I haven't seen F911 yet, not from lack of desire, but from being out of the US for a while.

None the less, my suspicion is that much of the power of F911 is simply putting together a "how did things go to hell over the past 3.5 years?" story in a coherent package.

The mainstream media gives you little snippets of this or that story, but doesn't put it all together and give the overall context. And when you put it all together, even without much editorializing, the picture is just damning.

To properly and accurately portray "how things go to hell over the past 3.5 years" in a movie would require a screenplay as long as Tolstoy's War and Peace. Michael Moore had to accomplish this in less than 120 minutes for obvious cinematic reasons. Perhaps Bush Jr.'s supporters could come up with 120 minutes to portray all the good things his Administration accomplished. But of course that would end up as a Short Subject. T-t-t-t-that's all folks!

Here's how I see it. First of all, the article Jo describes has it wrong, of course. The so-called "shreddings" have been completely off-target and inaccurate. They have been attacks, sure, but not actually wirthwhile attacks. They are there for that percentage of people who cannot differentiate between a good shredding and a bad one that distorts the truth. Second, while it has been called propoganda, the accusation has less weight than one imagines it might.

However, given all that, the reason the film has been effective is simply the fact that it is filled with facts about the administration that people don't know, and because the real activities of the president are shown as they occur. It is one thing to read in a newspaper, "The killing has got to stop," with no context around it and without actually hearing Bush speak. When you actually hear him, in his golf togs, saying that, and then he follows it with, "Now watch this drive," and blithely swings his one-wood with not a care in the world, you realize that this is a heartless, careless buffoon who mouths platitudes as he goes about the business of being the most uninvolved and ignorant president in history.

Does the president really need Moore's repackaging to look like a doofus? Captain Peance Freance does a pretty good job of it on his own.

Now, watch this drive.

I've heard a lot of lib friends admit it's pretty slanted. Libs don't take to outright propaganda the way conservatives do.

He lets the story tell itself.

Form the mouths of chimps come... well, from chimps mouths come... "Now watch this drive."

Bad chimp , no bananna in November.

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