Unfairenheit 9/11

msn ^ | June 21,2004 | Christopher Hitchens

[MeekOneGOP]

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

[Roberts]

Hitchens never ceases to amaze me.

[NYCVirago]

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.

[weegee]

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.

[tdadams]

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

[tdadams]

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.

[Petronski]

...Goebbels possessed human intelligence, while Moore tops out at animal cunning.

LOL That's fabulous!

[GSWarrior]

bump

[dirtboy]

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.

[dirtboy]

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