I am VERY PROUD that I haven't seen it and will NEVER see it. Why should I patronize a KNOWN PROPAGANDIST?
My letter below was published in the Florda Times-Union July 3, 2004. I have since learned there are 59 documented deceits in this film.
'FAHRENHEIT 9/11': Film fits definition of propaganda
This is in reply to a letter regarding the movie Fahrenheit 9/11 and the opinion that we should "consider Michael Moore's point of view."
Moore is entitled to his opinion, and I am entitled to look at all the facts and totally reject his opinion in the formulation of mine.
Moore's profession doesn't entitle him to have a bigger say in the future of this country than me or my next door neighbor. The public is also entitled to know the truth of his agenda, which he has acknowledged: defeat of George W. Bush for re-election in November.
Moore has participated in a concerted effort with the anti-Bush group, MoveOn.org, to drive up the attendance of the film to make it No. 1.
Movie critics of print, cable, and broadcast media have properly reviewed this film and collectively said the film contains half-truths and out-of-context information framed in a manner to ridicule the president.
However, the liberal-slanted entertainment box office "media hypers" have assisted Moore and proclaimed Fahrenheit 9/11 the largest opening weekend attendance of a documentary ever. Truth be told, the film more closely fits the definition of "propaganda."
Propaganda is the "systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause; material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause: wartime propaganda."
The letter writer expresses that his source of news consists of Fox News, The Florida Times-Union and The Wall Street Journal. He goes on to discard the news he receives from Fox as "tools of the party," yet he states that he has read the same information in the Times-Union and The Wall Street Journal. (Fox is owned by News Corp. and has no connection with any political party whatsoever and, according to Nielsen ratings, is the most watched cable news channel across the country).
The fact is that Moore is no more a documentarian than Leni Reifenstahl, the producer who made the Adolf Hitler propaganda movie 70 years ago, glorifying Hitler and the Third Reich.
Moore made a propaganda film that endangers the lives of our brave young servicemen and servicewomen who are in harm's way today in Iraq and Afghanistan. Moore should be tried for sedition.
I myself would be hesitant to call something evidence of sedition that I haven't seen myself. But that's just me.