What I find particularly discouraging is the confusion people seem to increasingly experience between movies and reality. I hear constant references to movies as illustrations of some supposed truth, as if what was scripted into the movie either really happened or belongs on the level of the Bible. Moore's film seems to be the most egregious example of this, and the willingness of so many liberals to uncritically accept the Big Lie (with some exceptions -apparently there are a few who can distinguish fact from fiction, like Scott Simon) does not bode well for the future of democracy.
Every evening young Americans troop off to the movies where they watch just about anything Hollywood throws their way. Why? Because they have nothing else to do and nowhere else to go for entertainment. Then they come home and turn on their television sets where they watch silly programs like the West Wing, Sex in the City, Sopranos and programs like JFK, the Reagans, MASH etc. Liberals object to being "misled" by large corporations such as Halliburton however they seem to be unafraid and unaware of the Vast Left-wing corporate media that is pouring misleading them from movie screens, television sets and MP3 players.