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.
Look. You can disagree with Moore's opinions and his often patronizing conclusions all you want. But you can't, after all, refute his facts. Moore's movie has done more than merely free up the pundits and the disgruntled military generals to speak out, or make timid reporters actually dig for truth again. He has done more than help put surprising words of dissent and criticism back into the mouths of congressmen and the major media.
He has, in short, made Middle America think again. He has cracked the GOP's frozen ideological sea, showed us all one thing that we have so desperately forgotten. That America does not, after all, have to be this way, and that its citizens do, in fact, have a choice.
And for that reason, "Fahrenheit" is perhaps the most wonderfully patriotic film ever made.
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