June 30, 2004


You know it's a whore if...

It's Mr. Sherri Annis aka Howard Kurtz and he writes this:

What's most fascinating about the Michael Moore coverage is that while conservatives are shredding his film, even many liberals say that it's a heavy-handed piece of propaganda filled with exaggerations, if not outright falsehoods.

But "Fahrenheit 9/11" has ignited the anti-Bush base in a way not seen since Howard Dean was warming up his vocal cords. Even though many of the scenes in the movie are old news, repackaged in a new way to make the president look like a doofus.

Funny thing, I haven't heard much about it being a "heavy-handed piece of propaganda" and I ummm, read a lot of liberal stuff...and what's with the whole Howard Dean vocal cords thing? Hey Howie, before you go quoting Sully, tell him not to incite felonies, ok? Or is that an IOKIYAR? Yeah, thought so...

posted by Jo Fish on 06.30.04 at 08:19 PM





Comments:

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.

posted by: Satan luvvs Repugs on 07.01.04 at 04:34 AM [permalink]



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!

posted by: Shag from Brookline on 07.01.04 at 06:21 AM [permalink]



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.

posted by: dean on 07.01.04 at 08:59 AM [permalink]



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.

posted by: Thud on 07.01.04 at 09:01 AM [permalink]



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

posted by: Tony Goins on 07.01.04 at 05:25 PM [permalink]




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.

posted by: Mr.Murder on 07.02.04 at 04:21 AM [permalink]






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