\t\t\t\tSo the Michael Moore fans are backpedaling, and claiming that he doesn’t really say what he really says in Fahrenheit 9\/11 about special treatment for the bin Laden family members in the US. See the next post by my Bolshevik co-blogger for a good example of this head-in-the-sand posturing.<\/p>\n
I’ve seen Michael Moore on the Letterman show and on This Week with George Stephanopoulos saying that the president was paid-off by the Saudis to give special treatment to them; the figure he quotes is $1.4 billion, the alleged value of a series of business deals. The way he puts it is: “hey, if you paid me $1.4 Billion, I’d give you special treatment too.” In the movie, he uses Craig Unger to make this charge.<\/p>\n
So we should be clear that Moore alleges special treatment was given to Saudis in general, and to bin Ladens in particular. This special treatment was in two forms, according to Moore: they were allowed to fly when others weren’t. Moore told Letterman he wanted to fly on Sept. 13th, when a bin Laden did, but that he couldn’t. He alleges that the Saudis weren’t properly screened, and quotes Unger<\/a> in this connection:<\/p>\n I do argue — accurately — that the bin Ladens and other Saudis were whisked out of the country without being subjected to a serious investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n All in all, he alleges that national security was breached by President Bush in order to give special treatment to the bin Ladens, all in the interest of money. <\/p>\n So why is it that Moore and his stooges now want to back away from this charges? <\/p>\n Because they aren’t true, as the staff report (cited below) confirms.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So the Michael Moore fans are backpedaling, and claiming that he doesn’t really say what he really says in Fahrenheit 9\/11 about special treatment for the bin Laden family members in the US. See the next post by my Bolshevik co-blogger for a good example of this head-in-the-sand posturing. I’ve seen Michael Moore on the … Continue reading “Moore stooges back-pedaling”<\/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-2045","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-wZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","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=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n