Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> It's one thing if Moore makes movies with complicated characters that
> viewers see in complicated ways. That's what makes him a good
> filmmaker and not a hack propagandist. It's another thing if you say
> x% of the budget goes to a fighter plane when it's actually x/10%.
> That makes you look like an idiot or a liar.
>
All one needs to do is read 10 or so reviews in scholarly journals of scholarly historical works (the good ones by the good historians) to find out that it is probably absolutely impossible to avoid the kind of errors of fact which, if focused on, make one look like an idiot or a liar.
Carrol