Ovation for Moore's 'Fahrenheit' lasts longer than Bush dawdled

Chicago Sun Times ^ | Ebert

[Toddsterpatriot]

He get's applause by the pound.

To quote one of the characters on South Park "Damn, that's a big fat ass"

[FourtySeven]

You'd better give credit to Lyndon B. Johnson...

Hmm, given that, I think I'll go back to my old tagline.

[weegee]

The Moore version: He was informed of the first attack, went into the room anyway,

The first attack was called an "accident". At that point it did not fall under the scope of the president (air traffic control mishap in NYC).

I have asked for and still haven't seen anyone post the location of Bill Clinton and his reaction times for the following events:

1993 WTC bombing, OKC bombing, bombing of the USS Cole, the bombing of the US embassies, etc.

The only event that I know the Clinton response to was the suicide of Vince Foster. Hillary Clinton went to clear some documents out his office as soon as she could get there.

[weegee]

I was to cite you this account from a Toronto review that alledges that Michael Moore slows down the footage to dramatize just how long it is taking for President Bush to respond.

Toronto Star: Moore rant wows Cannes Anti-Bush polemic funny, emotional yet very powerful

At one point in the film Bush is seen in the primary school classroom where he first learned of the planes being flown into the World Trade Center towers, and Moore slows the footage down so that Bush is seen to be blinking uncomprehendingly and endlessly, a child's storybook open ridiculously before him, as a counter in the corner of the screen counts out the nine minutes before the President seemed to react.

The man is a manipulator and a propagandist. Picking apart his tricks is not necessary. He's a quack and a fool. Discredit the whole antiwar protest movement by showing their financial ties to international Communism; the links exist. Take out the major players to begin with. Even the leftists in this country are embarassed by Michael Moore.

[weegee]

If 9-11 had occurred under Clintax, we'd all be asking these questions. I'm simply too non-partisan to not ask them myself.

I've been asking where was Bill when the WTC was bombed in 1993, OKC was bombed in 1994, the USS Cole was bombed, the embassies were bombed...

There were a lot of attacks. I don't recall President Clinton going on tv right away after any of them.

[weegee]

You and I both know that terrorists would happily take out American kids if it meant also taking out the President.

Do you think that the terrorists actually had a line on where the President was and that they determined the White House would be a better target than the sitting President?