LYING LIARS GONNA LIE: Makers of The Hunting Ground Are in Denial About Their Film’s Flaws.

“There is no controversy.” This lengthy interview with The Hunting Ground producers Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick could be distilled to that one line—a line the filmmakers desperately insist upon over and over again.

The interviewer, Robert Scheer, outs himself as both an unabashed admirer of their point of view and as someone who doesn’t believe what critics (at Reason, presumably) are saying about the film’s reliance on flawed statistics and dishonest sources. But he’s forced to confront the controversy—the one the filmmakers deny is a thing—anyway, not because he accepts it, but because so many other people are beginning to.

It’s a dishonest propaganda film. It’s not “flawed,” in the sense that they made a few mistakes. It’s exactly the film they set out to make, regardless of the facts. I mean, when even Variety calls it “agitprop that plays fast and loose with statistics and our sympathy,” you know the problem is more than a few “flaws.”