Hard for me to imagine caring enough about this (at any point) to watch that documentary. The guy’s an idiot. The end.
I would guess the point of it is red meat for people who like being outraged.
This is the aspect that can make this thread interesting (to me, anyway). In the eighties the right wing in America began to make use of what I would call the "useful anecdote" news story (sometimes distorted or even false, and increasingly false over time and the success of the tactic). Dozens of examples emerged back then, but one of the notable ones in terms of both political success and moral depravity is the "revolving door ad "against candidate Dukakis based on one case, implying he let a black murderer free and would have a revolving door to send them out in the communmity. Here's a refresher if needed:
How “Willie Horton” went from shorthand for black depravity to shorthand for political racism.
www.vox.com
The success of this boosted its use, it has become dynamic and constant in right wing media in America, and the insanity and ludicrous disconnection with reality always increasing. Immigrants as pet eating monsters was one of dozens of these last year.
One of the lanes of this that I previously took an observational interest in was science distortion and lies on Fox "News." They have done this "useful anecdote" tactic so many times with anti-climate stuff it's now uncountable, but the first one I examined is a classic case of what they do nonstop. For days on end Fox produced the big big story that science had discovered sea level rise was faked, and said that there was a science paper that proved it. It was in each newscast, over and over.I checked (with some time and effort) the source, a
single paper published in something called "Earth Systems and Environment," which does not appear--
at all-- on a list of the top 700 peer reviewed science journals in the world.
In fact, found the publication was from something called "King Abdulaziz University" and it just started operating a year before Fox "News" decided to use it as a source for the sea levels not rising story. This "university," which noted for engaging in fraudulent activity, is located in Saudi Arabia, a place comparable to the likes of Exxon and Koch industries in terms of a very strong desire of keeping oil profits rolling.
This is the kind of "useful anecdote" Fox "News" hunts down for it's huge news stories on "science."
