Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 911 Part Two
y David Kopel
Independence Institute
If all you know is what the mainstream media tell you,then you
are living in a world of illusions.But you can ’t free your mind if
you merely replace one set of manipulative illusions with another
set of manipulative illusions.Fahrenheit 9/11 is a twisted,
dishonest,paranoid,and hateful fantasy.Learn the facts,and
make up your own mind.
The list below is a summary of a much longer report,which is
available for free at www.davekopel.org.The report also dis-
cusses many other issues about the movie.
There are lots of good reasons why people have chosen to vote
against (or for)the re-election of George Bush.And there are
lots of good reasons why patriotic Americans have decided to
oppose (or support)the war in Iraq.One thing that all the good
reasons have in common is that they are based on facts.In a
democracy,we should try to convince our fellow citizens with
facts and logical reasoning.To manipulate people with frauds
and propaganda is to attack democracy itself.
1.The Gore “victory ”rally isn ’t celebrating a Florida win.It
was held before the polls had even opened.
2.Like all the other networks,Fox mistakenly said that Gore
had won in Florida.The first network to retract the Florida
mistake was CBS,not Fox.
3.A 6-month study by a consortium of major newspapers
shows that Bush would have won the Florida recount under
any of the terms which Gore sought in his lawsuits.
4.Investigation by the Palm Beach Post and others shows
that race was not a reason why election officials mistak-
enly disqualified some voters because they were incorrectly
thought to have felony convictions.
5.Bush ’s Presidency before 9/11 was not in serious trouble.
No commentator said that he looked like a lame-duck presi-
dent.Congress had passed his #1 bill (the tax cut)and was
on the way to passing his #2 bill (the education bill).The
scene at the end of the movie in which Bush tells a rich audi-
ence “I call you my base,”was from an October 2000 charity
fund-raiser.Both Gore and Bush spoke at the fund-raiser
and,as is the custom at the fund-raiser,made fun of themselves.
6.“In his first eight months in office before September
11th,George W.Bush was on vacation,according to the
Washington Post,forty-two percent of the time.”As the
Washington Post reported,the figure includes weekends,and
includes time in “vacation locations ”such as Camp David,
where Bush was working —as when he met with Tony Blair.
7.In the golf course scene (about the middle of the movie),
Bush had just heard about a terrorist attack on Israel.He
called the press together to make a quick statement con-
demning the terrorism against Israel.He was not speaking
about attacks on the United States.
8.There is no evidence that Bush did not read the Aug.6,
2001 Presidential Daily Briefing about al Qaeda.
9.He never claimed that the title ’s “vagueness ”was an
excuse for not reading it.
10.The Briefing did not say “said that Osama bin Laden was
planning to attack America by hijacking airplanes.”It said
that the FBI has “not been able to corroborate ”such a threat.
11.The Saudis left the U.S.only after air travel was opened
for the general public.
12.According to Richard Clarke and the September 11
Commission,Clarke personally approved the Saudi depar-
tures,and the decision went no higher in the chain of com-
mand.
13.Moore lied to a TV reporter in claiming that Fahrenheit
discloses Clarke ’s decision to the audience.Clarke called the
Saudi exit material in Fahrenheit a “mistake ”by Moore.
14.Contrary to what Fahrenheit claims,the September 11
Commission found that many Saudis were asked “detailed
questions ”before being allowed to leave.
15.James Bath did not invest bin Laden family money
in Bush ’s energy company Arbusto.He invested his own
money. |
