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Originally Posted by tjinaz

Michael Moore is nearly unbiased compared to this chick.

Originally Posted by Pierre "Monster" McGuire

Michael Moore is Jesus-like and, to me, his views are logical.

However, this Pelosi lady is pretty biased, but does have some sound points.

I imagine she has bias, especially being the daughter of a high ranking Dem. but comparing her to Michael Moore is crazy.

He purposely edits his material and interviews to paint people in an intentionally misleading light. Pelosi may spotlight some of the more extreme attitudes but the fact remains a significant number of midwesterners and southerners share these ultra right wing socially conservative views.

I think the review I linked says it all. She obviously has an agenda but maintains a policy that appears to let the views flow out of these people naturally, even if it is blatantly obvious that the more extreme views/controversial comments are in the movie and the moderate republican views are marginalized. But you have to keep in mind she follows McCain through the midwest, not the whole country. As the review I linked states:

In Oxford, Mississippi, Pelosi asks a series of customers at a gas station how they feel about Obama. Frankly, the question seems to bait them, as she’s warned by one fellow that the area is still full of “prejudiced people.” One man walks away from her camera as he asserts straight up, “I ain’t voting for no n*****.” Pelosi turns the camera on two black men who’ve watched the exchange. One is irate: “She come all the way from New York to interview a white boy that use the word ‘n*****,’” he says. “And they gonna put it in HBO and use it to paint Mississippi bad. Like they don’t say ‘n*****’ in New York, like they don’t say ‘cracker’ or ‘honky’ out in L.A. You should be ashamed of yourself, Miss Liberal.” His point is well taken. The film keeps focused on the “real America” defined by Palin, the one apart from cities and coasts, the one where men wear overalls and churches advertise their faith in her as the righteous, right candidate.

Displaying the passions of McCain and Palin supporters, Right America is not revelatory or even very surprising. Neither does it pretend to be unbiased. It is, instead, a personal sort of representation, as she asks mostly useful and not always decorous questions, doesn’t confront her subjects but instead engages with them, charming them with the promise of a chance to express themselves. In these encounters, the camera does most of the work, whether in interview close-ups or instructive B-roll shots, and Right America, like her other work (Journeys With George, Friends of God) constructs a sort of intimacy with the “other side” while also maintaining its own recognizable political sensibility, a view of what’s at stake in these ongoing debates and a faith in communication that remains undaunted.