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Unfairenheit 9/11
msn ^ | June 21,2004 | Christopher Hitchens

Posted on 06/21/2004 4:25:32 PM PDT by The Raven

One of the many problems with the American left, and indeed of the American left, has been its image and self-image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. How many times, in my old days at The Nation magazine, did I hear wistful and semienvious ruminations? Where was the radical Firing Line show? Who will be our Rush Limbaugh? I used privately to hope that the emphasis, if the comrades ever got around to it, would be on the first of those and not the second. But the meetings themselves were so mind-numbing and lugubrious that I thought the danger of success on either front was infinitely slight.

>>>SNIP<<<

To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of "dissenting" bravery.

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To: weegee
Thanks for your comments on #116 and #117. I sent her another email just now.

121 posted on 06/22/2004 2:50:42 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Call me the Will Rogers voter: I never met a Democrat I didn't like - to vote OUT OF POWER !)
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To: The Raven

Hitchens never ceases to amaze me.


122 posted on 06/22/2004 9:15:55 PM PDT by Roberts
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To: weegee
Micheal Moore took Roger Ebert to task when Roger said that he agreed with the politics of Bowling For Columbine but reported the factual errors anyway. You can bet that there are backroom negotiations to keep the left on the plantation with regards to this film.

I've read some of the reviews on rottentomatoes.com so far. It's interesting -- even some of the positive ones take him to task on certain things. For one thing, I think a lot of critics, although they may agree with his politics, think Moore is a self-promoting jackass who condescends to the "common people" he claims to champion.

123 posted on 06/23/2004 1:33:12 AM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: NYCVirago
Some on the left (Penn Jillette opposes social conservatism, he calls himself a libertarian) are embarrassed by Michael Moore. Penn even speculated on a cable news program that Moore is really a plant by Republicans designed to make the Left look bad.

For as much as the left has tried to demonize Rush Limbaugh as being deceitful when it comes to facts and hypocritical when it comes to his private life, the left was far too silent for far too long with regards to Michael Moore's own distortions and hypocrisy (a rich anti-capitalist who made a mint selling anti-Americanism abroad).

Look at Newsmax and go farther in the hyperbole behind claims. Look at Art Bell and go kookier in the claims. Look at Jon Stewart and dumb down the political humor. That is where Michael Moore resides on the landscape. No wonder the intellectual crowd has grown tired of his tirades and see him more of as a liability this election.

124 posted on 06/23/2004 2:10:10 AM PDT by weegee (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. ~~Ronald Reagan)
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To: The Raven

What a great point by point rebuttal of Moore's unlimited capacity to lie and smugly play Monday morning quarterback.


125 posted on 06/23/2004 10:10:43 AM PDT by tdadams (If there were no problems, politicians would have to invent them... wait, they already do.)
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To: The Raven

From the sound of Hitchens' review, Leni Riefenstahl looks like an ameteur compared to Moore. His brazen disregard for glaring contradictions within his own film defies any conventional protocal about documentary filmmaking.


126 posted on 06/23/2004 10:14:37 AM PDT by tdadams (If there were no problems, politicians would have to invent them... wait, they already do.)
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To: okie01
...Goebbels possessed human intelligence, while Moore tops out at animal cunning.

LOL That's fabulous!

127 posted on 06/23/2004 10:19:52 AM PDT by Petronski (Ronald Reagan: 1015 electoral votes.)
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To: The Raven

bump


128 posted on 06/23/2004 10:22:02 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: yodog23
As a Canadian with no particular political affiliation

And no apparent clue, either. There is ample documentation regarding the serious factual problems with Moore's film. But I doubt you'd be interested.

131 posted on 01/26/2005 6:18:57 PM PST by dirtboy (To make a pearl, you must first irritate an oyster)
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To: yodog23

What a shame. You were just zotted all the way back to Canada.


132 posted on 01/26/2005 6:24:47 PM PST by dirtboy (To make a pearl, you must first irritate an oyster)
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