother, Tamarla Owens, from spending time with him. And he of course blames the dastardly Dick Clark, because Owens work-to-welfare job was at his "American Bandstand" restaurant at an area mall. Get it? So, Moore goes to California where he confronts Dick Clark. Not through appointment or place of work, but while he's sitting in a van with some people, Moore walks up to Clark and says he wants to ask him about the Kayla Rolland murder, how her Mom worked at his Grill, and what he thinks "about a system that forced poor single mothers to work two low wage jobs to survive?" Clark says that >duh< it's a little bit of an inopportune time for questioning, and when Moore brazenly persists in the open door of the van, Clark asks the door be closed. He drives away and Moore is annoyed and shocked he did not land his interview when and where he wanted it. But, when one knows all the facts about the Kayla Rolland murder -- not shown in BFC -- it seems that there are better places to start seeking blame than a welfare-to-work program and Dick Clark. Clark and the work-to-welfare program had nothing to do with it. Owens, who had three children with three different fathers and was once charged as a drug dealer, married a convicted drug dealer (how darling). Before the shooting, she abandoned her son, turning him over to her brother, who lived in a flop house rife with stolen guns and ammunition, where drug deals went on at all hours. Michigan’s Family Independence Agency reported that she was a poor mother, and she later lost custody of all three children, two of them permanently. Blaming the shooting of a classmate by Owen’s son on Dick Clark because he owns a restaurant that gave a woman a job so she could get off welfare is outrageous delusion to the highest degree, yet many an audience member swallowed the deceptive depiction the way Moore presented it. Don't be fooled. |
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Tabletop | 04-27-04 9:47pm damn closet socialists. |
PHIL-HIMSELF | 04-27-04 10:08pm I show you all your sources, you should give me a little credit for finding all this great reading material, or maybe just a gold metal or something .... oooh shiny things |
just_peachie | 04-29-04 1:53pm I'm afraid to think what would happen if Kevin didn't go off on a rant about some injustice every month. Us people would be in the dark about a lot of things that need light. Props to kevin and his need to be outspoken. |