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Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion
xerid writes "I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 last night, and the theatre was packed & sold out for each showing. Today, I read on Michael Moore.com about the movie breaking records. However, what I haven't seen was coverage on Slashdot, about the movie's opening day." I saw the film on friday and was really impressed. But while it speaks much truth, and has many funny parts as well as truly heartbreaking ones, I don't know how many votes it will sway. But since there is very little other news so far today, why not talk amongst yourselves!
The fact is, things like how long it took for US fighters to both scramble, and be ready to shootdown civilian airlines (something unprecedented) is hardly surprising. It was in peace time after all. And if they had been up there in time to shoot them down, they may well have refused orders to gun down a plane full of civilians - stranger things have happened. But for Moore this becomes "proof" of an absurd consipracy theory, where the US government is made out to be somehow behind the attack - essentially a blood libel.
The fact is, had Micheal Moore been on the political right instead of the left, someone with his views would be rightly accused of having neo-Nazi sympahies. But becuase all this conspiracy stuff comes from a left wing journallist, people seem to things he must have a point.
Michael Moore, on the other hand, while he might have what some consider left-wing views, does not advocate stringing up Republicans and killing them for their viewpoints.
You so sure about that? In any case, I advocate stringing up Michael Moore but I'm not sure there exists a tree strong enough to hold him...
What "9/11 report" are you talking about? The official comittee in Washington has yet to make its final report... all we have so far is the testimony from the public hearings and some preliminary findings that may be contradicted by later developments.
The problem is that so many liberals are failing to do that; they're simply praising the film as truth (which is what I said in my last post) despite that Moore has admitted that it is not all true.
Because it's not 100% pure, that there is 1% that we now find out was wrong.
We must condemn the whole film?
Do you apply the same standards to conservatives? Just curious.
Also, when Moore says the film is a documentary and it is not,
How is it not a documentary? Because he makes it entertaining? He should be bland and boring like those guys on PBS?
It sounds to me like you don't really have any complaints on substance you are resorting to nit picking it to death. Now that's typical of todays so-called "conservatives".