[Keith in Iowa]

deja view: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1157568/posts - Slat/MSN version.

[IPWGOP]

I just read this off the Drudge site. He really nails Moore big time. BIG TIME. A really good, though long, read.

[ECM]

Now that's an ass-beating...

[lonevoice]

Wowser. Hitchens must've melted his keyboard writing this review. A must read ping!

[walford]

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.

...so you didn't like it then, Chris?

[bad company]

I've never seen a man disebbowled with a keyboard before.
Gruesome.

[Colosis]

And as for the scary lawyers?get a life, or maybe see me in court. But I offer this, to Moore and to his rapid response rabble. Any time, Michael my boy. Let's redo Telluride. Any show. Any place. Any platform. Let's see what you're made of.

Whatever you think of Hitchens, this is a must, must read.

[Rocko]

Michael Moore is a Big Fat Idiot.

[BillyCrockett]

Wouldn't you JUST LOVE to be there when Mickey Moore meets some returning Ranger vets from Iraq???

[alwaysconservative]

Wow and thanks for posting this! Hitchens is most delightful when he is on one of his delicious rants. I agree with the other poster that this was a disemboweling with a keyboard. My favorite line was: "To him [Moore], easy applause, in front of credulous audiences, is everything." It is casually, cruelly dismissive of both Moore and the shills who credulously kneel down at his altar of dishonesty and drivel.

[zook]

Best idea here:

"By all means go and see this terrible film, and take your friends, and if the fools in the audience strike up one cry, in favor of surrender or defeat, feel free to join in the conversation."

[Jim_Curtis]

If Michael Moore had had his way, Slobodan Milosevic would still be the big man in a starved and tyrannical Serbia. Bosnia and Kosovo would have been cleansed and annexed.
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Here, Hitchens is guilty of Mooreism. Unlike Moore, Hitchens has the ability and usually requires of himself an attempt to make a logical and honest case for his assertions.

Hitchens can't make a logical and honest case for Clinton siding with bin Laden to commit genocide on the Christian Serbs because his case would be shredded in the same manner that he so surely shredded Moore's case in this article.

The folks who were duped into supporting our alliance with bin Laden against the Serbs will never admit they were wrong because it would be such a painful thing to admit, even if the intentions at the time were good, the end result would be a confession that one supported jihad expansionism before the need arose in his own country to fight against it. For a thought-framer like Hitchens, it would destroy his credibility.

[G.Mason]

Christopher has thrown down the gauntlet, or shall I say slapped Moore in the face.

It would be worth the price of admission to see that debate, though it will never take place.

[wingnutx]

In late 2002, almost a year after the al-Qaida assault on American society, I had an onstage debate with Michael Moore at the Telluride Film Festival.

But I offer this, to Moore and to his rapid response rabble. Any time, Michael my boy. Let's redo Telluride. Any show. Any place. Any platform. Let's see what you're made of.

This would be like a pitbull fighting a chihuahua. Granted, a REALLY FAT chihuahua...

[happygrl]

The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists, whose real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writing of the younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States.

This describes to a "T" the so-called pacifists that I know.

[gargoyle]

...Thanks for the help, kat, you did the hard part for me. Good on yer...