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Reader comments on Fahrenheit 9/11
Subject: Re: Moore - Fahrenheit 1939
Date: Jul 16, 2004
And what about President Abraham Lincoln? He was assassinated on Good Friday April 14 1865 by a lone gunman called John Wilkes Booth. Many have suspected a conspiracy, but trained researchers have denied this - I don't have a link, but I'm suitably hypocritical to excoricate Moore for playing fast and loose with the facts while assuming people will trust everything I, some schmoe on a message board, say. Lincoln believed in "Malice towards none [and] charity for all."
What does this have to do with Fahrenheit 9/11? Nothing, really. I'm just vainly hoping that if you throw a load of unrelated stuff on a page, people will ignore that I don't have any answers for the questions Moore raised in this movie. I don't know why members of Congress won't send their children to war. I can't defend that. I don't know why so few Senators who voted for the Patriot Act bothered to read it. I don't know why the black community in Florida was barred from the 2000 elections. I don't know how Bush can claim he's defending those who lost friends in the 9/11 attacks and supporting the military when he's actually tried to stymie the investigation into 9/11 and cut benefits, pay and pensions for soldiers. I don't know anything. But I'll tell you what - I sat through all that footage of people in Iraq with hideous wounds and I thought "This is a manipulation of the facts. As the news channels show us, nobody gets injured in war."
I sat through the material with the woman who's son died in Iraq and I didn't think she deserved to be heard. Like the Republican woman who accosts her outside the White House says, "Lots of people died". What's the big deal, lady? And you know why I feel like this? Because I'm a true Republican, dammit. I pledge eternal support and compassion towards the disadvantaged until it emerges they don't like me. When that happens, I use the media to attack them, like we attacked Michael Berg a couple of days after his head got cut off. Man, that was fun! And like the true Republican I am, I never, ever allude to the fact that the media might just be a teensy-weensy bit on the rightist side. Because then I can safely attack an acknowledgedly partisan documentary that its creator admits is rhetoric while supporting endless lies on the nightly news cut adrift from context and painted as unbiased reportage. I can do that and sleep at night. I can do anything and sleep at night.
I think the thinking right and the thinking left should decry me.
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Moore - Fahrenheit 1939
Moore's most recent attempt at a "documentary" is a nothing more than a cynical quick money grab to appease the "anti-Bush" segment of the population. FACT: Investigation by true journalists of several press news organizations showed Bush DID WIN FLORIDA and the election. Knowing the objective and verified reality or "truth" and disregarding it, and promulgating/insinuating something else is not only fiction is intellectual dishonesty. How many people actually read the Supreme Courtâs opinion. Take the time to download it and read it. Both the thinking ărightä and the ăleftä should be up in arms. This is just one element of Moore's distorted perception and promulgation in his film. September 11, 2001, DID happen. The terrorists were in the country BEFORE Bush/Cheney took office. Does Moore examine Bill/Hillary Clinton culpability? No. Does Moore question why Bill Clinton pardoned convicted Puerto Rican Independence (FALN) terrorists that bombed Faunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan (Jan. 1975) killing 4 people and injuring 53; bombing Mobil Oil Corp offices (Aug 1977) on E. 42nd Street killing 26 year old Charles Steinberg; the New Years Eve (1982) bombing NYPD Headquarters AND the FBI Manhattan office of the FBI AND the Metroplitan Correctional Center. Moore fans: this is but one of the victims: Detective Richard Pastorella - blind in both eyes; all fingers right hand blown off; loss of hearing right ear 100%, 70% loss left ear; 13 major operations on his face alone; 20 titanium screws holding his face together. Why were they pardoned? HILLARY CLINTON perceived she could garner the Puerto Rican vote in her run for the US Senate of New York. Where is the outrage? It doesn't exist because Hillary is "left" and Bush is "right." Moore's focus only on Bush, ignoring what are glaring immoralities (which are quasi-criminal) by the Clintons only reinforces the comparison to Dr. Goebel. Dr. Goebel made a "documentary" which showed the justification for the invasion of Poland Sept. 1939. That documentary was also one sided and inherently false. Later films showed concentration camps where, like prewar citizens of Baghdad in Moore's film, living wonderful fulfilling lives. Never mind other prominent "guests" of Sadam, Abu Nidal, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Abu Abbas, the mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro. In case you forgot the hijackers shot a wheelchair-bound Jewish passenger from the United States named Leon Klinghoffer, dumping his body overboard) Iraq gave sanctuary to one of the WTC I bombers, Abdul Rahman Yasin. Later, senior al Qaeda associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi took sanctuary in Baghdad. Now this denizen of Moore's "peaceful" Iraq beheads innocents on video. Never mind the cutting out of tongues for critics of the regime, beheadings of women of conscience (many with PHDs) that spoke out against Sadam (executed with prostitutes in public ceremonies) or beatings and mutilations. Like Moore's movie? Check out the Baathist video collection on www.ogrish.com. Without balance and an intellectually critical public and press(both ăleftä and ărightä) Moore's movie is just another fluff piece of propaganda, not worthy of much attention. THINKING PEOPLE OF THE WORLD UNITE.
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