Of all the things that the P-Town Puffer has written, this has to be, by far, the most asinine:
A SOLDIER: Responds to Michael Moore. "Fahrenheit 9/11" is having a devastating effect on morale. Which was, of course, the point.
If Sullivan thinks for one short moment of his miserable existance that Michael Moore set out to demoralize American Soldiers by making F911, then he's more seriously deluded than I ever imagined him to be.
If you read the piece the Dim Duchess links to, it's an excercise in listening to a soldier bitch about what he percieves as Michael Moore abusing what he (the soldier) perceives as Moore abusing the First Amendment. What surprises me more than anything about this is that Sullivan would so blithely link to someone who so narrowly interprets the First Amendment. The same soldier might (and I conjecture here) be as opposed to Sullivan as he is to Moore for both First Amendment (an active proponent of Gay Rights and all with a media prescence) and "moral" reasons (a "Levitican").
Sometimes it really is fun to watch Sullivan shoot himself in the foot with a howitzer...
posted by Jo Fish on 07.26.04 at 09:04 PM
Comments:
i wonder how having a draft-dodging, deserting, illiterate, drunken commander-in-chief is affecting morale?
Fear is definitely in the air with Sully's crowd. First , they tried to "will" the movie to financially underperform, then when it performed far better than expected, they tried to "fact-check" it to death. Now that that has been discredited and the movie continues to rack up record box office, he resorts to "Moore made it to distress the troops" (as some troops who've seen it seem to believe what the film has to say).
Sung to Christopher Cross' "Arthur's Theme"
"When you get caught between your lies and Bare-back Ciiiiiiity, the best that you can do...the best that you can do, is shut your mouth..."
posted by: LowerManhattanite on 07.26.04 at 10:49 PM [permalink]
Well a general in Iraq was shwoing the film to his troops. Maybe a few of those brave 'journalists' found enough time to get out of the green zone hotel, off of one another's ass, and away from the RNC talking points of misinformed stories they regurge every third week of the month and can see what factchecking really looks like.
posted by: Mr.Murder on 07.27.04 at 03:38 AM [permalink]
Which general showed it? That seems quite the command decision, and I would think the general had to consider both morale and the truth of the film before he did that.
My best friend saw the film and is no longer on the fence. He hates Bush now and wants to join actively in supporting Kerry.
posted by: dean on 07.27.04 at 10:01 AM [permalink]
Think of Moore's movie as "the match".
Fool and the Gang (from 1600) have been pouring gasoline on the country for over 3 1/2 years, now. They have reaped a fair amount of hatred-- not dislike (think "Poppy Bush") or a sort of dismissive derision (think "Bob Dole"), but HATRED of the man. Hatred more vehement than Clinton hatred-- I mean "to-the-death-we-may-have-a-revolution- if-he-tries-to-cheat-his-way-into-office- again" hatred.
Moore just focused it. Feel the hate, Sully Babe-- while the codpiece is a turn-on for some, for most... The problem is, once we leave Provincetown's least favourite summer resident, the support for Bush is tepid at best... His supporters consist of the usual paid-to-support-him-by-their-Australian-or-GE-or-Disney-masters support, and party-line people who'd support any cardboard cut-out on the Republican line.
But by and large, even the people who favor the Chimp... don't like him.
But for the kazillionth time-- the only one trying to undermine the morale of the troops is the mother f*****r who put them there, blames them for torture HE PERSONALLY ORDERED; cuts veterans benefits; underequips them; makes them get killed guarding Halliburton and Bechtel personnel; shifts critical functions TO Halliburton and Bechtel so that same functions (1) don't get done at all, and (2) at 10 times the cost!;
refusese to acknowledge dead or wounded...
Clearly, but for Michael Moore and his treasonous movie that dares to disparage Dear Leader, our troop morale would be the highest it has ever been...
