Michael Moore has come under some fairly heavy fire for alleged creative editing, misrepresentation of facts, and general exaggeration used in Bowling for Columbine.

Moore has taken it upon himself to defend the most common of accusations in a one-by-one fashion: “How to Deal with the Lies and the Lying Liars When They Lie about ‘Bowling for Columbine’”. As far as I can tell, he’s directly rebuking Waco, Texas attorney and author David T. Hardy without actually stating as much (make sure you take a peek at his picture of the day — the shooting of a rattlesnake with an automatic rifle).

Of all his defensive arguments, this one rings the most true for me:

“Total number of lawsuits to date against me or my film by the NRA? NONE. That’s right, zero. And don’t forget for a second that if they could have shut this film down on a technicality they would have.”