Lowering the Subtlety of Political Discourse [NY Times review of Celsius 41.11]

NY Times ^ | 10.22.2004 | Manohla Dargis

[NYC GOP Chick]

"Celsius 41.11"

A scene from the documentary "Celsius 41.11," which joins detractors of Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11."

[NYC GOP Chick]

If you didn't know where the new film "Celsius 41.11" was coming from you certainly get the picture when the filmmakers cut from an image juxtaposing Michael Moore with Hitler straight to an image of John Kerry and John Edwards. If the juxtaposition weren't so shameless, if the political climate were not so scurrilous, if the country were not actively at war and men, women and children were not dying in that war, this composite triumvirate of Moore-Hitler-Kerry might be easy to laugh off.

You know, this is enough to make me crawl out of my sick bed and go uptown to see this!

[Fedora]

So the NYT objects to Moore being compared to Hitler but doesn't mind when Moore and Co. compare Bush to Hitler.

[swilhelm73]

So to sum up;

Slandering the President and the US = good

Showing Leftist thought in anything less then a positive light = unfair!!!

[Paleo Conservative]

So the NYT objects to Moore being compared to Hitler but doesn't mind when Moore and Co. compare Bush to Hitler.

Ping me when the NYT returns Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize.

[Larry381]

well I guess we know who this featherweight reviewer is voting for. If this NY Times nitwit doesn't like this film I know I gotta see it.

[NonLinear]

You get 100 on the exam!

[Lord Nelson]

The NY Times is SOOO predictable.

Where can I see this movie?

[RightWingAtheist]

Someone call a WAAAAmbulance!

[blondee123]

More blah, blah, blah from the NYT! Does anyone even read that rag anymore? Isn't the Enquirer more accurate?

[blondee123]

Theater listings here:

http://www.celsius4111.com/4111/c4111_contents/where/map.shtml

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

You should take Mrs. Fairbanks to see this one. It opens tomorrow in Seattle.

[Lord Nelson]

:( I'm in Canada. Maybe there's a chance it will come on video?

[Fedora]

I think they're planning to do that right after they retract Herbert Matthews' articles promoting Fidel Castro.

[Tabi Katz]

Exactly. Propaganda is just fine when it attacks the wrong people, but if you mock, analyze, or otherwise take issue with that propaganda, the libs throw a hissy fit.

[Deb]

Gee, and here I thought they'd really (cough) like it.

[Gabz]

This doesn't surprise me.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

Bump.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Only high minded libs can make "artistic" movies that can be discussed at their "sham-pain" dinner parties.

[Auntie Dem]

As with most of the news material folded into "Celsius 41.11," it is impossible to know who these children are or who killed them. Other images, including that of a woman in a burka being executed, remain similarly unidentified.

So, because no one bothered to rush past the Taliban murderers and secure the "papers" on the murder victims the vaunted NYT can't "vett" them and their deaths cannot be proven and published when it would villify a political movement for which the american (small a intentional) left sympathizes.

Let me guess...the NYT does not hold Moore's piece of trash to the same standard?