Morford: "Fahrenheit" On The Brain/ Who cares if Moore's flick is flawed…"

[kskiska]

Who cares if Moore's flick is flawed, shameless propaganda? At least it makes America think

Oh my God but Michael Moore is infuriating.

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However. "Fahrenheit 9/11" is also shockingly stirring and thought-provoking, the first major film of its kind to ever smack down a sitting president and his heartless, hawk-filled administration so successfully, so clearly, so shamelessly. It is propaganda made fresh, inspired, explosive, irrefutable.

And you know it's working. After all, when's the last time a documentary filmmaker became the target of the full force of the GOP spin machine? When's the last time anyone made any sort of attempt to seriously question, in public, fearlessly, unapologetically, in a mass media format, the blatantly oily warmongering of a current administration?

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Remember how timid and appallingly pro-war the media was during the launch of "Operation Iraqi Freedom." Remember Ashcroft's malevolent Patriot Act. Remember the orgasmic glee of the "embedded" reporters who were allowed to ride on big scary tanks and speed across the desert in big impressive convoys of U.S. killing machines, as meanwhile just outside the camera's range, thousands of mutilated corpses of babies and women and innocent civilians lay in the rubble as the "real" war raged on, just out of the American public's view.

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I mean, no wonder the GOP is all frothy. Not only does the film make Bush appear even more of a bumbling, inarticulate dolt than usual (which required, admittedly, nearly zero effort on Moore's part), but it reveals him to be so appallingly disconnected, so politically spoon-fed, so completely and frighteningly lost, you can't help but realize who the real threat to America's health and safety really is.

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[dweller]

1. ooh, just a bit more...

"Fahrenheit," then, isn't just a movie. It's a breakthrough. A reminder that a nation not only can, but should, ask why. Moore has taken the most
successful initiative to date to rip away the veil of fear the GOP had laid over the nation like a stifling blanket, one that had, until recently, kept everyone
from pundits to politicians from speaking out and disagreeing with BushCo's rancid stew of lies and misdirects and fearmongerings, lest they be instantly
branded an America-hating liberal tree-hugger communist who sleeps with Osama.


wheee.
dp

[livetohike]

2. Excellent

I'm e-mailing this article to some friends. Thanks for posting it.

[drfemoe]

3. kick and ..

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And when you combine "Fahrenheit" with another, less polemical, more straightforwardly frightening must-see documentary that's out now, called "The Hunting of the President," which delineates the GOP's shockingly savage, historic, calculated attempt to destroy Bill Clinton, you've got a portrait of a Republican Party that makes the frayed ragtag fundamentalist nutballs of the Taliban look like some sort of Tupperware party.