I watched Fahrenheit 9/11 today, after downloading it for free with BitTorrent (more about that later) and I have to say it’s even worse than I thought: a completely cynical exercise in the exploitation of simple minds. As a piece of conspiracy theater, it’s much less convincing than Oliver Stone’s JFK, and as a polemic it’s weaker than any given episode of South Park. I fail to see how anyone can sit through it without laughing uproariously.
It claims that Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and Peter Jennings take their orders from a consultant at Fox News, that presidential weekends with Tony Blair are “vacations”, that the Coalition of the Willing was formed exclusively by ethnically colorful simpletons, that the war in Afghanistan was for a pipeline, and that the Iraqis lived an idyllic life under Saddam. Somehow Moore managed to cover the length and breadth of 9/11 without showing planes crashing into the WTC.
Only a fool of immense proportions could take it seriously.
I’m very concerned about what seems to be an alienation from reality.
Nobody that I know saw that in F9/11.
I am surprised about the lengths some folks will go to avoid acknowledging what is right in front of their nose.
Saw what? Moore says after Fox News called the election for Bush (because John Ellis worked for Fox, and he’s a Bush cousin) the “other networks said ‘if Fox calls it for Bush, we have to call it for Bush, too'”
I have my own copy of the movie, so I can post the clip in a new days and we’ll see who’s alienated from reality.