{"id":2072,"date":"2004-06-30T10:52:52","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T17:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/06\/this-just-in-the-progressive-magazine\/"},"modified":"2004-06-30T10:52:52","modified_gmt":"2004-06-30T17:52:52","slug":"this-just-in-the-progressive-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/30\/this-just-in-the-progressive-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"This Just In"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tMatthew 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:<\/a><\/p>\n

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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 a lay audience, I imagine. Here he has just been given the worst possible news a President can ever get, and some people watching may sympathize with the worry written all over his face (just as many people sympathized with Charlton Heston in Bowling for Columbine).<\/p>\n

And as though Bush’s frozen reaction wasn’t enough, Moore piles on by telling us what Bush might have been thinking at that moment. Moore says maybe Bush was thinking that he’s been hanging around with the wrong group of guys, the Saudis. Somehow, I doubt that was the thought racing through Bush’s head.<\/p>\n

Moore delivers the same sucker punch when he says of both George W. and his dad that they may wake up in the morning thinking: Should I do what’s best for America or for the Saudis, who give us more money? “Who’s your daddy?” Moore says.<\/p>\n

Again, this got laughs in Madison, but I doubt it would in Rockford.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Masturbation, preaching to the converted, cheap shots, and nastiness – all in one blockbuster of a top-grossing documentary. But enough about Jackass – the Movie.<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “This Just In”<\/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":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-xq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","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=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}