A view from the inside

Posted by Richard Bennett

See: Iraq the Model for an inside view of Iraqi sovereignty:
Another friend approached me. This one was not religious but he was one of the conspiracy theory believers. He put his hands on my shoulders and said smiling, ?I must admit that I?m beginning to believe in what you?ve been telling us for months [...]

This Just In

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Matthew Rothschild of The Progressive magazine is a lefty with a brain. He wasn’t impressed with Michael Moore’s movie, especially with the scene John admires in the next post. Here’s why:

Even the lingering of the film on Bush’s face at the school in Florida after the planes have hit the towers was borderline low to [...]

Keepers

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The Passion of the Left, Part II

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See this side-by-side comparison of liberal critiques of Passion and Fahrenheit for a fine lesson in the Double Standard.
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Defeating terror through broadband

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President Bush made a pitch for universal broadband recently, a vital tool in the war on terror:

Remember, we’re still in a battle against ideological extremists who use terrorism as a tool to frighten, scare, kill people such as us who love freedom. And, therefore, what I’m telling you is as broadband expands, it’s going to [...]

The Passion of the Left

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Andrew Sullivan fleshes out a theme we wrote on yesterday, comparing Passion of the Christ to Fahrenheit 9/11, and since he’s seen both he has the gory details:

One was designed for the unthinking hordes of the far right; the other for the unthinking hordes of the far left. Both were deeply depressing indicators of how [...]

The Kyoto Theory

Posted by Richard Bennett

The Paul Krugman column John cites today is a variation on a theme that’s been a staple of extreme left wing criticism of the war on terror since about Sept. 12, 2001. The theory holds that we have to understand that the terrorists hate us because we didn’t sign the Kyoto Treaty, we didn’t join [...]

‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ box-office

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‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ has sold a lot of tickets for a “documentary:”

Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11″ made Hollywood history by selling $21.8 million worth of tickets in its first three days, becoming the only documentary ever to outgun all other blockbuster films at the nation’s box offices in one weekend.
But how popular does that really make [...]

Roger L. Simon: Smooth Move

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Roger L. Simon:

By the way, I know I have written this before, but I think the use of the term “insurgents” by the media inaccurate and propagandistic in its essence. As far as I know… and correct me if I’m wrong… there has not been one single of these people being anything but fascists, [...]

Jeff Jarvis on CNN

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Jarvis was pretty excellent on CNN’s News Night, discussing some of the flaws and shortcomings of Michael Moore’s largely ficticious movies. Unlike a lot of people you see on TV these days, Jeff didn’t just offer up cheap sound bites, he attempted to explain in some detail the problem with Moore’s blaming the 9/11 attacks [...]