Sneers and Jeers,(MICHAEL Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11)

© The Australian ^ | June 26, 2004 | Christopher Hitchens

[OPS4]

A coward,Fraud, Communist, agitator, is Michael Moore.

Ops4 God Bless America!

[.cnI redruM]

Hitchens, like Greg Easterbrook is bipolar. They both can be absolutely brilliant on one or two issues....I mean how can Hitchens have nailed this one so well and written the swill wrote after Ronald Reagan died. There must be an evil doppleganger that writes the really snarky stuff.

[Skooz]

Wow.

The word "evicerated" comes to mind.

I wish all the dimwits who laud this POC would read this piece.

When Hitchins sets his mind to it, very few can annihilate a target as effectively.

[cweese]

Bump for a later read.

[stubernx98]

The best way to protest mm's propaganda piece is to dress nicely, buy a ticket, then get up in the middle and walk out in disgust. 5 or six people scattered throught the theater leave at different times. Better, yet, sneak in. Or after leaving in a multiple screen theater go to a decent movie, you know like Kill Bill II.

[roses of sharon]

CNN radio is doing heavy advertising for Moore today.

I say lets sick our "digital brownshirts" on them.

[bannie]

If Moore had been listened to, Afghanistan would still be under Taliban rule and Kuwait would have remained part of Iraq. And Iraq would still be the personal property of a psychopathic crime family. You might hope that a retrospective awareness of this kind would induce a little modesty. To the contrary, it is employed to pump air into one of the great sagging blimps of our sorry, mediocre, celeb-rotten culture. Rock the vote, indeed.

AND we "would still be the personal property of a psychopathic crime family."

[Maria S]

Sarasota principal defends Bush from "Fahrenheit 9/11" portrayal
By Associated Press
June 24, 2004
http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/florida/article/0,2071,NPDN_14910_2985640,00.html


(excerpted)
SARASOTA — Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" criticizes President Bush for listening to Sarasota second-graders read a story for nearly seven minutes after learning the nation was under attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
But Gwendolyn Tose'-Rigell, the principal at Emma E. Booker Elementary School, says Bush handled himself properly.
"I don't think anyone could have handled it better," Tose'-Rigell told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in a story published Wednesday. "What would it have served if he had jumped out of his chair and ran out of the room?"

[OPS4]

Being wrong on one subject as a commentator/author does not mean he cannot be right on another, everyone understands this in Journalism.

A writer is not bound by your beliefs, but ahem he is on the same page acknowledge him or her, or you are closed minded to the truth, because even bearers of bad news can show up with some good once in a while.

This article is (RIGHT)on!

Ops4 God BLess America!

[Taliesan]

At times Hitchens' views infuriate me, but he is a magnificent writer and a smart man. Perhaps he will complete his glacial creep from Marxist to conservative before he dies.

[50 Cal]

Sorry but you left out lying, fat, stupid, brainless, anti-American Hog Beast!

Sorry if I left anything out.

[angkor]

Hitchens have nailed this one so well and written the swill wrote after Ronald Reagan died.

Has Hitchens ever liked any American president?

I think the one and only reason he keeps GWB off the hook is that he despises the Saudis, the Baathists, and the Islamists even more.

[we_will_prevail]

I still can't get over how thin Michael Moore once was...

[holden]

Too bad the powers that be at the Cannes Film Festival have, by these recent actions, allowed their previously valued Palm d'Or to become so thoroughly disgraced.

We've read how many words in this regard from Roger Ebert?

HF

[headsonpikes]

This lying propaganda flick by Moore may well backfire like a lit fart.

(I'll defend that rude simile as apropos)

[Soldiersmon]

Is this Michael Moore person a citizen of the United States of America? The same United States of America that at the present time is at war with both Afghanstan and Iraq. The same country which today sacrifices our children for the freedom of these oppressed countries? Does this Michael Moore not appreciate the fact that he himself would not have the rights he has today if it were not for the soldiers of this free country. Some people amaze me.

[RoseofTexas]

Hey! Let's pray that WHAT Satan Moore meant for EVIL, God will turn it around for GOOD! I hope this backfires with the audience and fires them up to vote for Bush!!

[COBOL2Java]

Good sentiment! I like that! :-)

[holden]

"What would it have served if he had jumped out of his chair and ran out of the room?"

Ah, the NEA!   Despite how supportive her comment of President Bush Principal Tose'-Rigell's comment is, should we not ask why conjugating the past perfect (or, in this case, subjunctive mood, but either way) of "run" is such a challenge for her?

HF

[Billthedrill]

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 US.

And this was written in 1945? I have to read more Orwell.