{"id":2041,"date":"2004-06-23T15:15:59","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T22:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/06\/confusion-of-text-and-image\/"},"modified":"2004-06-23T15:15:59","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T22:15:59","slug":"confusion-of-text-and-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/23\/confusion-of-text-and-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Confusion of Text and Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tArmond White’s critique – from the left – of Fahrenheit 9\/11 is an excellent read:<\/a><\/p>\n

Propaganda like Fahrenheit 9\/11 won’t help today’s moviegoers gain political insight. Moore’s condescension settles on young GIs wounded in Iraq, now in a veterans’ hospital (where they face lost funding and benefits). One vet gives Moore what he wants: “I’m going to be very active this year and make sure that the Democrats take power.” We’re not supposed to remember the opening sequence that showed Democrats complicit with Bush’s ascension and the invasion of Iraq. Moore, as desultory as Jerry Bruckheimer, simply wants to get a rise out of us. Like Tarantino, he’s uninterested in making movies that show how the world really works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Godard’s criticism of the film included at no extra charge. Via Winds of Change.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armond White’s critique – from the left – of Fahrenheit 9\/11 is an excellent read: Propaganda like Fahrenheit 9\/11 won’t help today’s moviegoers gain political insight. Moore’s condescension settles on young GIs wounded in Iraq, now in a veterans’ hospital (where they face lost funding and benefits). One vet gives Moore what he wants: “I’m … Continue reading “Confusion of Text and Image”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-wV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}