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

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

[Howlin]

Don't you LOVE that article?????

[ODC-GIRL]

Bump for later

[Sans-Culotte]

Bump. Hitchens really burnt this Leni Riefenstahl-wannabe in effigy.

[Maria S]

Yep.

[SpinyNorman]

A "Josef Gobbles" of our time, perhaps? ;-)

[Snapple]

Very funny! I like it.

[Dog Gone]

I never quite know whether Moore is as ignorant as he looks.

Ouch!

[HennepinPrisoner]

Better, yet, sneak in. Or after leaving in a multiple screen theater go to a decent movie, you know like Kill Bill II.

Actually, my wife and I and her cousins are going to buy tickets for a different film next weekend and then go in to see MM's movie. That way we can view the propaganda he is spewing without financially supporting him.

[McGavin999]

A short word of advice: it's unwise to quote Orwell if you are already way out of your depth on the question of moral equivalence. It's also incautious to remind people of Orwell if you are engaged in a sophomoric celluloid rewriting of history.

There are a lot of times I disagree with Hitch, but when he's right, he's right.

[SunkenCiv]

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Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man by David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke

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[SunkenCiv]

Circling back to where we began, why did Moore's evil Saudis not join the coalition of the willing? Why instead did they force the US to switch its military headquarters to Qatar? If the Bush family and the al-Saud dynasty live in each other's pockets, as is alleged,, then how come the most reactionary regime in the region has been powerless to stop Bush from demolishing its clone in Kabul and its buffer regime in Baghdad?

The Saudis hate, as they did in 1991, the idea that Iraq's recuperated oil industry might challenge their near monopoly. They fear the liberation of the Shias they so despise. To make these elementary points is to collapse the whole pathetic edifice of the film's theory.

Bravo, Hitchens!

George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent

[smonk]

yeeeesh. remind me to avoid pissing off christopher hitchens.