\t\t\t\tI 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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Only a fool of immense proportions could take it seriously.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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